Jose Abreu's single in ninth lifts Chicago to wild 8-7 win at Camden Yards

The Orioles lost a tough game tonight to the Chicago White Sox and also saw their All-Star closer walk off the field with an apparent leg injury. They've had better nights at Camden Yards.

Zach Britton came on for the ninth in a 7-7 tie. After two strikeouts, he allowed a bunt single up the first base line to Adam Eaton. Britton fielded the ball and tried to toss it directly from his glove. He was later limping and left with head athletic trainer Richie Bancells.

That brought Vance Worley in, the sixth pitcher of the night for the Orioles. After a walk, an RBI single by Jose Abreu gave Chicago an 8-7 lead and eventually the win after losing the first two games of the series

After leading 5-3, the O's went to the last of the eighth down 7-5. With two outs and none on, an error by Abreu at first base allowed Manny Machado to reach and Adam Jones was hit by a pitch. Left-hander Zach Duke replaced former Oriole Matt Albers to face Chris Davis. Davis then came up with a clutch two-run double to left center and it was tied 7-7. Davis had been hitting .143 against lefties this year.

Albers brought a 33-inning scoreless streak into this outing but two unearned runs were charged to his record that inning.

On to protect a 5-4 lead in the eighth, pinch-hitter Carlos Sanchez greeted Darren O'Day with a double to right and Jose Abreu's RBI single to right tied it 5-5. Moments later, Todd Frazier unloaded a two-run homer to center for the 7-5 lead. It was his seventh of the year.

O'Day had recorded 10 scoreless outings on the year before tonight and had an ERA of 0.40 since last Sept. 4. But tonight, the Sox took the lead against him.

For the third game in a row, the Orioles offense produced against the pitching staff that led the majors with a 2.24 ERA when they got to Baltimore. The Orioles had 10 hits and two homers by the end of the fourth inning and they've scored 23 runs in this series.

The Orioles are now 9-2 at home and 14-9 on the season. A win tonight would have given them a shot tomorrow to go for their first four-game sweep of the White Sox in Baltimore since July 19-22, 1990.

Tonight, two players that had been on the bench in recent days came up big. Pedro Alvarez went 3-for-5 with a homer and double. He has seven hits over his last 12 at-bats. Hyun Soo Kim went 3-for-4 with two singles and a double, producing his first extra-base hit as an Oriole. He is 9-for-15 (.600) on the season.

The third inning was rather crazy and bizarre. It featured two Orioles errors, a near triple play and a manager ejection.

Chicago scored twice off O's starter Kevin Gausman, and errors by Manny Machado at third and Jonathan Schoop at second were big. Machado threw past Schoop trying to turn a 5-4-3 double play to the end inning. Schoop had a ball pop out of his glove trying to make a catch in short right field. Jerry Sands and Dioner Navarro had leadoff singles to start the inning and both scored for a 2-1 lead.

In the last of the third, Kim led off with a double, his fifth hit over his past seven at-bats to that point. He held at second on Machado's infield single. Jones bounced to third and Chicago turned a 5-4 double play, getting both lead runners.

Then Chicago asked for a review on Machado's slide into second base, where he appeared to both slide past the bag and reach out for the leg of second baseman Brett Lawrie. Under the new slide rules, the Sox were potentially looking at a ruling of a triple play. But the call on the field was not changed and Sox manager Robin Ventura got ejected for arguing a replay ruling.

It was some inning to say the least and it ended with Chicago ahead 2-1. The O's had scored in the first on Mark Trumbo's RBI single. Sox starter Mat Latos had given up two runs in four starts and that was the third run against him in 2016.

The fourth inning featured three home runs, two by the Orioles. Lawrie connected off Gausman for a 3-1 lead. In the last of the frame, Alvarez and Schoop hit solo shots for the 3-3 tie. Alvarez homered to left-center, his first homer as an Oriole. Schoop hit a blast to left field and it was No. 4 to tie the game.

Through the fourth inning, the Orioles had 10 hits and were 10-for-20 against Latos. The right-hander had allowed just 13 hits and an average against of .151 over his first four starts. He gave up 11 hits and four runs over five innings after allowing just two runs in 24 1/3 his first four starts.

The Orioles got the 4-3 lead against him on an Alvarez's RBI double in the fifth and made it 5-3 an inning later against Zach Putnam on Jones' RBI double.

Gausman went six innings allowing four hits and three runs (two earned). O's starters have pitched to an ERA of 2.62 over the last six games and have recorded quality starts in four of the past five games.

On Sunday afternoon, the Orioles have a real challenge as they face left-hander Chris Sale (5-0, 1.66 ERA). He has an ERA of 0.38 over his last three starts. Ubaldo Jimenez (1-2, 3.91 ERA) starts for the Orioles.