More poor pitching doomed them in a Father’s Day loss to the Blue Jays, a 7-4 setback to close out the series with a loss.
It’s not fun! The Orioles improved from 47 to 54 wins from 2018 to 2019, then played over the 60-game 2020 season at a pace that would have meant 68 wins in a 162-game schedule.
They didn’t even gain ground in the draft pick standings yesterday, as the MLB-worst Diamondbacks lost a 17th consecutive game, a 9-8 loss to the Dodgers, to fall to 20-53.
Both the Diamondbacks and the Orioles are at home for the next three games, so we will be waiting until Thursday to see whether these teams can continue their road futility.
Waiting next for the Orioles are the Astros, whose karmic penalty over the whole business with the cheating by banging on trash cans to signal pitches appears to be minimal to nonexistent.
For now, it doesn’t suck that he’s getting to catch Grayson Rodriguez in Bowie, even if I’d rather he be hitting against tougher pitchers a level higher to speed his arrival in Baltimore.
Mancini rakes, but O’s face tough questions The tough questions are what to do when there’s a slumping Anthony Santander whose ankle is clearly still bothering him, and what to do with Matt Harvey.
The losing streak is over: Relish celebrates Father’s Day with first Orioles hot dog race victory Some people got really invested in the winless streak of the animated relish-topped hot dog in Camden Yards Jumbotron races.
The Orioles beat the Blue Jays, 13-9, after scoring seven runs in the top of the second and immediately giving up six runs in the bottom of the second.
There are a few former Orioles who were born on this day.
The flight is regarded as marking the end of any pretense that the French Revolution and monarchy might coexist.
In 1919, German Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the scuttling of his ships, which had been interned at Scapa Flow in Orkney since the end of hostilities of what we now know as World War I.
On this same day in 2005, one man was convicted of manslaughter for the killings; Edgar Ray Killen died in prison in 2018.