Shaun Marcum had another fairly solid outing as the fifth starter, allowing three earned runs and striking out four in 6 1/3 innings pitched.
Offensively, the Indians could only do damage in the fifth, as four singles—the latter two by Jason Kipnis and Michael Brantley to score a run each—brought home two runs to tie it 2-2.
Adam Jones absolutely crushed a ball off Marcum two pitches into the sixth, and the Orioles led from there.
Friday’s One Last Thing: One mental mistake and two bad bounces might have cost the Indians this game.
Baseball is a funny game, and it’s something that Indians manager Terry Francona often says, or at least some variation of, “Well, that’s baseball.