One old baseball adage is that you’re never as good as you look when you’re winning and never as bad as you look when you’re losing. The Orioles have to hope that second part is right, because a lot of different things have gone wrong over what is, after a 4-3 Saturday night loss to the Royals, now a season-high three game losing streak.
The most Orioles thing about the game is that, in the fifth inning of the game, the Royals starting pitcher, Nate Karns, set a new career high in strikeouts with 12.