The Orioles took advantage of numerous Yankees mistakes to issue an 11-3 beatdown on Friday night. The win was the O's fifth straight, a season high, and brought them back to .500 for the first time since May 5.
If you are the kind of baseball fan who, like me, stews for years in the bitter juices of resentment over the injustice or misfortune of certain specific plays, then you probably have a particular team that you hate more than all of the others. The kind of hate that can only be born from a play like, just to pick a random example, an umpire missing the most blatant display of fan interference of all time, allowing another team to win the ALCS and then World Series when it should have been the Orioles.