I will say, I don’t think the O’s were unlucky in the playoffs. Especially in Game 1, they were mostly just terrible.
It’s a little bit unusual to have 5 barrels in two games and only walk away with 1 total run, but we all saw it — for a couple months. They were squeezing sawdust out of the bat in any situation where the pressure was high. Guessing, lunging, trying to hit a 6-run homer on every pitch. The KC series was just more of the same. A team that lacked confidence and trust in themselves/each other and just totally messed the bed in situations where we’ve been watching them come through for years.
That’s not bad luck, that’s just a team in a deep funk that played like absolute ass down the stretch. Saying DET has had good luck is different than saying that the O’s had bad luck, I think. Worse luck than them, sure, but bad luck isn’t the reason our guys failed.