These Orioles!! They’ve won six consecutive series, have the second-best record in the AL, and are finally forcing the national media to give them some gosh darn respect. Here’s MLB.com’s Will Leitch, mystified to find the Orioles in the Top Five in Power Rankings:
We do not, alas, have a historical spreadsheet of all the Power Rankings over the last six years. Here’s a statement we nevertheless feel comfortable making: This is the first time the Baltimore Orioles have been in the top five.
The Orioles just had a 5-2 week, and they were already 14-7, and that is enough to get them into the top five in baseball.