Chris Tillman with a gem as Orioles beat White Sox

Chris Tillman is pretty much cranking out strong outing after strong outing these days. His latest stellar effort came tonight as he pitched the Orioles past the Chicago White Sox 5-1 at U.S. Cellular Field.

Tillman went eight innings and Tommy Hunter pitched the ninth. The duo combined to hold Chicago to three hits. It's the third straight game where Orioles pitching has allowed three or fewer hits. The last time the O's had done that was July 17-19, 1992.

The team record is four games in a row from Sept. 2-6, 1974. The O's can tie that mark on Wednesday night.

Over the three games, the O's staff has allowed just eight hits and four runs over 27 innings with six walks and 23 strikeouts for an ERA of 1.33.

Tillman gave up just three hits and one run over eight innings. He walked one and fanned nine, throwing 105 pitches. Tillman improved to 10-5 with an ERA of 3.55. The nine strikeouts are a season high and match his career high.

Tillman has recorded 14 consecutive starts allowing three or fewer earned runs. He is 5-2 with a 2.31 ERA in that time with 12 quality starts. The Orioles are 18-9 in his 27 starts, winning the last five in a row.

This was Tillman's team-leading 10th outing of seven innings or more and the 31st by the O's staff.

With the win the Orioles are 72-52 and move to a season-high 20 games over the .500 mark. The Orioles are now 9-1 in their last 10 series. Both New York and Toronto lost tonight and the Orioles lead the Yankees by 8 1/2 games and the Blue Jays by nine games.

On offense, the Orioles scored once in the first inning and then three times in the sixth to break a 1-1 tie.

An Adam Jones RBI single in the first scored Steve Pearce after Pearce doubled for his sixth hit in 11 at-bats. Jones has 11 homers and 24 RBIs in the first inning. Jose Abreu hit his 32nd homer to tie it in the last of the first.

The Orioles scored three times with two outs in the sixth. Delmon Young's single scored Jones, who had doubled with one down. J.J. Hardy singled to put two runners on the corners and they both scored on a Chris Davis two-RBI double to right for a 4-1 lead.

Nick Hundley led off the seventh and homered to left on the first pitch from reliever Daniel Webb. He hit a 96 mph fastball for his fourth O's homer.

The Orioles improved to 38-26 (.594) on the road. They won for the eighth time in 11 games and are 46-25 since May 31.

Now 3-2 on this road trip, the O's are 4-1 against the White Sox this season and 14-6 versus the Sox since 2012.

In the series finale on Wednesday night, Wei-Yin Chen (12-4, 3.76 ERA) faces Hector Noesi (7-8, 4.84 ERA).