BALTIMORE - The bullpen gave the Orioles another strong effort, and the combination of the late-game pitching and power bats sent Baltimore to a third straight victory over the Red Sox.

Adam Jones, Nolan Reimold and Manny Machado each hit solo homers to back up the bullpen's work and help the Baltimore Orioles complete a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox with a 6-5 victory on Thursday night.

The Orioles (29-30) have won a season-high four straight games and six of their last seven. Boston (27-34) has lost these three and slipped to a season-worst seven games under. 500.

Baltimore's bullpen allowed just one run on three hits in 3 1/3 innings. That came after 8 2/3 innings of shutout work in the first two games. The 12 innings in which the Orioles' bullpen shut down Boston was huge especially because they were one man short due to left-hander Brian Matusz's suspension.

"They kind of rally around it," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "Not that there's a safety net. It was going to be a need. They saw it coming. They knew. They're trying to pick up Brian and pick up the team."

They did just that. Right-hander Brad Brach replaced starter Chris Tillman with a 5-3 lead and two outs in the top of the sixth and gave up an RBI single to shortstop Xander Bogaerts but retired the next four batters.

Right-hander Chaz Roe came on in the eighth and gave up a solo homer to designated hitter David Ortiz - his first in 69 at-bats - that cut the lead to 6-5 but nothing else. The blast was the 473rd of Ortiz's career, tying him with Carlos Delgado for 31st all-time.

Left-hander Zach Britton closed it in the ninth for his 17th save - the 13th straight time he's converted a save opportunity.

"When your bullpen is shutdown, you are going to win games," Brach said. "It's the way it goes. If you have guys that can get outs from the seventh to the ninth, you're going to win a lot of games."

Tillman (4-7) got his second straight win in this one despite giving up four runs on five hits in just 5 2/3 innings. The team's three homers gave him an early cushion that the Orioles did not lose.

Center fielder Jones homered in the first, and left fielder Reimold did the same two innings later as the Orioles took an early 4-0 lead. Third baseman Machado's blast gave them a two-run lead in the fourth

Wade Miley (5-6) took the loss for the Red Sox after giving up those three homers and five runs in four innings. The left-hander then went off on manager John Farrell in the dugout after being replaced after the fourth inning.

"Well, he's a competitor," Farrell said. "You work four days for your start, doesn't want to come out of the ballgame, and I fully respect that. But while he had good stuff, there were some decent swings against him, [and I] felt like we needed to make a move."

The Orioles scored in each of the first four innings to take a 5-3 lead. First baseman Steve Pearce and right fielder Delmon Young both added RBI singles in the first four innings.

Boston went down in order in the first three innings before scoring three against Tillman in the fourth.

First baseman Mike Napoli brought in one run with a sacrifice fly to center, and third baseman Pablo Sandoval lined a two-run double to left center, cutting Baltimore's lead to 4-3.

The Orioles answered in the bottom of the inning when Machado hit his two-out solo shot to left center that made it 5-3.

"I just wasn't executing really with the fastball in," Miley said. "I kept trying to go back to it, and I just kept leaving it over the plate."

Baltimore tried to add another run in the fifth, but Bogaerts' perfect relay throw after a Young double nailed Jones at the plate. Catcher Matt Wieters' sacrifice fly in the seventh gave the Orioles a 6-4 lead before Ortiz homered in the eighth.

NOTES: The Oriole