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In his 10th start with the club, Alex Cobb finally showed himself to be the pitcher the Orioles signed him to be.

Washington slugger Bryce Harper hit a broken-bat home run an estimated at 406 feet to right-center field. Perhaps even more surprisingly, the struggling Nationals rallied to cool off the Mets.

Looking at the key additions, key losses and outlooks for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays.

Chris Davis' solo homer in the bottom of the 11th inning off Rays reliever Matt Andriese gave the Orioles a 7-6 walk-off victory, snapping their six-game losing streak. The Orioles entered the night having lost 11 of their last 12, their playoff hopes in need of major help.

The losses continue to pile up for the Orioles as September arrives. Their 6-3 loss to the Rays on Monday had its moments. The Orioles showed patience against Rays ace Chris Archer early, despite being unable to score on him. They rallied in the middle innings against the Tampa Bay bullpen, a sign of the fight these players insist they still have. But the result was the same, the Orioles¿ fifth straight loss and 11th in their last 12 games against a Tampa Bay team just as desperate in clinging to their postseason hopes.

Shortstop J.J. Hardy came through in the bottom of the ninth, hitting a walk-off RBI single to give the Orioles a 2-1 victory over the Rays in front of a sellout crowd of 45,505 at Camden Yards.

The Orioles will are back at ¿home¿ tonight at Tropicana Field for the second game of their three-game series against the Rays.

Orioles pitcher Kevin Gausman gave up four runs in 3 2/3 innings as Tampa Bay beat Baltimore.

Gausman, who has a 7.04 Grapefruit League ERA, won¿t start again the rest of the spring ¿ which is an indication he will be in the bullpen and Ubaldo Jimenez will be in the rotation.

After back-to-back road games, the Orioles are home Saturday and face the Tampa Bay Rays at Ed Smith Stadium.

Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen allowed just one hit in two scoreless innings of work in his first spring training start on Thursday against the Tampa Bay Rays at Charlotte Sports Park.

The Orioles will play their first split-squad games of spring training Thursday when they travel to Port Charlotte to face the Tampa Bay Rays at 1:05 p.m. and then play host to the Toronto Blue Jays at Ed Smith Stadium at 7:05 p.m.

So it came as no surprise that Friday night would be a struggle ¿ one that eventually ended in 11 innings with a 2-1 Indians win on a walk-off homer by Mike Aviles against Orioles reliever Brian Matusz (2-3).

The Orioles (73-65) ended their nine-game road trip to Boston, New York and Cleveland just 3-6, losing all three series.

Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman, making a bid for his 16th win of the season, was chased from the game in the sixth inning and the Orioles offense was held scoreless for eight innings. And then the Jekyll-and-Hyde Orioles offense orchestrated a ninth-inning rally that just fell short in a 4-3 loss to the Indians before an announced 9,962 at Progressive Field.

Johnson, who hadn't blown a save since May 26 in Toronto, walked off the mound to boos from some in the announced crowd of 18,082 that had braved a rain delay of 1 hour and 6 minutes before the first pitch on a sticky and soggy Baltimore night.

Stephen Strasburg surrendered three hits over two innings -- including a single and home run to the first two batters he faced -- in his first action since Sept. 7.

In a career once defined with words like "potential" and "promise," Josh Barfield is now the oldest player in Bowie, just six years after he burst onto the scene in San Diego as a 23-year-old second baseman.

It didn't take long for the Tampa Bay Rays to jump on Orioles rookie right-hander Miguel Gonzalez Wednesday night. The Orioles trailed after just one pitch. They were down by five runs before an Orioles hitter picked up a bat.

Zach Britton threw six shutout innings and the Orioles escaped rally in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Cleveland Indians, 4-3, for their fifth straight win.

The Orioles pounded the Cleveland Indians, 10-2, Friday night for their second most lopsided victory of the season.

It has been a busy weekend already, but the Orioles made a couple more roster moves on Sunday morning, optioning outfielder Xavier Avery to Triple-A Norfolk to finish making room for the arrival of newly acquired DH Jim Thome and the recall of reliever Miguel Gonzalez. The O's already had optioned pitcher Tommy Hunter to Norfolk on Saturday night.

Friday night, during the hottest day of the season so far ¿ the game-time temperature at Camden Yards was a sweltering 100 degrees ¿ the Orioles' bats finally started to heat up.

On Friday, two homers ¿ Asdrubal Cabrera¿s in the third and Matt Wieters¿ in the sixth ¿ landed on Eutaw Street. It was just the second time two have reached Eutaw in one game in Camden Yards' history.

An untimely combination has hit the Orioles at the wrong time. The club's offensive struggles have become just the beginning of the issues facing the Orioles. Now, the team's starting pitching has become unglued.