They evened the series at Wrigley Field and perhaps more important breathed a sigh of relief after an emotional trade deadline that saw nearly all of their clubhouse leaders sent away.
“We always had the thought that we’d been in it for the long run,” Mullins said in March as he looked around an Orioles’ spring training clubhouse filled with unfamiliar faces.
Dean Kremer pitched seven good innings, but the Rays rallied against the Orioles bullpen to win their second straight game coming out of the All-Star break.
The clubhouse could look drastically different in a few weeks, and a season that was once filled with so much hope could be all but over before August.