Camden Yards quickly fell quiet Saturday night after Houston Astros third baseman Colin Moran was carted off the field after getting hit in the face by his own foul ball in the sixth inning. The crowd then dropped into disbelief when the pinch hitter who replaced him, Marwin González, hit the eventual game-winning three-run homer off Darren O’Day to send the Orioles to a jaw-dropping 8-4 loss.
This season has had its share of deflating moments, but few were more unpredictable than the one that played out in Saturday’s sixth inning, in which the Astros scored five runs immediately after the Orioles scored four in the fifth on two-run homers by Adam Jones and Jonathan Schoop off starter Collin McHugh.