BOSTON _ There are plenty of things the Orioles will want to carry over beyond the 2019 season that ended Sunday.
Losses like this, a 5-4 defeat to the Boston Red Sox that denied the Orioles their first series sweep of the season, will not be counted among those things.
For the last time and certainly not the first, an Orioles lead disappeared once the bullpen door swung open, and even a late rally to tie the game and a fabulous catch by Stevie Wilkerson to rob a go-ahead home run in the eighth inning couldn't swing things back their way.
Mookie Betts singled and scored from first for the winning run in the bottom of the ninth on a confusing Rafael Devers single to right field off Dillon Tate.
The Orioles (54-108) had rallied for a 4-4 tie in the eighth thanks to an RBI single by Jonathan Villar. Evan Phillips, who escaped a bases-loaded, no-outs jam in the sixth, allowed a run in the seventh.
