It was the longest homestand of the year, and one of the strangest in recent memory, and it fittingly ended in a bizarre chain of events that led to another devastating loss for these hard-to-figure Orioles.
On Sunday, two errors, including one by Manny Machado in his first inning as a big league shortstop, gave the Twins a 4-3 win in 12 innings, sending the plummeting Orioles to their fourth straight loss before an announced 35,144.
This one could be the ugliest of an unattractive bunch.
The Orioles had a chance to win in the 11th, and Orioles manager Buck Showalter took a chance, replacing J.