O'Day and Gentry latest Orioles felled by injuries

Getting the lineup back as intended hasn't eased the Orioles' health crisis. It's kicking into full gear.

Reliever Darren O'Day and outfielder Craig Gentry will be placed on the 10-day disabled list before Wednesday night's game, joining reliever Richard Bleier and starter Dylan Bundy as the latest casualties within the past two weeks.

O'Day reinjured his hamstring tonight and will undergo tests in the morning, but he's destined to return to the DL. He was lost on May 9 to a hyperextended right elbow and couldn't pitch in D.C. last week due to tightness in the hamstring.

Gentry suffered a non-displaced fracture in his rib cage after being hit by a pitch Friday night in Atlanta, and the Orioles couldn't use him tonight. Jace Peterson pinch-ran for Danny Valencia in the ninth inning and was stranded in a 3-2 loss to the Mariners at Camden Yards.

Bundy went on the disabled list this afternoon with a sprained left ankle. Bleier is recovering from surgery to repair a Grade 3 tear in his left lat muscle.

The Orioles were clinging to a 2-1 lead when O'Day entered in the top of the eighth inning. Dee Gordon doubled and Jean Segura laid down a bunt to the left side of the infield. O'Day pulled up while trying to field the ball and threw one warmup pitch before exiting with head athletic trainer Brian Ebel.

"I had a pretty good idea that it was bad," he said.

Tanner Scott walked Mitch Haniger to load the bases and Kyle Seager, who hit a solo home run off Kevin Gausman to tie the game in the fourth, delivered a two-run single to center field.

O'Day wasn't certain if he reinjured the hamstring on his first step off the mound. It didn't seem to matter in the grand scheme.

"To be honest with you, I don't know," he said. "I was just going to get the bunt. I didn't expect him to be bunting. I expected Gordon to be bunting, but he didn't. Kind of caught me off guard and just couldn't field it.

"It's frustrating. I was throwing well and helping the team. I had a lead there. If I finish that bunt play we probably get out of that inning tied. But yeah, it's very frustrating."

The Orioles finally got back closer Zach Britton following his Achilles surgery in December, and now they've lost O'Day and Bleier. Donnie Hart was recalled today while Bundy went on the DL, so the club has seven relievers, and Jimmy Yacabonis is on his way from Triple-A Norfolk to assist or perhaps make Thursday afternoon's start.

"It's a hard game, it really is," said O'Day, who's 0-2 with a 3.60 ERA in 20 appearances. "It's a tough schedule, it's tough on your bodies, so injuries are going to happen. It's tough that we want to do our jobs and the more of us that are hurt, the harder it makes that. So, some of these young guys are going to step up and take advantage of the opportunities and pitch well."

This will be the fifth time that O'Day has gone on the disabled list since signing his four-year, $31 million contract in December 2015. He had a strained hamstring and rotator cuff in 2016, a strained right shoulder last season and elbow and hamstring injuries this year.

"Darren has battled a lot of things here the last couple of years," said manager Buck Showalter. "It's frustrating for him and us because we all know what he's capable of and what he means to us. Some of them have really not been self-inflicted. He had a kind of freakish thing in the bullpen.

"It's as frustrating for him as it is for us because we have a good player, good pitcher and good guy you rely on in a lot of different ways other than just pitching. It's frustrating."

The Orioles didn't have time today to bring up another outfielder after finding out late that Gentry couldn't play. They could recall Joey Rickard.

There are lots of moving parts with two more players headed to the disabled list and a starter needed for Thursday.

"I haven't had a chance to, obviously, talk to Dan (Duquette) yet, but initially you're going to try to ... you've got some people down in the bullpen tomorrow, you're going to try to put your best foot forward and what happens Thursday, you'll look at your options there when you get there," Showalter said.

"With Dylan and Darren going down and some people that have pitched enough that they don't need to be pitching tomorrow, you guys can figure out who they are. Donnie Hart got here about halfway through the game. He's more left on left. But we'll look at it. We were looking at it before the game.

"I was looking at the box score in Norfolk after Darren came out. So, I'll see what everybody's thinking here shortly."

Gausman recorded the rotation's 37th quality start with one run and five hits over six innings. He left after 100 pitches, 63 for strikes.

"Gausman was real good again tonight," Showalter said. "He had an extended outing. I thought we kind of went to the limit with him last time. I came in the game wanting to keep him between 95-100. Another quality start that we just can't make hold up because we just haven't been able to solve (James) Paxton."

The run off Gausman came on Seager's solo home run in the fourth, which tied the game.

"I was kind of sporadic around the zone, but I made some good pitches when I needed to," Gausman said. "Got into some situations, but really just one split that kind of stayed up in the zone, in a count I think he was looking for it. And Seager put a good swing on it.

"Caleb (Joseph) called a great game, Jonesy (Adam Jones) made some great plays and I thought Manny (Machado) played great at short, made a great play up the middle. I thought we played pretty well overall."

Gausman threw 23 pitches in the first inning, but only 10 in the second, and he worked through the sixth.

"That's huge," he said. "Kind of seems like that's what I do every start lately is kind of get in jams the first inning, throw a lot of pitches. It's always big to kind of bounce back and have a quick inning."

Valencia led off the second inning with a home run off Mariners starter James Paxton, and the Orioles broke a 1-1 tie in the sixth after loading the bases with no outs. Machado grounded into a 4-6-3 double play and they settled for only one run, which proved to be costly later in the night.

"We had some good people up and we got a sharp ground ball right at (Gordon)," Showalter said. "Frustrating because that's your one pop at him in a lot of ways.

"He's a well-kept ... I don't know if it's a secret. People in the American League West don't think it's a secret. Paxton is tough. We knew that coming in. He showed why. He was very efficient and he got those big (relief) guys at the end. It makes it tough. Once again, we only scored two runs again. It's tough. One of those a solo home run."

Machado didn't appear to be going full-speed up the line as Segura double-clutched and made the relay to first.

"I know he's wanting to cash in," Showalter said. "I haven't looked at it closely, whether he slipped out of the box or what. I'm not going to make an excuse for him until I look at it.

"Manny plays every day. I know he's probably frustrated there. Their guy took his time. Usually, when a ball is hit that firmly it's a pretty easy double play. He just took his time and Manny may have allowed him to take more time than he normally would. It'll be addressed."

Along with a roster that's again in flux and continues to lose important contributors. Losses and injuries, including three to pitchers who serve valuable roles, are mounting.

"You're talking about three guys who are dependable," Gausman said. "When they're out there, they're pretty consistent for us. You talk about Bleier, he was having a really big year and had a really good year last year and was a really big acquisition for us. To see him go down the way he did was tough to see. And Bundy, a freak thing, it was a baseball injury. Obviously, Darren tonight. We'll see what happens."