Machado with three homers as O's beat White Sox 10-2

CHICAGO - Orioles third baseman Manny Machado has put on a remarkable show this afternoon at U.S. Celluar Field. He has hit three homers in the first three innings as the Orioles lead 10-0 after the top of the third.

Machado hit a two-run homer in the first, a three-run shot in the second and another two-run blast in third. He began the day with 22 homers and is now at 25. No Oriole has ever homered four times in one game and he has a shot at history today.

The last Oriole with a three-homer game was Chris Davis on May 20, 2014 at Pittsburgh. Machado's three homers and seven RBIs are both already career highs.

The list of Orioles to homer three times in a game: Boog Powell (three times), Eddie Murray (three times), Paul Blair, Bobby Grich, Don Baylor, Dan Ford, Lee Lacy, Juan Beniquez, Randy Milligan, Cal Ripken Jr., Roberto Alomar, Albert Belle, Nick Markakis and Davis (two times).

The Orioles mashed four homers off White Sox starter James Shields in a 1 1/3 innings as they scored two in the first and six in the second to lead 8-0 for Dylan Bundy.

Oh, by the way, Bundy fanned the side in the bottom of the first on 12 pitches, getting strikeouts on a 94 mph fastball, an 86 mph changeup and an 80 mph curveball.

Hyun Soo Kim singled with one out in the first and scored on Machado's two-run homer to center that was his 23rd and went 417 feet. With one out in the second, J.J. Hardy hit a 423-foot homer to center. His fifth made it 3-0. After Shields hit Adam Jones and walked Kim, Machado lined a three-run homer to left for a 6-0 lead.

Machado's second homer went 369 feet and this is his second multi-homer game of the year and the eighth of his career. But the O's had more offense in them that inning. Davis followed Machado's blast with his first homer since July 10. It was his 23rd and made it 7-0. The Orioles have hit back-to-back homers 13 times this season.

Steve Pearce doubled and Shields was finally replaced. He left to a chorus of boos as Matt Albers came on. Pedro Alvarez greeted him with an RBI single on his first pitch for an 8-0 lead. Matt Wieters crushed one to the wall in right but Adam Eaton reached up for the catch that might have been the O's fifth homer of the first two innings. So, as it was, they settled for an early 8-0 lead.

Machado's third homer came off Albers as the Orioles took a 10-0 lead to the bottom of the third.

Bundy fanned two more batters in the second, pitching around Jose Abreu's leadoff double. The O's have the big early lead as they try for a series win to start this road trip off on a solid note.

More Machado notes: Today he became the second player in MLB history to homer in the first, second and third innings of the same game. The first was Carl Reynolds of the Chicago White Sox on July 2, 1930. Machado is the ninth player in MLB history to homer in three consecutive innings.

Machado grounded into a double play in the fifth inning in his first crack to become the first Oriole to ever homer four times in a game. There have been 16 players in MLB history with four-homer games.

The Orioles lead 10-1 after five innings.

O's win big over the ChiSox: On the strength of Machado's amazing three-homer day, the Orioles beat Chicago 10-2 at U.S. Cellular Field to improve to 63-47 overall and 24-30 on the road. They win the series and get their 10-game road trip off to a good start. With Toronto's loss today to Kansas City, the Orioles move one game ahead of the Blue Jays in the AL East.

Winning pitcher Dylan Bundy gave up four hits and two runs over six innings with one walk and a career-high nine strikeouts. He certainly kept his focus after getting a big early lead. Bundy is 3-2 with an ERA of 3.00 in his five starts and has an ERA of 1.90 his past four starts. Ubaldo Jimenez pitched three perfect innings today on just 26 pitches and that qualfied him for his first career major league save.

While Machado today did not become the 17^th player in MLB history and first Oriole to hit four homers in one game, he did become the 16^th Oriole to hit three in a game.

After he hit three homers in the first thre innings, he came up three more times today. But he grounded into a double play in the fifth, line to center in the seventh and grounded out to third base in the ninth.

He began today without a homer over his last seven games and just four home runs in his past 36 games. But he joined the Oriole record book as the they got the road trip off to a good start.

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