Win 1, Lose 2

[TonySoprano]

That's how it's gone 6 times this year, including the last 5 series.  If you want lemonade, the O's managed to win at least one game 16 times in 21 series. The other 5 were sweeps, 3 at home, 2 away.   Six times (of 21) they won the series opener, but ended up losing 5 of those series.  Nine times, the series reached Jim Hunter's favorite "rubber match," with the O's winning 2, losing 7.

Overall, the O's are 3-16-2 in 21 series;  1-8-1 at home, 2-8-1 on the road.   
In all this, it's hard to remember the O's had a 4 game winning streak March 30 - April 2.   After that, the O's have won back-to-back games only twice in the past 60 games.

 

[weams]

I would find it extremely unlikely to find this pitching staff capable of three wins in a row. 

[TonySoprano]

9 minutes ago, weams said:

I would find it extremely unlikely to find this pitching staff capable of three wins in a row. 

Two wins in a row would be an accomplishment at this point.  30th in ERA, 1.15 above league average.  The O's starters are 26th in ERA and IP.   Down the BW Parkway, only the Nats bullpen is worse in all of MLB, behind 29th BAL by nearly a run, 0.86.   It's killing their pitching staff which has the 3rd best rotation.

[Redskins Rick]

19 minutes ago, TonySoprano said:

Two wins in a row would be an accomplishment at this point.  30th in ERA, 1.15 above league average.  The O's starters are 26th in ERA and IP.   Down the BW Parkway, only the Nats bullpen is worse in all of MLB, behind 29th BAL by nearly a run, 0.86.   It's killing their pitching staff which has the 3rd best rotation.

However, if I was a Nationals fan, I would be alarmed, that with a 192K million dollar payroll that they have this serious of a problem with their roster.,

[interloper]

24 minutes ago, TonySoprano said:

Two wins in a row would be an accomplishment at this point.  30th in ERA, 1.15 above league average.  The O's starters are 26th in ERA and IP.   Down the BW Parkway, only the Nats bullpen is worse in all of MLB, behind 29th BAL by nearly a run, 0.86.   It's killing their pitching staff which has the 3rd best rotation.

Trending up! 

[TonySoprano]

1 minute ago, interloper said:

Trending up! 

[jerios55]

38 minutes ago, weams said:

I would find it extremely unlikely to find this pitching staff capable of three wins in a row. 

This was originally from the Silver linings thread, while I agree the bullpen has been tough, they do have a set of starters that could make it interesting.  With 162 games, I think we can do it at least once.  Although, that still counts as extremely unlikely.  Haha

Means game 61: 6 innings, 1 run against the Rangers.

David Hess: In the final game of the Rangers series, Hess actually pitched pretty decently. He goes 6 innings (good!), giving up 3 earned runs (not bad), and only gave up one dinger (alright!). 

Gabriel Ynoa: On to Houston, where Ynoa starts the series by spinning the very minimum definition of a quality start - 6 IP, 3 ER.

Andrew Cashner: Cash gets back on track, going 6 innings and giving up just the 1 run. No home runs and only 1 walk. Excellent outing.

Dylan Bundy: Good Bundy alert! 6 IP, 2 ER, 6 Ks.

That's 5 quality starts in a row (does the Hess one not count, due to the unearned run?)  I would imagine that it's been a long time to see 30 IP, 11R, 10ER in 5 starts.  Considering it came against the strong Astros and better than average Rangers I'm pretty happy.   Clearly the record is tough due to the 1 run loses, but I'm sure most would take that over blowouts.  Cautiously optimistic (but still want a high draft pick for next year... ;))

 

[JR Oriole]

The year Trembley was fired, we won all of 4 series heading into early August.  That is really hard to do through that many games.

[OFFNY]

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The Orioles just lost their 6th consecutive rubber match.

 

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[OsFanSinceThe80s]

[Frobby]

Which will happen first?

1.  O’s win a series

2.  O’s get swept in a series.    

I know which one I’m betting on.   

[atomic]

The sad thing is we played some really terrible teams during the recent stretch: The Tigers, The Giants, and the Blue Jays.  And we still lost 2 out of 3. I thought we had a good chance of winning the series against the Blue Jays.  We seemed to be playing better.  And then we get destroyed 12-3.  

This team will suck the hope right out of you.  Well at least Sisco has gotten a couple of home runs. 

[Dale]

Almost a coin flip for a 3 game series.  Statistically, a team with a winning fraction of 0.333 has a 30% chance of losing all 3 games of a series and a 26% chance of winning the series. 

[El Gordo]

One in three would an improvement, that would be 54 W.s. We are currently on pace for 50,

[LookinUp]

I was reminded on 105.7 the other day that it's likely that we have a streak at some point where we lose like 11 out of 12.