The All-Star break is over, and the Orioles got right back into the action with a 3-2 win on Friday night in Houston. It wasn’t the most dominant performance you’ll ever see. The six pitchers that O’s manager Craig Albernaz deployed really had to battle,

HOUSTON (AP) — Taylor Ward hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Houston Astros 3-2 on Friday night to extend their season-best win streak to five games.

The timing doesn’t really matter to Orioles manager Craig Albernaz. The days leading up to the All-Star break or the days that follow. He can recite the record and where his team sits in the standings.

The last two times the Baltimore Orioles opened a home series with a victory, in June, they lost the next two games. They'll try to reverse that trend when they have a rematch with the Kansas City Royals on Saturday night.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Samuel Basallo hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-3 in the opener of a three-game series between last-place teams Friday night.

They did it. It took eight tries, but they did it. The Orioles will head into the All-Star break with their first four-game winning streak after beating the Royals 8-2 before an announced crowd of 31,