​The margin between a winning weekend and a frustrating one in Baltimore came down to a few feet of dirt off first base.The Orioles fell to the Braves 3-2 in 11 innings on Sunday at Camden Yards, and the sequence everyone kept returning to afterward came in the tenth, when Baltimore loaded the bases with nobody out and came away empty.Gunnar Henderson lined into an unassisted double play, with Matt Olson catching the ball and doubling Pete Alonso off first base, and Alonso stood at his locker afterward and took the whole thing on himself.”I just should have took a shorter lead. I thought I was pretty close to the bag but it turned out that it still needed to be shorter,” Alonso said, per BaltimoreBaseball.com.Accountability is easy to admire and hard to cash in the standings, and the Orioles keep finding themselves on the wrong side of that exchange.Chances That Never CashedAlonso had done plenty to keep Baltimore in the game, cutting the deficit to 2-1 in the eighth with his 22nd homer of the season.Alonso has settled in during his first Orioles season after hitting 38 homers with 126 RBIs in his final year with the Mets.Jackson Holliday then tied it in the ninth with a run-scoring groundout that brought pinch-runner Coby Mayo home, raising hope of a second straight stunner after Saturday’s walk-off.The offense could not land the last punch.Beyond the wasted tenth, Baltimore loaded the bases again with two outs in the eleventh, after a walk to Leody Taveras and an intentional pass to Holliday, before Sam Huff grounded out to end it.Austin Riley had already delivered the decisive swing in the top half, a sharp ground-ball double to right that scored automatic runner Jorge Mateo off Andrew Kittredge.Holliday, who walked twice, finished with the tying RBI and little else to show for the effort.He remains in search of the power he showed while hitting 17 homers across 149 games last season.Albernaz Saw a Series of InchesManager Craig Albernaz refused to frame the weekend as discouraging, even after the club fell to 9-17 in one-run games.”All three games could have gone either way…It’s one of those things where, yeah, moral victory, but also, we want the real victory,” Albernaz said.He also kept the demand simple with the lineup grinding.”It’s just one of those things where everyone has to step up a little bit, pick up the slack,” Albernaz said, adding that his team will “have to find a way to scrap and claw to win those 3-2 games, 4-3 games.”The Stakes Only Grow From HereShane Baz battled through four and a third innings, allowing two runs, one unearned, on six hits, and the bullpen kept Atlanta quiet until the eleventh.At 51-55 and still two and a half games back of the wild card, the Orioles head into a series at Detroit with ownership publicly backing the front office, Taylor Ward’s name in trade speculation and the formula Albernaz once said was clicking for this team needing to reappear quickly.