Because I was a kid watching baseball in the ‘90s, I will always expect the Detroit Tigers to be bad. So it’s a little surprising, a little bitter, to watch the massive success story that is the Tigers this year and wonder what they did these last few seasons that the Orioles didn’t to end up as the best team in baseball currently, with an MLB-best 43-24 record.
I mean, the answer is: pitch well and hit well. It helps to have the No. 1 pitcher in the AL in Tarik Skubal, who’s allowed one run in his last 23 2/3 innings to lower his ERA to 2.