"Third baseman Melvin Mora has four more weeks left before his ninth and likely final full season with the Orioles is over. Brian Matusz's Orioles' career is just starting, but he's part of a young nucleus that the organization hopes will bring better days.

With the Orioles one loss away from clinching their 12th straight losing season, the two players at vastly different stages of their career helped push aside the inevitable for one more day. Matusz, making his sixth career start, rebounded from a rocky first and turned in seven quality innings. Mora, the longest-tenured member of the club, homered and drove in both the game-tying and go-ahead runs in the Orioles' 5-4 victory over the Texas Rangers before 18,028 on Saturday afternoon at Camden Yards.

"My motivation is when you see the other team in the other clubhouse, they're contending for the playoffs," said Mora, who went 3 for 4 with three RBI and made a diving catch on Ian Kinsler's bunt in the eighth inning. "When you see guys play like it's the playoffs, that comes into my body. I'm going to play like it's the playoffs, too. You have to go out there and play hard because you know they're trying to beat you."

Wearing the uniforms of the 1949 Baltimore Elite Giants, winner of two Negro League championships, the Orioles snapped their four-game losing streak and won for just the 15th time in 48 games since the all-star break. "