Well, this feels like an incredibly crucial series, doesn’t it? The Orioles’ hopes of tracking down the Yankees for the AL East crown could be sunk already, but they still have an outside shot at a wild card spot. If that is going to happen, they need to win series against teams that appear, on paper, to be better than them. The Yankees are part of that group.
The O’s have been outscored by the Yankees 22-12 in head-to-head matchups this season, and yet they have won two of the three games that these teams have played.