Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Baltimore 7, Cleveland 3
When: 1:10 PM ET, Sunday, June 7, 2015
Where: Progressive Field, Cleveland, Ohio
Temperature: 80°
Umpires: Home - Marvin Hudson, 1B - Jim Joyce, 2B - Greg Gibson, 3B - Chad Fairchild
Attendance: 18151

CLEVELAND -- After a dismal beginning to their road trip, the Baltimore Orioles rebounded to finish strong, capping their seven game trip with a 7-3 win over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday at Progressive Field.

Adam Jones homered for the third time in four days, Matt Wieters homered and tripled and Bud Norris came off the disabled list to strike out seven in five innings.

The Orioles began the trip by losing the first three games in Houston. They won the fourth game in Houston, then came to Cleveland and took two out of three from the Indians.

"This is a good way to end the trip," manager Buck Showalter said. "It was a tough trip. Houston and Cleveland are two good teams, but we played well."

Center fielder Jones, the third batter of the game, belted a solo home run off right-hander Carlos Carrasco (7-5) in the first inning to give the Orioles a lead they never relinquished.

In his last five games, Jones is 10-for-21 with two triples, three home runs and four RBIs.

Prior to the game right-hander Norris (2-4) was activated off the DL, where he'd been since May 18 with a case of bronchitis. Sunday was his first start since May 10. Norris pitched five innings, holding the Indians to one run on four hits with seven strikeouts and two walks.

"It felt great to get back out there and help us win a game against a good club," said Norris.

Norris threw 85 pitches in his five innings of work.

"That's about where we wanted him to get in his first game back," Showalter said. "He was good early, and I said to myself, 'That's Bud.'"

Leading 1-0, Baltimore scored three more runs in the fourth inning to take a 4-0 lead. Carrasco retired the first two batters of the inning, but the next five all reached base. Designated hitter Jimmy Paredes singled and went to second on a single by shortstop J.J. Hardy. Second baseman Ryan Flaherty then drew a walk to load the bases.

Third baseman Manny Machado reached on an infield single, scoring Paredes to make it 2-0. Left fielder Travis Snider then singled to center, scoring Hardy and Flaherty and extending the Baltimore lead to 4-0.

Cleveland scored a run in the bottom of the fourth when left fielder David Murphy and right fielder Brandon Moss led off the inning with consecutive doubles. Designated hitter Nick Swisher was hit by a pitch. But with runners at first and second and no outs, the Indians were unable to score again.

Norris struck out third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall and catcher Yan Gomes, and center fielder Michael Bourn grounded into an inning-ending force-out.

"Those are the kind of situations starters have to get out of," Norris said. "You've got to make your pitches. I just tried to gather myself and execute my pitches."

Carrasco was removed from the game after giving up a triple to catcher Wieters leading off the fifth inning. In four innings, Carrasco was charged with five runs on seven hits, with three strikeouts and two walks.

"Pretty much the whole day he didn't seem to have good stuff," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "His secondary pitches didn't have the bite, and it was a fight the whole way."

Left-hander Nick Hagadone relieved Carrasco and gave up a sacrifice fly to first baseman Chris Davis to extend the Baltimore lead to 5-1.

The Orioles added another run in the seventh inning, which began with a single by Jones, who went to third on an error by Chisenhall. Jones later scored on a two-out single by Paredes that gave the Orioles a 6-1 lead.

Five of the Orioles' seven runs came on two-out hits.

"We got a lot of big two-out hits. Those are real momentum swingers, because the other is trying to wiggle out of it, and you don't let them," Showalter said.

The Indians scored a run in the seventh inning against the Baltimore bullpen. With one out shortstop Mike Aviles singl
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Baltimore   Cleveland
Bud Norris Player Carlos Carrasco
Win W/L Loss
5.0 IP 4.0
7 Strikeouts 3
4 Hits 7
1.80 ERA 11.25
Hitting
Baltimore   Cleveland
Adam Jones Player Jason Kipnis
2 Hits 3
1 RBI 0
1 HR 0
5 TB 5
.400 Avg .600
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Baltimore 12 2 21 .300 22 11 7 3 0 0
Cleveland 9 0 13 .250 21 12 3 3 0 2