So, I want to offer a quick word to all the Mariners and Blue Jays fans who were scoreboard-watching tonight’s O’s game, hoping they could take the Red Sox down a peg:
Yeah, uh, sorry, guys. Welcome to Orioles baseball.
Hey, the Birds already did a solid for those trailing Wild Card teams by beating Boston a night earlier. That’s about the best we can offer. There was almost no chance that lightning was going to strike twice for the now 51-107 Orioles, and indeed, it didn’t. Tonight’s contest played out just as so many of the 2021 Birds’ previous games have: with the club simply too overmatched to put up a competitive effort against a far superior team.