Lets Go O's!

The Baltimore Orioles are the best team in baseball. Let me reiterate that, the Baltimore Orioles are the best team in baseball. During the offseason, a lot of big names were being tossed around like Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder, and many more, but none of which were signed by the Orioles. The O's are starting the same great players they have been for the past few years like Adam Jones, Nick Markakis, and Matt Wieters, but now their is something in the water down by the inner harbor that has the Orioles winning games. This past weekend, the Orioles played a total of 13 hours of baseball against the Boston Red Sox. Those 13 hours split between three games resulted in 3 Orioles wins, in 39 innings. The Orioles bullpen were the true stars of the weekend, especially Friday, only giving up 3 hits while executing the last 24 outs of the 13-inning game. Adam Jones was the hero of this weekends games with 2 homeruns, one of which was today's game winning with a 3 run shot. His other blast of the weekend was a rocket that went over the Green Monster, out of the ballpark, and into the parking lot. At the end of tonight's marathon game of 17-innings, designated hitter Chris Davis was the winner of tonight's game. He pitched two scoreless innings, with 2 hits and 2 walks. He might not have the best WHIP in baseball, but he has a better record than Red Sox outfielder/pitcher Darnell McDonald who gave up tonight's final runs. 

So is it the Orioles success or Red Sox failure that leads to this sweep? Bobby Valentine has lead the Red Sox to a 11-16 record, and about 2 weeks ago I had a dream of how to turn the Red Sox around, and if you're reading this Bobby, hit me up on my cell. The Orioles have an AL best 2.76 ERA, are 2nd in double plays turned, but 1st in errors committed, if they can clean up their fielding, they might have a few more wins under their belt. The Orioles are tired of being the AL East's doormat and are now commanding the division with an iron fist. Buck Showalter is now who has over 1,000 wins in his career as a manager, has lead the Orioles to a .679 winning percentage. This is the first time since June 10-12th, 1994 that the Orioles have swept the Red Sox in Fenway. This is also the first time that a player has gone 0-8 and wound up as the winning pitcher, when Rube Waddell did it on July 4th, 1905. What does this all mean? The Orioles have been the butt of many jokes throughout the past few years, but now they are laughing at the top of the division.