Showalter speaks after 3-2 10-inning win (updated)

One night after producing a walk-off home run, the Orioles used a fielder's choice and an error to close out another game.

Walk-offs come in all varieties. Don't discriminate.

Adam Jones slid home safely in the bottom of the 10th inning after Manny Machado bounced to the mound with one out, and the Orioles moved a season-high 18 games above .500 with a 3-2 win over the Rockies at Camden Yards.

The Orioles (58-40) have won five games in a row and lead the American League East by 2 1/2. They're 4-2 in extras.

Jones, who drove in the first two runs, singled with one out off Rockies right-hander Jordan Lyles. Jonathan Schoop poked a single into right to move Jones to third base.

Machado followed with a comebacker that Lyles dropped before recovering and throwing to catcher Nick Hundley, who lost control of the ball while trying to apply the tag. Lyles was charged with the error. The Orioles only cared that they won.

Jones had an RBI single in the second inning and an RBI grounder in the seventh. Nothing overly dramatic, nothing that required unusual strength. He did the little things that produced big-time results.

"It's a great baserunning play," said manager Buck Showalter. "He and Bobby (Dickerson) talk about it. Anything they can turn two on, you've got to go. You've got to sacrifice one at the plate to continue the inning. The tough one is the slow-developing ball there.

"Adam takes a lot of pride in being an all-around player and he is."

Jones' RBI in the second gave him 702 as an Oriole and moved him past Rafael Palmeiro for sole possession of seventh place on the club's all-time list.

Yovani Gallardo came within one out tonight of completing seven innings, which would have made him the fifth starter in the last six games to do it.

One out with the score still tied.

Former Oriole Mark Reynolds grounded an RBI single into center field on the eighth pitch of the at-bat to give Colorado the lead and end Gallardo's night.

Gallardo was charged with two runs and five hits in 6 2/3 innings, with two walks, six strikeouts, a home run and a wild pitch. He threw 108 pitches, 60 for strikes.

Catcher Matt Wieters reached for the ball on the wild pitch, failing to get in front of it, and David Dahl moved into scoring position after collecting his first major league hit.

Gallardo was "really good, solid," Showalter said. "Really commanded the ball well and pitched where he had to on each guy. A lot of landmines in that lineup and kept the ball in the park for the most part. Unfortunately, couldn't get a W next to his name, but he was probably the key to the game for us."

Gallardo is playing the part of deadline acquisition with his return from the disabled list. He's a different pitcher.

"You can tell he's not thinking about (the shoulder)," Showalter said. "It wasn't really a lot of discomfort, just a lack of strength there, which made him uncomfortable. You can imagine what he was like at 94-95, but he's got so much pitching moxie and different pitches that he can compete, especially when he's commanding. And some of those little cutters he throws up are intentional. That's where most of the strikeouts come from. It's not like they didn't know him."

The Orioles tied the game in the bottom of the seventh on Jones' ground ball to shortstop that scored Nolan Reimold, who was hit on the foot by a Jorge De La Rosa pitch and took third base on Dariel Alvarez's double.

Not to be overlooked, Alvarez worked De La Rosa for eight pitches. The Orioles want him to be more selective at the plate. He does it in spring training and tends to revert to old habits at Triple-A.

Mychal Givens replaced Gallardo and retired Daniel Descalso on a fly ball. Left-handers were hitting .385 against Givens, who retired all four batters he faced with two strikeouts.

"Very quietly, I'm not going to advertise why," Showalter said. "Made some adjustments with some things with left-handed hitters and hopefully it's going to allow him to be more than just a pure situational right-on-right guy because we need him.

"I wasn't going to use Darren (O'Day) back-to-back tonight and I was going to give Brad (Brach) off tonight and maybe tomorrow. And with Zach (Britton) pitching, I didn't want to go into tomorrow's game without all three of them, which had a chance to happen if I bring Darren in. And Chaz (Roe) had a big inning for us. He was crisp."

He also was the winner after stranding a runner at second base in the 10th.

Britton retired the side in order in the ninth with two strikeouts and lowered his ERA to 0.63. He was facing the heart of the order in Nolan Arenado, who homered earlier but also committed two errors, Carlos Gonzalez and Trevor Story.

"You just don't come in and get all three of them out very often with the game on the line late in the game, and that's a real tribute to Zach," Showalter said.

"This is hard, what all these guys are doing. It's really hard and it's an honor just to sit there and watch it because it's not something that may pass your way again."

This was one of those games the Orioles probably would have lost in the pre-Showalter days. It's like they had to learn how to finish.

"I don't know about that," he said. "We've got better players and made us win more games like this. It's all about the players.

"Tonight was one of those games (right after) three real intense games against obviously one of the best teams in the American League. It's a Monday, it's hotter than sin. I knew this was going to be a challenge for us. That's why I said Yovani was a key because he kind of made all that not matter for a long period of time, gave us a chance at the end.

"I'm not sure in the past in Jon's career that he would shoot that ball to right. I don't know if shoot it, I think it's roll it over there. He's hard to defend as far as where you play him because he moves the ball around."

The Orioles moved another game above .500 by putting together back-to-back walk-offs.

"It's good to get a win any way you get it this time of year," Showalter said. "We're right around 60-some odd games left. It's a given what the other people in our division are going to do. In our mind, we've just got to try to have more runs than them after nine innings. It's a challenge. It's so hard to do what our guys are doing right now. It's hard."

Down on the farm, Hyun Soo Kim went 2-for-4 with a home run at Double-A Bowie.

"Kim had a good night, huh?" Showalter said. "No knuckleball tonight. He may come over here tonight. But he'll be here tomorrow. Anxious to watch the tape and see how he felt. So Ubaldo (Jimenez) will be back tomorrow and potentially him."

Update: The Orioles optioned Alvarez to Triple-A Norfolk to make room for Kim tomorrow.