O's game blog: Notes on Davis and the offense, quotes from Showalter and Givens

TORONTO - With five homers his last three games, Chris Davis is the first Oriole to have five home runs in a three-game run since Mark Reynolds did so, July 2-4, 2011. The last major league player with five home runs in a three-game stretch was the Nationals' Bryce Harper, May 6-9, 2015.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Davis has 26 homers against the Blue Jays over the last four seasons. His 26 homers are the most by any major league hitter against one team over a four-year span since Ryan Howard hit 28 against the Atlanta Braves from 2006-09.

Let's just say the Orioles like hitting here at Rogers Centre. In their last two games here - June 21 and last night - they scored 13 and 10 runs.

This is their highest-scoring road park in 2015. It's a place where they have scored five runs or more in five of the seven games here this season. In those seven, they are batting .280/.349/.456 as a team against the Jays staff with an OPS of .805.

The Orioles have scored 10 or more runs six times this year - four times at Camden Yards and twice at Rogers Centre.

O's manager Buck Showalter was asked today if he believes that hitting is contagious after his team has scored 17 runs the last two nights.

"No. Because of David Price," he said. "Momentum is whoever is pitching that day. There might be mental momentum, but not really. Could you imagine how boring it would be if everything played out like it looked on paper? We shouldn't have won last night."

Manny Machado is back at third base after starting three of the last four games at shortstop.

"You play as many games as Manny has played you kind of need a little juice in the giddyup," Showalter said. "I know he was, not fired up, energized about it. And for the right reasons, because the club needed it."

Reliever Mychal Givens had another solid outing for the Orioles last night. He came in with two on and two outs in the sixth with a 6-2 lead and got Kevin Pillar to line out back to the mound. He then got the top of the Jays order 1-2-3 in the seventh.

"Just went in to do what I do best," Givens said. "Go with my strengths, get him off balance and get out of the inning (against Pillar). Just go out with confidence and attack hitters.

"It is a real confidence booster, facing a hot team like Toronto. Going out there facing (Jose) Bautista and (Josh) Donaldson is real good confidence booster. Just having fun in this game. When you have fun and have confidence, a lot of positive things can happen."

Givens needed just 15 pitches to get four key outs in that win. In 14 O's games, he is 1-0 with a 1.42 ERA and 22 strikeouts over 19 innings.

On the mound today, Mike Wright (2-3, 4.99 ERA) makes his first big league start since he pitched right here on June 19. In that game, he allowed four runs over 1 1/3 innings. He was activated off the disabled list Friday after making two rehab starts for Triple-A Norfolk, where he gave up just one run over 10 innings.

Left-hander David Price (13-5, 2.47 ERA) gets the start for Toronto. In six starts since his trade to the Blue Jays, he is 4-1 with a 2.28 ERA. Over 43 1/3 innings, he has walked eight and fanned 50, with a WHIP of 0.969.

Price's team is 19-8 in his starts this year, and he has allowed two earned runs or less in 15 of his last 19 starts. He is among the most deliberate pitchers in the majors, taking 26.2 seconds between pitches. That is the longest in the big leagues. Price is 7-4 with a 2.73 ERA in 18 career starts versus the Orioles.

MASNsports.com's Roch Kubatko reported this morning that Nolan Reimold is headed here to join the Orioles. He could be activated for Sunday's game but has not been officially added yet. No rosters moves so far today for the Orioles.