masn-baseballs-orioles.jpgOrioles right-hander Dylan Bundy was rolling. He struck out the side in the second. He tied his career high with seven strikeouts by the fourth inning. He had a perfect game through five.
But two changeups that found too much of the plate in the Colorado sixth changed everything.
Nick Hundley and David Dahl homered to turn a dominant outing into one where Bundy took the loss to the Rockies and rookie right-hander Jon Gray. Colorado beat the Orioles 3-1 and joined Seattle as the only teams to…

Orioles right-hander Dylan Bundy was rolling. He struck out the side in the second. He tied his career high with seven strikeouts by the fourth inning. He had a perfect game through five.

But two changeups that found too much of the plate in the Colorado sixth changed everything.

Nick Hundley and David Dahl homered to turn a dominant outing into one where Bundy took the loss to the Rockies and rookie right-hander Jon Gray. Colorado beat the Orioles 3-1 and joined Seattle as the only teams to win a series at Camden Yards this season.

Held to just seven runs in the series, the Orioles fall to 58-42 after 100 games and lead the American League East by two games over Toronto and 2 ½ over Boston. The Orioles are 37-16 at home and 12-2-3 in 17 home series.

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Bundy retired the first 16 Rockies hitters tonight – with eight strikeouts – and was rolling until he hit that road block in the top of the sixth. With one out in the inning, he walked Mark Reynolds. That ended a run of 30 Colorado hitters in a row retired by Orioles pitchers, dating back to the fifth inning last night. After Chris Tillman retired his last two batters, Tyler Wilson got 12 in a row to end last night’s game.

But Bundy’s no-hitter ended when Hundley, a former Oriole, hammered a 1-2 pitch into the left-field seats for his fifth homer and gave the Rockies 2-0 lead. Hundley’s drive was estimated to have gone 418 feet by Statcast. One out later, Dahl hit his first major league homer in his third game. His 401-foot drive to center made it 3-0.

Bundy went 5 2/3, allowing just two hits, both on the homers, and three runs with one walk and a career-high eight strikeouts. He threw 89 pitches and is now 3-3 with an ERA of 3.46.

The Orioles scored their only run on Manny Machado’s solo homer off Gray in the last of the sixth. Machado hit No. 21 on a 1-2 slider and that made it 3-1.

The Orioles thought they had scored on a Matt Wieters homer down the right field line in the third, but a crew chief replay review upheld the original call of a foul ball. Wieters went 2-for-3 to snap a 1-for-31 slump, but he was also thrown out trying for a double in the seventh with the Orioles down two runs.

The O’s missed chances in the fourth and fifth innings, when they went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring positon. They had the bases loaded with one out in the fourth and Wieters led off the fifth with a double.

Gray, the third overall pick in the 2013 draft and a three-time Baseball America top 100 prospect, got the victory. Over seven innings, he allowed five hits and one run to improve to 7-4 with a 3.94 ERA.

The Orioles now embark on a two-city, four-game road trip. First, they play a makeup game Thursday night in Minnesota and then play three over the weeked in Toronto. Tomorrow night, Ubaldo Jimenez (5-9, 7.38 ERA) faces Twins’ right-hander Kyle Gibson (3-6, 4.67 ERA).