Plenty of stars in comeback win at Milwaukee, but Schoop was right in the middle of it

Where to start with O's heroes in that comeback win over Milwaukee? Nick Hundley made an error in the bottom of the ninth and drove in the winning run in the top of the 10th. Nick Markakis doubled in the tying run with two outs in the ninth. J.J. Hardy had three hits and scored the winning run in the 10th. Brad Brach got out of a bases loaded jam in the eighth and Zach Britton got out of a jam in the 10th. Delmon Young had a key hit in the ninth. But don't forget the kid. Jonathan Schoop began yesterday's game with just six hits over his last 38 at-bats and one RBI his previous 11 games. He was batting .185 in May. But manager Buck Showalter stuck with the kid and his patience and confidence was rewarded. Schoop hit a solo homer in the seventh off Kyle Lohse and another with two outs in the ninth off Francisco Rodriguez to start the two-run rally that tied the game. By the way Schoop has hit five homers this year and they've come off Masahiro Tanaka, Drew Hutchison, Brandon Gomes, Lohse and K-Rod. Pretty good hit list there. Another good sign was that Schoop hit a breaking ball for the homer in the ninth. It was over the outside corner, but Schoop was able to get the bat head out front and power the ball into the left field seats. He had a three-hit game. That's his most hits since he went 4-for-5 with two RBIs April 18 at Boston. By the way Schoop had three two-homer games in the O's minors: * On 6-24-10 for the Gulf Coast League Orioles against the GCL Red Sox. * On 6-24-12 for Double-A Bowie at home against Reading. * On 7-25-13 on an injury rehab assignment while with short-season, Single-A Aberdeen. That night he had two homers, including a grand slam and seven RBIs against Vermont. The way I see it, if Showalter stuck with Schoop during some struggles while the Orioles were not hitting much as a team, he might be inclined to continue to do that as the team begins to finally score some runs. Over their last eight games, the Orioles have scored 49 runs on 94 hits with 20 doubles, a triple and 14 homers. They are batting .338 with runners in scoring position. In their first 41 games this year the Orioles had just seven games with two or more homers. Now they have had five in the last eight games. Yes, the homers are starting to come and so are the runs. Not a coincidence. The Orioles starting pitching has been struggling again in recent games and the club must figure out what is going wrong for Chris Tillman right now. But the runs have finally started to come for an offense that was expected to be pretty good in 2014. As for Schoop, maybe he has not turned any corners, but for one night he rewarded his manager's confidence in him and showed a glimpse of his talent and power potential.