Manny Machado homers, goes 4-for-4 as O's win to go to 5-0

Score early and hold them off late. Get some help from Manny Machado. The Orioles used that formula this afternoon to post a 5-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays at cold Camden Yards, completing an unbeaten homestand.

They sweep the rain-shortened two-game series and have the second 5-0 start in team history. The world champion 1970 Orioles also began the year 5-0.

With the help of four hits, including a longball, the Orioles took a 4-0 lead on Rays starter Jake Odorizzi in the last of the second. The inning featured the first major league hit by Hyun Soo Kim, who went 2-for-3 with a pair of infield hits. He hit a slow roller to the third base side of the mound in his first at-bat and reached on the infield hit.

Pedro Alvarez started the inning with an infield hit to the right side against the shift to snap his season-opening 0-for-12 start. One out later, he scored on Jonathan Schoop's double into the left field corner when the ball got by Corey Dickerson, who slid to stop it. After Kim's infield hit left runners on the corners, Joey Rickard's sac fly produced his third RBI and made it 2-0.

Machado followed with his third homer. He hit a 1-2 pitch out to left-center for the 4-0 lead. It was the O's eighth homer of the year and first that was not a solo shot. Machado went 4-for-4 and added a double in the eighth. He is batting .429 (9-for-21) to start the year. He scored a big insurance in the eighth to make it 5-3. He advanced to third on a groundout after that two-bagger and scored on a wild pitch, getting a good read on a ball that didn't get far away from the plate.

Tampa Bay got back in it after being down 4-0 early on. After O's starter Vance Worley kept them off the board on 38 pitches with five strikeouts through three innings, Dickerson homered in the fourth for a 4-1 game.

Tampa Bay added two runs in the fifth with the big help of a catcher's interference call on Matt Wieters. Dickerson hit a grounder to first on the play that would have ended the inning with the Orioles leading 4-2, but he instead reached on what was scored as an error. Steve Pearce followed with an RBI single and Tampa Bay was within 4-3. Evan Longoria singled in the run earlier in the frame that made it 4-2.

Worley, in his O's debut, came up an out short of qualifying for the win. Over 4 2/3 innings, he allowed seven hits and three runs, throwing 79 pitches.

The Orioles bullpen was strong as usual. Brad Brach replaced Worley and retired all four batters he faced, two on strikeouts, and was credited with the victory. Mychal Givens pitched a scoreless seventh with the help of Wieters, who threw out Logan Forsythe trying to get into scoring position in a one-run game.

Darren O'Day pitched a scoreless eighth but needed a strikeout of pinch-hitter Hank Conger on his 33rd pitch of the inning as Tampa Bay left the bases loaded down 4-3. Zach Britton pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to record his second save.

Now it is on to Boston, where the first road trip of 2016 begins Monday at 2:05 p.m. when Yovani Gallardo (1-0, 1.80 ERA) pitches against left-hander David Price (1-0, 3.00 ERA).