The Orioles didn’t get a call in the seventh inning tonight or catch a break in the eighth. They felt robbed and then were ruined.

An apparent go-ahead home run for Pete Alonso was denied to keep the score tied. Cam Sanders loaded the bases on two hit batters and a walk in his first Camden Yards appearance, Yennier Cano entered with two outs, and George Lombard Jr. reached on a chopper up the third base line.

A wild pitch expanded the lead and the Orioles’ frustration in their 5-3 loss to the Yankees before an announced crowd of 26,453. They’ve dropped three games in a row and are 61-66, and they’re facing Gerrit Cole on Thursday.

Dylan Beavers produced a 3-3 tie by homering to left-center field off Fernando Cruz with two outs in the sixth inning. He hadn’t gone oppo with his first seven career homers.

Alonso stayed on a tear with his 29th homer, a 423-foot shot to right-center field off Will Warren at 109.9 mph to reduce the Yankees’ lead to 3-2 in the third inning. Alonso tied his career high with an 11-game hitting streak. He leads the majors with 14 opposite-field homers.

He apparently missed his 30th homer by an inch in the seventh inning. Maybe half an inch. Maybe by mistake.

Alonso held his bat and hopped up the first base line, watching the flight of the ball as it approached the pole. He chucked the lumber and raised his hand in the air, ready to celebrate a 4-3 lead.

The call on the field was foul. The Orioles challenged and replays seemed to support them, but it stood. The same fans who cheered what they saw on the video board booed what they heard.

“You definitely never know what they’re going to rule, but I was really surprised that it came back stands,” said manager Craig Albernaz. “The first thing is, on the dugout iPads there’s ball tracking data with the field that the players see, so it’s really tough to have that come back as stands and have that visual in the dugout, as well.

“It’s 2026. I think technology is advanced pretty good. There are teams using AI on the iPads and other sports use ball tracking data for challengeable calls. Don’t understand why we don’t do it, but it’s not why we lost the game. But I think that moment was a big moment, especially it takes a home run from us and Pete, as well.

“I had a pretty good look at it. It’s tough for the umpire down the third base line, the way he’s looking and going over the foul pole, but I think when it goes to review and look at all the angles and video and especially the ball tracking data, yeah, pretty disappointing.”

Asked if this argument has been brought to Major League Baseball, Albernaz replied, “I have no idea. Probably get in trouble for even saying what I did, but here we are.”

Alonso struck out against Brent Headrick and barked at plate umpire Ryan Wills on his way to the dugout.

A statement from the MLB Replay Center said, “After viewing all relevant angles, the Replay Official could not definitively determine that the ball left the playing field in fair territory. The call stands, and it is a foul ball.”

Alonso said he was 100 percent certain that the call would be overturned based on video and the Hawk-Eye in the dugout.

“What I was told is in order to overturn a call, you need to have two camera angles to confirm it, but the best view, the only view that shows the ball fair or foul is the one down the line, but no other camera angle is available,” Alonso said. “So video room rules it foul, umpire obviously called it foul initially. It is what it is.

“I mean, the video room and the umpire at third base, I mean, they called it foul. That’s the only opinions that really matter. And kudos to (the Yankees) for responding, for breaking the tie that next half inning, and kudos to Headrick for making some really tough pitches after a loud strike one. I mean, they executed and they beared down and they got it done, and we didn’t. Obviously that’s a really defining call in the game, but when adversity is faced, you gotta push past it and move through it.”

Alonso conceded the difficulty in getting back in the box after the ruling.

“I did the best I could to kind of try and compose myself after that swing over on the splitter,” he said. “And granted, he made some really good pitches after that and he got me. Yeah, I mean, it’s tough in that spot, but I feel like I, after that splitter chase for strike two, I thought I did a good job calling time, regaining some composure. But he made a pretty good pitch on that 1-2 fastball down.”

Paul Blackburn stranded two in the bottom of the eighth. Closer David Bednar recorded his 29th save and his second in two nights.

The Orioles returned to the clubhouse 1 1/2 games back of the last Wild Card and were left to wonder what might have happened if they led 4-3.

“It’s definitely deflating, just because obviously we have the first base dugout, so we have a good view, and I think everyone thought it was fair,” Albernaz said. “And like I said, you look at the iPad and you see where the ball was and the ball tracking, but the compound effect of that, we still have to go out and play. The guys don’t let it affect them. We have to go out and still play the game. There’s still a lot of game left, even if that was called fair. We still have to go out and finish the game, and who knows what’s going to happen.

“So I’m not saying that’s the reason why we lost at all, we still have a lot of game left. But also, yeah, that was being up one going into later innings, I would take that.”

