Tampa Bay Rays at Baltimore Orioles

You could call Monday a turning point in the Orioles’ 2026 season. It sure felt like one, given how the past two months have gone. You could call it Baltimore’s biggest win thus far. There’s not many who would object to that. And you could also call it a case of déjà moo -- because for the second day in a row, the player known as The Milkman was the hero the O’s so badly needed. Memorial Day brought the type of wild, crazy, most back-and-forth game that only baseball can offer, as Colton Cowser belted a walk-off two-run home run in the bottom of the 13th inning at Camden Yards and lifted the Orioles to a 9-7 win over the Rays. It was the second walk-off hit of Cowser’s four-year, 315-game MLB career. The first came about 26 1/2 hours earlier, as the 26-year-old outfielder hit a game-ending three-run homer to lift Baltimore to a 5-3 victory in the first half of a doubleheader split vs. Detroit the day before. Sunday was fun. Monday was better. “Probably one of my favorite wins on the Orioles,” Cowser said. “There's a couple that are up there, and that was one of my favorite complete team wins.” It’s easy to understand why Cowser felt that way, as a game that was tied at 2 after nine innings evolved into a type of slugfest nobody could have envisioned. The best way to unpack this one is to go inning by inning, beginning with the 10th.