The final time the Orioles hosted ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball,” they have been 37-93.
The circumstances July 30, when Camden Yards will host the nationally televised recreation for the primary time since, couldn’t be extra completely different than throughout that dreadful 2018 season.
Baltimore will host the New York Yankees, the identical staff it welcomed to Oriole Park on Aug. 26, 2018, in a recreation between two groups vying for playoff spots, ESPN introduced Thursday afternoon. The recreation, initially scheduled for 1:35 p.m., has been moved to a 7:10 p.m. first pitch.
Not solely are the Orioles competing with the Yankees for a playoff spot, they’ll seemingly enter the competition later this month with a greater report — a far cry from 2018. When New York beat the Orioles, 5-3, almost 5 years in the past, the Yankees improved to 83-47 — a 46-game distinction within the win column over Baltimore.
Hosting “Sunday Night Baseball” is the most recent in a sequence of examples that the post-rebuild Orioles have gotten nationally related. Entering the season, that 2018 recreation was the membership’s final time internet hosting a nationally televised contest, however that streak resulted in April when the Orioles’ recreation at Camden Yards in opposition to the Detroit Tigers was broadcast on FS1.
Everything from their “homer hose” celebration to the shock breakouts of a number of gamers being featured on MLB Network to the festivities through the All-Star break have garnered much more consideration than something through the rebuild. The pinnacle of that may have been this week when Adley Rutschman captivated the baseball world by hitting 27 dwelling runs within the first spherical of the Home Run Derby. That pleasure continued into the All-Star Game, throughout which Rutschman, Austin Hays, Félix Bautista and Yennier Cano gave Baltimore its largest contingent on the Midsummer Classic since 2016.
After breaking the glass ceiling final summer season and competing for a playoff spot down the stretch, Baltimore entered 2023 with expectations to regress. So far, the other has occurred, because the Orioles entered the All-Star break with the third-best report within the main leagues at 54-35. Their 54 victories are as many as they gained in 2019, two greater than in 2021 and 7 greater than in 2018.
The Orioles’ .607 first-half successful proportion is the franchise’s finest since 1997, and so they’re solely two video games again of the American League East-leading Tampa Bay Rays.
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