Top Ten O’s Games of the Decade

[Matt Bennett]

https://www.mlb.com/orioles/news/orioles-top-games-of-the-decade

Article on the O’s website. Agree? Disagree? Any other games that should be in there? 

The 2012 16 inning game that Chris Davis closed out was a favorite of mine. 

Also, when the Yanks came to town in 2012 for a 4 game series in September. O’s has a 6-1 lead and blew it. Jones belted a homer the next half inning and Reynolds and Davis added more. 

https://youtu.be/JA70bq3MxEM

[Can_of_corn]

How do you not include 162?  Was a special moment for the sport and the O's got to be part of it.

[Aristotelian]

I was at the clincher in Detroit but I would still go with the 2012 Wild Card game as #2. Such a great moment that us O's fans had been waiting for for a very, very long time. Tremendous game with Matusz getting the big K on Hamilton and JJ coming through.

Also the Manny fake to first/throw to third vs Tampa game and the 18 inning game vs SEA.

[backwardsk]

The White Sox no attendance game.

Good examples mentioned above.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

How is the 2012 18 inning marathon game against the Mariners in the stretch run of a playoff race not included on this list, plus the Chris Davis game against the Red Sox where he pitched the last two innings and earned the win.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SEA/SEA201209180.shtml

[Teddy OBP]

21 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

How is the 2012 18 inning marathon game against the Mariners in the stretch run of a playoff race not included on this list, plus the Chris Davis game against the Red Sox where he pitched the last two innings and earned the win.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SEA/SEA201209180.shtml

Great call. I stayed up for that one! Symbolic of the whole season in 2012...I always felt like they’d find a way to win one late.

I agree with 162 and Cal statue day for sure and the rest of the list is pretty good.  

Im so glad I got to go to 2012 ALDS Game 2. I have a soft spot for the first game after the riots because I was there too. Felt  like an FU to the media in the rest of the country plus we got good Ubaldo that day!

[TommyPickles]

The last game of the 2011 season! 

Andino's walk off single to knock the Red Sox out of the playoff race.  The remaining fans went absolutely wild.

Hardy also hit his 30th homer of the year.

O's won 14 of their last 22 games that season.  This one felt like the official beginning of the 2012-2016 era.

[24fps]

Just now, TommyPickles said:

The last game of the 2011 season! 

Andino's walk off single to knock the Red Sox out of the playoff race.  The remaining fans went absolutely wild.

Hardy also hit his 30th homer of the year.

O's won 14 of their last 22 games that season.  This one felt like the official beginning of the 2012-2016 era.

Yeah, agree.  9/28/2011 marks the beginning of the five-year run in my mind as well.