You could almost feel it coming. “The Orioles are going to end up regretting that they didn’t make more of these scoring chances.” There are games where I end up thinking this and they still end up winning. And then, there are games like this one, where the heavy use of the bullpen over the previous two games caught up with the O’s, Dillon Tate was left in to try to pitch most of another inning while protecting a one-run eighth inning lead, and he failed to do so. The Orioles lost to the Rays, 4-3.
In any given baseball game, there are hundreds of things that go into determining whether one team wins or loses.