Remember when Orioles west coast road trips used to be an interminable, week-and-a-half long affair? They’d fly to the other side of the country and stay there for nine or ten games, playing each of their AL West opponents in turn, leading to one sleepless night after another for east coast O’s fans who opted to stay up well past midnight to watch the action.
Thanks to the newly balanced MLB schedule, those west coast trips are becoming more frequent, as the Orioles now play not just against AL West but NL West teams every year. The upside is that none of the trips are quite as long as those three-city stops of old.