BALTIMORE -- Come Tuesday, Camden Yards will reopen at full capacity, bringing a sense of normalcy to the storied ballpark and the Orioles who call it home. Tuesday will also flip the calendar to June. For the O's, neither can come soon enough.

The team extended one of its longest losing streaks in franchise history to 14 games with its 3-2 defeat to the Twins in 10 innings at Oriole Park on Monday afternoon. The streak is also the longest in the Majors this season, and it is the Orioles’ second-longest skid since moving to Baltimore in 1954, tying a 14-game span they endured during that inaugural season.

“It’s been tough the last couple weeks,” said Ryan Mountcastle, whose fifth-inning solo homer off José Berríos accounted for the O’s only offense prior to extra innings. “We’re trying to keep our heads up, trying to keep playing hard. We’ve been in a lot of close games and we just got to try to turn the page and move on to the next one.”

The Memorial Day defeat came despite Jorge López’s best start of the season, largely due to the Orioles’ continuing struggles at the plate. Held by Berríos to one run over eight-plus innings, the O's then watched the Twins plate two runs in the 10th, on Adam Plutko’s run-scoring wild pitch and Jorge Polanco’s solo homer. DJ Stewart’s RBI double brought Baltimore within one in the bottom of the 10th, but it stranded the tying and winning runs on base against Hansel Robles.

That brought an ironic end to a day that began with the club shaking up its catching alignment to tighten its defense behind the dish, and ended in defeat, despite the club’s fourth well-pitched game in less than a week. López struck out seven while holding Minnesota to one run over six innings, and Cesar Valdez, Tanner Scott and Paul Fry each posted a scoreless inning before Plutko entered in the 10th.

Combustible early on in this skid, the Orioles' pitching has now allowed three runs or fewer in four of their past six games. But Baltimore is averaging just 1.83 runs per game during that stretch.

“It was a really well-pitched game,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “We just couldn’t score runs today.”

It’s an explanation Hyde has been forced to repeat on loop as the losing streak extends into its third week, rooted in his lineup’s collective futility with situational hitting. Stewart’s 10th-inning double snapped the club’s 0-for-29 stretch with runners in scoring position, only doing so after Maikel Franco, the runner that was placed on second automatically to begin the bottom of the 10th, scored. Three subsequent hitless at-bats then stranded Stewart at third to end the game, the Orioles are now 5-for-their-last-72 (.069 average) with runners in scoring position.

There is no one culprit. Franco is hitting .164 during the losing streak and .198 through 54 games. Freddy Galvis is batting .216 during the streak, despite leading the team with five homers. And Mountcastle is hitting .229 over the streak and .226 this season.

Even Cedric Mullins (.229 during the streak) has seen his season average dip nearly 20 points, to .295, over the past two weeks. While Trey Mancini and Anthony Santander remain productive, there is little help looming on the horizon, at least in the short-term.

“We’ve got a good group of guys and we’ve had some talks -- tried to talk it out and see what we can do differently,” Mountcastle said. “We’re going to keep moving forward and try to win the next day.”

What the Orioles can assume with some certainty that, eventually, better days are ahead. Their losing streak is now the third longest in Major League Baseball over the past 15 seasons, behind the 2013 Astros (15) and 2011 Mariners (17). They’ve lost 22 of 24 over the past month and finished May 5-23, matching June 1987 as the club’s third-worst calendar month (by winning percentage) in its history. The loss was their 16th straight to Minnesota dating back to 2018.