Hello, friends.
The Orioles stretch of non-horrible baseball has now lasted for about a month and a week. As weird as that is to say after some of the real clunkers the team had earlier in the year, including losing streaks of seven and ten games, and more four-game losing streaks than you can shake a stick at, the O’s are 15-15 over their last 30 games.
They are not cured of the things that made them the worst team for most of the season, but they have been fun lately. Their 6-5 win on Sunday was one more example, with the positively delightful subplot of 4,500 or so British kids who were a part of an international Scouts event sitting out in left field and cheering wildly any time Anthony Santander, yesterday’s Orioles left fielder, did anything.