With the many renovations at Camden Yards, the Orioles are searching for ways to turn on the power.

It’s also true on the road.

Gunnar Henderson hit his fifth home run last night, a two-run shot with two outs in the ninth to give the crowd a last chance to cheer. The rest of the team has produced four – Pete Alonso, Samuel Basallo, Dylan Beavers and Tyler O’Neill.

“Power is going to come,” manager Craig Albernaz said last night. “We’re 13 games in. Gunnar is Gunnar, but the other guys it’s, the power is going to come. So that’s, to me, I wouldn’t say a lack of power production. We’re hitting doubles, but the ball going over the existing barrier, yeah, it’s not there yet. But that’s something that’s going to come.”

“I don’t think there’s any added pressure or anything like that,” Basallo said through interpreter Brandon Quinones. “I think we’ve been hitting the ball hard, and sometimes when you do that it just finds guys. I feel like we’ve been hitting them at good angles, as well. It’s just one of those stretches right now.

“I think any team goes through that, any guy goes through that. But again, I have all the confidence in this group that towards the end of season and at the end of season, we’ll be one of the best groups at it. I know those hits and those homers will come in bunches.”

First baseman Pete Alonso agreed, also saying that “power, they can all come in bunches.”

“A lot of that includes myself,” he added.

A small group of media waited for Alonso to return to his locker after last night’s game. One of the last remaining players, sitting at a table, asked out of curiosity which teammate was the reason why the place hadn’t emptied. Alonso came back inside and led everyone to his spot, where he was very candid about his struggles.

Albernaz heard every word. He likes to listen to the postgame interviews as another way of taking the team’s temperature.

“I think Pete handled that like a pro,” Albernaz said. “It’s not easy to answer those questions. But hearing Pete talk, it’s kind of what we talked about a little bit last night postgame where, he’s just going outside of the strike zone. He’s just trying to do too much, right? And to me, that’s when someone’s doing too much, they’re going outside the strike zone.

“Like I told him last night, if you go 0-for-0 with four walks, that’s a great day. Like, you don’t try to force anything.”

Alonso, batting .176 and in the midst of a 2-for-28 slump, said he doesn’t need to change his approach.

“I just think I need to be more consistent in execution,” he said. “Like today, first at-bat, thought I did a good job of laying off some pitcher’s pitches and he (Landen Roupp) got me. And then I got over-aggressive my next two at-bats. So I let that seep into my next two at-bats, which for me, it’s unacceptable. Wish I could have had some better at-bats in those spots, but I just need to be better.

“And last at-bat, very good, executed a game plan. Got the result in a walk. But I think for me, if I’m taking consistent at-bats, the results will be there. I just need to be more consistent pitch to pitch.”

Albernaz uses the past to instill more confidence that the five-time All-Star will get hot.

“There’s always encouraging signs. That’s why he’s a professional hitter,” Albernaz said last night.

“Track record speaks for itself.”

The sample size is modest, but Alonso’s average bat speed is about 2 mph slower than last year, though it hasn’t impacted his average exit velocity. Albernaz went back to his earlier comments today about going outside the strike zone.

“It kind of correlates with that, too,” he said. “If you think about it, when the pitch is in the strike zone, you get barrel to it, how Pete can hit, it’s gonna be a high exit velocity. When you’re caught in between and you’re expanding the strike zone, you have to speed check yourself as a hitter and you kind of slow down your swing to make contact, and I think that’s what we’re seeing right now is that byproduct of Pete expanding the strike zone and then trying to just make contact and slowing his body down a little bit.”

Alonso is far from alone in sluggish offensive starts. And his defense, by the way, has been exceptional.

The Orioles have scored 48 runs to rank 24th in the majors. They’re batting .229 with runners in scoring position, including .169 (10-for-59) in the last seven games after going 12-for-37 (.324) to begin the season.

“It’s stuff that happens,” Basallo said. “It’s part of baseball. Sometimes it’s difficult to believe, but I think I have all the confidence in the world that we’re going to get it right and get it going here soon.”

Basallo, who went from designated hitter to catch tonight with Rutschman scratched due to a sore left ankle, is 5-for-33 with one RBI and 13 strikeouts.

“As you can see, I haven’t been able to figure some things out yet, but I feel like I’m going about things in the right way,” he said. “I know that, in due time, good things are going to start happening soon.”

*Albernaz offered his support today for Zach Eflin, who underwent ligament-reconstructive surgery on his right elbow after making only one start.

“We talked a few times,” Albernaz said. “Like I said the night that it (injury) happened, you just feel for Zach, and then obviously getting the news, and got the second opinion, got the surgery, yeah, it’s tough. But something I’ve learned is you don’t bet against Zach Eflin, especially with the back surgery that he had and coming back.

“I think everyone realized he got back to himself, he looked great, and it’s part of being a professional athlete where you have these speed bumps across the way in your career. To me, it’s just another speed bump for Zach, and I know he’s going to attack the rehab process as the pro he is.

“We love having him around the clubhouse because he’s a great leader, so it would be good to have him around. But it’s tough for Zach. But like I said, it’s just another challenge for him and he’s going to hit it head on.”

*Taylor Ward made a home run-saving catch last night in the eighth inning, leaping at the 90-degree angle portion of the fence and bringing the ball back into play.

Albernaz was asked for his reaction.

“That was (expletive) tight,” Albernaz said, much freer to speak with no television cameras at his pregame media session.

“That was so cool. … I was fired up when he made that catch, even if it was 6-1. That was still a great catch.”