On Independence Day of 1945, the Philadelphia Athletics won the first game of a doubleheader with the St. Louis Browns, ending a 19-game road losing streak. A decade later, the A’s were in Kansas City and the Browns were the Orioles.
Not since that A’s skid 76 years ago had an American League team dropped that many road games in a row before the Orioles fell, 10-3, in Cleveland on Thursday, completing a third straight winless road trip. Baltimore has lost 19 straight road games following John Means’ no-hitter May 5 in Seattle.
Only the Philadelphia A’s, who also lost 22 straight away from home in 1943 and 20 in a row in 1916, have lost more consecutive games as a visitor among AL teams.