BOSTON — Steven Wright was just hoping for a chance to stay in the big leagues. Now, the Boston knuckleballer is one of the hottest pitchers.

Wright was solid again, this time pitching into the eighth inning and helping the Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-4 on Wednesday night.

“There’s a lot of confidence by all of us when he takes the mound and he’s earned that,” Boston manager John Farrell said. “We have trust in him because of his consistency.”

Wright (8-4) allowed three runs and six hits, struck out four, walked one and hit two batters. He entered with an AL-best ERA that rose slightly from 2.09 to 2.22 by holding an opponent to three or fewer runs for the 12th time in his 13 starts. Eleven times he’s allowed two or fewer.

Coming into spring training, it looked like his best shot was as a long reliever out of the bullpen because he was out of minor-league options. But an injury to lefthander Eduardo Rodriguez gave Wright his shot in the rotation.

“The fact that I’m in the big leagues is unbelievable,” the 31-year-old righty said. “I just try to go out there enjoy it and have fun.”

Hanley Ramirez hit his first homer in more than a month, and Xander Bogaerts and David Ortiz each had two singles and an RBI for the Red Sox, who rebounded from a 3-2 loss in the series opener on Tuesday for just their fourth win in 11 games.

Adam Jones hit a two-run homer for the Orioles, who ended a stretch of five straight multi-homer games.

Kevin Gausman (0-4) gave up six runs and seven hits in three innings for Baltimore.

“I think just falling apart and not being able to throw my secondary pitches for strikes,” Gausman said when asked what went wrong.