Orioles swept by Royals in wild-card series to extend playoff game losing streak to 10

The Baltimore Orioles are actually tied for the fourth-longest streak of consecutive postseason sport losses in MLB historical past. The Kansas Royals swept Baltimore within the AL Wild Card collection with a 2-1 victory on Wednesday, marking Baltimore’s Tenth-straight playoff loss whereas additionally ending the crew’s season with out a postseason win for the Tenth straight season as effectively. 

Baltimore’s postseason shedding streak dates again to the 2014 ALCS when it misplaced in a four-game sweep to the Royals, as Kansas Metropolis received all 4 video games by a mixed six whole runs. The streak prolonged in 2016 when Baltimore misplaced within the AL Wild Card sport to the Toronto Blue Jays on an Eleventh-inning walk-off homer by Edwin Encarnacion. 

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Jorge Mateo #3 of the Baltimore Orioles celebrates a swing throughout a baseball sport towards the Boston Pink Sox at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Could 27, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland.  (Mitchell Layton/Getty Photographs)

Then, when the Orioles surprisingly received 103 video games and took the AL East crown for the primary time since 2014, they had been rapidly disposed of within the ALDS after a three-game sweep to the eventual World Sequence champion Texas Rangers.

Now, with two straight losses to Kansas Metropolis, Baltimore is tied with three different groups for fourth-place for longest postseason shedding streak in MLB historical past. 

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Baltimore Orioles’ Cedric Mullins, left, reacts after hanging out through the seventh inning of a baseball sport towards the Tampa Bay Rays, Sunday, June 2, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photograph/Nick Wass)

A type of different groups simply so occurs to be the Royals, who misplaced 10 straight playoff video games from 1980-85. The third crew tied for fourth is the Milwaukee Brewers, who started their 10-game shedding streak in 1958 when the franchise was based mostly in Atlanta, and did not finish the drought till 1991. 

The three postseason shedding streaks forward of which are the Philadelphia Phillies’ streak of 11 straight from 1915-76, the Boston Pink Sox’ streak of 13 straight that started in Sport 6 of the 1986 World Sequence and did not finish till 1998, and the Minnesota Twins. The Twins maintain the document for longest postseason sport shedding streak at a staggering 18 straight, lasting from 2004 till final postseason once they beat the Toronto Blue Jays within the wild-card spherical. 

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The Baltimore Orioles mascot performs earlier than the sport towards the Philadelphia Phillies at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on June 14, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. (G Fiume/Getty Photographs)

Baltimore was preventing to arrange an ALDS matchup towards the division rival New York Yankees, after the Orioles beat the Yankees in eight out of 13 conferences this yr. Nonetheless, Baltimore will finish their season after collapsing out of a division title race and struggling one other playoff sweep. 

In the meantime, the Royals will head to the Bronx to start their best-of-five collection towards the Yankees on Saturday. That matchup will characteristic the three most prolific hitters within the American League this season, with Aaron Decide and Juan Soto for the Yankees and Bobby Whit Jr. for Kansas Metropolis. 

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