Everything has gone into the toilet for the Orioles in the last three weeks. At the start of the month, this stretch of four games against the Rays seemed like it might be their last chance to try to stay in the wild card race.
Instead, they’re toast. The O’s essentially need to run the table when playing the Rays between now and season’s end just to get up to .500. Unless they sweep the Rays this weekend, they’re going to get mathematically eliminated over this series.
Maybe the O’s can hope for the starting rotation to be non-horrible enough over the last week and a half, including this series, to at least not end up as the worst in MLB by ERA.