Hello, friends.
The Orioles! They’ve made it back into the win column at last, and thank goodness, because things would have been awfully glum if they followed up being swept by the Astros with another sweep at the hands of the Guardians. The fact that the Astros have played their way back to .500 and the Guardians are clearly a good team wouldn’t have made a six-game losing streak feel any better. The O’s avoided that by pulling off a 4-2 win in the finale against Cleveland last night.
It was the kind of game that the Orioles have needed over the last week, where they got a great outing from their starting pitcher combined with just enough scoring - heavily home run-influenced - by the offense.