No fans, but plenty of runs, as O's top White Sox 8-2

Well, the Orioles made noise with their bats.

In the first-ever major league game played with no fans, the Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox 8-2 at Camden Yards in a game that lasted just two hours and three minutes.

The Orioles have a three-game win streak for the first time all year and a .500 record at 10-10 for the first time since they were 7-7.

It was their first non-American League East game of the season, and they improved to 16-6 against the White Sox since 2012, including a home mark of 9-3 in that time.

Ubaldo Jimenez made sure the Chicago bats were quiet with another strong outing. He went seven innings, allowing three hits (all singles, includingtwo infield singles) and two unearned runs, with one walk and six strikeouts. Jimenez improved to 2-1 with a 1.59 ERA, and has not allowed an earned run in three of his four starts. He threw 89 pitches, 60 for strikes.

American League batters are hitting just .118 (10-for-85) against him.

About 72 hours after the O's began a game Sunday in which they scored 18 runs on 20 hits, the runs kept coming.

After matching their biggest inning of the year Sunday, scoring six runs in a frame twice, the O's did that in the last of the first today.

It started with a walk, error and bloop single. Adam Jones' sac fly was his 19th RBI for a 1-0 lead. Chris Davis followed with a three-run homer to right for a 4-0 lead. He hit a 1-1 pitch from Jeff Samardzija for his third homer in five games and fifth on the year. Everth Cabrera and Caleb Joseph added RBI doubles for runs five and six.

Davis' homer landed on Eutaw Street. That is the 80th hit there in the history of Camden Yards, the 31st by an Oriole and sixth by Davis.

The O's added a run in the third. A double by Cabrera followed Manny Machado's leadoff single, and an RBI single from Joseph made it 7-0.

Machado's fifth error on the year - all coming over the last eight games - opened the door for Chicago to score two unearned runs in the fifth. Then, Machado hit a solo homer in the last of the inning for an 8-2 lead. It was his fourth. Machado went 3-for-4 and added a single and double.

The Orioles have scored 26 runs their last two games, 42 in the last five and 59 runs their past nine games.

Now, the Orioles have Thursday off before they head to St. Petersburg, Fla., for three games this weekend. The Orioles will be the home team and bat last each inning. On Friday night at 7:05 p.m., Chris Tillman (2-2, 7.58 ERA) faces right-hander Alex Colome (0-0, 0.00 ERA).