CLEVELAND -- When facing one of the game’s best pitchers, Orioles manager Brandon Hyde knows it’s important to capitalize on a big scoring output.

However, Hyde’s blueprint for taking advantage of the Orioles’ success against Trevor Bauer Thursday didn’t result in the outcome he was seeking, and Baltimore wasn’t able to hold early leads in its eventual 14-7 loss to the Indians at Progressive Field.

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“I loved the way we came out swinging the bat on Trevor Bauer,” Hyde said. “He’s a really good starting pitcher. Really loved the at-bats we took against him early. We scored five runs, a couple homers. We just had a tough time holding the lead.”

The Orioles’ offense was able to score five runs and slug a pair of homers against Bauer through five innings, but their early leads of 5-1 in the third and 7-6 in the fifth evaporated following another early exit by Baltimore starter Dan Straily and a tough night for the O’s bullpen.

Baltimore’s early offense against Bauer came in the form of a two-run homer by Rio Ruiz, a majestic blast that neared the second level of the Progressive Field bullpen in center field, and a three-run homer by Trey Mancini, his ninth round-tripper of the season and his third in the past six games.

With Straily over the 70-pitch mark and preparing for a third trip through the Indians’ lineup in the fourth inning, Hyde opted to act aggressively, removing his starter after just 3 1/3 frames. Seeking length, he handed things to Gabriel Ynoa and the rest of his relievers, but unfortunately, Ynoa was greeted by a Jason Kipnis three-run homer, Kipnis’ second bomb of the night, and the Orioles’ 5-1 lead was soon gone.

“We had the lead,” Hyde said. “It’s the third time through the order already in the fourth inning. I’m just trying to win the game. I’m just trying to give our guys a chance. I was so pleased with how they were swinging the bat. I just wanted to try to hold it for him. We just couldn’t hold it.”

The early hook also meant that Straily failed to make it through five innings for a third consecutive outing, an unwelcome development for the 30-year-old righty, who now owns a season ERA of 8.51 after allowing four runs on Thursday night.

“It’s frustrating,” Straily said. “No one wants to figure out what’s going on more than me. It’s getting really annoying every fifth day. It’s just going out there and making adjustments and it’s just not getting deeper into ballgames. It’s not like today I was getting hit around the park, I fell behind some guys, had some bloop hits. I need to dig a little deeper and see what’s going on.”

The Orioles were eventually able to grab the lead back in the fifth courtesy of a two-run double by Stevie Wilkerson, but the Indians, facing Paul Fry, Miguel Castro and Richard Bleier, responded by scoring two in the sixth, five in the seventh and one in the eighth.

“We didn’t really step on their throats when we were up 5-1,” Mancini said. “We kind of went back and forth a little bit and had that tough five-run inning at the end of the game. I think, just kind of letting them hang around, they’re too good of a team to let do that.”

The loss marked the seventh for the Orioles over their past eight games.

“We had a lot of momentum early on,” Mancini said. “And had them on their heels and let them hang around and kind of lost control of the game as it went on. So, not one of our better games overall. Probably one of our worst. We’ve got to find a way to shake it off and come back tomorrow.”