The Orioles scored enough runs to win on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park, their power bats finally bulking up against one of the game’s top starters.
But the team’s overworked bullpen, which was handed a one-run lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, failed to hold its own, allowing seven runs in three innings in a 10-6 Orioles loss to the defending World Series champion Astros.
The loss was the Orioles’ fourth straight since winning on Opening Day in extra innings.
A fourth straight start of five or fewer innings left a pair of Rule 5 relievers pitching in a tied game in the seventh, and the Astros scored five runs of Pedro Araujo and Nestor Cortes, Jr.