At 6-19, it has been an April to forget for the Baltimore Orioles, and the Detroit Tigers certainly had a hand in that poor performance. The two squads faced off in a three-game series starting on April 17, and the Tigers won each game, outscoring the Birds by eight runs.
That wasn’t the only sweep the Orioles have suffered this year, but it might have been the most unforgivable. After trading Justin Verlander, Justin Upton, Ian Kinsler and J.D. Martinez between July and December, the Tigers were widely predicted to be among the worst teams in the league — and the Orioles, while not expected to compete for the AL East, seemed to have enough pieces for a run at .