Cardinals Dominate Orioles in Stunning Showdown—What Does This Mean for the Season?

The Orioles are a team that has cost me money this year. I thought they were having an early-season swoon and they were going to turn it around. I couldn’t have been more wrong. The truth is, the Orioles are just a bad baseball team. They currently are 16 games under .500 and are on pace to lose around 100 games. This was a team that was winning roughly 100 games the past two seasons. It seems to me like the hitting has fallen off of the cliff, but the pitching staff is the bigger issue. It was always a bit of a concern, but this year the team ERA is at 5.48. Only the Rockies, who are historically bad, have a worse team ERA. Cade Povich is taking the pill for the Orioles today. He’s been decent, I guess, with a 1-3 record, 4.86 ERA, and a 1.45 WHIP. He has been significantly worse at home, though, allowing 17 earned runs in 22.2 innings. I suppose, if we want to look at it with any type of positive spin, his worst start accounted for seven of the runs, which means he has allowed 10 earned in 19.1 innings. That, to me, is still not great. He’s never faced the Cardinals. 

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