One stupid inning is all it takes for a team to lose a baseball game. The Orioles of recent vintage have specialized in these sorts of stupid innings for all kinds of different reasons. With the way they’ve hit, or really not hit, early in the 2022 season, they’re even more prone to being sunk by the stupid inning. The stupid struck them as the Athletics racked up four runs in the sixth inning on Monday night on the way to a 5-1 Orioles loss.
Stupid baseball is more likely to happen when there are fielders on the diamond who do not belong at the position where they have been assigned.