Reviewing injuries and wrapping up a 5-4 loss

NEW YORK - The Orioles are hurting in a variety of ways.

Their losing streak reached four games with tonight's 5-4 loss to the Yankees in the Bronx. They're three games below .500, matching their season high. Pitcher Kevin Gausman went on the disabled list today with right shoulder tendinitis. Center fielder Adam Jones banged his left shoulder or rib cage into the fence while trying to catch Alex Rodriguez's fly ball in the fifth inning. Ryan Flaherty, just off the disabled list after suffering a groin injury, didn't appear to be comfortable while rounding third base.

Let's start with Jones, who hit off a tee in the runway after the game to test whichever body part is sore. He wouldn't specify.

"I would have came out of the game if I wasn't feeling good. I'm fine," he said after emerging from the shower.

"I'm fine. It doesn't matter. I'm fine. I'm playing tomorrow. You saw it, so I'm good. I appreciate the concern. I'm fine.

"I'd rather have the W, but this team keeps fighting. This team keeps fighting. We're in a good place. We're in a good situation with these things. What don't kill you makes you stronger."

A fan reached over the fence while Jones leaped for the ball. Was there interference?

"I didn't see that," he said. "I was paying attention to the ball, not anybody else. I just wish I had caught it. I was there. I was mad I didn't catch it."

Jones didn't see the replay.

"No, was he in the way?" Jones asked. "They ain't going to check it. They ain't going to get it right. It doesn't matter. I just wish I had that ball. I had a good read on it. I just I would have had it."

Three of the four losses have been by one run.

"When you lose by one, that means there's one or two things in the game that can go either way," Jones said. "We're close. We're right there. We're hitting balls hard. We're having good at-bats. We're just not scoring as many runs right now, which is fine. It's going to happen. Keep swinging the bat, keep bringing that attitude, keep bringing that fire.

"I think we're playing good ball. We're just not getting the W's. But this division, no one is going to run away in this division. We just need to get on a winning streak for ourselves and put ourselves right back in a good spot."

At least the Orioles keep forcing the Yankees to use relievers Dellin Betances and Andrew Miller, who still haven't allowed a run this season.

"Well, that's what we do. We try to go out there and make them work," Jones said.

"That's a two-headed monster right there. They're both really really good. They threw back-to-back days. I don't know if they'll throw tomorrow. I know Miller threw three days in a row, so we'll see. Let's not even have them warm up. Let's get the lead and keep the lead."

Manager Buck Showalter and assistant athletic trainer Brian Ebel raced onto the field as Jones laid on the warning track.

"I think he's probably going to be a little sore tomorrow," Showalter said. "The only thing he said when I got out there was, 'I should have caught that ball.' He wouldn't tell me. He's probably going to be a little sore.

"I looked at the replay between innings. Can't really tell whether it's his shoulder or rib cage. The trainer thought it was more his rib cage that he banged in there. We'll see.

"He plays the game so hard you wonder why more of that doesn't happen. Adam stays down more than a second, it's never about drama with him like so many guys you see. If he's down for more than a second, you know he got a pretty good bang there. He was more upset about not catching it initially."

Showalter also will check on Flaherty before Saturday's 1:08 p.m. start.

"I'm hoping Ryan's OK tomorrow," he said. "I just thought he was running a little strange around third base on that one ball, so we'll see. He was a little tight, but nothing like it was. We'll see how he is tomorrow."

So, what about all the one-run losses?

"We won some of them and will again and have in the past," Showalter said. "When you have those two guys throwing the ball the way they were, we had very few opportunties but we just couldn't get that one blow. There's such a fine line. J.J. (Hardy) made a great play that kept another run from scoring. I've been real happy with the defense."

Miguel Gonzalez lasted only four innings, his shortest start since April 4, 2014 in Detroit.

"There were some balls, just borderline missing some pitches," Showalter said. "First inning he gave up a swinging bunt. The ball wouldn't have even left the infield. He gives up a blocked ball down the left field line and a fly ball to right field, and in this ballpark it's a home run, so that got him off to a tough start."

The Orioles rushed T.J. McFarland from Norfolk to Yankee Stadium and he responded with three scoreless innings, allowing just one hit and striking out three.

"We worked hard to not pick up his luggage and just get him here," Showalter said. "He was out there about 10 minutes before he got loose. And instead of waiting on his luggage, we had a car for him and our clubbies picked up his stuff. We told him to bring his shoes and glove on the plane. I'm glad he got here when he did. Another 15 or 20 minutes and it might have got away from us."

It's been quite a day for McFarland, who was supposed to start for the Tides.

"Yeah, crazy day," he said. "One minute I thought I was starting a game down in Norfolk and the next minute I'm coming in in the fifth inning. But I'm obviously happy to be here, so I'll do whatever it takes to make it up here."

McFarland didn't have much time to think, "which was probably a good thing," he said.

"I showed up in the bullpen and the phone was already ringing as I opened up the door, so I was ready to go after that.

"I left my luggage behind. Somebody picked it up later. I got my stuff now. Yeah, I had to leave straight from the airport. I couldn't wait, not even 10 minutes.

"I'm extremely happy (to be back). Obviously, I'm trying to help the team win any chance I have, but unfortunately we weren't able to pull it out tonight."

Gonzalez agreed with Showalter that he kept coming close with pitches that weren't called strikes.

"Obviously, they're hitting the ball really well," he said. "They're playing good baseball and just got to go out there and try not nibble too much. I was missing by a little bit. It's part of the game. Sometimes you have it, sometimes you don't."

The splitter wasn't working for Gonzalez tonight.

"I threw a couple of good ones, but it seems like they had a different approach." he said. "They were taking good at-bats off it. In general, I felt good out there."

Brian McCann's two-run homer in the first came with two outs. Carlos Beltran's two-run double in the third came with two outs. That's going to hurt.

"It's tough," Gonzalez said. "We know they're hitting the ball really well. You can't make any mistakes, especially early, early in the game. That's why I couldn't go more than four innings, 80 pitches. Things didn't go our way.

"I'll tell you what, T.J. came in and did a really good job and just stopped them. We played good, good defense. Things just didn't work out.

"You've just got to not think about it anymore and move on and work hard for the next one. I know it was a tough one today, but we just minimize that and we'll be fine. It's part of baseball. You can't think about it too much and get over it."

Gausman talked about the shoulder injury that landed him on the disabled list.

"It's kind of been something I've been dealing with, especially the last week," he said. "It feels fine when I throw, but just the way I'm recovering is a little bit of a concern. I think we kind of tried to stay on the side of caution and try to get it out before it becomes something too serious. I could have pitched through it. They made a decision. I think it's a good decision, especially at this point in the season. There's really no reason to kind of push it and possibly make it a lot more serious than what it is."

Gausman think he'll be ready to return when his 15 days are up.

"I'm going to see a doctor when I get back to Baltimore and it kind of depends what he has to say, what's his evaluation," Gausman said. "It's going to determine whether I'm going to get an MRI or not. Definitely want that to be positive. I'm hoping that in 15 days I'll either be back here or in Norfolk starting or something."

Gausman said the injury doesn't compare to anything he's experienced in the past.

"I usually get a little bit of something like this every spring training and I kind of pitch through it and it goes away," he said. "This year, it kind of stayed with me all the way through camp and at the start of the season. I might have maybe thrown one too many sides and then pitched in a game, aggravated it a little bit more than what I normally would have been doing.

"It's just kind of one of those things where they tried to stay on the side of caution and get rid of it, like I said, before it gets too serious."