One team, the visiting Seattle Mariners, entered this week’s four-game series at Camden Yards with a propensity for winning close and late. Their opponent, the host Orioles, have spent the entire season devising new ways to lose.
Thursday made it four games in a row where form held.
Despite minor league pitching call-ups Jimmy Yacabonis and Yefry Ramírez’s combined nine innings of two-run ball, the Orioles’ sloppy defense and shaky relief corps conspired for a 4-2, 10-inning loss, their fifth straight. The Mariners’ four-game sweep dropped the Orioles to 23-57 this season.
In the 10th inning, after Yacabonis and Ramírez gave the Orioles all they could ask for, Miguel Castro allowed an infield single to Dee Gordon, who scored from first when Colby Rasmus misplayed a single by Jean Segura in center field.