BALTIMORE _ An Orioles offense that returned home this week and became as close to whole as it's been all season erased another daunting first-inning deficit and pummeled the visiting Royals, 11-6, to take this three-game set in front of an announced 17,842 at Camden Yards and improve to 10-27.
After Chris Tillman allowed a grand slam four batters into the game, the Orioles' bats decided they wouldn't stand for another embarrassing blowout.
So leadoff man Trey Mancini doubled and scored on a double by Adam Jones, and Jones scored Manny Machado's 10th home run of the season.
Tillman left with a 6-3 deficit in the second inning, but once Miguel Castro came in and started holding the Royals down, the Orioles offense sprung back to life.
Mancini singled to open the third inning and scored on a home run by Jones, his sixth of the season.
In the fourth inning, catcher Chance Sisco laced a two-run double to center field and scored when Mancini homered to right field on the ensuing batter. According to STATS, LLC, Mancini and Jones were the first Orioles 1-2 hitters to have three or more hits and score three or more runs since the team moved to Baltimore in 1954.
Big days weren't exclusive to them. Machado reached in four of his five trips to the plate, walking twice and adding an eighth-inning single. Right fielder Mark Trumbo, who doubled and scored on a single by Anthony Santander in the sixth, had two hits and a walk himself.
As a unit, the Orioles' seven extra-base hits were the second most they'd collected in a game all season, behind the April 19 loss at Detroit. Their 11 runs were a season-high, too.
The Orioles scored 23 runs in the series, including six in the final two innings of a 15-7 loss Tuesday night and five in a 5-3 win Wednesday night that included a three-run home run by Chris Davis and a two-run single by Mark Trumbo _ the latest signs of life for the Orioles' sleepy offense.
Thursday, against a Royals starter in Ian Kennedy who entered with a 2.92 ERA and left with it at 4.61, they showed more signs of life than they had all year.