Bassitt ball

Chris Bassitt allowed three runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings, with one walk and six strikeouts. He retired nine in a row before Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s ground ball single with one out in the sixth, and 10 of his last 11. Albernaz removed him after 95 pitches.

Five of the first seven batters and eight of 13 reached against him.

Luis García Jr. grounded into a double play in the first inning after the Yankees opened with back-to-back singles. Chisholm drew a leadoff walk in the second, Spencer Jones singled and Chisholm scored on Ryan McMahon’s single into right field.

Leody Taveras threw out McMahon at second base, which cost the Yankees a chance at a bigger inning. They led 2-1 after George Lombard Jr.’s sacrifice fly.

Ben Rice was batting .156/.252/.312 with four of his 33 home runs in the second half going into tonight. He singled in the first inning and hit a 431-foot homer to the Purewager Pavilion in center field in the third inning – clocked at 110.2 mph off the bat.

The Yankees had seven hits against Bassitt after he allowed two more singles in the inning, but they settled for a 3-1 lead. And you know what they say about never settling.

“I thought my stuff was better than last time,” Bassitt said, comparing tonight to his return start from lower-back surgery. “Ground balls happen. I’m a ground ball pitcher, so yeah, sometimes games like this happen. I’d say the only two things that I really didn’t like was the Jazz walk, that’s on me, and then just one too many fastballs to Ben Rice. It was just the old cat-and-mouse game kind of thing, and he was late on heaters a bunch of times in a row, and I just threw one too many.”

Early manufactured run

Warren created his own mess in the first inning by walking Jackson Holliday and Gunnar Henderson, sandwiched around a called third strike on Alonso. Coby Mayo was batting with two outs and runners on the corners when the Orioles executed a double steal to take a 1-0 lead.

Henderson broke for second base and beat the tag. Holliday raced home without a throw.

Did the Yankees think Holliday would be anchored to third base?

The Orioles struck first and they didn’t need a hit.

Taveras reached on a bunt single, his sixth this season, with one out in the second inning, but he was stranded.

Warren allowed two runs and three hits in four innings. He was done after 90 pitches and the Yankees had to burden their bullpen again.

Bringing back Basallo

Samuel Basallo was reinstated from the injured list this afternoon and plugged into first base and the designated hitter spot. He hadn’t played for the Orioles since July 19 in Houston. He hadn’t made an appearance at Camden Yards since July 12.

Basallo, who was greeted with polite applause when introduced for the first time, went 1-for-3.

The rookie stepped to the plate in the first inning and lined to center field at 103.4 mph with the count full. The double steal followed.

Warren hit Basallo on the forearm in the third inning after Henderson doubled. The Yankees challenged the call and lost, but Warren stranded two runners. Left-hander Tim Hill struck out Basallo leading off the sixth. Basallo poked a single into left field off Blackburn in the eighth.

Basallo made an impressive stretch to field Mayo’s throw on Austin Wells’ slow bouncer with two outs in the second. A nice play on both ends, culminating in Basallo’s splits.

Is first base Basallo’s best position? He dived to his left to snare Chisholm’s liner with two on and one out in the third, preventing at least one run from scoring. Basallo fielded back-to-back grounders in the fifth and got the unassisted out at first. He dived to his right in the seventh to field Austin Wells’ grounder, and Rico Garcia stranded a runner at second base.

“I was telling Frenchy (Drew French) in the dugout,” Albernaz said, “one of my first conversations in-person with Sammy before spring training started, we were talking about catching, and because he was taking ground balls at first base with everyone, I just asked him like, ‘You need a lot of work at first, or you can just go there and play?’ And he started smiling and said, ‘Can just go there and play.’ He’s really athletic over there. Did a nice job today, really nice job, a couple nice diving plays, and yeah, that split on Mayo’s play on Wells’s bunt was pretty impressive.”

Down on the farm

Triple-A Norfolk left-hander Luis De León is going to work in shorter stints to prepare for a possible bullpen role with the Orioles down the stretch. De León, the No. 7 prospect in the organization, tossed a scoreless inning tonight with three walks and two strikeouts.

Shortstop Brandon Butterworth hit his first Triple-A homer and it was a three-run shot in the second inning. Trey Gibson allowed five runs and 10 hits in six innings, with one walk and seven strikeouts.

Double-A Chesapeake left-hander Joseph Dzierwa allowed one run and two hits in five innings. His ERA is 1.89 with the Baysox. Vance Honeycutt had an RBI double.

High-A Frederick had 18 hits in Game 1 of a doubleheader, including four from Enddy Azocar, the No. 9 prospect in the system. Azocar came within a triple of the cycle. Leandro Arias hit a grand slam. Yasmil Bucce also had four RBIs. Stiven Martinez homered for Class A Delmarva.