[Box score: Yankees 8, Orioles 5]Consider this: Before Saturday, the last time they got a leadoff man on base and he scored was a full week ago, in the seventh inning of their eventual 5-1 loss at the Tampa Bay Rays. That kicked off this losing streak and an even more ignominious stretch of 13 consecutive leadoff men who have reached base for the Orioles not to score. Only Manny Machado’s home run to open the sixth inning ended that ignominious run, albeit on a technicality. Before Valencia doubled home Schoop with two outs in the sixth inning, the Orioles had gone 27 full innings without scoring on something other than a home run. With the loss, the Orioles’ major league-worst record fell to 17-41.

Source: Washington Post June 03, 2018 02:16 UTC