NEW YORK -- Stephen Drew is stoic. When you are around him, you rarely see his face contort to express any type of emotion, be it pain, happiness or anything in between. He is the epitome of the "same guy every day" mantra.

The New York Yankees suffered a bad loss to the downtrodden Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday and Drew was the biggest reason for the 5-3 defeat. Drew made two defensive miscues -- only one of which was ruled an error -- that gave away a crucial game in the standings.

In the latest unscientific poll -- conducted mainly on Twitter -- Drew's approval rating among Yankees fans falls somewhere south of David Ortiz. But there was Drew, taking his medicine with the media after the 5-3 loss, trying to explain his misplays and displaying no emotion.

"It is tough to swallow," Drew said three times during a three-minute-or-so interview session, as reporters tried to get inside his head without much success.

In the first, Drew could have helped out CC Sabathia, who was returning to the mound with a new knee brace. After a leadoff walk, Sabathia got Gerardo Parra to ground a ball hard, but right at Drew. It should've been a 4-6-3 double play, but Drew took it off his face and had to settle for one out at first. It eventually led to a run.

In the fifth, though, it got worse. Adam Warren, on for Sabathia in relief, seemingly ended a bases-loaded jam by inducing a hard grounder from Jonathan Schoop right to Chase Headley. Headley, who has had a bit of the yips at third this year throwing across the diamond, decided to go the shorter route to Drew at second. The throw arrived a little low, but this is professional baseball.

Drew said he went for it with two hands, but he should have tried just one. It ended up going through his legs and two runs scored to tie the game.

"We had two miscues really," Joe Girardi said. "We gave them the first three runs they got. That was really the difference in the game."

Girardi didn't have Dellin Betances -- whom he was resting for a second day in preparation for the upcoming Blue Jays series -- so Warren stayed into the eighth. Warren allowed a solo shot to Steve Pearce that gave the Orioles the lead.

The Yankees, besides Carlos Beltran, didn't hit Wednesday. They missed another chance to make up ground on the Jays. But the game was lost by Drew. You couldn't tell by his face, but he had to know it.