How do you know that your team is really something special? When they win games that they have absolutely, positively, no business winning.
Witness tonight’s contest in Seattle. By all rights, this should have been an Orioles loss. Their opponent, George Kirby, hurled one of the most dominant performances by any pitcher against the O’s in recent memory, to the point that the Orioles didn’t even get a runner into scoring position until the ninth inning. They didn’t stand a chance. It was over.
Except it wasn’t. A tandem of six O’s pitchers held their ground, keeping the Mariners off the board for 10 innings, working out of every jam.