Tuesday night Orioles game thread: vs. Nationals, 7:05

Jordan Lyles was good in May. He has not been very good in other months this year.Are the Orioles going to keep this better than expected thing they’ve got going on all year up for the remainder of the season? The next two games against an underachieving, loser Nationals squad with six fewer wins than the Orioles aren’t going to give us a final answer to that question. Tonight’s game will nonetheless make us feel like it’s going one way or the other. That’s just the way it goes.

My hopes remain that this is going to be the month where the Orioles break the streak of non-winning months. I don’t want that thing to stretch on to five years, you guys. With a 9-8 record already in the bank and…