Two things have been constant during the 2018 Orioles season. The first, and the biggest, is that they are a bad baseball team with bad players who are playing badly, the result of a bad front office plan that has now been blown apart at the trade deadline. The second thing is that despite how bad they are, they are regularly able to summon otherwise unseen reserves of competence in order to take a bite out of the Yankees.
Wednesday’s finale to the brief two-game series was another one of these games. The Orioles survived a late Yankees rally to pick up a 7-5 win, their sixth beating of the Yankees in twelve tries this season.