Trumbo with another two-homer game as O's top Twins

When the Orioles bash home runs, it can be impressive to see. It was today at Target Field.

Under cloudy and sometimes wet skies, the Orioles were raining homers. They hit three - two by Mark Trumbo - in the first four innings and added another later on their way to a 9-2 win over Minnesota.

The Orioles are 20-12 and have won four in a row. They have also won six of eight and nine of their past 13 games to get to eight games over .500 for the first time in 2016.

Trumbo hit a two-run homer that traveled 431 feet in the second and his second homer, a solo blast to left-center, traveled 406 feet in the fourth. This is his third multi-homer game of the year. He also hit two homers April 15 at Texas and May 3 versus the Yankees. Trumbo has five homers his last eight games and hit his 10th and 11th today.

His first homer gave the Orioles a 2-0 lead. Leading 2-1 in the fourth, Chris Davis mashed a two-run shot that traveled 424 feet. He hit No. 9 for a 4-1 lead and Trumbo quickly followed with his second. Both homers came on the first pitch and were back-to-back homers.

According to STATS, this is the first time in team history that the Orioles have had players hit back-to-back home runs in three consecutive games. The Orioles are the 15th team in MLB history to do so in three (or more) straight games. The New York Mets did that most recently, from April 18-20 this year. The all-time MLB record is four straight games by the 1964 Minnesota Twins from June 26-29, 1964.

The Orioles added on to their lead as Davis delivered an RBI double in the sixth and an RBI grounder in the seventh for a four-RBI day. Adam Jones went 4-for-5 and hit a two-run homer in the ninth. Jones went 6-for-10 in this series with two homers and five RBIs.

Davis went 6-for-6 from the fifth inning last night through the sixth today. Right before that he was 1-for-23 with 11 strikeouts. His grounder in the seventh scored a run but ended his run of consecutive hits.

The club's four homers today gives the Orioles 12 over the past three games after hitting just one the previous four contest. They have hit 49 on the year, a pace that would produce 248 over the full season.

Jones, Davis and Trumbo today went a combined 10-for-15 with four homers, seven runs and nine RBIs.

Tyler Wilson got the win and is 2-1 with an ERA of 2.93. Over seven innings he allowed six hits and two runs with one walk and two strikeouts. Wilson, in his longest outing of 2016, threw 95 pitches.

O's starters went seven innings or more just once in the season's first 24 games. Today they got a start of that length for the fourth time in the last eight games. O's starters have recorded 11 quality starts their past 14 games with an ERA of 3.40 in that span.

Now the Orioles return home for a seven-game homestand that begins Thursday night versus Detroit. Ubaldo Jimenez (2-3, 4.54 ERA) faces right-hander Mike Pelfrey (0-4, 6.23 ERA).