CHICAGO _ Another short start, this by left-hander Wade Miley, made for another long night for the Orioles in a 10-7 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Monday that stretched their road losing streak to 10 games and dropped their overall record to 31-31.
Miley was chased trailing 6-0 in the third inning _ the second straight time he hasn't completed three after doing the same Wednesday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates _ to mark his shortest outing of the season and give the Orioles five starts of four innings or less in their last five games.
It was more of the same problems for Miley, whose frantic pace early masked the fact that he was getting into deep counts and giving up some hard contact. After his fourth full count of the game bit him with a two-out walk in the second inning, catcher Kevan Smith hit a two-run home run _ the first of his career _ to begin Miley's undoing.
The first four batters of the third inning reached and scored before Miley was chased, bringing his record to 2-4 with a 3.97 ERA after the loss.
Ubaldo Jimenez struck out six in 3 2/3 innings of relief, but was tagged for three runs on five hits himself, and Miguel Castro allowed a home run in the seventh inning to mark his first run against in three games with the Orioles.
Orioles first baseman Chris Davis leaves Monday's game with right oblique strain
Double-play balls foiled the Orioles' first three innings, as they couldn't take advantage of early wildness from White Sox starter Mike Pelfrey for any more than two runs.
A leadoff walk in the first inning by right fielder Seth Smith was quickly erased by a double play from center fielder Adam Jones. In the second inning, after a one-out walk by Jonathan Schoop and an infield single by Trey Mancini, catcher Welington Castillo grounded into a double play himself.
Jones also grounded into a 5-3 double play with two on and none out in the third inning, but the Orioles still ended up with the bases loaded for Davis in that frame before he lined out to the warning track in right field to end the threat.
The Orioles chased Pelfrey in the fourth inning with an RBI, ground-rule double by Smith and an RBI single by Jones.
Jake Petricka shut the Orioles down in the middle innings out of the White Sox bullpen, but they capitalized on reliever Gregory Infante for four runs in the eighth inning. Designated hitter Mark Trumbo led off with a double and scored on a single by left fielder Hyun Soo Kim.
Second baseman Jonathan Schoop singled, and both Kim and Schoop scored on Mancini's 10th home run of the season.
Every Orioles starter save for Davis ended the day with a hit.
In his first game back from a wrist injury, third baseman Manny Machado tested himself out in all facets of the game in short order.
He notched a two-out single in the first inning, and attempted to steal second before the inning ended with a strikeout looking by designated hitter Mark Trumbo. He also handled three ground balls of varying difficulty in the field in the first two innings.
By the game's end, Machado was 2-for-4 with a walk and a stolen base.
