Orioles again do just enough to lose, fall to Nats, 4-2

The Orioles had a chance tonight to get out of D.C. with a series win, one that would’ve been their first road series victory of the year in a city other than New York.

How do you think things turned out? I’ll give you three guesses. Hold the last two.

Oh, the O’s made a game of it. Kevin Gausman battled. Colby Rasmus contributed. The O’s hit some dingers. In the end, though, the Orioles did the same thing they always do: they found a way to lose.

The game-deciding inning was the bottom of the eighth, when Mychal Givens — out for his second inning of work — ran into immediate trouble in a 2-2 tie. Bryce Harper led off by pulling a double inside the first-base line, and Trea Turner looped a…