Trumbo, Flaherty homer as Orioles smoke Padres
BALTIMORE -- Mark Trumbo and Ryan Flaherty both homered, and starter Ubaldo Jimenez threw six strong innings as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the San Diego Padres 7-2 on Wednesday night.
Trumbo (3-for-4) had not homered since June 7 but hit a solo shot in the second inning, his 21st this season. Flaherty added a solo homer to start the fifth, and six Orioles (41-30) each drove in at least one run.
Matt Wieters led the way with two RBIs while Hyun Soo Kim, Chris Davis, Jonathan Schoop, Trumbo and Flaherty each drove in a run.
That proved more than enough for Jimenez (4-7), who had lost four of his last five decisions. Jimenez struggled with his control, walking four, but struck out seven and retired eight of the last 10 hitters he faced.
Overall, he allowed just two runs on four hits in one of his best starts this season.
It was the 1,000th victory, including postseason games, in Orioles' franchise history at Camden Yards
San Diego starter Erik Johnson (0-3) again found problems. He allowed six runs on nine hits in four-plus innings.
Johnson now has given up 25 runs in 25 1/3 innings in five starts, two of which came with the Chicago White Sox earlier.
He also gave up two more homers and has allowed 12 in those 25 1/3 innings this year. This loss ended a three-game winning streak for the Padres (30-43), who got two more hits from Matt Kemp, and he finished the series with six in two games.
The Padres took an early 1-0 lead on Kemp's RBI single in the first inning. Baltimore tied it when Trumbo homered to start the bottom of the second, his first round-tripper since June 7.
In the third, the Orioles went ahead 2-1 on Schoop's RBI double.
Baltimore made it 3-1 in the fourth when Trumbo opened the inning with a double and scored when Wieters singled.
San Diego came within 3-2 in the fifth on another Kemp RBI single. Melvin Upton, Jr. nearly gave the Padres a one-run lead later in the frame with what he thought was a two-run homer, a long fly ball right by the left-field foul pole.
The umpires called it foul, and a crew chief review upheld the call.
The Orioles stretched the lead in the bottom of the fifth. Flaherty homered, Davis got hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, and Wieters added a sacrifice fly to put Baltimore up 6-2.
NOTES: Manager Buck Showalter said that LHP Brian Duensing was placed on the disabled list, retroactive to June 20, and will have surgery Friday to remove two bone chips in his pitching elbow. Showalter said that if all goes well, he might be able return sometime in August. They recalled LHP Ashur Tolliver from Triple-A Norfolk to take Duensing's spot. Toliver pitched four games with the Orioles earlier this season. ...Showalter also said that C Caleb Joseph could be cleared on Monday to catch during rehab while working his way back from surgery (testicular injury). ...Padres manager Andy Green said that OF Jon Jay (forearm injury) is out again and they're hoping he will be back tomorrow or Friday. ...RHP Fernando Rodney's agent appealed to Major League Baseball to change the scoring ruling in last night's game on DH Pedro Alvarez's infield single in the ninth, a play which allowed an earned run to score, the first one the pitcher has allowed all year. That ended a streak of 25 2/3 consecutive innings without an earned run to start the season, just one-third of an inning short of the team record (Randy Jones, 1975).