BALTIMORE -- Camden Yards has long held the reputation as a hitter-friendly yard. But the baseball is really flying out of Oriole Park these days.

The Orioles and Twins combined to hit six home runs in Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader, which Minnesota took by a 6-5 score. Baltimore matched a season high with three, while their staff allowed three more to inch them closer to some unfortunate history.

The homers by Eddie Rosario and Willians Astudillo put the Orioles’ total home runs allowed to 31 in eight home games this season, and 49 homers in 21 contests overall. That latter number puts them one away from matching the record for home runs surrendered prior to May 1, set by the Tigers in 1994.

“We’ve given up a lot of home runs and are looking to execute better with two strikes,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “A lot of the damage has been done with two strikes. It’s just something we have to get a lot better at.”

Rosario and Astudillo went back to back in the second inning, then Rosario added another shot in the fifth off Dan Straily. He handed the ball to Jimmy Yacabonis in the sixth, and that’s when the Twins jumped ahead for good behind Byron Buxton’s go-ahead two-run double and a Nelson Cruz run-scoring single.

Dwight Smith Jr., Renato Núñez and Pedro Severino homered to give Baltimore all its runs off winner Jose Berrios, who struck out five over six innings. Smith (two-run shot) and Nunez (solo) went back to back in the third, and the Orioles threatened for more when Chris Davis sent a two-out double to the left-field wall. But after Rosario -- who robbed Davis of a home run later in the game -- misplayed the ball, he began a textbook relay that nabbed Rio Ruiz trying to score from first to end the threat.

Trey Mancini inched the Orioles closer with his second of two doubles in the eighth, an opposite-field liner that scored Davis. But southpaw Twins reliever Taylor Rogers struck out Smith -- the American League’s top left-handed hitter against same-side pitching this season -- to extinguish the threat, then worked a scoreless ninth for his second save. The loss dropped the Orioles to 1-7 this season at home, where they’ve allowed 70 runs across 72 innings so far.

“You can argue it even helps you as a pitcher, because hitters are trying to hit home runs when they come here,” Straily said. “They’re more aggressive and gives us a little bigger of a zone. Guys are leaving their approaches in ballparks like this. Each ballpark has its own challenges. The challenge here is to make sure guys don’t barrel balls.”