Joseph behind the plate day and night (O's win 5-3)

Caleb Joseph has grown accustomed to doing the unusual and catching day games after night games. It happened Thursday afternoon in the Bronx and it's happening again today in the sweltering Baltimore heat.

"It's nothing. Getting back on the bike," he said.

"You've just got to prepare. You maybe have to stretch a little bit more. You've got to do a little bit more the night before. But in terms of getting loose, it's not a problem because it's a bazillion degrees outside. It's more or less like maintaining your strength through the day that you don't want to get sloppy. You want to keep hydrating and make sure you take a preventative cramp pill, stuff like that."

Joseph was relieved to find out it's only 90 degrees today at Camden Yards.

This is the sixth consecutive game with Joseph behind the plate while Matt Wieters recovers from a bruised right foot. The backup has become a starter again.

"Wiety will be back soon," Joseph said, "and I'll have plenty of rest after that."

Wieters is expected to return to the lineup on Monday or Tuesday.

"He had his biggest amount of improvement between Friday and Saturday, so we'll see how he feels tomorrow," said manager Buck Showalter. "I just don't want to catch him today and then there's an issue and now we're talking 15 days. We can wait to where we know it's right and we won't lose the days."

Joseph said he's still rested after missing a month of the season, and he's certainly loose if he's able to joke about a testicular injury.

"Anytime you can get some time off during the season, you take advantage of it," he said. "I've really felt fresh this whole year, and a lot of it has to do with Wiety taking the majority of the games, especially over the past two months, but I feel really good and we're kind of getting tested here right now. But post up again today and try to get a win and try to get a series sweep."

Joseph has strung together three consecutive two-hit games to raise his average from .155 to .202. He's still in search of his first RBI.

"I wish that I could quantify it," Joseph said. "I don't think I'm trying as hard. Sometimes, you can want something so much that you actually prevent yourself from getting it and doing what you want, if that makes any sense. You allow emotions or external factors to play a part in the at-bat or whatever that aren't even related, really.

"I think a lot of it is just trying to go up there with a clear and free mind. Just put together a good at-bat and whatever happens happens. Stop trying to do everything in one at-bat that's going to take time. So, I guess you could say I kind of started caring less.

"Not to say I don't care when I'm up there, obviously, but I have a tendency to care so much that I strangle every bit of free and easiness at the plate. I want it so bad that you're white-knuckling the bat and you've created a mound of sawdust at your feet because you want to get a hit so bad. Just relax, calm down and see the ball, have confidence that you can hit.

"You've done it, you've proven that you can hit in this league, so just relax."

Neither team has a run today as the game moves to the top of the third. Corey Kluber has retired the first six Orioles. Vance Worley has stranded a runner in the first and second innings, and Mark Trumbo threw out Roberto Perez trying to stretch a leadoff single into a double in the third.

Update: The Indians took a 2-0 lead in the top of the fourth on Tyler Naquin's RBI double and Perez's sacrifice fly, but Kluber couldn't produce a shutdown inning.

Jonathan Schoop led off the bottom of the fourth with a double and scored on Manny Machado's single. Machado took second on the throw home, which Schoop beat with a tremendous slide and advanced to third on Chris Davis' grounder to the right side.

Mark Trumbo walked to put runners on the corners with one out and Pedro Alvarez beat out a potential double play ball to tie the game. The Orioles challenged the call at first and it was overturned.

Update II: Jonathan Schoop hit his 17th home run with two outs in the fifth to give the Orioles a 3-2 lead. He began the day ranked second on the club with 10 game-winning RBIs.

Update III: Worley allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings, with three walks and three strikeouts. He threw a season-high 102 pitches, 66 for strikes, and registered his first quality start since May 3, 2015 with the Pirates - a span of seven starts.

Brad Brach, who allowed two runs in the ninth inning last night, will work the eighth with the Orioles protecting a 3-2 lead.

Update IV: A Schoop error led to an unearned run off Brach and we're tied 3-3. A leadoff single by Jason Kipnis got the ball rolling. Mike Napoli grounded an RBI single into left field.

Update V: Nolan Reimold hit a two-run walk-off home run off Cody Allen in the ninth inning to give the Orioles a 5-3 win and their second three-game sweep of the Indians in two seasons. It's the third walk-off home run in Reimold's career. He hadn't homered since May 29 against the Indians' Tommy Hunter.

Pedro Alvarez struck out against Allen leading off the ninth, but the ball got past catcher Roberto Perez, whose throw to first base hit Alvarez. Ryan Flaherty laid down a sacrifice bunt, Joseph struck out and Reimold, batting for Julio Borbon, crushed a 2-0 fastball.