The Baltimore Orioles were going to lose a game eventually. Everyone felt it coming at some point – even Tyler Wilson in the bullpen! But more on him in a moment. You’d be hard-pressed to say that the O’s slacked off in the Boston series simply because they lost a game. They still swept their first two series’, taking two-of-three in the third one.
It was a chilly night at Fenway Park, and while that was the case in the first two games also, it may have added to the sluggishness of Oriole bats.