“It was all good just a week ago,” hip hop legend Jay-Z bellowed on his song ‘A Week Ago’ off his Vol. 2…Hard Knock Life album. Those lyrics literally describes the Houston Astros who find themselves in the midst of a three-game losing streak after losing to the Baltimore Orioles 13-3 at Minute Maid Park on Tuesday night.

Houston’s losing streak comes one week after the team had put together 11-wins in a row, before losing against the Detroit Tigers in the second game of a four-game series.

Baltimore, who was swept by the Astros on last week, now find themselves on the verge of returning the favor if they can get the win on Wednesday night. That would give a big boost to a team that had only one road win in 23 outings before back-to-back wins over Houston.

"They're getting the breaks this series that we were getting the last series against them," said Astros manager Dusty Baker after watching his team lose their fourth game in the last five outings. "I guess it's their turn to get the breaks."

Houston caught a bad break at the beginning of the game after losing starting pitcher José Urquidy to shoulder discomfort in the second inning after throwing only 27 pitches.

“We were hoping we’d get some innings out of him today and put our bullpen back in sync for the next five days,” said Baker. “It didn’t work. Boy, it was a tough night. It was a real tough night for our offense and a tough night for our pitching staff.”

Andre Scrubb relieved Urquidy and pitched 2 2/3 innings not yielding a run before being replaced by Brooks Raley who gave up two runs to the Orioles breaking a 1-1 tie in the top of the fifth inning. Houston would rally to score two runs in the bottom of the inning as Abraham Toro hit a two-run RBI single.

Unfortunately, that would be the last runs the Astros would score and Baltimore opened the flood gates on the combination of reliever Ryne Stanek and utility player Robel Garcia in the eighth and ninth innings scoring nine runs to end the game.

“I was definitely running on fumes,” Stanek said about his performance on Tuesday. “It has been a pretty heavy workload. I have been throwing the ball really well until today. I hit a wall physically and I knew the strain the bullpen had been under, and I knew that there wasn’t anybody coming to help. So, everything that happened was going to be on me. I just tried to grind through it.”