BALTIMORE -- Kyle Gibson had faith the Orioles would get back on track during their first prolonged rut of the 2023 season. He stood outside the visiting clubhouse at Yankee Stadium on July 4 -- after Baltimore lost for the sixth time in seven games -- and expressed confidence in the team’s ability to respond to adversity.

He was sure right about that. And it happened nearly immediately after the words left his mouth.

Since that day, the Orioles have strung together a season-high-tying seven consecutive wins, their latest being a come-from-behind 6-5 victory over the Marlins on Saturday night at Camden Yards. Baltimore won five in a row to end the first half (two in New York and three in Minnesota) and has come out of the All-Star break with back-to-back victories vs. Miami.

“We were on the other side of this and not playing as good of baseball,” Gibson said. “And the last seven games, we’ve played as good as we have in a long time. That’s how baseball is, you know? I told you guys, nobody’s immune to it, and we finally got out of that streak and have been playing really good baseball at the right time.”

Gibson has been around the game a while, so the 11-year MLB veteran has a good feel for when positive momentum can make a real difference in a season. With this winning streak sandwiched around the All-Star break, the 35-year-old right-hander felt this stretch could be a defining moment.

It seems that’s going to be the case for the red-hot Orioles (56-35), who are a season-high 21 games above .500 with a five-game cushion atop the American League Wild Card standings and only a two-game deficit to the first-place Rays (60-35) in the AL East.

“This was the time that if we go on a streak, it can do a lot for the team confidence and put you in such a really good spot for the playoffs, that it really becomes yours to lose,” Gibson said. “And I think that’s what we’re doing right now.”

The momentum could have been halted Saturday night, when the Marlins tagged Gibson for four runs in the second inning to put the Orioles in an early hole. Then, as Baltimore was rallying in the bottom of the frame, it lost star center fielder Cedric Mullins, who knocked an RBI single before exiting with right quadriceps tightness shortly after.

Still, the O’s added another pair of runs that inning on a Jorge Mateo two-out triple, cutting Miami’s lead to 4-3. At that point, another comeback bid was on. And Gibson did his part, allowing only one additional run while grinding through an outing of 5 1/3 innings.

“We have a great group of guys that mesh really well, and we understand that no matter what the score is, we can come back,” infielder Gunnar Henderson said. “We just string together a lot of good at-bats and just get people on base, and then, we’re dangerous with guys on base.”

Nobody needed to be on base when Henderson tied the game with one swing. The 22-year-old rookie opened the bottom of the seventh by jumping on a first-pitch cutter from Marlins right-hander Huascar Brazoban and sending it to the right-field flag court for his 14th home run of the season, knotting the score at 5.

Later in the seventh, Baltimore strung together three consecutive one-out singles by Austin Hays, Adley Rutschman and Anthony Santander, who drove in his team-high 52nd run of the season and put the O’s ahead, 6-5, for their first lead -- one that stood thanks to a scoreless inning apiece from the All-Star relief duo of Yennier Cano and closer Félix Bautista.

Manager Brandon Hyde enjoys carrying 14 position players on a 26-man roster -- as the Orioles are doing right now -- because he can play the matchups both when constructing his lineup and as he turns to his bench throughout a game. It worked well again on a night Baltimore’s bats stayed hot by pounding out 11 hits in overcoming the early adversity.

“They’re looking for a pitch to drive,” Hyde said. “Our offensive focus right now is a lot different, just because of the different personnel in it.”

These types of wins have become standard for the 2023 Orioles. They have 33 comeback victories, and they have as many wins when they score first as when their opponent does (28 each).

That’s why Gibson remains confident -- in Baltimore never being out of a game, and in the O’s never staying down for long.

“If you only have a few comeback wins here and there, that’s one thing,” Gibson said. “But to do it consistently, it’s pretty impressive, especially with a young group like this.”