The week the Orioles just spent laboring through New York and Boston included challenges no one could have predicted. And taken collectively, it was enough to wear out even the toughest team.
But good luck searching for a galvanizing moment the team will use as fuel for the remaining five months of the season. If the Orioles continue on their path toward another contending season, it will be because of how they regard a week full of remarkable tests as unremarkable.
"I don't want to lessen, trust me, what happened in Boston, and the challenges there," manager Buck Showalter said.