(SportsNetwork.com) - The Baltimore Orioles were knocked off their perch last time out and look to even this four-game series with the Texas Rangers Tuesday from Camden Yards.
The Orioles are still in a virtual tie with the Tampa Bay Rays for first in the AL East and had a four-game winning streak stopped with Monday's 8-1 setback to the Rangers.
Bud Norris did not have his best stuff in falling to 2-7 on the season and allowed five runs and nine hits, including four home runs, in six innings.
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Adam Jones had an RBI single in the fifth inning, while Manny Machado and Caleb Joseph posted two hits apiece for Baltimore, which had won 16 of its previous 20 games. The O's also had won five in a row at home.
Miguel Gonzalez aims for back-to-back wins when he takes the mound for the Orioles Tuesday. Gonzalez survived a shaky outing for the win in Thursday's 8-6 defeat of the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park and gave up four runs in five innings of work.
Gonzalez was 0-2 in his previous four trips to the mound and pushed his record to 6-4 in 13 starts with a 3.58 ERA. The Mexican right-hander is 3-0 in six starts at Camden Yards this season and 2-1 with a 2.95 ERA in three career starts against the Rangers.
Texas won for only the second time in the past nine contests Monday and Mitch Moreland homered twice. Shin-Soo Choo went 3-for-5 with a home run and Carlos Corporan also went deep for the Rangers, who scored a total of three runs in their three-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays this weekend.
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Wandy Rodriguez picked up the win with five innings of one-run ball and struck out seven batters.
Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton could return to the diamond Tuesday and is currently sidelined with a hamstring injury. He joined his teammates in Baltimore on Monday.
The Rangers turn to Colby Lewis Tuesday and he is 3-0 in his past five starts. Lewis did not record a decision in Thursday's 6-3 loss to Oakland and was touched for three runs and five hits in six innings of work.
Lewis hurled eight innings of one-run ball with seven strikeouts in a 2-1 win against the Chicago White Sox on June 19 and is 7-3 with a 4.10 ERA in 15 starts this season. He is 6-1 in his last seven decisions.
The right-hander has faced Baltimore eight times (6 starts) in his career and has a 1-4 record to go along with a 6.35 ERA.
Baltimore went 6-1 against Texas last season and is 11-2 in the past 13 games in this series. The Orioles and Rangers will meet again for three games in Arlington in last August.
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