The Orioles were expected to lose this game. They did lose this game... just in an unexpected way.
You had already written off Thursday’s Orioles game in Washington as soon as you heard that Ubaldo Jimenez would be starting against Max Scherzer. Surely the game became even more of a write-off after the Orioles won the first three games of the series. It’s hard to win four in a row against the same team, especially with two of those games on the road.
Sure enough, the Orioles lost the game. Due to the arcana of baseball’s staid old stats like pitcher wins and losses, Jimenez even gets credited with the loss.