There may not be any two MLB teams whose August fortunes were more diametrically opposed than the Orioles and the Yankees. New York went 21-8 for the month while the O’s were 4-24. The O’s, as you may recall, fired off a 19-game losing streak over the course of that month. The last game they won before they started all of that losing came against the Yankees.
It’s September now, but the basic talent difference that allowed the Yankees to win 21 games in a month while the Orioles won four games in that same month is not any different just because the Orioles calendar hanging on my wall flipped from Anthony Santander to Adley Rutschman.