BALTIMORE — The Orioles’ win streak, now extended to eight games after Sunday’s 9-5 win over the Angels at Camden Yards, had yet to have much in the way of comfort. None of the wins prior to Sunday was of more than three runs. Three were walk-offs, part of Baltimore’s eight on the season that ranks second in the Majors.
That’s what made it all the more captivating.
The Orioles’ show was baseball’s Sunday matinee.
This streak’s victory was in a different sense altogether. Though technically winning in a comeback, the Orioles responded to Monte Harrison’s two-run homer off Austin Voth with all nine of their runs between the fourth and sixth innings, including four-run frames in the fourth and fifth. All of their damage, highlighted by RBI doubles from Ryan Mountcastle and Anthony Santander, remained in the yard and included multihit performances from Trey Mancini and Ramón Urías. Two runs came on a passed ball and a wild pitch in the fifth inning.
Remember the feeling of the rebuilding past four years, when it felt as if anything that could go wrong, did go wrong? There’s a different vibe in Baltimore these days.