After nine weeks of the Orioles playing bad baseball, the third full month of the season began Friday night with the club continuing to build its new identity – as a team that can’t score enough to win and can’t pitch or play defense well enough to overcome that major flaw. The Orioles’ 4-1 loss...
Barely a week into this season, when the Orioles played the New York Yankees for the first time, the fact that the Yankees — and before them the Houston Astros — didn't throw Orioles hitters many fastballs was seen as an anomaly caused by those two teams' philosophies.