The Orioles keep finding new ways to make the same ugly point: the offense has gone silent, and the losses are piling up fast.
Friday night’s 5-0 defeat to the Red Sox at Camden Yards stretched Baltimore’s losing streak to five games and pushed the club to 69-74. It also dropped the Orioles into another night of scoreboard watching, with the Guardians losing as well to keep the Wild Card gap at three games.
By the time the sixth inning arrived, the game had already taken on the feel of a breaking point. Craig Albernaz made the slow walk to the mound with the bases loaded and two outs, a pitching change looking like the obvious move.
Chris Bassitt stayed put. The veteran wanted the chance to finish the inning himself after 88 pitches, and Albernaz let him try.
It didn’t end well for Baltimore. Eli White punched a sinker into left field at just 69.1 mph, and that was enough to crack the game open. Connor Wong followed with an RBI single off Rico Garcia, and the Orioles were suddenly staring at a three-run hole they never came close to climbing out of.
The Red Sox added more in the seventh when Isiah Kiner-Falefa drove a two-run double off Albert Suárez, turning a bad night into a rout.
Sonny Gray was the difference from the start. He held Baltimore to three hits over seven shutout innings, and the Orioles’ scoreless streak climbed to 18 innings after back-to-back shutouts. Samuel Basallo nearly ended that run in the seventh, but his deep fly died near the fence and he stood there with his arms spread in disbelief.
The Orioles did have chances. They loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth, only for Greg Weisssert to blow past Pete Alonso on three pitches.
Earlier, they had one of their better opportunities in the first inning when Gunnar Henderson doubled, Alonso worked an eight-pitch walk, and Gray had to labor through 25 pitches in the frame. But the inning still ended with the Orioles empty-handed.
Baltimore’s recent scoring drought has become impossible to ignore. Excluding extra innings in Colorado, the club has scored just 12 runs in its last six games. This is the same team that pounded the Cardinals for 28 runs, yet it has now been shut out six times this season.
There were a few brief sparks. Colton Cowser ripped an opposite-field double in the third and advanced to third on Jackson Holliday’s fly to right.
Holliday’s productive out drew a strong reaction in the dugout. But Cowser was thrown out at the plate on Blaze Alexander’s grounder, and the Orioles never cashed in.
Cowser later walked in the fifth and was caught trying to advance on a pitch in the dirt.
Alexander, meanwhile, was all over the place defensively. He made a sliding backhand stop on Roman Anthony’s grounder in the fifth, then followed it with another backhand grab and leaping throw to rob Mickey Gasper. He wasn’t done there, either, handling Wilyer Abreu’s 102.1 mph grounder to lead off the sixth with yet another sharp backhand stop and throw.
Bassitt, for his part, had already escaped trouble in the first. He got out of a bases-loaded jam by striking out Trevor Story on a nasty 74.1 mph sweeper after Sogard had walked into the inning. In the fourth, White was also frozen on the same kind of pitch, and Bassitt mixed in four-seam fastballs to punch out Story and Jarren Duran.
The Orioles’ frustration was obvious, and so was the damage. The game was briefly delayed after Basallo took a foul ball off his mask, another little jolt in a night that kept turning Baltimore’s way only in the worst possible direction.
Around the rest of the clubhouse notes, Heston Kjerstad singled with two outs in the fourth for his first major league hit since June 4, 2025. Holliday struck out looking three times.
Félix Bautista threw a scoreless inning for Triple-A Norfolk, walking one and striking out one. Cade Povich was tagged for eight runs and seven hits with four walks in five innings, and infielder Luis Vázquez left with right hamstring discomfort.
Elsewhere in the system, Wehiwa Aloy homered for the ninth time for Double-A Chesapeake, Patrick Reilly allowed two runs in seven innings, High-A Frederick’s DJ Layton went 5-for-5, and 2026 first-round draft pick Eric Booth Jr. collected three hits for Class A Delmarva. Stiven Martinez added his 14th home run, a grand slam.
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