Showalter speaks after rain-shortened 8-1 loss

The Orioles gave up eight runs in six innings tonight, lightning and persistent rain forced a 1 hour, 17 minute delay, and the night ended without resumption and with a new team occupying third place in the American League East.

Dylan Bundy allowed five runs and nine hits, career highs as a starter, and was done after 4 1/3 innings in an 8-1, six-inning loss to the Red Sox before 26,160 at Camden Yards.

Mookie Betts didn't hit a home run, but he singled twice and walked. The power was supplied by Jackie Bradley Jr. and Sandy Leon, both connecting off Bundy, who stayed in the game after rolling his ankle in the third inning and receiving a visit from head athletic trainer Richie Bancells.

Bundy told reporters that his ankle should be fine.

The Orioles (66-53) hadn't dropped to third place until tonight. They've lost six of their last nine games, and a return home hasn't provided the expected tonic.

Tyler Wilson allowed three runs in 1 2/3 innings after letting three inherited runners score in his previous appearance in San Francisco.

The Orioles' lone run tonight came on Chris Davis' 25th home run, the ninth of his career to land on Eutaw Street.

Here's a sampling from manager Buck Showalter:

On what he saw from Bundy: "Good offensive team. He made a couple mistakes, but I think it was more about them than him. I thought the command was a little off. He got some counts he normally doesn't get in."

On whether Bundy's ankle is OK: "I don't know. The good thing is he's rolled that ankle multiple times and actually that's a good thing, people who have had that. He said he felt fine. We'll see how he is tomorrow. He said he's OK, he's done it before. You become a little more susceptible to it as you go forward, but it doesn't really have the severity it did the first time. From what I'm told."

On whether Red Sox's two-game sweep is product of facing hot team: "I think we had won three out of four or something coming in on the road trip. I'm not sure. You guys know more about it. We didn't pitch particularly well in certain spots. Some we did. You have to be on top of your game pitching-wise and we haven't been swinging the bats well, and I think a lot of it had to do, compound that with seeing two good pitchers. And they pitched well out of the bullpen. But tonight's game was just, the weather just didn't cooperate and we can go into a lot of details about how that all came to be."

On how he almost changed starters: "I actually came close to starting a different pitcher tonight because initially they were talking about it starting to rain around 8 o'clock and I didn't want to burn Dylan up. As slow as their guys work and (David) Price, sometimes that's two innings worth. But when they said now it may be 8:30 or 9 o'clock, I thought we were OK with it. Dylan has a certain amount that I'm going to let him go.

"There were a lot of variables going into tonight's game. I had another pitcher ready if we got a different weather report. But a lot of things. Not a strange night, but one that you'd like to turn the page on and regroup for tomorrow.

"This one we felt pretty confident we were going to get some rain at some point.
We're trying to be ethically fair to a team that for some reason has a 1 o'clock game scheduled tomorrow in Detroit. You go figure."

In response to question about AL East heating up: "It's been heating up since February. It is what it is. It's kind of what most people thought it would be. In most cases, most of them didn't include us.

"We've got to keep doing some things to keep us engaged in it, to have a chance in September. There's a lot of baseball to be played, and a lot of people playing each other, the way it was designed to keep everybody on the field. Everybody's got guys banged up this time of year. You get to September, you get freshened up a little bit."