J.J. Hardy homers twice as O's go to 7-0 with win at Boston

It looks like the Orioles offense has come to life. Tonight, they used all parts of the ballpark to hit three homers and beat Boston 9-5 at Fenway Park.

The Orioles scored seven consecutive runs after falling behind 4-2 on their way to the first 7-0 start in Baltimore Orioles team history.

Shortstop J.J. Hardy hit not one, but two homers into the right field corner at Fenway, that area near the Pesky Pole. The first tied the game 2-2 in the fourth. The second added to a lead and made it 9-4 in the seventh. This was Hardy's 12th career multi-homer game and first since Aug. 8, 2014 against St. Louis.

Hardy went 2-for-4 and added a sac fly to give him a five-RBI night, one off his career high. Chris Davis drove in five runs yesterday. Hardy did not have a homer or RBI in the first six games.

Down 4-2, the O's offense rose up for a three-run sixth to take a 5-4 lead and a four-run seventh for a much more comfortable five-run margin.

Mark Trumbo's two-run homer in the sixth on the ninth pitch tied the game 4-4, his second homer in two games. He hit a 3-2 pitch off Boston starter Clay Buchholz. Earlier in the at-bat, Boston failed to catch his foul pop. Hardy's sac fly made it 5-4 and scored Matt Wieters who walked and went to third on a Pedro Alvarez double.

The O's seventh featured a big two-run single to center by Wieters to make it a 7-4 lead. That came a few batters before Hardy's second homer traveled 339 feet and made it 9-4.

Earlier, after he put up a zero, stranding the bases loaded and preserving a 2-2 tie in the last of the fourth, O's starter Mike Wright could not keep it tied in the fifth.

Boston scored twice that inning to take a 4-2 lead. No. 9 hitter Jackie Bradley Jr. led off with a single to right and scored the go-ahead run when Mookie Betts doubled off the Green Monster. Betts advanced to third on a grounder and scored when Wright overthrew a slider that bounced. It went for a wild pitch and Betts charged down the line for a 4-2 Boston lead that would not stand up.

David Ortiz hit a two-run homer in the first to provide Boston a 2-0 lead. He hit a 96 mph fastball on a 1-2 count that found the middle of the plate. It was his third homer of 2016 and made him 3-for-3 with two homers off Wright.

In the O's fourth, Trumbo - the leadoff batter - was drilled with a Buchholz fastball. With two outs, Hardy drove a pitch into the right-field corner for a game-tying homer. It came on a 1-2 pitch and traveled just 327 feet and stood as a home run after a replay review.

Wright went five innings, allowing five hits and four runs with one walk and four strikeouts. He threw 96 pitches, 61 for strikes. The O's three-run sixth not only put Baltimore ahead but made Wright the winning pitcher tonight.

But this was the fourth game in a row and sixth time in seven games on the year that the O's starter went five innings or less.

Dylan Bundy, making his second appearance, kept Boston off the board in the sixth and seventh before allowing a run in the eighth. He went 2 1/3 innings, allowing three hits, and threw 43 pitches. T.J. McFarland replaced him and got the next four outs. Darren O'Day got the last out to wrap up the victory.

The Orioles offense has produced five homers and 18 runs in this series. The Orioles have scored 29 runs the last four games. The O's have hit 12 homers the past five games.

The Orioles go for a three-game sweep tomorrow night in Boston when Ubaldo Jimenez (1-0, 1.29 ERA) pitches against right-hander Joe Kelly (0-0, 21.00 ERA).