Orioles Revisit Disturbing, 2-Year-Old Trend

Should the Baltimore Orioles take Dandy Don Meredith’s advice and turn out the lights, because the party’s over? Losers of eight of their last nine and averaging 2.4 runs a game in those eight losses, they are this morning nine games out of first, after last night’s loss together with wins by Toronto and New York.

The similarities to two years ago are interesting. In 2013, Chris Davis‘ 53 home run year, they struggled to do things right from a team perspective, very seldom getting the key hit with men on base and pitching to a 4.20 team ERA. Last season, Nelson Cruz lit it up in the first half, when the team struggled. Then Cruz and Davis went to sleep in the second half, in addition to…