The 2019 Orioles now have the worst record in all of MLB by a full five games. They are very, very bad at a whole lot of things about playing baseball games. One thing that they are particularly bad at doing is pitching in the sixth inning. On Thursday night in Seattle, this familiar brand of stinking surfaced yet again and the O’s went on to drop the opener to the Mariners, 5-2.
In the first inning of the game, after the Orioles took a 2-0 lead when Rio Ruiz delivered a single with the bases loaded, MASN’s Gary Thorne observed that the O’s have actually outscored the opposition in the first inning this season by a 50-45 margin.