One stupid play is all it takes to lose a baseball game, if it’s close enough and the play is stupid enough. It doesn’t matter how well a team plays for the entire rest of the nine innings if they’re on the wrong end of the stupid play. The Orioles lost a sixth straight game on Wednesday night, a 3-2 defeat to the Yankees, where one stupid play happened and that’s what did them in.
The game did not even need to get any farther than the top of the first inning for misfortune to strike the Orioles in the worst way.