Trumbo single gives Orioles 6-5 win in 10 innings (with quotes)

The Orioles continue to cash in on free baseball.

Mark Trumbo singled to center field off Pirates reliever Wade LeBlanc with two outs in the 10th inning to score Adam Jones and give the Orioles a 6-5 win before an announced crowd of 26,724 at Camden Yards.

Jones singled with one out and hustled to second base on Manny Machado's fly ball to the left field fence. Trumbo followed with his eighth career walk-off hit, and the fifth for the Orioles this season.

The Orioles improved to 30-26 overall and 8-1 in extra innings.

Jonathan Schoop tied the game 5-5 in the bottom of the ninth inning with a two-run shot to center field off left-hander Tony Watson. Chris Davis led off with a single and Schoop produced his fifth career multi-homer game.

The Pirates had extended their lead to 5-3 in the top half on Darren O'Day's two-out walk to Adam Frazier and Josh Harrison's triple to left-center field.

Brad Brach retired the side in order in the top of the 10th and earned the win.

Pirates starter Ivan Nova was in control until serving up back-to-back home runs to Davis and Schoop in the seventh inning and leaving with inflammation in his left knee. Schoop has been involved all four times the Orioles have hit back-to-back home runs this season. His shot to left field tonight came off the final pitch thrown by Nova over six-plus innings.

Kevin Gausman retired the side in order tonight on 13 pitches in the top of the first inning, let the first four batters reach base in the second and lost his lead.

It's become a pattern with Gausman that leaves the club searching for answers.

Gausman allowed four runs and eight hits in 6 2/3 innings, with one walk, five strikeouts and a home run. Donnie Hart replaced him after 113 pitches, including 70 for strikes.

Gausman threw 33 pitches in the second inning while the Pirates took a 3-1 lead on Andrew McCutchen's RBI single, John Jaso's RBI double and Jordy Mercer's soft bouncer to second.

Machado committed a throwing error on Josh Bell's infield hit, but all three runs were earned.

David Freese homered with one out in the sixth inning to increase the lead to 4-1.

Gausman had allowed just two earned runs in each of his last three starts since giving up five over 3 1/3 innings in a May 14 loss in Kansas City. However, he's registered only four quality starts in 13 outings this season.

Seth Smith hit his second leadoff home run of the season and the fourth of his career to stake Gausman to a quick 1-0 lead. The Orioles have three leadoff homers on the year, including one from Joey Rickard.

Smith's ball slammed off the batter's eye in center field, traveling an estimated 419 feet according to Statcast.

Jones followed with a bunt single, giving Nova a dose of power and small ball within two hitters. The guy must have been completely perplexed. It just didn't show.

Machado grounded into a double play and Nova retired seven in a row before Frazier committed an error that allowed Smith to reach second base with two outs in the third inning. Frazier reached down for Smith's sinking liner in left field and the ball ricocheted off the heel of his glove.

Trumbo walked with one out in the fourth inning - only the seventh free pass issued by Nova in 12 starts - but Jones' bunt single would be the Orioles' last hit until he singled with one out in the sixth.

The three home runs were the most off Nova since the Rays connected four times in four innings on April 19, 2014.

During the Pirates' three-run second inning, Gausman got ahead of Bell 1-2, McCutchen 0-2 and Jaso 0-2. Bell followed Freese's leadoff single with an infield hit, McCutchen singled to center field to score Freese and Jaso doubled to left-center field to score Bell.

Hart loaded the bases in the seventh with a hit batter and a walk, but he escaped the jam. The Orioles reduced the lead to 4-3 in the bottom half and brought the potential go-ahead run to the plate after Caleb Joseph's two-out single, but Felipe Rivero struck out Rickard, who was batting for Smith.

Mychal Givens struck out the side in the eighth, mixing in a walk, and his fastball topped out at 99 mph. The heat is back.

Here's manager Buck Showalter:

On Jones hustling to second base: "It's either a home run or he's going to catch it. You take a little gamble in case it goes off the wall or something with that much hang time. That's another example of a baseball-player play that analytics won't ever evaluate. It's separating and evaluating really good players like Adam, so many little things he does. That's another example of it. Anticipating plays and figuring out some way to go 90 feet. A lot of things happened there.

"Nova's good. He's, what, fifth in the National League in ERA? You can see why (pitching coach) Ray Searage has a great reputation. You can tell that he's a different pitcher than we saw in New York."

On Schoop having team-leading 11 RBIs in seventh inning or later: "What you see is Jon takes information in from his previous at-bats and applies them later in the game. It's a learning curve. Jon's not one of those guys anymore who, what's the definition of not being completely sane? It's just having the same things happen. Jon watches how people are pitching him and what he's doing wrong and he makes adjustments to patterns and what they're doing.

"It's one of the challenges of playing a team you see hardly ever. It seems like we saw them 20 times in spring. I was kidding our guys, most of our guys have seen all of their pitchers in the bullpen. It's that group that went to Bradenton all the time. But I think that's a sign is that he takes things that are going on with him and makes some adjustments to them and tries to do something else different."

On Gausman's second inning: "You know, I'd say rough, statistically. I'll say this: He gets a chopper anywhere else and it sneaks through the infield, then he gets a broken-bat flare the other way off the end of the bat, then McCutchen fights a ball off and may have broken his bat in right. I think he gave up one hard-hit ball that inning. So, I kind of take that with a grain of salt. But it's what happened after that. He kept us engaged in the game."

On team's power making it possible to come back: "On paper, but it's hard to do that if nobody's on base. The one that really got us in there was when somebody's on base in front of Jon. Chris' base hit off the left-hander was big. That guy's had a heck of a year. They've got three guys down there, if you look at them statistically, they're pretty impressive. So, I look kind of what set that up, because the other ones were solos.

"They were good, they got us back in it and we were fortunate that Darren and Brad and Mychal had all had three days off. Mychal had a big inning, too. You talk about power getting you back in the game, but it's also somebody getting on base before somebody does that."

On how damaging team can be with this power: "What comes first, kind of like the chicken and the egg? It's part of it. It's kind of all the way through baseball. It's a bloop and a hit-by-pitch and all of a sudden it's life in the big leagues. First thing that hit me when I got to the big leagues was how quickly leads can go, because there's power all the way through lineups, including theirs. I don't care what team you're talking about, that potential is always there. That's why guys who can pitch effectively in the last three innings are so valuable."

On so many hits off Gausman being soft: "I was looking at the stats and stuff on him today and it's just not reflective of what he's capable of doing. You look at the hits to innings and then you see some of what happens. It takes a strong constitution to grind through that and not give in and say, 'Wow.' They're human beings, they go, 'Gosh, what do I have to do here?' "I tell them, 'You've got to stay true and keep grinding and the baseball gods will be kind to you.'

"Go back to first inning, they hit some balls hard that we caught. There was some balls hit harder in the first inning than when he gave up the runs."