After the Orioles misplaced a second straight playoff sport Sunday to depart their good 2023 season one defeat from ending, veteran right-hander Kyle Gibson couldn’t encyclopedically recall how Baltimore adopted every of its two-game shedding streaks through the common season. He remembered solely how they responded to salvage a sequence break up with the Tampa Bay Rays final month.
But on a group bus trip later that evening, Gibson went by means of the schedule and noticed, simply as they did towards the Rays, he and his teammates thrived at bouncing again. He believes it will possibly assist them do the identical as they path the Texas Rangers 2-0 within the best-of-five American League Division Series. The Orioles require victories in three straight elimination video games to maintain their season alive, starting with Tuesday’s Game 3.
“This team,” Gibson stated, “is fairly resilient.
“They’re young, but they got a lot of experience this year when it comes to playing in big games. None, obviously, as big as the one [Tuesday], but I think they’ll be able to draw on that experience.”
During their 101-win common season, the Orioles misplaced two video games in a row 16 occasions. They extra typically responded with no less than three straight wins, doing so 5 occasions, than they suffered a 3rd straight loss, with 4 such streaks.
“We’ve done this all year,” rookie infielder Gunnar Henderson stated. “We’re simply going to proceed to go on the market and play our sport. There’s no strain on us. We simply must go on the market, play for enjoyable and see what we are able to do.
“We’ve proved that no matter what situation we’re in we can overcome the odds. We have that confidence because we’ve proved it throughout the year.”
That Rays sequence was maybe one of the best instance. With the AL East on the road within the four-game matchup, the Orioles dropped the primary two to fall right into a digital tie for the division lead. But they answered with consecutive victories, incomes a sequence break up that propelled them into the postseason and positioned them to later declare the East.
Three weeks later, the sequence — considered one of an AL-record 91 straight wherein Baltimore has averted being swept — is inspiring hope. Manager Brandon Hyde and his gamers have evoked it myriad occasions in latest days as a major instance of their resilience. After Sunday’s loss, shortstop Jorge Mateo stated, “No one said it was going to be easy,” practically echoing a quote from Hyde after the second defeat to Tampa Bay.
Ten groups in main league historical past have rallied from a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-five postseason sequence. Only two of them did so after shedding the primary two video games at house within the present divisional spherical format.
“I think everybody is very aware of the situation that we’re in right now,” Hyde stated. “We’ve been actually constant all yr. We’ve had two dangerous video games in a row earlier than the place we haven’t gained. No totally different right here, apart from the season’s on the road.
“We believe in our guys.”
All 4 of that Rays sequence’ video games got here at house, however after the Rangers gained twice in entrance of sold-out Camden Yards crowds over the weekend, the ALDS shifts to Texas’ Globe Life Field, with the Orioles needing to win two video games there to pressure a winner-take-all Game 5 at house. But maybe this journey bodes nicely for a group that went 52-29 away from Baltimore, tied with the Atlanta Braves for the majors’ finest highway file through the common season.
“For whatever reason, we’ve played really well on the road,” outfielder Austin Hays stated. “I don’t know what it is about this team, but we’re kind of just road dogs, road warriors, so here we are. We need to win two games here, so it’s something we’ve done well here so we’ll just carry that into the two games here before we get back home.”
They aren’t trying to head there early.
“I’m not ready to be done playing with these guys for the year,” first baseman Ryan O’Hearn stated. “I think we’ve got a lot left to give. … I don’t want to go home yet. I want to continue to play with these guys.”
Baltimore Sun reporter Jacob Calvin Meyer and Baltimore Sun Media reporter Sam Cohn contributed to this text.
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