BALTIMORE _ Orioles rookie Dylan Bundy carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning for the second start in a row Tuesday night, and this time he was rewarded for it.
Bundy didn't get the no-hitter and might not have gotten the chance to go all the way regardless of the number of hits he gave up, but he outdueled Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish and the Orioles scored a homer-happy 5-1 victory before 22,230 at Camden Yards.
Bundy allowed just one hit in seven innings in the longest start of his brief major league career and did not give up a run on the way to his fourth victory of the season. He threw 88 pitches before giving way to reliever Brad Brach to start the eighth.
Darvish struck out nine, but he served up three solo home runs _ two of them to Orioles designated hitter Pedro Alvarez. The Orioles had four homers in all, the last one off the bat of Matt Wieters, whose 10th homer of the year gave the Orioles seven batters with double-figure home run totals.
There was a bit of suspense in the eighth. Brach allowed two walks and two singles to bring the go-ahead run to the plate with two outs. That set up a showdown between Rangers 20-homer center fielder Ian Desmond and Darren O'Day. The duel came down to a pair of full-count pitches.
Desmond fought off a two-strike slider and then struck out to end the threat.
O'Day remained in the game to pitch the ninth and recorded his third save of the season. Zach Britton remained in the bullpen after the O's added a fifth run in the bottom of the eighth and took away the save opportunity for him.
