The Orioles had to play some extra baseball before finishing their latest homestand.

They didn’t find it worth the wait.

Pushed beyond regulation, they lost to the Diamondbacks 8-5 before an announced 17,028 at Camden Yards.

Adrian Del Castillo hit a two-run homer off Tyler Wells in the top of the 10th, a four-seam fastball traveling 420 feet to center field. Nolan Arenado padded the lead with a two-out bloop single into center.

“He fell behind 2-0,” manager Craig Albernaz said. “That just put him in a bad count, bad situation, and that was the biggest thing. He tried to get back in the count with the heater and Del Castillo didn’t miss it.”

“I’ve had success in the past challenging guys and obviously challenging him in that particular situation, trying to get a weak fly ball was kind of the goal there,” Wells said. “Obviously, didn’t work out that way.” The outcome left Wells with a 5.06 ERA. He also surrendered a home run in his last appearance against the Giants.

“There is no excuse for the way that I’m pitching right now,” he said. “It’s extremely frustrating. And is there a transition period to this? Yeah, it’s not easy and going from turning it on once every five days (starting), giving yourself an opportunity to kind of rebound after a bad start, or being able to kind of evaluate a little bit further into kind of what may have went wrong in the start or what went really well in the start. You don’t really get that much as a reliever. And so really just kind of keep a short-term mindset and flip it to the next day.

“Alby has really preached it with having a day-one mentality and, yeah, that’s really what we’re trying to have here. I think that the execution of things can be a little bit better, but at the same time, too, a lot of the time, I can’t complain about soft contact, and I feel like there’s been a lot of soft contact. So I really just have to continue to put my faith in God and trust the process and continue to push forward and continue to be better.

“Ultimately, I really want to be a guy that they can rely on. And unfortunately, whether it’s … I mean, it’s 100 percent my fault. There’s no running away from it. And I asked for it. I know that some people had mentioned it in spring training, but I asked for the fire. I asked for the leverage situation. I asked for moments like that, and there’s no running away from it. It’s frustrating.”

Here are some observations from today:

*Kyle Bradish brought early heat on an 85-degree day.

Corbin Carroll was stranded in the first inning after a one-out double. Bradish struck out Ketel Marte on a 97.8 mph sinker and Geraldo Perdomo at 98 mph. Del Castillo popped up a 97.9 mph sinker to conclude an eight-pitch at-bat.

Four pitches earlier, Del Castillo fouled off a 98.9 sinker that was the hardest of Bradish’s career.

Bradish didn’t maintain that velocity through his six innings. The sinker was more mid-90s as his start progressed. But he had a nice mix going, and the popping of the mitt in the first inning was also eye-popping.

The right-hander allowed four runs and eight hits with one walk and four strikeouts. He threw 97 pitches.

Unfortunately for Bradish, retiring the first two batters didn’t ease him through an inning.

The Diamondbacks scored their first three runs with two outs, including back-to-back doubles by Alek Thomas and Jorge Barrosa in the fourth to break a 2-2 tie.

Another tying run scored in the sixth on Thomas’ soft grounder that resulted in the second out.

“I’d say I feel better with each start,” Braadish said. “Definitely not back to where I want to be or need to be. I think today got unlucky with some hits with runners in scoring position, but at the end of the day, just got to go out there and put up zeros. Can’t have a two-out walk that comes around to score. I just need to be better with shutdown innings.

“I think today was by far my best outing. I was in the zone, I was very competitive. They hit some good pitches that were executed, and like I said, tough luck on a couple of them.

“It’s a long year. I’m banking on making 30 starts, so we’re four in and each outing has gotten better for trending in the right direction. But yeah, I have full confidence in myself to get where I need to be.”

*The outfield was unrecognizable.

OK, Blaze Alexander in center wasn’t that unusual. He could be the regular against left-handed starters. We don’t know because the Orioles hadn’t seen any until today.

Weston Wilson made his Orioles debut in left field and Jonathan Rodríguez received his first start in right. Wilson broke back on Del Castillo’s fly ball in the third after a two-out walk to Carroll and Perdomo’s single, and the ball deflected off his glove near the nook at the warning track for a triple.

Wilson bumped into the wall and fell as Alexander raced over, and the Diamondbacks took a 2-1 lead.

The play was ruled an error but changed to a hit in the bottom half of the inning.

“First time experiencing a ball in that corner. Bottom line, I’ve got to make the play,” Wilson said.

“It’s not traditional. Usually going back to your left, it’s a straight wall. That one’s coming in and then going back. I’m going to get more comfortable with it. Got to make the play. Feel bad about it. Obviously, it’s not an easy play, but those are the ones you want to come up with.”

Wilson has made major league starts in left, right, second base, third base and first base, and he’s pitched three times. He’s started at shortstop and in center field in the minors. He’s just missing the catching gear.

