Mancini (2 HRs) leads Orioles to rout of Red Sox
BOSTON -- Rookie Trey Mancini hit two of Baltimore's five home runs in the first three innings and the Orioles pounded out 17 hits en route to a 12-5 victory over the Red Sox on Wednesday night.
Mancini, a right-handed batter getting the start in left field over lefty-swinging Hyun Soo Kim against knuckleballer Steven Wright, hit one of the four homers yielded by Wright in 1 1/3 innings. Mancini belted his fifth homer in 29 major league plate appearances off reliever Ben Taylor in the third inning.
Mancini, who has 10 RBIs in 10 big league games, and Jonathan Schoop went back-to-back in the first inning. Adam Jones and Chris Davis homered to chase Wright (0-1) in the second as Baltimore (5-2) built a 9-0 lead and went on to a split of the two-game series.
Ubaldo Jimenez, 2-6 lifetime against the Red Sox, couldn't get through five innings for the win as Mychal Givens was summoned with the bases loaded in the fifth. Givens (2-0) gave up an RBI single -- one of Xander Bogaerts' three hits -- but was credited with two scoreless innings.
Welington Castillo doubled home two runs and Schoop added an RBI single in a three-run seventh.
Davis had a single and double to go with his homer, Mark Trumbo had an RBI single and two hits and Jones, J.J. Hardy, Schoop and Castillo had two hits apiece. Schoop and Hardy came into the game 2-for-19 on the season.
Boston's Pablo Sandoval, who hit into a double play his first time up, hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning but also struck out with the bases loaded in the fifth, fouled out with two men on in the seventh and popped out with two men on to end the game.
Mitch Moreland had a seventh-inning double for Boston (4-4) -- his sixth straight game with a double.
Wright needed a leaping catch in left field by Chris Young to get out of the first inning.
The Red Sox got one run back on an Andrew Benintendi sacrifice fly in the third, Bogaerts' RBI single made it 9-2 in the fourth and Sandoval then dropped one over the Green Monster later in the inning to make it 9-4.
Wright allowed eight runs on eight hits in 1 1/3 innings. Jimenez yielded five runs on eight hits in 4 1/3 innings.
NOTES: The Orioles signed RHP Shairon Martis, who pitched for Team Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic, to a minor league contract. He hasn't pitched in the majors since 2013. ... CF Adam Jones played in his 1,328th game as an Oriole, moving him past Brian Roberts into 11th place on the team's all-time list. ... The Red Sox will have LHP Eduardo Rodriguez on the mound against Pittsburgh RH Chad Kuhl in a makeup game at Fenway Park on Thursday. The Orioles open a four-game series at Toronto on Friday night with RHP Kevin Gausman (0-0 in two starts) on the mound.