BALTIMORE -- A few strides out of the Orioles’ dugout, frustration festered on the face of Brandon Hyde, the skipper’s irritation plain to see.

Hyde was livid. His anger, in one sense, directed at a lone target: home-plate umpire Tripp Gibson, who ejected Hyde after an interference call scratched a pivotal fourth-inning run off the board. In another sense, it was a culmination, boiling over at the end of a week spent on the wrong side of non-competitive games.

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It was not 24 hours earlier that Hyde vented publicly how his team needed to play perfectly just to give themselves a chance. And for the better part of an afternoon they had, using crisp defense and a soundly executed Keon Broxton safety squeeze to pull into a tie with Boston in the bottom of the fourth. Or so it seemed. Gibson ruled Broxton’s running route illegal, too far inside the baseline, placing runners back on first and third and drawing a furious Hyde from the Baltimore bench.

“Everything he said is spot on,” Trey Mancini said. “We’re playing hard and everything, but there are some situations were not doing a good job -- mentally or physically -- of executing plays.”

Perhaps the message resonated, albeit briefly. With Hyde in the clubhouse, the Orioles later rallied in exactly the type of heads-up, hard-nose fashion their manager craves. It was only after Mychal Givens allowed a homer to Marco Hernandez in the ninth and three runs in the 10th did the Orioles drop an 8-6 decision at Oriole Park, their fifth straight loss.

“I really liked the way we played today,” said Hyde, his words and tone both in stark contrast to a day prior. “A lot of good things happened in today’s game. It just didn’t end well.”

Givens’ fifth blown save in 11 tries brought an end to an especially trying stretch for the Orioles, and did much to overshadow the initial response to Hyde’s second ejection of the year: an inspired comeback. After squandering several scoring chances in the middle innings, a string of heady baserunning and clutch hitting pushed the Orioles ahead in the eighth. Jonathan Villar stole second, third and scored the tying run on a wild pitch before Stevie Wilkerson tripled, setting the stage for Hanser Alberto to punch a go-ahead single to center.

Wilkerson and Mancini homered to inch Baltimore closer again in the 10th, after Boston piled two runs on against David Hess in the top of the frame. Hess was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk late Saturday, ending the club’s former No. 4 starter’s demotion to the bullpen after just one outing.

Asked if the ejection and comeback were related, Hyde could not be sure.

“That wasn’t my intention,” Hyde said. “My intention was in the way it was handled. I let those guys know and they understood it. I thought it should have been called the right way.”

Hyde said his issue wasn’t with Gibson’s call itself, but the timing of it. He said Gibson should’ve ruled Broxton out before he appeared to beat Colten Brewer’s throw to first, prompting a rustling in the Orioles’ dugout.

Instead, Broxton was originally called out after pushing a bunt to the right side that would’ve scored Anthony Santander with the tying run, either way. But before they could challenge, Gibson conferred with his crew independently, and a different conclusion was drawn.

“I knew what was going on,” Hyde said. “For me, Tripp should have called runner interference right away. He didn’t. He let the play develop. That was what our discussion was about on the field. It’s just a really unfortunate play. … There wasn’t much Keon could do. It wasn’t anything we did wrong.”

Therein lies the crux for a manager who’s preached effort and fundamentals long before his team dropped five of six this week, the homestand defined by lopsided scores and sloppy play. They are now a MLB-worst 21-50, the sixth team in the Wild Card era to reach 50 losses in as few as 71 games. Sunday’s four-hour, 44-minute defeat figures to stand as one of the tougher ones.

“We competed, we played well, but at the end of the day, that’s a game we need to win,” Mancini said. “Good clubs win those games. Hopefully soon we do a better job of finishing games off or building better leads early in the game. There are a lot of things we can do to improve.”