The Orioles Look To Continue Success Against Phillies
(AP) -- The red-hot Baltimore Orioles can seemingly do no wrong during their best stretch of the season.
Nothing is going right for a Philadelphia Phillies team that's on the cusp of its longest losing streak in 16 years.
Coming off a historic power display, the Orioles will try for their 11th victory in 13 games when this four-game home-and-home series shifts to Citizens Bank Park on Wednesday night.
Baltimore (33-31) extended its surge Tuesday after scoring six times in the first inning en route to a 19-3 home victory. It was the club's highest-scoring effort since a 23-1 win over Toronto on Sept. 28, 2000.
The defending AL East champs were a season-worst six games under .500 on June 3, but they've since batted .299 with 22 home runs while averaging 6.2 runs in a 10-2 stretch. They're in position to move three games over .500 for the first time since the end of last season.
Manny Machado went 3 for 4 with two home runs, giving him a .450 average, five homers and 10 RBIs in his last 10 games. Chris Parmelee made the most of his call-up from Triple-A earlier in the day, finishing with a season-high four hits and his second career multihomer game.
Chris Davis, David Lough, Jimmy Paredes and Ryan Flaherty also went deep as Baltimore hit a franchise-record eight homers in its ninth win in 12 meetings with the Phillies (22-44).
Now the Orioles are expected to get Adam Jones back after he missed one game with a sore shoulder.
"It's fun to watch, fun to be a part of," winning pitcher Chris Tillman said.
Phillies reliever Justin De Fratus was ejected for appearing to throw at J.J. Hardy in the sixth inning before the Phillies lost an eighth straight game for the first time since July 2013. The club hasn't dropped nine in a row since an 11-game slide in September 1999.
"Worst road trip I've ever been on as far as just the way we lost games," right fielder Jeff Francoeur said after the team's first winless trip of at least eight games since August 1883.
Francoeur pitched the final two innings Tuesday, allowing two runs and throwing 48 pitches.
The Phillies hadn't homered during the losing streak before Maikel Franco's two-run shot in the sixth inning. They've batted .115 with runners in scoring position while totaling 10 runs over the past seven, getting shut out three times in the last five.
Baltimore's Ubaldo Jimenez (4-3, 3.19 ERA) had received 10 total runs of support over his previous five starts, going 0-1 despite a 3.72 ERA, before getting six in Friday's 11-3 home victory over the Yankees. The right-hander allowed three runs over five innings.
Jimenez has gone 0-2 with a 11.25 ERA in three career road outings against the Phillies, last facing them in 2010. Francoeur is 6 for 30 with two home runs against Jimenez, while Ryan Howard is 3 for 7 with a homer and a triple in the matchup.
Kevin Correia looks to build on a solid Phillies debut in Friday's 1-0, 13-inning loss at Pittsburgh. He worked 5 2-3 innings, allowing five hits with four strikeouts and one walk.
Correia admittedly shook off some rust in his first big-league start since August with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The right-hander has gone 2-1 with a 3.79 ERA in three career outings against Baltimore.
Machado, Jones and Matt Wieters are a combined 1 for 16 against Correia, but Lough is 7 for 11 with three doubles.