Even Davis gets 2 hits as O's total 19 in 11-0 win at Nats

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even Chris Davis got in on the act for the suddenly slugging Orioles, doubling his season total by collecting two of Baltimore’s 19 hits and raising his average from .087 to .143 in an 11-0 victory over the Washington Nationals on Friday night.

It was the biggest margin of victory in a shutout win by a team coming off a 100-loss season against a reigning World Series champion in baseball history, according to Stats.

“This is one of those games where you've just got to put it behind you as quick as you can,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. “This game was about as lopsided as I've seen in a long time.”

Seven of the Orioles’ nine starting position players each got at least a pair of hits. José Iglesias led the way by going 4 for 4 with three RBIs, and Renato Núñez added a three-run homer to back left-hander Tommy Milone (1-1), whose six-inning outing was the longest by an Orioles pitcher this year.

Davis doubled and scored in the second and singled in the fifth as he tries to bounce back from two seasons in which he batted below .180. The two-time major league home run champ is in the fifth season of a $161 million, seven-year contract signed in 2016.

Milone, who was drafted by the Nationals in 2008 and briefly pitched for them in 2011 and 2018, gave up just three hits.

“They gave me my first opportunity to play in the big leagues, so I’ll always cherish that. It’s a little different this year, no fans in the stands so it looks different, but it’s nice to come back,” Milone said. “It brings back memories.”

The Orioles were coming off getting swept in four games at home by the cobbled-together, coronavirus-struck Miami Marlins. But after scoring a grand total of once through the first three games of that series,...

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