Rangers 8, Orioles 4
Adrian Beltre went 4-for-4 with two home runs and a season-high five RBIs - including a go-ahead three-run blast in the fifth inning - as Texas improved its American League-best road record to 26-18.
Nelson Cruz, Jurickson Profar and A.J. Pierzynski also drove in runs as the Rangers had 14 hits and won for the eighth time in their last nine road games, including two straight over Baltimore. Martin Perez (3-1) allowed four runs (two earned) and six hits in six-plus innings to win his third straight decision.
J.J. Hardy drove in a pair of runs, Manny Machado hit a solo homer and Brian Roberts added an RBI for Baltimore, which has lost five of its last six contests. Zach Britton (2-3) yielded five runs, eight hits and walked three in five innings.
After Beltre put the Rangers on the board with a solo shot to lead off the second inning, Roberts answered with an RBI single in the bottom half. Machado's homer put the Orioles ahead in the third before Cruz's two-out RBI single in the fifth preceded Beltre's three-run blast - his 20th.
Baltimore took advantage of two errors and a hit batsman in the fifth inning when Hardy delivered a two-out two-run single to make it 5-4. Texas scored twice in the seventh on Profar's one-out double and Pierzynski's two-out single after Beltre was intentionally walked, and Beltre added a bloop RBI single in the eighth.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Beltre extended his hitting streak to 11 games and is batting .488 with six home runs during that span. ... Orioles pitchers had not allowed a home run in 35 1/3 innings before Beltre's blast. ... Machado went 1-for-4 and has 123 hits, the most by a player younger than 22 years old prior to the All-Star break. Detroit Hall of Famer Al Kaline (122 in 1955) held the previous mark.