It isn’t often that any major league team welcomes a four-game series at Fenway Park, but the Orioles have got to be hoping they’ll feel more at home on the road after their discouraging season-opening homestand.
They won just one of seven games at Oriole Park and spent most of the past week watching the New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics leave ball marks all over the bleachers.
Orioles pitchers allowed 28 homers over that stretch, five of them in Thursday’s 8-5 loss to the A’s. The A’s and Yankees combined to average just over nine runs per game and left some seriously bruised young egos on the Orioles pitching staff.