BALTIMORE -- In a matter of only a few minutes late Tuesday night, the crowd at Camden Yards came to life. Fans were high-fiving, screaming and probably -- at least slightly -- in disbelief of what they were witnessing.

Then again, with this year’s Orioles, no game has felt completely unwinnable. Not even when the odds are stacked well against them.

Baltimore’s seven-game winning streak may have ended with an 8-6 loss to Boston at Camden Yards, but Tuesday’s game was nowhere near as close as the score indicates for much of the evening. The O’s faced a seven-run deficit entering the bottom of the ninth inning. Of course, though, they were going to make things a bit interesting.

“We’re never out of a game,” second baseman Ramón Urías had said earlier in the day.

He stands correct. The ninth opened with Gunnar Henderson jolting an opposite-field home run to left-center against right-hander Kaleb Ort, and the Orioles were off.

Urías swatted a single to left. Two batters later, Terrin Vavra knocked a single to right. And then, the bases became loaded when Red Sox second baseman Enmanuel Valdez committed an error, dropping the ball on a throw from Ort that should have resulted in an out. Instead, Vavra reached second safely on a fielder’s choice grounder hit by Jorge Mateo.

The improbable comeback attempt became much more real shortly after. Trying to escape the jam, Ort threw a low, 98 mph four-seam fastball on a 1-2 count to Cedric Mullins. A tough pitch, but one Mullins clubbed over the right-field scoreboard for his second career grand slam, quickly cutting Boston’s lead to 8-6 and sending Baltimore supporters into a frenzy.

“That was huge for us to just show where we are as an offense, just be able to continue to chip away in a game that kind of seemed lost,” Mullins said. “Next thing we know, we’re back in the fight, just a couple hits away from tying it and possibly taking the lead.”

Unfortunately for the O’s, that’s not how the story ends. Red Sox closer Kenley Jansen entered, then got Adley Rutschman to ground out and Anthony Santander to line out, closing out the game.

An 8-1 loss -- or even an 8-2 loss -- would have been Baltimore’s most lopsided result of the season, in either direction. Of the first 23 games, only one has been decided by more than four runs, which was the Orioles’ 7-2 victory at Texas on April 4. They’re 7-2 in one-run contests and 7-5 in games in which their opponent has scored first.

Baltimore also already has eight comeback victories, including one on each end of the seven-game winning streak. The O’s started the run by overcoming a 4-0 first-inning deficit vs. the White Sox in Chicago on April 16, when they rallied to win, 8-4. On Monday, the Orioles were down, 4-0, to the Red Sox in the third, then came back to win, 5-4.

“We’ve got a lot of guys who have that mindset of no matter what the score is, we keep competing, whether we’re up or down,” Rutschman said. “When you have a team full of those kind of guys, it’s fun to see, because guys band together and there’s never bad energy in the dugout.”

Rutschman attributes those enduring positive vibes to the character of both the players and coaching staff in Baltimore. He doesn’t feel it started during the team’s recent success, but rather in the early days of Spring Training in Sarasota, Fla.

Or maybe even earlier.

“It kind of feels like last year’s team a little bit, like we just don’t blow people out, really. A lot of tight games,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “And I think our players are better for it and how many close games we played last year. It seems like that’s what we’re going to do this year, also. And so, hold on tight a lot of nights.

“Our energy level, effort level, I have absolutely zero complaints. These guys are playing to win every night.”

So sure, the Orioles’ winning streak -- which was tied for their second longest since 2006, behind only last July’s 10-game run -- is over. They believe they have the talent and the never-quit attitude necessary to start another one again soon.

“When we’re playing our best ball, a lot of good things are going our way, and we’re able to put a lot of wins on the board consecutively,” Mullins said. “That’s always a big thing during the season, to be able to do that. I think having that, just creates confidence amongst the clubhouse, and we’ll continue to move forward, even after this loss.”