MLB

Yankees fall to Orioles in 10th

BALTIMORE — The Smoke & Mirrors Tour sailed into the Inner Harbor Tuesday night but failed to unload a Yankees victory.

In the process of dropping a 3-2 decision to the Orioles in front of 29,040 sweaty Camden Yards customers that required 10 innings to complete, the Yankees flushed a solid outing by Phil Hughes, who gave up two runs in six innings after one subpar outing and another awful one.

The loss stopped a three-game winning streak for the 28-17 Yankees. The Orioles halted a six-game slide.

After Hughes, Boone Logan, Shawn Kelley, David Robertson and Preston Claiborne handcuffed the Orioles — whose two runs came on solo homers by ex-Yankee Chris Dickerson off Hughes — Vidal Nuno surrendered the game-winning run in the 10th when Nate McLouth reached the seats in right-center leading off the final frame.

Claiborne, who hasn’t allowed a run in his first seven big league games (nine innings), retired Matt Wieters and J.J. Hardy on grounders to third baseman David Adams in the ninth before Dickerson beat out a slow grounder to shortstop Jayson Nix.

That brought No. 9 hitter Yamaico Navarro to the plate and Claiborne blew a 94-mph, 3-2 fastball by him to send the game into extra innings for the second consecutive night.

Hughes departed with the score tied, 2-2, after six innings and the knowledge that he put the last two starts behind him. In his previous outings Hughes didn’t get out of the first frame and gave up seven runs and six hits in two-thirds of an inning against the Mariners.

The start prior to that, Hughes surrendered six runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings at Kansas City.

Outside of two misbehaving fastballs to Dickerson, who slugged both for solo homers, Hughes was impressive. In six innings he gave up two runs and five hits.

“I think guys are eager to get back out there after they have had a start like the last time,’’ manager Joe Girardi said of Hughes before the game. “I think you will see a much different guy.’’

Dickerson, who hit three homers in 85 games as a Yankee in 2011 (60 games) and 2012 (25 games), opened the third by hitting a 3-2 fastball clocked at 93 mph over the center-field fence that tied the score, 1-1.

Trailing 2-1 in the fifth, the left-handed hitting Dickerson crushed a 1-1, 91-mph heater beyond the right-field wall.

With Dickerson due to lead off the seventh Girardi summoned lefty Logan to replace Hughes.

Logan caught Dickerson looking for the first out and watched Yamaico Navarro beat out an infield hit on a grounder to first baseman Lyle Overbay that Logan didn’t get off the mound quick enough to cover the bag.

That brought lefty swinging McLouth to the plate, and after he flied to left Girardi called for Shawn Kelley to face the right-handed hitting Manny Machado.

In 18 1/3 innings Kelley fanned 33 batters and had whiffed 15 of the previous 21 batters he faced.

Kelley didn’t add to the impressive strike out ratio but required one pitch to pop up Machado and end the inning.

Orioles right-hander Miguel Gonzalez left after seven innings. He allowed two runs and five hits.

When Hughes fell behind Navarro, the No. 9 hitter, 2-0, pitching coach Larry Rothschild went to the mound. Hughes walked Navarro on a 3-2 fastball before striking out McLouth.

Hughes should have ended the inning when Manny Machado’s grounder grazed his body and went to Robinson Cano for what looked like a double play. But Cano’s flip with the glove was dropped by Nix at the bag.

Instead of being in the dugout tied, 2-2, Hughes faced Nick Markakis and fanned him with an 83-mph slider for the second out. Hughes got ahead of Adam Jones, 1-2, and induced a grounder back to the mound for the final out.

Brett Gardner’s leadoff double in the first led to the game’s initial run. Gardner moved to third on Vernon Wells’ one-out fly ball to center and scored on Travis Hafner’s blistering singled off second basman Navarro’s glove.

Hafner plated the second run in the fourth when Wells opened with a double and scored on Hafner’s ground single to right.

george.king@nypost.com