Manny Machado on the slide, Dylan Bundy on his outing

It was another game that featured some excellent Orioles pitching. But in the home clubhouse, that took a bit of a back seat to a controversial slide that injured Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia late in the game.

But before the postgame interviews, the Orioles posted another win, 2-0 over Boston at Camden Yards, to improve to 11-4. Their pitchers have allowed just one run over the last 33 innings and have thrown two shutouts in the past three games.

Right-hander Dylan Bundy improved to 3-1 with a 1.37 ERA. He teamed with Donnie Hart, Mychal Givens and Brad Brach to six-hit the team that was easily the majors' highest-scoring club in 2016.

Pedroia suffered an injured to his surgically repaired left knee when O's third baseman Manny Machado slid into him trying to break up a double play in the last of the eighth. Pedroia hobbled off the field and the Red Sox were steamed, feeling the slide was late at the least and perhaps dirty at the worst.

Machado didn't feel the same and said several times during a postgame interview that there was no intent to hurt a player he has tremendous respect for and one he knows well. He reached out to Pedroia after the game via text message to check on him.

"Trying to do everything possible to be safe and get ourselves in good position," Machado said. "In a two-run ballgame, we know how good they are and we want that cushion. It wasn't intentional. If you see the replay, you see how my (leg) comes off the bag and hits him in the calf.

"I reached out to him and sent him a text to see if everything's all right. I don't want to go out and hurt someone. I know what it is to be in that position. We are just trying to hustle and play for our team.

"I'm not going to change the way I play. I'm going to keep playing hard and doing what I have to do to help my team win. It wasn't intentional. Go look at the replay. Me and Petey go back. I would never want to hurt a guy like that. I hope everything is all right and there is nothing too serious."

Machado immediately sensed Pedroia had been hurt and one of the reasons he was called out, he said, is he came off the bag trying to grab Pedroia to keep him from falling.

Does Machado expected any retaliation from the Red Sox pitchers on Saturday night?

"I don't expect anything," he said. "I'm going to play baseball. What happens happens. We play between the lines. They've got to protect their players and do what they've got to do on their side. It's up to them. I know what I will do on this side and I know what I've got behind me. These 25 guys plus the coaching staff. I am not expecting anything. Just trying to win more ballgames."

It was Machado's third homer of the year, a line drive 421-foot blast off Drew Pomeranz in the fifth, that gave the Orioles the 2-0 lead. Adam Jones' RBI single in the third broke the 0-0 tie.

Meanwhile, Bundy recorded his fourth quality start in four outings and his second start in a row without allowing a run. He's pitched 13 scoreless innings over his past two starts. Tonight, he gave up six hits in seven innings plus one batter, throwing a career-high 108 pitches.

"Really just had to use all my pitches tonight," Bundy said. "That's a tough lineup over there. They just battle from pitch one and battled me the whole night. Got some double play balls that my defense helped me out to get out of some jams. Think that was the key to the game.

"Really all my off-speed pitches were the ones getting the double play balls on earlier in the game. Later in the game, I got lucky on a few balls I left out over the plate and they popped them up."

Bundy said he was out to keep the O's rotation on a good roll tonight. Over the last three games, Bundy, Ubaldo Jiménez and Wade Miley have allowed one run over 22 2/3 innings.

"All of us, we feed off each other and we always want to do better than the previous guy," Bundy said. " ... I had plenty of bullets left (to start the eighth inning). It's just how good of bullets were they after that? Tried to stay low in the zone and I got behind (Christian) Vázquez. Threw a 3-2 slider and he was able to flick it over third base."

That hit ended Bundy's night. But Hart, Givens and Brach got six more huge outs, with Brach getting his third save in three games on 33 pitches. Hart struck out Andrew Benintendi and Givens got O's killer Mookie Betts to pop out to end the eighth with two men on base.

"When we leave the game and the bullpen comes on, it is almost a relief, I guess, knowing how good they are out there," Bundy said of the 'pen's continued strong work.

The Orioles went 2-8 at home versus Boston in 2016 and had lost six in a row at Camden Yards against that club. But they ended that streak tonight while maintaining another. And that is a third straight game of strong pitching. They've allowed zero, one and zero runs over the past three games.