Walk-off winner: Manny Machado's homer in 13th gives O's 8-6 win

It took awhile, but the Orioles finally beat the Oakland A's on Friday night, right before it turned into Saturday morning.

Manny Machado's two-run homer to left provided the Orioles an 8-6 win in 13 innings. It was Machado's second career walk-off homer and his 25th home run of the season. With one out in the 13th, Caleb Joseph doubled off Drew Pomeranz and right-hander Aaron Brooks came on for Oakland to face Machado. He lined an 0-1 pitch into the left field seats to end the game that lasted 4 hours and 27 minutes.

Jason Garcia, the seventh O's pitcher of the game, pitched a 1-2-3 top of the 13th to gain the victory.

This game featured a Zach Britton blown save, just his second of the season and his first since May 3. Trailing 6-4 to start the ninth, Oakland used two infield singles to start a rally. An RBI groundout made it 6-5 and Danny Valencia's two-out single to right tied it 6-6. Britton had recorded 24 straight saves until tonight.

The Orioles got two singles to start the last of the ninth but could not score against Francisco Rodriguez as the game went to extra innings.

Earlier Chris Davis and Adam Jones hit big home runs as the Orioles rallied from 4-0 down to take a two-run lead to the ninth.

With the win, the Orioles are 58-56 on the season and 33-20 at home. They started a 10-game homestand tonight.

The O's went to the botttom of the seventh trailing 4-3, but back-to-back singles by Machado and Gerardo Parra put runners on first and third. Then Jones' shallow fly ball to center scored Machado from third as catcher Stephen Vogt lost control of the ball on the tag. That made it 4-4 on Jones' fourth RBI of the night and his 15th over his last 14 games.

With a man on, Davis then crushed his 32nd homer for the 6-4 lead. He hit a 1-2 cut fastball from Fernando Abad onto Eutaw Street. It was Davis' third homer there this year and eighth in his career. It was also his 85th career homer at Camden Yards. That ties him with Cal Ripken Jr. for fifth all-time at OPACY.

Davis has hit four homers his last five games and seven in his last 11 contests. Over his last 22 games, he has 13 homers and 32 RBIs.

The Orioles fell behind 4-0 in the fifth inning tonight. Oakland scored four runs in three different innings off Ubaldo Jimenez and all the runs were driven in with two-out hits.

After two were out and with none on in the second, Oakland went single, walk, RBI single and single to take a 1-0 lead on Coco Crisp's hit. Adam Jones threw Billy Butler out at the plate to end that frame. Two innings later four batters reached again after two were out for the 2-0 lead. A second run was cut down at the plate that inning. In the fifth, Vogt's two-run homer added to the lead. He hit No. 16 for the 4-0 edge.

Jimenez needed 102 pitches to get through five innings tonight and was pulled for Mychal Givens. Jimenez gave up nine hits and four runs. In six second-half starts, Jimenez has an ERA of 7.39 and has allowed four runs or more four times. In their last 14 games, the Orioles' rotation has pitched to an ERA of 5.90 with only five quality starts.

The Orioles finally scored off Oakland starter Brad Mills in the fifth to end a 15-inning scoreless streak. Junior Lake doubled off the lefty, who hit Parra. Jones then delivered the big blast, with a three-run homer to left to cut the A's lead to 4-3.

Jones hit No. 20 on an 0-1 fastball. He has five consecutive 20-homer seasons. The homer snapped an 8-for-48 (.167) for Jones this month.

After the Orioles gained the lead, their bullpen held it into the ninth. Givens pitched two scoreless innings. Givens has started his MLB career with 7 1/3 scoreless innings. Darren O'Day pitched a scorless eighth.

In the second game of this series on Saturday night, Miguel Gonzalez (9-8, 4.45 ERA) faces Oakland right-hander Chris Bassitt (1-4, 2.48 ERA).