Orioles set team record with eight home runs in rout of Phillies

The Orioles are a defending division champion who are playing well right now. The Phillies are not a good team and are definitely not playing well right now.

When those forces met tonight, the O's took a 12-0 lead in the third inning on their way to hitting a club-record eight home runs. They routed Philadelphia 19-3 at Camden Yards. The O's sweep this two-game series and now head to Philly for another one beginning Wednesday night.

The Orioles had hit seven homers in a game three times before tonight: May 17, 1967 at Boston, Aug. 26, 1985 at the California Angels and Sept. 26, 2012 versus Toronto.

The O's 19 runs are their most since they scored 23 against Toronto on Sept. 28, 2000.

The O's tied a season high by going two games over .500 at 33-31. They have won eight of their last nine and 10 of the last 12 games.

Philadelphia falls to 22-44 and has lost eight in a row overall and 12 straight road games. It is Philadelphia's first 12-game road losing streak since they had one from Aug. 28-Sept. 14, 1999.

The homer barrage and score after the home run:

* Manny Machado leadoff shot in the first, 1-0
* Machado leadoff shot in the second, 4-0
* Jimmy Paredes solo shot in the second, 5-0
* Chris Parmelee solo shot in the second, 6-0
* David Lough three-run shot in the third, 12-0
* Chris Davis solo shot in the fourth, 13-1
* Parmelee solo shot in the sixth, 15-3.
* Ryan Flaherty solo shot in the eighth, 18-3

After Parmelee's second homer off Justin De Fratus, the right-hander threw a pitch near J.J. Hardy and was ejected by home plate umpire Lance Barksdale.

Machado's two-homer game was his third this year and the fifth in 2015 by an Oriole until Parmelee produced the sixth. Machado also hit two homers on April 23 at Toronto and on May 31 against Tampa Bay. Delmon Young and Davis previously hit two homers in a game this year.

Machado hit a career-high 14 homers in 667 at-bats in 2013. Tonight, he hit No. 13 in his 243rd at-bat, and he has now hit seven homers his past 16 games.

Parmelee had a stunning Orioles debut, going 4-for-6 with the two homers, three runs and two RBIs. This was his second-career two-homer game. The first was June 22, 2013 for Minnesota at Cleveland. His four hits are a new career high.

Davis' blast in the fourth went onto Eutaw Street. It is the 81st homer to hit there in Oriole Park history, the 32nd hit by an Oriole and the seventh for Davis. That is the most by any individual as Davis passes Luke Scott, who hit six.

The Orioles have hit 17 homers in their last six games.

The Orioles took a 6-0 lead tonight in the last of first, which ended early for Phillies pitcher Jerome Wiliams. He was lifted, not because of giving up the runs, but because he suffered a left hamstring strain on a play at the plate. It came after he threw a wild pitch that scored two runs. Williams allowed the six runs on 30 pitches over just 2/3 of an inning.

Dustin McGowan, who came on after Williams, went 3 1/3 innings and gave up five homers and seven runs. Outfielder Jeff Francoeur pitched the seventh for the Phillies, becoming the 22nd non-pitcher to take the mound for the club in team history. Then he pitched a 1-2-3 inning, becoming the first Phils pitcher to not allow a run. The O's had scored at least once in the first six innings. The next inning, he served up homer No. 8 to Flaherty.

The Orioles hit three homers in the third inning alone and, by the end of the third inning, led 12-0 with five homers; they were 4-for-5 with runners in scoring position at that point.

Tomorrow night, Ubaldo Jimenez (4-3, 3.19 ERA) pitches against right-hander Kevin Correia (0-0, 0.00 ERA), who will making his second start of the year.