As Leo Tolstoy would have written if he had been a baseball fan: All good baseball teams are alike; each bad baseball team is bad in its own way. The 2025 Orioles way of being bad is that their starting pitching is bad and their offense is notoriously bad against left-handed starting pitchers. The O’s have gone 2-4 over the last week of baseball and those are the things that keep doing them in when they lose.
This series looks at each Orioles game, the most crucial play that happened in it and who was involved, and the Oriole who contributed the most positive to a win or negative to a loss.