Ryan Romano: What are the biggest hits for Orioles stars?

The Orioles weren't supposed to win on Sunday. Through the first eight innings, the story of the game was Wade Miley's meltdown and Johnny Cueto's effectiveness. Then Jonathan Schoop happened. With two on and two outs in the ninth, he swatted a three-run homer to turn a 7-5 deficit into an 8-7 lead. According to FanGraphs.com, the dinger improved the Orioles' win probability from 6.5 percent to 84.2 percent, making it the biggest hit of Schoop's young career by far. To commemorate the feat, I thought I'd look at the same accomplishments for Manny Machado, Adam Jones, Mark Trumbo, Chris Davis and Matt Wieters, the other five Orioles batters with at least 300 plate appearances in 2016. (Note that for Trumbo and Davis, the plays in question happened before they came to Baltimore.)

* Machado: 4/10/13, Orioles @ Red Sox -- Joel Hanrahan, whom Boston had imported to lock down the ninth inning, came on with a 5-3 lead and proceeded to stink up Fenway Park. The trouble started with a leadoff home run; he'd retire the next two batters, but after that, a single and two walks loaded the bases for Machado. The first pitch to the then 20-year-old third baseman went to the backstop, advancing everyone and knotting the score at 5-5. Machado clubbed the next offering onto the top of the Green Monster to give the Orioles an 8-5 edge. While the wild pitch robbed him of a grand slam, his three-run blast still added 45.1 percentage points to Baltimore's win probability, essentially ensuring that the Birds would take home the W.

* Jones: 7/7/13, Orioles @ Yankees -- Despite Machado's best efforts (seriously, go back and watch this play again), the O's seemed to have no shot: They trailed 1-0 in the ninth inning against the best closer of all time. The long odds didn't faze Jones, who stepped to the plate with Nick Markakis on first and walloped a 1-0 cutter into the Yankees bullpen. The 65.4 points that Jones tacked on to the Orioles' chances would ultimately stand up, as Jim Johnson earned his 30th save of the year in the bottom half of the inning.

* Trumbo: 8/18/11, Angels vs. Rangers -- Like Hanrahan, Mike Adams came to Texas to bolster the club's weak bullpen. Like Hanrahan, he soon fell apart at the hands of a division rival. Trumbo, the runner-up for Rookie of the Year in his first full campaign with the Angels, batted in the bottom of the ninth with his team behind 1-0. He worked the count to 1-1, then lined the third pitch over the wall in left field to bring around Torii Hunter and himself. Although the Angels would finish the year in second behind the Rangers, Trumbo and his 68.3 points of win probability added had the last laugh here.

* Davis: 5/14/09, Rangers vs. Mariners -- Before he annihilated baseballs for the Orioles, Davis cut his teeth as an up-and-coming power hitter with Texas. His production in 2009, while sporadic, hinted at the incredible potential he had. On this occasion, he displayed his talent in the bottom of the ninth inning (starting to see a pattern here?) against Brandon Morrow. With a 2-1 lead supporting him, the hurler left a fastball up in the zone, and Davis pounced. His walkoff homer contributed a nice 69.5 points to the Rangers' cause.

* Wieters: 5/21/16, Orioles @ Angels -- This is probably the most analogous long ball to Schoop's. In the middle match of a series in L.A., the O's had absolutely nothing going against Matt Shoemaker, who piled up 12 strikeouts over seven scoreless inning. It looked like it would be another unfortunate loss for Kevin Gausman, until Wieters put the team on his back. On his 30th birthday, he came up in the ninth inning (like Schoop) with runners on first and second (like Schoop) and two men on base (like Schoop). Wieters wasted no time, torching an 89 mph heater from Joe Smith into the rockpile in center. That roundtripper, and the 79.5 points of win probability it carried, flipped the score to 3-1 in Baltimore's favor, and Zach Britton would close it out immediately afterwards to give the Birds the late-night victory.

So here's to Schoop, whose efforts on Sunday sent the Orioles home with a win. And here's to his Charm City co-stars, who over the years have done the same for several teams. Hopefully, the stretch run will feature some more late-inning heroics.

Ryan Romano blogs about the Orioles for Camden Depot. Follow the blog on Twitter: @CamdenDepot. His thoughts on the O's appear here as part of MASNsports.com's continuing commitment to welcome guest bloggers to our little corner of cyberspace. All opinions expressed are those of the guest bloggers, who are not employed by MASNsports.com but are just as passionate about their baseball as our roster of writers.