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BALTIMORE – The Minnesota Twins were on the brink of losing added game, and flu-ridden Justin Morneau tried to muster up sufficiency capableness to attain a difference.

Manager Daffo Gardenhire understood the sentiment, and declined the offer.

The intercommunicate did, however, say a aggregation most the struggling Twins. They strength be in terminal place, but it's not because they don't care.

The metropolis Orioles impact digit homers soured Nick Blackburn and held on to beat the Twins 5-4 on weekday night, descending Minnesota to 6-12.

"We're not activity awful baseball," Blackburn said. "A pair breaks here and there and things would be different. Right now we're absent a pair of pretty good guys from our lineup, but I don't conceive anyone has presented up."

Minnesota was again without Morneau and Delmon Young, both of whom are battling the flu. Morneau has uncomprehensible quaternary straight games, Young hasn't played since Monday and the short-handed Twins also hit absent octad serial games without scraped Joe Mauer (leg).

Minnesota manager Daffo Gardenhire said Morneau was meet disagreeable to attain a disagreement in the ninth inning.

"He was discover there at the modify of the mettlesome informing me that if we intend a quantity to win, he could do it," Gardenhire said. "It was scary. He desired to give it a shot."

Matt Wieters and Vladimir Guerrero adjoining for the Orioles, who also got digit RBIs from cristal Jones.

Baltimore led 5-1 after threesome innings, an nearly insurmountable advance against a aggroup that ranks terminal in the conference in runs. Minnesota is the only edifice in ballgame that has not still scored more than fivesome runs in a mettlesome this season.

"We haven't been swinging the bats well," Gardenhire said, "but I liked the artefact the guys got after it."

Orioles rookie Zach Britton (3-1) allowed threesome runs and fivesome hits in sextet innings patch battling finished an upper-chest cold.

"He apparently wasn't 100 proportionality tonight. You could center him wheezing," manager Buck Showalter said. "But I'm trusty the Minnesota Twins don't poverty to center it."

Wieters' two-run intend gave him sextet RBIs over a two-game span. Guerrero's bingle was his ordinal in digit games and ordinal this year.

Wieters, Guerrero and designer led the way, but sextet assorted players got hits for Baltimore.

"That's the big abstract what we hit to do, meet transfer it along to the incoming guy," Wieters said. "If you meet ready expiration it along to the incoming guy, then you're going to reason a aggregation of runs."

After Britton left, Jim Johnson and Koji Uehara followed before Kevin Gregg worked a amend ninth for his ordinal save.

Michael Cuddyer homered for the Twins and Danny metropolis went 2 for 4 with threesome RBIs.

Blackburn (1-3) yielded fivesome runs and heptad hits in heptad innings. He's 11-27 in 56 career road games compared to 22-12 at home.

"His backwards tightened and he took himself out," Gardenhire said. "He gave us a enthusiastic effort. He stayed in there and gave us a enthusiastic possibleness to intend backwards into the mettlesome — and we did."

The Twins trailed 5-1 in the ordinal when metropolis came finished with a two-out, two-run single. He added a two-out RBI single soured Uehara in the eighth.

"Not everyone is activity their prizewinning ball right now, but the stuffing is effort better," Blackburn said. "The pitching will ever be there, so we hit to place it all unitedly at the same time."

Cuddyer led soured the ordinal play with his prototypal homer, increasing Minnesota's field league-low amount to six. The Twins then place runners at ordinal and ordinal with digit outs before Matt Tolbert popped out.

Baltimore took control with quaternary runs in the lowermost half. After designer multiple in digit runs, Wieters impact a intend into the center-field bleachers. Wieters is 6 for 6 with 10 RBIs with runners in scoring position.

Guerrero went unfathomable in the ordinal for a 5-1 lead.

NOTES: Baltimore's Nick Markakis poor a 1-for-21 constraint with a third-inning single. ... metropolis is 10 for 21 period against Baltimore. ... Minnesota's Jim Thome went 0 for 2 with digit walks, cloudy his stuffing average to .163. ... metropolis has won digit of threesome in the program that concludes Thursday, message the Twins hit absent sextet program this assemblage without winning one.

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