What’s up with the Orioles hitting into so many double plays?

The Orioles are an imperfect baseball team, and right now they’re playing like it. At 5-8, they’re last in the AL East, and they’re performing no better than average in offense or pitching. They’re not coming back in games, instead falling behind with bad starting pitching and then leaving runners aboard the bases.

Killing not just rallies but also the fans’ good mood have been ground-ball double plays. Lots of them. Wednesday’s 9-0 beating in Arizona featured two: the first came with a runner on and the O’s down 1-0 in the second, still very much a winnable game, until Ryan Mountcastle ended a potential rally. Come the sixth, Ryan O’Hearn helped erase a first and second, one-out situation…