Orioles 8, Royals 5
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Baltimore Orioles hit five home runs and snapped a six-game losing streak with an 8-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.
The five homers were the most for the Orioles since they bashed eight in a 19-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on June 16.
The six-game skid was Baltimore's longest of the season.
Orioles right-hander Wei-Yin Chen (8-6) posted his fourth straight win. He has not lost since dropping a 3-2 decision to the Yankees on July 21 in New York. Chen allowed three runs, 10 hits and one walk with four strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings.
Kansas City rallied for a run in the sixth when designated hitter Kendrys Morales got the third of three singles in the inning to score left fielder Ben Zobrist.
Baltimore got the run back in the eighth on left fielder Steve Pearce's eighth home run of the season.
In the bottom of the inning, Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas hit his 15th homer of the season, a two-out, two-run drive into the right field bleachers, cutting the deficit to 7-5.
The Orioles answered with their final homer, a 416-foot shot to center to lead off the ninth by Ryan Flaherty, his fifth homer of the year.
Left-hander Zach Britton closed out the Royals with a scoreless ninth, collecting his 30th save in 33 chances.
The Orioles connected for two-run homers in the third, fourth and fifth to build a 6-2 lead.
After the Royals got two second-inning runs, the Orioles answered quickly. Flaherty singled to lead off the third and third baseman Manny Machado hit the next pitch for a two-run homer to center, tying the score.
In the next inning, second baseman Jonathan Schoop's towering, two-out blast to left scored Pearce, who singled with one out. Schoop's deep fly to the back of the bleachers, measured at 427 feet, gave the Orioles a 4-2 advantage.
In the fifth, first baseman Chris Davis delivered a one-out shot to center, scoring right fielder Gerardo Parra, who had singled.
After Morales and catcher Salvador Perez each doubled in the second to produce the Royals' first run, right fielder Paulo Orlando and second baseman Omar Infante each reached on infield hits to score Perez.
NOTES: Orioles RHP Wei-Yin Chen began the night leading the majors with a .138 opponents' batting average with runners in scoring position. ... The Royals' bullpen had a 0.59 ERA in the previous eight games, with opponents batting .135 (14-for-104). ... Despite an 0-for-16 slide entering Wednesday's game, Orioles 1B Chris Davis was hitting .288 (61-for-212) with a .608 slugging average in 57 games since June 20, raising his batting average 32 points to .252. ... Royals OF Jarrod Dyson has played in only 13 games and batted in just five since the July 30 acquisition of Ben Zobrist. Dyson is hitting .346 (9-for-26) in the five games with five stolen bases in six tries.