BALTIMORE — The Seattle Mariners’ ninth-inning rally attempt fell short on Thursday in a 5-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles.

The M’s lost two of three in Baltimore, ending a streak of three straight series wins.

Offense hasn’t come easily for the Orioles lately. This time, they decided to make things happen themselves.

Baltimore entered Thursday’s game averaging just 2.45 runs since the trade deadline, fewest in MLB over that span and more than half a run below the next-closest team. Rather than wait for a spark that was never coming, the Orioles resorted to creating havoc on the base paths and scraped enough runs across to beat Seattle.

“I don’t feel like we’ve got much of a choice,” interim manager Tony Mansolino said of the Orioles trying to manufacture runs with aggressive base runn

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