The 2024 Orioles, like last year’s squad before them, have a remarkable ability to keep maintaining the best record in the American League while periodically losing games that make you feel like this is the harbinger of familiar poor things to come. Alright, I shouldn’t want to speak for you, maybe that’s just my own psychological issue with this team having never played in a World Series game in my lifetime. They played another one of those games on Tuesday night, dropping the opener of a two-game set against the Nationals, 3-0.
If you want to go ahead and tip your cap to the opponent, it is true that tonight’s Washington starter, Trevor Williams, brought a 2.