BALTIMORE — To say Hiroki Kuroda traveled a conventional path to being the Yankees' staff ace would be a lie lifted from the Clinton Family Book of Fibs.
Truthfully, the only reason Kuroda is the Yankees' best starter is because the other four arms alongside him in the Opening Day rotation have been vaporized by serious injuries.
Friday night at Camden Yards against the AL East-leading Orioles it made no difference how Kuroda got to the top of what is now a hold-your-breath collection of starters that eventually will sink the Yankees.
Kuroda did his part in giving the Yankees a chance to gain ground on the Birds, but his mates' bats remained still and the result was a 3-2 loss that took 10 innings to complete and was watched by 45,389.
The defeat dropped the Yankees five games back of the Orioles. It was the Yankees' third extra-inning game of the 11-game road trip that has two tilts remaining. They are winless in all three of the extra-inning games.
In seven innings, Kuroda allowed two runs on three hits, fanned three, hit two batters and unleashed three wild pitches — two of which helped build Orioles runs in the fourth, when they tied the score, 2-2.
After Dellin Betances delivered his usual scintillating performance, Adam Warren was greeted in 10th with a sizzling, opposite-field double from Manny Machado.
With one out, Nick Hundley served a 2-2 slider into center field that scored Machado with the game-winning run.
With O's starter Miguel Gonzalez out of the game, Brian McCann started the ninth with a sharp single to center off lefty Zach Britton.
Francisco Cervelli ran for McCann and was forced at second for the first out when first baseman Chris Davis fielded Brian Roberts' bunt and fired to second.
Ichiro Suzuki struck out before Yangervis Solarte drew a four-pitch walk. Zelous Wheeler hit for Kelly Johnson and stranded two with a weak grounder to the left side.
In the first pitch he saw as a Camden Yards visitor, Roberts homered in the second inning and Johnson drove one out of the park in the third against Gonzalez.
"These are extremely important games. It's our first time here and we need to move up,'' manager Joe Girardi said beforehand. "Our guys understand this is a big series.''
Mark Teixeira's sprawling play on Davis' two-out grounder in the sixth robbed Davis of a double and kept the score tied, 2-2.
With one out, Adam Jones singled and moved to second on Kuroda's third wild pitch in six frames. After Nelson Cruz flied to left, Davis hit an awkward grounder to Teixeira. He overran the ball a bit and had to twist himself to field it. His throw to Kuroda covering the base stranded Jones.
Considering how wild Kuroda was in the fourth, he was fortunate not to give up more than two runs. The right-hander hit two batters and unleashed a pair of wild pitches in the inning.
Steve Pearce started the rally by getting grazed on the shirt leading off the inning. He made third when Jones' chopper on the shortstop side of second base glanced off Derek Jeter's glove.
With runners at the corners and Cruz at the plate, Kuroda bounced a pitch by McCann that brought Pearce home and moved Jones to second.
Cruz fanned and Jones moved to third when Kuroda threw over McCann's head. Davis' fly to left was deep enough to plate Jones and tie the score, 2-2.
Kuroda retired the first seven Orioles before Hundley singled through the hole at short with two outs in the third.
Roberts, an Oriole for 13 seasons, played his first game at Camden Yards in a uniform that didn't have a bird on it Friday night. The former fan favorite jumped on Gonzalez's first pitch with two outs and the bases empty in the second and drove it over the right-field wall for his fifth homer and a 1-0 Yankees lead.
Hitting in the ninth spot as the designated hitter, Johnson made it 2-0 with a towering homer, his seventh, to right leading off the third.
McCann opened the fourth with an opposite-field single to left and chugged into third when Suzuki doubled into the right-center field gap with one out. However, Gonzalez got Solarte and Johnson on routine fly balls.
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