Dylan Bundy allows three homers as Angels beat O's (quotes added)

It was just 12 days ago that Orioles right-hander Dylan Bundy had an ERA of 1.42 that ranked fourth-best in the American League. But for the second game in a row, he got hit hard tonight as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Orioles 10-7 at Angels Stadium.

The Orioles are 8-22 and have lost eight straight road games. They start this six-game road trip at 0-2. The Orioles have lost eight of 10 and 16 of their last 20 games.

Bundy tied a career high by allowing three homers tonight and now has allowed five in his past two starts. He began the year giving up just one homer in his first five starts covering 31 2/3 innings.

His final line tonight showed seven hits and seven runs (five earned) over 4 1/3 innings. In his past two starts, Bundy has allowed 18 hits and 15 runs (12 earned) over nine innings.

The Orioles took a 1-0 lead in the first tonight, but by the end of the inning trailed 2-1 on first-inning homers by Mike Trout and Albert Pujols.

In the Baltimore first, Craig Gentry tripled to center with one out and scored on Manny Machado's sac fly to left. Machado drove in his 24th run of the season, all coming over his past 23 games.

But then Trout blasted a deep homer well into the seats in left for the 1-1 tie. It was No. 11 on the year for Trout and his ninth homer his past 21 games.

Batting fourth, Pujols homered for career hit No. 2,997. He hit a 1-2 Bundy slider for No. 6 on the season. According to STATS, this was the eighth time Trout and Pujols have both homered in the first inning, the most by any teammates in major league history.

The Angels added two unearned runs in the fourth to lead 4-1. First baseman Chris Davis made a one-out error and Andrelton Simmons followed with an RBI double for a 3-1 lead. Simmons took third on that play on Machado's throwing error and scored on Davis' diving stop groundout to first by Zack Cozart. Davis made a great play on the ball and then hustled to first to dive to the bag for the out, which was confirmed on replay review.

But the Angels were not done teeing off on Bundy.

Justin Upton hit a three-run homer in the fifth and then Pujols doubled for career hit No. 2,998 to end Bundy's night with the score 7-1. This is the third time in his career Bundy has allowed three homers, the first since July 1, 2017 against Tampa Bay.

Bundy falls to 1-4 with an ERA of 3.76 after this 90-pitch outing. The Orioles are 2-5 in his seven starts.

Bundy struggling again is the headline of the night but once again the Orioles offense was mostly a no-show for eight innings until they scored five in the ninth. They began the inning trailing 10-2, but cut into the lead against right-hander Eduardo Parades. Davis singled in a run, pinch-hitter Jace Peterson delivered a three-run triple and Trey Mancini added a sac fly.

The Orioles will need a win here on Thursday night or they will be swept in a three-game series for the fourth time this year.

Postgame quotes:

Manager Buck Showalter on whether he's concerned about Bundy: "It's always a concern when you know what a guy is capable of and he doesn't do it that night. He's working on an extra day's rest. Sometimes the other team is pretty good, too. Dylan, I didn't think he was quite as crisp as he's capable of.

"He's elevating the ball. In those successful outings, he was driving the ball down and away. That's still his bread and butter. He's trying. He'll figure it out, but you see a couple in a row like that from a good pitcher (and) you're always concerned if it's something else."

Bundy on whether hitters have adjusted to you in the last two starts: "Maybe, sitting on certain pitches, the curveball and whatnot, but I think mainly me pitching behind in the count is the issue here. It's hard to pitch when you're 2-0 and kind of put in a hole and you have to throw a fastball there. Just pitching behind in the count the past two starts now and I really got to get ahead of guys to be able to throw pitches where I want to."

Davis on why the O's didn't get their offense going until the ninth the past two nights: "I don't know. I don't know. I think if I knew that answer, it would be an easy fix. I think a lot of it has to go into, really, the approach. That is really all I can think of right now. Not trying to do too much with one swing or with one pitch. But just going up there, I felt like we kind of singled them to death in that last inning. That has to be our approach, day in and day out. We've relied on the home run in the past way too often and we've done it for way too long. At some point there, has to be an adjustment where we realize we are more than that kind of offense. I'm encouraged, but we've got to try to find a way to get them on the board earlier so some of these translate into wins."