A team in turmoil came to Baltimore and won a series.

The Red Sox presented interim manager Chad Tracy with his first win, defeating the Orioles 5-3 before an announced crowd of 32,511.

The off-day arrives Monday with the Orioles two games below .500 at 13-15. They’ll face the Astros, another last-place club, and hope for better results.

The Orioles were late getting their offense started against the Red Sox’s Connelly Early. They were shut out on two hits until Samuel Basallo led off the fifth with a left-on-left home run to right field.

This is the same team that totaled 10 runs and 20 hits in Friday night’s series opener. But also the same team that lost 17-1 the following day.

Gunnar Henderson hit his ninth homer in the sixth inning, also a left-on-left success story. He added an RBI single off right-hander Garrett Whitlock in the eighth.

“We know we can put up as many runs as the best teams,” Henderson said. “I know we’re one of the best teams at doing it. We just got to go out and do it. It’s just a matter of going out there and proving it.”

Here are some other observations:

Kyle Bradish still not at his best.

Bradish was removed after five innings and 88 pitches, 52 for strikes. He allowed three runs and four hits with four walks, three strikeouts, a home run and a wild pitch. His ERA is 4.20.

The velocity dipped again in the middle innings, with his sinker averaging 92.7 by the fifth inning. It began at 95.8 mph.

“It is what it is right now,” Bradish said. “We’ve seen outings where it holds the whole game and seen outings where it dips or comes back. So it is what it is.”

Bradish has walked 17 batters in 30 innings.

“The walks, for any starting pitcher, it’s always what you don’t want,” said manager Craig Albernaz. “He had four of them today. He was behind to a lot of hitters and it’s tough to pitch that way, even with Bradish’s stuff. He did a great job minimizing damage early, just because of how elite he is. His breaking balls, both of them, are among the best in the league. And it always goes back to just establishing the strike zone and strike one, getting ahead of hitters and gaining count leverage. And the count leverage was eluding him today.”

Said Bradish: “I just need to be more competitive in the zone and the walks will come down. Some of the walks aren’t the worst thing in the world. Like today, they weren’t scoring, but just overall in the first six, the walks are way too high.”

Two walks, a stolen base and a wild pitch didn’t come back to haunt Bradish in the third inning. Maybe annoyed him a little.

Roman Anthony struck out on a slider to strand runners on the corners.

Wilyer Abreu drew a leadoff walk in the fourth and Basallo picked him off first base. Bradish pounded his fist in his glove.

Putting runners on base in every inning was a dangerous act, and the Red Sox broke a scoreless tie in the fifth when Caleb Durbin led off with an infield single and stole second base, and Andruw Monasterio singled to center field with one out.

Willson Contreras homered into the Orioles’ bullpen with two outs for a 3-0 lead. A slider was launched 406 feet at 108.6 mph.

Left-hander Grant Wolfram replaced Bradish in the sixth, faced three batters and allowed two runs on a single (Abreu), triple (Ceddanne Rafaela) and single (Marcelo Mayer).

Durbin reached on Jeremiah Jackson’s error after Cano entered the game, but the Red Sox didn’t pad their lead. Henderson made a diving stop and throw with the infield playing in, Cano fielded a bouncer and tagged Mayer between third and home, and Basallo threw out Monasterio trying to steal.

Jackson made up for the error with a diving catch of Abreu’s 103.4 mph line drive to prevent a run off Anthony Nunez in the seventh.

Tyler O’Neill gets assist and style points.

Bradish walked Anthony with two outs in the first inning and retired Abreu on a fly ball. He surrendered a leadoff double to Rafaela in the second, and Mayer followed with a fly ball near the right field line.

O’Neill made the running catch, spun and fired the ball to third base at 92.2 mph, doing a summersault/cartwheel combo to get a little extra velo on his throw. He’s known for his acrobatics, often landing on his stomach or back.

Blaze Alexander made a leaping grab and applied the tag to Rafaela, who over-slid the bag.

O’Neill had his second outfield assist to tie Dylan Beavers for the team lead.

Catchers keep contributing together.

Serving as the designated hitter today, Adley Rutschman singled in the first inning to give him 10 hits in his last five games – including a game prior to his stint on the injured list.

Basallo was halfway to the cycle by the fifth after his single and home run.

“He has the stupidest juice I’ve seen,” Henderson said. “He can flip a ball and it seems like it comes 105 (mph) off the bat or something like that. It was just a matter of time. He’s a guy that has unbelievable talent. It was just a matter of getting at bats and feeling comfortable.”

You may recall that Basallo and Rutschman combined to go 7-for-10 on Friday with three home runs and seven RBIs. Per STATS, the seven hits tied the club record for the most by two catchers in the same game with Rutschman (four) and James McCann (three) on May 2, 2023 and Steve Clevenger (four) and Caleb Joseph (three) on Aug. 16, 2015.

The three homers also tied the club record – Curt Blefary (three) and Andy Etchebarren (none) on June 6, 1967, Blefary (three) and Vic Roznovsky (none) in the same game, and Gus Triandos (two) and Hal Smith (one) on July 14, 1955.

Blefary (seven) Roznovsky (two) hold the combined catcher RBI record with nine.

The more you know …

Orioles celebrate calm Sunday.

The turbulence was on the other side of the building.

The Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora and five of his coaches last night, and players were angered by the lack of a satisfactory explanation or an open dialogue earlier today.

“If this shows us anything, it’s we’re here to play baseball and that’s it,” shortstop Trevor Story told the media in the visiting clubhouse. “We don’t make decisions. We don’t have any input on that.

“It’s kind of up in the air what the true direction of the franchise is.”

Added Whitlock: “They made it very clear that we get paid to play baseball, and we need to just focus on playing baseball. … So that’s where we’re at.”

Players didn’t speak during a pregame meeting, according to reports. Owner John Henry and team president Sam Kennedy also were silent. Henry wouldn’t talk to the media afterward.

“Yeah, it’s tough,” Albernaz said. “I got to know AC over the years and he always treated me awesome and with great respect and he’s a great baseball dude. You hate to see anyone lose their job, and I would imagine on Boston’s side, it was an extremely tough decision with everything he brought there and winning the World Series in ’18 and how competitive they have been and still are. It’s tough to hear. But knowing AC, he’ll land on his feet and he’ll be just fine.”

Meanwhile, players filed into the Orioles clubhouse and ate breakfast, played bumper pool and talked. Rico Garcia sprinkled powder on the shuffleboard. There was a hitters’ meeting to attend and some early infield drills. Albernaz didn’t speak until after the last out, but only because that’s the routine on Sundays.

Down on the farm.

Triple-A Norfolk’s Trey Gibson was removed from today’s game as a precaution after being hit on his left leg by Blaze Jordan’s 91.2 mph line drive in the third inning.

A run scored on the play. Gibson, the No. 3 prospect in the system per MLB Pipeline, was charged with one earned run and five overall in 2 2/3 innings. Jeisson Cabrera let two inherited score and five unearned of his own in Memphis’ nine-run third inning.

Dietrich Enns continued his injury rehab assignment and surrendered a solo homer to Jordan in his one inning. He struck out three.

Silas Ardoin hit his first home run in the bottom of the third.

After leaving his last start with back discomfort, Double-A Chesapeake’s Trace Bright allowed one run and one hit with eight strikeouts in four innings against Akron.  Brendon Butterworth hit his third home run.

High-A outfielder Vance Honeycutt exited today’s game with left thumb discomfort.