The Orioles on Wednesday afternoon continued their exploration of the many different ways to lose a baseball game, unearthing a third, wholly distinct method for losing a game to the Minnesota Twins. Another one run loss, 4-3, sealed an Orioles sweep at the hands of those same Twins.
Monday’s loss was a fine offensive performance combined with a starting pitching meltdown. Tuesday’s loss was a fine starting pitching outing combined with nonexistent offense.
Wednesday saw the Orioles unite the worst qualities of each of these - poor starting pitching, poor hitting - for a game that they nonetheless almost homered their way to victory.