Imagine your lifelong favorite band opening a concert with all their greatest hits, then lulling you to sleep with all the tunes you skipped from their later years, as the night goes on reminding you both why you love them but also why you sometimes keep them at arms length.
The Orioles did that to 34,442 mostly adoring fans Friday at Camden Yards in Friday’s 15-8 loss to the Houston Astros. The Orioles worked them into a stupor with four home runs before recording their first out at the plate, then gave the resulting lead right back in a game as deflating as the first inning was spectacular.