Let's say you're a team with playoff pretensions, only you keep losing games because of people like David Murphy beating you. Are you really a team on a playoff trajectory? Sunday afternoon, the Orioles looked like they're probably not.
Brian Matusz escaped Sunday afternoon's contest as he often, frustratingly, seems to do. Heavily, but not entirely, contributing to an Orioles loss that nonetheless manages not to touch his ERA even as he fails to do the one thing that is his primary task: Retiring left-handed batters. The Orioles blew another game and series against a key playoff contender as they lost, 5-4, in extra innings to the Angels, falling three back of the second wild card place.