Nolan Reimold on the bunt sign that never came, plus other clubhouse quotes

Orioles outfielder Nolan Reimold said he thought he might get a bunt sign. In the Chicago clubhouse, White Sox starting pitcher Carlos Rodon said he thought Reimold would, as well.

But Rodon threw the pitch with two on and none out in the Orioles seventh and there was no bunt. Batting in a 3-3 tie, Reimold hit an opposite-field three-run homer to right to give the Orioles a 6-3 win over the White Sox.

Reimold looked for that bunt sign that never came.

"Then, you know, just regular approach," he said. "Get a good pitch to hit and hit it. I don't really get the bunt sign too much, but I was looking, ready to do it if the sign was there. I made good contact, but I didn't know how well it would carry out there, especially on a night like tonight. I thought maybe off the wall, then saw it hit the top up there."

Starting against lefties the last two nights, Reimold has gone 4-for-7 to raise his average to .355 and slugging percentage to .742.

"Feels good," he said. "Good start. Long year, obviously. Just will try to keep it up and do the little things to keep at it and keep some momentum when I get out there."

Reimold said he is playing with a high level of confidence right now, and is maybe the most confident he's been since he first got hurt in 2012. Now he'd like to be on the active roster of a team making a playoff run. That is something he hasn't experienced yet in the majors.

"Yeah, I really scuffled around for a couple of years after that (injury). It takes a long time," Reimold said. "It's good to be back and playing and helping the team win some games. That is the ultimate team goal to make the playoffs and win the World Series. It is something I'd really like to experience while I am still playing. Yeah, that would definitely be a big thing."

O's catcher Matt Wieters was asked about the outstanding double play the O's turned to get out of a jam in the top of the sixth. Center fielder Adam Jones caught Melky Cabrera's liner in center and then fired a strike to Wieters, who made a nifty backhand catch of a one-hop throw and then the snap tag at the plate to complete the 8-2 double play.

"Adam has the hard part of making it (the throw) all the way there," Wieters said. "I think the biggest thing I was worried about, with a wet night, be able to get a skip (of the ball). It didn't really skip on me, it kind of bounced up on me and that made it a little bit easier, I guess.

"Mike (Wright) was making great pitches and you feel like at some point, something is going to fall his way. Adam, he has made that play quite a few times since I've been here. I kind of saw it happening before it happened."

"I think my reaction showed it pretty well," Wright said. "That was huge. I definitely owe him, that's a big play. Huge."

Wieters said he has seen Wright make progress on the mound this year and tonight he delivered a solid outing, allowing two runs and five hits over six innings.

"Yeah. Today was I think the best he's thrown," Wieters said. "He will be able to take a lot out of this outing. It was fun to catch him tonight. Really, even the runs they scored he made good pitches on. For 90 pitches or whatever he threw, he was focused as much as I've ever seen somebody.

"It is big when Mike can use all of his pitches. He's got a great arm, so sometimes he can get into fastball-happy mode. But he was able to mix in his breaking ball and a quality breaking ball."

Wright came up with his second quality start in four outings and has an ERA of 5.40 through four starts. He threw 90 pitches, 59 for strikes.

"I felt really good," Wright said. "We were on the same page and my stuff was pretty good today. Command of my four-seam was a little off but everything else was really good."

Wright tied a career high with six strikeouts.

"Yeah, since the beginning of the season, even since the beginning of spring training, I've felt better and better every time I take the mound," he said. "It's very positive to go out there, feel confident and like I can execute every pitch that he puts down. Been able to throw off-speed pitches when I'm behind in the count and breaking balls that are quality.

"This time last year some pitches were getting away from me. I kept repeating bad pitch, bad pitch, bad pitch and now I feel like I'm settling back in and not throwing too many bad pitches in a row."

Wright talked about the Orioles getting off to a strong start to a 10-game homestand. Taking the first two in a series against Chicago, which was 16-6 when the series began, has done just that.

"Absolutely. We're a good team and they're a really good team. I think we're the best team in the league and it shows when we play games like this," he said.