BALTIMORE -- On Wednesday, all the Orioles needed was a 387-foot home run to start a new streak, this one of the winning variety. The O’s won their first home series since Sept. 14-16, 2020, thanks to home runs from DJ Stewart and Ryan Mountcastle in their 6-3 win over the Twins at Camden Yards.

In the top of the fifth inning, Freddy Galvis worked a full count, walking with two outs against Randy Dobnak. That set the stage for Stewart to smack his fourth homer in the past 10 games, a two-run blast that put Baltimore up 3-1.

“It's huge for me and the team,” Stewart said of the homer. “Any time you can move the ball and put it in play, moving in for the next guy, it creates opportunities for everyone. Just for me to show more consistently is great, but I like it even more for the team because it's leading to wins for us.”

Mountcastle added three insurance runs in the bottom of the seventh, blasting his sixth homer this season over the center-field wall. His three-run shot marked his 17th extra-base hit this season, as he entered Wednesday third among rookies in the Majors.

“Mountcastle’s homer was huge,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “[It] was enormous. That's really the [kind of] hits we haven't been getting, honestly, it’s that breakthrough homer to get in their bullpen and not have a couple of their high-leverage guys pitch against us every night.”

Hyde also credited his pitchers and their success in Wednesday’s bullpen game. Matt Harvey overdelivered, tossing three innings after begging Hyde to send him back out for the third, despite the fact that he was only scheduled to pitch two innings. Harvey allowed just one run on two hits and one walk, a solo homer to Ryan Jeffers in the second inning. Tyler Wells earned his first Major League win, delivering three shutout innings in relief of Harvey.

“We had a big discussion about flipping the page, and we've started off June much better than obviously we did ending May,” said Harvey. “There were a lot of games that we should have won where we scored runs and [I], myself, didn't do a very good job keeping runs off the board when we got an early lead. … I think tonight was a big step in the right direction."

Baltimore's meetings encouraged the team to shake off the month of May and to reset. Hyde doesn’t quite believe that a new month is the magic answer for the team’s back-to-back wins, but he is encouraged by the way his team has performed the past two games -- a new month or not.

“We had a team meeting,” confirmed Stewart. “Just kind of flushed last month away. It was it was bad. I mean, everyone knows it was bad. So [we're] kind of looking at this month as a new start.”

There is something to be said about monthly resets for this team, as the Orioles have won the first game of the month for the past five months they've played, dating back to August 2020.