And just like that the 101 win Orioles are swept.
Won the AL East, earned the bye through the Wild Card only to get out-managed and out played.
Brutal on all ends.
Game 1 the offense flutters against Andrew Heaney.
Game 2 the pitching pisses down their leg and it’s over before it starts.
And Game 3 was more of the same with pitching.
I talked about theDean Kremer situationon Tuesday when it was announced that he was starting.
7 hits, 6 runs, 0 Ks, 2 home runs.
Didn’t have it, just didn’t.
Have to feel for him especially.
All the credit to Nathan Eovaldi, that guy is amazing.
His playoff resume was insane coming into this, and it got even better.
7 innings, 5 hits, 1 run, 7 Ks, no walks.
O’s couldn’t get anything going off of him.
One little threat with Chapman but couldn’t get anything going from there.
Just brutal offensively and on the mound, all around awfulness from the Orioles.
But the Rangers, they’re just a really good team.
They’ve got dudes everywhere.
1-9 is relentless in that lineup and their starters stepped up when they needed it.
Oh……they also did it without Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer.
Rough, rough showing for those guys who were key contributors this year.
Starers not going deep will never work out for you in the playoffs.
It’s just insane how inept they looked.
They almost looked like a completely different team than from March to September.
I mentioned the rotation up there, look at these numbers.
8 IP, 20 hits, 13 runs.
Not even close to good enough.
Some of the good?
Gunnar Henderson was 6/12.
He’s born for October.
He was the only guy to really do something in all 3 games.
Outside of those few guys, nothing.
Can’t do it.
Super disappointing to a season where we had such high hopes.
Expectations are such a fickle bitch.
I’ve said it a billion times, Vegas picked them to win 76.5 games, they won 101.
This was a really good team despite them making minor off-season moves.
And none of those offseason pick ups had anything to do with the playoffs.
This whole season comes down to the moves that weren’t made in free agency and the trade deadline.
Would have been nice to have a Jordan Montgomery.
HAVE to make the bullpen better.
HAVE to have better starters.
They have to spend money, I don’t know how else to say it.
But there is plenty of time to talk about that.
I love this squad but man did they shit the bed.
Winning over 100 games and then getting blanked in October should eat at them for a long time.
It was basically over before it started.
But this will hurt until them.
They will be back, and they will have expectations next year, that will be dangerous.
You bet your ass.
I love you all.
