Camden Chat · Oct 9, 2020
How did the 2020 Orioles solve their home run problem?
Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports This is not the Shawn Armstrong of 2019.Sorry to dredge up bad memories, but in 2019, the Orioles had a home run problem. A very bad one.
Last season, as a unit, Orioles pitchers served up 305 four-baggers—the worst number in Major League history. Nowhere was the team’s futility more on display than against the New York Yankees, whose 61 long balls against Baltimore in 2019 were the most by any team against a single opponent ever, while Yankees shortstop Gleyber Torres hit 13 of his own against Baltimore to break the single-season record for a single player against a single team. It was, in short, embarrassing.