By Bud L. Ellis
Three consecutive last-place finishes in the American League East have buried the Baltimore Orioles, but the franchise looks to 2011 as a year to start improving.
The Orioles have not finished above .500 since reaching the AL Championship Series in 1997. Last year’s 66-96 record marked the fifth consecutive season Baltimore lost 90 or more games. (Read More…)
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 9:40 pm by bud
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By Bud L. Ellis
The Baltimore Orioles hope to enjoy a taste of home success at the start of this week, because a rough end to May looms for a team that’s experienced plenty of tough times so far in 2010.
The Orioles opened a two-game home set with Kansas City on Monday at Camden Yards, a quick respite against a team that’s only two games better than Baltimore’s 12-26 mark – the worst mark in the majors.
Baltimore opens the week after dropping the final two games of a series at home to Cleveland. Prior to that, the Orioles had shown some life, winning three in a row after a three-game losing streak dropped the O’s to 9-24.
After the two games with K.C., it’s back on the road for 11 of the next 14 for Baltimore. It starts with a two-game set at Texas Wednesday and Thursday, followed by a three-game series this weekend in D.C. against the surprising Nationals.
Baltimore comes back home next week to face Oakland for three, then hits the road for six games: three each at Toronto and in New York against the Yankees.
Baltimore opens the week 14 ½ games behind Tampa Bay in the AL East.
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Monday, May 17, 2010 at 7:29 pm by bud
Tags: American League East, Baltimore Orioles, Camden Yards, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals, New York Yankees, Oakland A’s, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays
By Bud L. Ellis
Twenty-three games into the 2010 season, and the Baltimore Orioles already were facing a double-digit hole in the AL East standings.
That tells you plenty about the Orioles and the way their season started. Entering the final day of April, Baltimore sported a dismal 4-22 record. It looks a little better after a 5-4 win over Boston on Friday and a 12-9 triumph on Saturday.
Still, 6-18 on the season isn’t what’s needed when you’re playing in a division with the Tampa Bay Rays, the Red Sox and the defending World Series champion New York Yankees.
Trailing Tampa Bay by 11 ½ games as the calendar changed, the Orioles have plenty of work to do to try and crawl back toward .500. Maybe May will signal better times, as the Orioles opened the month with Saturday’s victory over the Red Sox.
It won’t be easy, though. Considering the Orioles play the Rays, BoSox and Yanks 18 times each, that’s 54 games out of 162 (1/3 of the schedule) coming against the three powerhouse teams in the AL East.
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Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 8:36 am by bud
Tags: AL East, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays
