Remember that opening series in Boston? When the Orioles shocked the Red Sox by sweeping all three games at Fenway Park? That was fun, wasn’t it? Why, perhaps this plucky young team could hold its own against their star-studded AL East rivals, you may have thought.
Yeah...not so much. Five months later, that remains the only time all season that the Orioles have won a series against an AL East opponent. With tonight’s 5-4 loss to the Blue Jays in the rubber game, the Orioles are winless in 17 divisional series since, losing 15 of them and splitting two.