If you are like me you have not really given the Baltimore Orioles too much thought in the last few years. I do not mean that as a slight against the franchise, it is just that the Cardinals do not play them often — by my count the two teams haven’t played against each other since 2017. My guess is that they should have faced each other in 2020, but due to a global pandemic, that series was delayed.
2017 also marks the year the Orioles current woes began. After finishing in second place in the NL East in 2016 at 89-73 their season came to an end in the eleventh inning of the Wild Card Play-In game off a home run from Edwin Encarnacion.