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  • Baltimore left fielder Felix Pie (18) comes to the aid of Adam Jones after Jones leapt in vain for a home run hit by Boston’s Jarrod Saltalamacchia during the third inning Monday night in Baltimore. The Red Sox scored eight runs in the eighth inning and won 15-10. AP Photo/Nick Wass

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July 19, 2011

Surging Sox batter Orioles in 15-10 win

Associated Press

Baltimore — BALTIMORE — Dustin Pedroia doubled in two runs to spark an eight-run eighth inning, and the Boston Red Sox got home runs from Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Josh Reddick in a 15-10 rout of the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night.

Pedroia, Kevin Youkilis and Darnell McDonald had three RBIs apiece for the Red Sox, who have won 13 of 15. The run includes a 16-inning affair against Tampa Bay on Sunday night in which Boston mustered only five hits.

Showing little signs of fatigue, the Red Sox banged out 16 hits in rolling to their seventh straight victory over the Orioles. Boston has outscored Baltimore 61-32 during that span.

Monday night, Boston fell one run short of matching its season high and had six players with at least two hits, including Pedroia, whose 16-game hitting streak is one short of his career high.

After Boston loaded the bases in the eighth, Pedroia hit a tiebreaking two-run double off Mike Gonzalez (1-2) to make it 9-7. Youkilis added a two-run single, Carl Crawford singled in a run and McDonald capped the uprising with a three-run double.

Baltimore scored three runs in the bottom half. It was the first time since Aug. 2, 2009, that the Orioles lost when reaching double figures in runs; that defeat was to Boston 18-10.

J.J. Hardy and Adam Jones homered for the Orioles, who have lost 10 of 12.

Dan Wheeler (2-1) got the win with 2 1-3 innings of no-hit relief for starter Tim Wakefield.

Wakefield gave up seven runs, three earned, and nine hits in 4 2-3 innings. He was undone by a particularly wicked knuckleball that produced a strikeout but resulted in a passed ball that fueled a five-run fifth inning that gave Baltimore a 7-6 lead.

Felix Pie opened the fifth by striking out, but he reached when the pitch eluded Saltalamacchia and went to the screen. Hardy, who signed a new three-year contract earlier in the day, hit a two-run homer and Jones drove a knuckleball an estimated 434 feet into the left-field stands.

The Orioles then used two singles and a walk to load the bases for Nolan Reimold, who chased Wakefield with a two-run double.

Youkilis’ RBI single tied it at 7 in the seventh.

After Derrek Lee hit a two-run triple for Baltimore in the first inning, Boston took the lead against Brad Bergesen with a three-run third.

Saltalamacchia led off with his seventh homer. After J.D. Drew hit a fly that was caught on the warning track, the Red Sox got four straight singles, including RBI hits by Pedroia and Adrian Gonzalez.

Boston made it 5-2 in the fourth, scoring two unearned runs after Lee let a grounder to first base go through his legs. The miscue ended a run of six straight errorless games by Baltimore.

Reddick homered off the foul pole in the fifth for a 6-2 lead.

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