KANNAPOLIS, NORTH CAROLINA — Shore baseball fans who track the Orioles' Single-A club in Salisbury got a road note Tuesday: the Delmarva Shorebirds opened their final regular-season series with a 6-2 loss to the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers at Atrium Health Ballpark.

Official club notes from milb.com/delmarva put Delmarva at 44-83 overall and 21-40 in the second half after the defeat; Kannapolis moved to 67-60 and 34-27. Grayson Fitzwater's two-out, two-run single in the first made it 2-0. An error in the fourth pushed the Cannon Ballers ahead 3-0. Jhomnardo Reyes' RBI groundout in the fifth scored Joshua Liranzo for Delmarva's first run, cutting it to 3-1.

Kannapolis added two in the seventh on a throwing error (5-1) and an RBI groundout by Jaden Fauske in the eighth (6-1). Eric Booth Jr. singled home a ninth-inning run, but the Shorebirds could not close the gap. Fidel Montero (2-0) earned the win; Brandon Downer (1-2) took the loss.

Delmarva looks to even the series Wednesday with Iziah Salinas scheduled for his Single-A and professional debut opposite Truman Pauley. First pitch is set for 7:00 p.m., per the Shorebirds release.