ATLANTA – What does it take to fix a beleaguered batter, or for that matter, a team full of them?

For Mark Trumbo and Chris Davis, a pair of middle-of-the-order bats who for the better part of a season and a half haven’t produced as such, the solution is the same: Getting runners on creates the ability to get them in, and one can’t happen without the other.

Before a sellout crowd at SunTrust Park on Saturday, Trumbo and Davis provided the two big swings the Orioles needed before they held on for a 7-5 win over the Atlanta Braves.

While the path each took to their punishing swings Saturday — Trumbo’s first-inning grand slam and Davis’ three-run double in the fifth — has differed in the past couple of weeks, both will be just as heartened by the fact that the Orioles (23-52) made big innings possible as they are of driving them all in.

“In the past we’ve kind of been methodical with it and been able to pass the baton,” manager Buck Showalter said. “Just kind of grind at-bats. And here lately we’ve been doing that. Like I said before, it’s not something that’s just going to happen overnight. It’s going to be a long road, but you want to see it over an extended period of time. It’s good to get some big hits like that.”

It’s been contagious. The Orioles’ 43 runs over their past seven games are as many as they had over their preceding 20. At least in Atlanta, it’s been thanks to the men they’ve paid handsomely to feature on that front.

Trumbo, who missed the first month of the season with a quad strain and had faded after a quick start upon his return, seemed to fix that in a day. He was frustrated with how he had been swinging in the first game of the Orioles’ weekend series with the Miami Marlins on June 15, so he vowed to “get a better version of my swing going” that weekend.

He did, and in seven games since, has homered four times, doubled twice, and gone 9-for-26 (.346) with a 1.278 OPS. His bases-loaded blast gave the Orioles quite a comfortable start, and was made possible by walks by Colby Rasmus and Manny Machado on either side of Adam Jones’ double.

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