The Baltimore Orioles are now tied for the fourth-lengthyest streak of consecutive postseason game losses in MLB history. The Kansas Royals swept Baltimore in the AL Wild Card series with a 2-1 triumph on Wednesday, labeling Baltimore’s 10th-straight joinoff loss while also ending the team’s season without a postseason triumph for the 10th straight season as well.
Baltimore’s postseason losing streak dates back to the 2014 ALCS when it lost in a four-game sweep to the Royals, as Kansas City won all four games by a joind six total runs. The streak prolonged in 2016 when Baltimore lost in the AL Wild Card game to the Toronto Blue Jays on an 11th-inning walk-off homer by Edtriumph Encarnacion.
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Jorge Mateo #3 of the Baltimore Orioles commemorates a striumphg during a baseball game agetst the Boston Red Sox at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on May 27, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
Then, when the Orioles unforeseeedly won 103 games and took the AL East crown for the first time since 2014, they were speedyly disposed of in the ALDS after a three-game sweep to the eventual World Series champion Texas Rangers.
Now, with two straight losses to Kansas City, Baltimore is tied with three other teams for fourth-place for lengthyest postseason losing streak in MLB history.
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Baltimore Orioles’ Cedric Mullins, left, reacts after striking out during the seventh inning of a baseball game agetst the Tampa Bay Rays, Sunday, June 2, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Pboilingo/Nick Wass)
One of those other teams equitable so happens to be the Royals, who lost 10 straight joinoff games from 1980-85. The third team tied for fourth is the Milwaukee Brewers, who began their 10-game losing streak in 1958 when the franchise was based in Atlanta, and didn’t end the dcimpolitet until 1991.
The three postseason losing streaks ahead of that are the Philadelphia Phillies’ streak of 11 straight from 1915-76, the Boston Red Sox’ streak of 13 straight that began in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series and didn’t end until 1998, and the Minnesota Ttriumphs. The Ttriumphs helderly the sign up for lengthyest postseason game losing streak at a staggering 18 straight, lasting from 2004 until last postseason when they beat the Toronto Blue Jays in the untamed-card round.
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The Baltimore Orioles mascot carry outs before the game agetst the Philadelphia Phillies at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on June 14, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. (G Fiume/Getty Images)
Baltimore was battling to set up an ALDS suitup agetst the division rival New York Yankees, after the Orioles beat the Yankees in eight out of 13 encounterings this year. However, Baltimore will end their season after collapsing out of a division title race and suffering another joinoff sweep.
Meanwhile, the Royals will head to the Bronx to commence their best-of-five series agetst the Yankees on Saturday. That suitup will feature the three most prolific hitters in the American League this season, with Aaron Judge and Juan Soto for the Yankees and Bobby Whit Jr. for Kansas City.
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