Rangers 6, Orioles 3
ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers put together four consecutive run-scoring hits in the sixth inning to rally past the Baltimore Orioles 6-3 Thursday night.
The Rangers trailed 3-1 going into the bottom of the sixth before tagging Baltimore starter Chris Tillman (1-1) for five runs.
Mitch Moreland's bloop double cut the Baltimore lead to one, and then Ian Desmond's infield single gave him his first RBI with the Rangers and tied the game at 3.
Texas, which had 10 hits in the game, wasn't done. Rougned Odor laced a two-run double to left to give the Rangers their first lead of the game. Elvis Andrus capped the six-hit inning with an RBI single up the middle.
The Rangers' rally took lefty Cole Hamels off the hook for his first loss since last Aug. 7 and made a winner out of reliever Tom Wilhelmsen (1-0). Hamels allowed three runs on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings, and Texas won its 13th consecutive game in which he started.
Wilhemsen faced one batter and induced an inning-ending double play in the sixth. Keone Kela and Sam Dyson followed with a scoreless inning apiece, and Shawn Tolleson worked around a two-out single in the ninth to pick up his third save.
Tillman (1-1) was charged with six runs on nine hits in his 5 1/3 innings.
Nomar Mazara, Andrus and Delino DeShields each had two hits for the Rangers (6-5).
Baltimore, which lost its second game in a row after a 7-0 start, got a pair of hits from outfielder Nolan Reimold.
The Orioles jumped on Hamels for a run in the third on back-to-back doubles, with Joey Rickard's liner to left putting Baltimore on top 1-0. The Rangers came back in the bottom of the frame to tie the game against Tillman. Mazara flared a single to center to score Andrus, who opened the frame with a single.
Trumbo's solo homer with two outs in the fourth snapped the 1-1 tie. J.J. Hardy's sixth-inning single put Baltimore on top 3-1.
NOTES: The Rangers are in the midst of a 14-game stretch to open the season, the only team in baseball that is opening the season with that many consecutive games. It is just the third time the Rangers have opened a season with at least 14 straight games, with the other two coming in 2005 (20 games) and 1992 (14 games). ... Texas starters opened the season by going at least five innings in 10 straight starts for just the fifth time in club history. The last time it happened was 2012. ... Baltimore's seven-game winning streak was its longest under manager Buck Showalter. The last time a Showalter team won more than seven straight games was in May 2005, when he managed the Rangers. ... Baltimore CF Adam Jones, who had been out of the starting lineup since April 6 due to a strained rib cage, batted third and went 0-for-4. ... Rangers RHP Yu Darvish said he felt fine after throwing 30 pitches of live batting practice Wednesday in Arlington. Darvish, who missed last season because of elbow surgery, could make his first rehab start later this month.