Over the first two weeks of the season, it has felt like the only kind of luck the Orioles have is bad luck. As if every hard hit ball finds a fielder’s glove, none of the bloopers seem to fall in, and other teams get enough lucky breaks to have the O’s start off 4-9. “What would it look like if the Orioles start getting lucky?” I asked myself often. In Friday night’s 5-3 win over the Angels, we got one answer: It would look a little something like this.
The Orioles getting lucky could be Baltimore’s own Bruce Zimmermann getting three strikeouts of phenom Shohei Ohtani.