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- Updated: August 15, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — Staying engaged. Orioles manager Buck Showalter uses the phrase frequently. Orioles catcher Matt Wieters said it was just the ability to come back.
Whatever words are used to describe Baltimore’s come-from-behind 8-7 victory over the San Francisco Giants at the end of a long, grueling 10-day road trip on Sunday, it meant a happy flight home.
“This is the type of game you have to win going forward,” said Wieters, who collected a career-high five hits, including a triple. “Sometimes you have to come back and win games you shouldn’t. You just keep playing. It can turn like that.
Jonathan Schoop put the finishing touch on the rally with a three-run home run (on what would have been Earl Weaver’s 86th birthday no less) in the top of the ninth inning, and the Orioles came back from a six-run deficit to secure a 5-5 road trip.
“This team never quits,” Schoop said. “We kept saying, ‘Let’s chip away.’ We kept grinding, kept fighting. If you keep playing hard, anything is …
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