Wieters with a walk-off homer as the O's sweep Pittsburgh

It ended with one swing in the last of the 10th inning. Matt Wieters smoked a homer down the right field line leading off the inning and the Orioles had a 6-5 extra-inning walk-off win against Pittsburgh. Wieters connected on a 1-0 pitch for his fifth homer of the year to give the Orioles a sweep of the doubleheader. Now at 14-12, the O's moved to within a half-game of first-place New York in the American League East. Down 4-0, the Orioles tied the game in the last of the sixth. Adam Jones produced an RBI double, Wieters drove in a run with a single and J.J. Hardy tied it with a two-run single. After the Pirates went back ahead 5-4, a Nick Markakis solo homer to right tied it in the seventh. It was his second of the season and the same day he hit one in Game 1. It was also the 1,403rd career hit for Markakis, tying him with Al Bumbry for ninth on the Orioles' all-time hits list. The game got off to a strange start when Chris Tillman walked three batters and needed 49 pitches to get out of the first inning. Two of the walks came with the bases loaded. In the inning, the Pirates hit 16 foul balls and Tillman needed 13 pitches to record the inning's second out. According to Elias, the last Oriole to throw 49 or more pitches in an inning also was Tillman on July 16, 2012 at Minnesota in a 19-7 loss. He worked two-thirds of an inning that night, the shortest start of his career. Tillman would make it through 4 2/3 frames on this night as his pitch count reached 112. He gave up six hits and three runs in a no-decision. Since throwing 122 pitches in five innings on April 18 at Boston, Tillman has made two starts. Over 10 1/3 innings, he has given up 15 hits and 10 runs to Toronto and Pittsburgh.