Davis to begin rehab at Bowie (Pearce and Machado homer)

First baseman Chris Davis will report to the Double-A Bowie Baysox and appear in an injury rehab game Saturday night, the team announced.

The Baysox are playing New Britain at 6:35 p.m. at Prince George's County Stadium.

Davis may be one-and-done on the assignment after taking live batting practice today and proclaiming himself ready to come off the disabled list. The Orioles will check on him after Saturday's game and make a decision.

Davis is on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left oblique. He's eligible to be activated on Sunday.

As for tonight's game at Camden Yards, Nick Markakis extended his hitting streak to 16 games with a leadoff single against former teammate Scott Feldman. He's hit safely in 19 of his last 20 games.

Feldman signed a three-year, $30 million contract with the Astros over the winter.

"Everybody likes Scott," said manager Buck Showalter. "We'd like to have brought him back. We knew that his timing going out on the market was real, real good. I thought he might get what he got. He's pretty solid. God bless him, the timing was perfect and I would have done the same thing he did.

"I talked to him a couple times. He's a good addition for them. You know what you're going to get."

Wei-Yin Chen struck out two while retiring the Astros in order in the first inning, throwing 10 of his 13 pitches for strikes. He walked Jesus Guzman leading off the second but got a fly ball and double play.

Chen has thrown 28 pitches in two innings.

The Orioles went 4-2 on their road trip to Minnesota and St. Petersburg, Fla., despite scoring only 18 runs and committing five errors. They were held to three runs or fewer in four of the games and split them.

The Orioles are 7-11 when scoring fewer than four runs after going 16-46 last season.

The Orioles are 13-6 in night games this season, the best mark in baseball.

Earlier today, I wrote about Henry Urrutia's pending sports hernia surgery and Francisco Peguero's injury rehab assignment at Triple-A Norfolk.

In other injury news, outfielder Nolan Reimold continues to swing the bat in simulated games in Sarasota. He's eligible to come off the 60-day disabled list on May 29. Pitcher Edgmer Escalona threw on the side yesterday. He's on the 60-day DL with a right shoulder impingement.

Update: Former Oriole LJ Hoes lifted a sacrifice fly in the top of the third inning to give Houston a 1-0 lead, but it didn't last for long.

Steve Pearce and Manny Machado homered in the bottom half to give the Orioles a 2-1 lead.

Pearce has homered in three of the last four games. This is the first time in his career that he's connected in back-to-back games.

Machado has his first home run, RBI and extra-base hit since coming off the disabled list. It's also his first hit at Camden Yards, though he's only playing in his second home game.

Pearce lined his home run into the left field seats. Machado deposited a Feldman changeup into the Orioles' bullpen.

Feldman threw a cutter, sinker, curveball, sinker and changeup during the at-bat. He wants the last pitch back.