Orioles swept by Mariners, 4-2, despite strong efforts from Yacabonis, Ramírez

Browse Orioles photos from June 2018.One team, the visiting Seattle Mariners, entered this week’s four-game series at Camden Yards with a propensity for winning close and late. Their opponent, the host Orioles, have spent the entire season devising new ways to lose.

Thursday made it four games in a row where form held.

Despite minor league pitching call-ups Jimmy Yacabonis and Yefry Ramírez’s combined nine innings of two-run ball, the Orioles’ sloppy defense and shaky relief corps conspired for a 4-2, 10-inning loss, their fifth straight. The Mariners’ four-game sweep dropped the Orioles to 23-57 this season.

In the 10th inning, after Yacabonis and Ramírez gave the Orioles all they could ask…