Most of the time, the headline “Machado hits a game-winning home run” is going to be a good thing for the Orioles. Unfortunately for them, on Wednesday afternoon they were playing the Tigers, who have a player named Dixon Machado, and in a tied ninth inning of a back-and-forth game, it was the Tigers Machado who delivered the walkoff dinger to hand the O’s yet another dismal loss. The final score was 6-5 Tigers.
As late as the middle of the eighth inning, the story of the game for the O’s seemed like it could be one of triumph.