Chris Davis isn't giving much hope that his struggles will end

Welp. They certainly tried.

In what ended up being a valiant effort to try to swim back to the Wild Card surface, the Orioles recent six-game losing streak pretty much drowned any hopes of meaningful October baseball. After yesterday’s win, an immediate trip to New York with games against the Red Sox and Rays are sprinkled in between now and the end of the schedule.

With sets of flaws both in the starting staff and within the lineup, the Orioles are probably going to finish among the mediocre in the American League, proper justice for a team that is perfectly average in its parts. Optimism is key to outlasting the nervousness of the stretch run, but as five teams remain better positioned to…