“Plays all over the field, gives a great at-bat, sneaky athletic, can run,” Albernaz said earlier this week. “He’s an average fielder if not an above-average fielder at all of them. In certain spots he’s a tick above average.”

That doesn’t necessarily make it easy to play left at Camden Yards. Taylor Ward got in some extra reps after the Orioles broke camp to prepare for it.

Colton Cowser entered the game in left field in the sixth, after Wilson’s single the previous inning.

The new alignment also created a tense moment in the second inning when Alexander and Rodríguez almost collided while pursuing Arenado’s fly ball in the gap. Rodríguez made the catch.

*Jeremiah Jackson wants that Most Valuable Oriole award.

He never actually said it, but just watch him.

Jackson had two more hits today, a game-tying RBI single in the third off former Orioles prospect Eduardo Rodríguez and a two-run homer in the fifth after Wilson’s hit to give the Orioles a 4-3 lead. He also made a diving stop and throw to rob Marte.

The home run was a line drive over the left field wall at 110.4 mph. Jackson began to celebrate as he neared first base, pounding his chest, and gave the bird hand gesture – no, not that one – before touching second. He crouched to slap hands with third base coach Buck Britton.

At that moment, Jackson was 7-for-10 with a double, three home runs and eight RBIs since his line drive into the dugout broke bones in Albernaz’s face. He was batting .353 with a .985 OPS. He’s built a six-game hitting streak with 12 hits and 10 RBIs.

“Swinging it well,” Jackson said. “Started off slow, got a few hits every once in a while, but I’m starting to backspin the ball a little bit. It’s a tough game. Just going to try to continue to get good pitches, turn the page and get out there tomorrow in Cleveland.”

The afternoon was more special on Jackie Robinson Day.

“Just to be here, be able to wear the jersey, it’s an honor, something that I’m very happy about being able to do,” Jackson said. “Yeah, it was a good day. Just wish we got the win.”

Rodríguez surrendered four runs and six hits with four walks in five innings. He allowed one earned run in 18 innings in his three previous starts.

*It’s a game of inches.

Reliever Grant Wolfram retired all four batters he faced last night, striking out three, and got the call again today as the only left-hander in the bullpen.

Marte led off with a bunt single, burning Wolfram at 41.8 mph. Carroll doubled and the runners held when Perdomo grounded to Gunnar Henderson.

Del Castillo followed with a chopper over Wolfram, who leaped for it and just missed. The ball left Del Castillo’s bat at 59.7 mph. Wolfram just missed it.

Henderson glanced home before throwing to first as the go-ahead run scored.

*Coby Mayo was guilty of an accidental challenge.

Mayo was ahead in the count 3-0 with two outs in the second inning. He took a fastball from Rodríguez and plate umpire John Tumpane granted the appeal. Except that Mayo disputed his intent.

Mayo raised his hand near his helmet but didn’t tap it. Didn’t want to do it. He took a step toward first base, thinking he walked, and was motioning more in frustration.

The pitch was a strike and the Orioles lost one of their challenges, again in the second inning, which happened with Mayo in an earlier game in Pittsburgh. The Orioles ran out by the ninth and Ryan Helsley really needed it before surrendering a walk-off double.

Perhaps it would be wise to change the signal to a shoulder tap, as a friend suggested to me in a text message. Less chance of confusion.

It worked out for Mayo today. He lined a double to left field at 111.1 mph and scored on Sam Huff’s double to left at 104.4. Mayo grounded out in the eighth at 109 mph.

Huff, by the way, had a career .799 OPS against left-handers before today. The Orioles selected his contract to give them three catchers. Left to speculate is whether they keep that many through the Cleveland series and beyond.

They certainly aren’t going to stay with 14 position players.

*Tumpane couldn’t avoid the spotlight.

This one also didn’t hurt the Orioles, but it was weird.

They tied the game 5-5 in the seventh when Henderson led off with a single against Kevin Ginkel, stole second base and raced home on Leody Taveras’ pinch-hit single on a ground ball at 56.3 mph.

A fan in front of the press box yelled “get through” as the ball slowly made its way into left field.

In between Henderson and Taveras was Pete Alonso, who insisted that he tried to call time but struck out on a pitch timer violation.

Alonso was visibly upset and kept extending his arm to demonstrate. Albernaz came out of the dugout to discuss it through a broken jaw.

“John was saying that he has to be ready to hit at eight seconds. So if he has to ask for time, it has to be at nine seconds,” Albernaz said.

“It was kind of similar with the Coby Mayo challenge, where his hand was up, he didn’t hit his helmet. But the home plate umpires now, they have a lot that they have to take in. He saw his hand go up, and then Mayo said, like mouthed, ‘That’s a ball.’ So he kind of put two and two together, even though Mayo didn’t want to challenge. I think that’s where same thing with the eight seconds, like, each umpire behind home plate handles the game differently, and so we just have to know how they’re going to handle the game as far as prep work and stuff. We’ve got to be better at that.”