BALTIMORE -- Miserable in May, the rebuilding Orioles are looking like a juggernaut in June, seemingly as hot as the current Baltimore-area heat spell.

The latest example came Tuesday, when the Orioles followed their 18-run Sunday outburst with a 10-3 thrashing of the Mets at Oriole Park. The win was their fifth in six tries this month, after going 5-23 in May.

“That,” second baseman Pat Valaika said, “is how we would like to play every day.”

Again, the contributors were multiple: from white-hot Cedric Mullins to recently reinstated Valaika to suddenly sizzling Maikel Franco, all of whom collected multiple hits with the latter two plating multiple runs in support of winner Bruce Zimmermann. Notably, Valaika enjoyed a two-double, three-RBI night in his first game back from the bereavement list. He had been away from the team since Friday following the death of his father-in-law, Joaquin Vega.

“He was one of my biggest fans,” Valaika said. “He loved watching me play more than anything. He really lived for it. I knew coming back, all he would want me to do is play. He told me all the time: ‘Play like you’re in Little League. Have fun.’ He always told me I’m living the dream. Sometimes I take it for granted. But he was definitely with me tonight.”

Growing emotional after the game, Valaika said he would dedicate Tuesday’s win, and the rest of the season, to Vega. He reiterated he felt Vega’s presence on the field, while he was helping spark Baltimore’s second offensive explosion in as many games. It’s foundation was a deluge of doubles -- seven total hit by Orioles batters, tied for their third most in a single game in club history.

“Great to see Pat today and so cool to see him deliver the way he did,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “Pat has a little bit of a heavy heart right now. To see him come through the way he did was cool.”

Situated in an early 2-0 hole after Pete Alonso’s first-inning homer, the Orioles used a torrent of two-baggers to claw back, and then ahead. Looking to capitalize on Pedro Severino’s leadoff single in the bottom of the second, Franco doubled to right-center off David Peterson. Valaika doubled them both in, and two batters later, Mullins doubled Valaika home.

A similar sequence occurred in the third: Freddy Galvis doubled with one out, and Severino singled him to third. Then Valaika doubled again, this time into the left field corner. Mullins then doubled to lead off the fourth, with Trey Mancini singling him home. Franco punctuated it with a towering three-run homer into the second deck off Robert Gsellman in the fifth, and Anthony Santander added a solo homer -- his first in 15 games -- in the eighth.

Franco’s homer was only the sixth to reach the second deck in Oriole Park history, according to the team, and third by an Oriole. The last Oriole to do it was Manny Machado on June 2, 2017. The O’s ranked 27th in the Majors in runs scored in April and 24th in May, but ended play Tuesday first in June, with 48 in six games.

“This team, they scored 18 runs the day before yesterday, and they just came out of the chute swinging the same way,” Mets manager Luis Rojas said. “There’s going to be a lot of tough lineups out there, and we need to make the adjustment right now.”

Said Zimmermann, who struck out seven over five innings of two-run ball: “It’s great for a young pitcher like myself -- say if you give up a home run in the first inning, and they come right back in the bottom of the second and drop three on them. Then it’s a whole new ballgame. I can pitch a little differently and be a little more aggressive. It gives me a lot of confidence, knowing those guys are hitting behind me. The way they’ve been hitting lately is phenomenal.”