Chris Davis homers with four RBIs as O's rout Pineda, Yankees 11-3

They did not strike out 16 times against Michael Pineda. But they did knock him out the game in the fifth tonight, handing the Yankees right-hander his earliest exit of the season.

Pineda allowed nine hits and six runs (five earned) over 4 1/3 innings as the Orioles hammered the Yankees 11-3 at Camden Yards to open a three-game series.

Pineda has fanned 27 Orioles and walked just two this year in three starts versus Baltimore, but he has also has an ERA of 5.60 in those games. He has given up five runs or more four times in 2015 - twice against the Orioles.

The Orioles won their fifth straight and seventh in the last eight games to get to .500 at 30-30. The last time they were at the .500 mark they were 12-12 on May 5.

Chris Davis drove in four runs while Manny Machado and Jimmy Paredes combined for five hits and five runs atop the order and Paredes drove in two. It was the O's most runs since their 18-7 win over Boston on April 26. They've scored 22 runs in the past three games.

With the game tied 1-1 in the fourth, two clutch hits by the middle of the Orioles order provided a four-run lead.

Machado led off the inning and reached on a two-base error by third baseman Chase Headley. A Paredes single - his third hit of the night - put runners on the corners. An Adam Jones RBI single followed for a 2-1 lead.

Then Davis ended a 12-game homerless run by blasting a three-run shot over the right-field wall to make it 5-1. Davis hit No. 13 on a 1-0 slider. He had singled in a run in the first, so this made it a season-high, four-RBI night for Davis. Coming into this game he had three RBIs over his previous 12 games.

Trailing 5-1, New York pulled within 5-3 in the fourth when Mason Williams, making his major league debut, homered to right in his second career at-bat. But Paredes' single in the last of the fourth got one back and the O's held a 6-3 lead.

The Orioles completely blew the game open with a four-run sixth, which included Caleb Joseph's solo homer, a J.J. Hardy RBI double, Travis Snider RBI single and key error by Mark Teixeira, one that snapped a 109-game errorless streak for the first baseman.

Against the Yankees this year, Joseph is 14-for-25 (.560) with two doubles, a triple, two homers and five RBIs.

The Orioles are 4-4 this year versus New York and have won nine of their last 11 at home against the Yankees and are 17-5 in their last 22 games at the Yard in this series.

Ubaldo Jimenez got the win, allowing six hits and three runs over five innings and is 4-3 with an ERA of 3.19. The O's bullpen covered the last four innings without allowing a run and has given up just one run in 16 innings the past four games.

In the second game of the series on Saturday night at 7:15, Bud Norris (2-4, 8.63 ERA) faces CC Sabathia (3-7, 5.25 ERA).