Before September started, the feeling around Birdland was “the Orioles are good enough to overtake to Blue Jays in the Wildcard race”. The O’s continued to prove that feeling wrong Saturday, losing for the fifth time in six September games against Toronto.
The storyline that’s haunted Baltimore throughout the last month is the way their bats have gone quiet at the worst possible times. The scoreline may not have reflected it, but the bats were hardly quiet on Saturday.
In the first inning alone, the O’s put good wood on the baseball three times. Leading off the game, Cedric Mullins hit a ball to left field that looked like it might leave, before Raimel Tapia snagged it against the fence.