Guardians Set to Unleash a Stunning Upset on Morton and the Orioles—Can They Pull It Off?
The Orioles are underperforming this season. After a couple of very strong years, the club has been unable to find sustained success. Is it the hitting, or is it the pitching? The answer is that it is both, but I think pitching is the bigger issue. For the season, the Orioles are 24th in runs, despite being in the top half of homers. Their batting average is 23rd in the league, but they are ahead of some competitive teams like the Giants, and just behind the Twins. The pitching is fourth worst in the league. The only teams with a higher team ERA are the Athletics, Nationals, and Rockies. Does a team really want to trade for pitching from a team that has bad pitching? Pretty unlikely, but there has been some chatter that this could be the last start in a Baltimore uniform for today’s hurler, Charlie Morton. Morton is a veteran who probably doesn’t have many more innings left in his career. He is throwing to a 5-8 record with a 5.58 ERA and a 1.56 WHIP this season. He has been very bad on the road this season, with an ERA above six. However, if we look month-to-month, his ERA was improving before ballooning in July again. Most of that was the result of his last road start against Tampa where he allowed seven earned runs in 5.1 innings. Guardians hitters are pretty good against Morton overall, going 13-for-54.Â
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