Kevin Gausman pitched nine innings of scoreless, two-hit baseball Saturday. The Orioles lost anyway — 2-0 in 12 innings to the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum.
In between the dominant frames from Gausman and Mychal Givens, who fanned five of the six batters he faced, the Orioles singled four times and doubled three times, but struck out a season-high 20 times and stranded 11 while going 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
So, when Rule 5 reliever Pedro Araujo served up a one-out single to Jed Lowrie and then a two-run home run to Khris Davis in the 12th, it clinched what anyone who has much experience with these 2018 Orioles suspected might happen: they found a new way to lose.