How perfect this was, huh?

How fitting.

All schemes pitching, offense doing absolutely nothing.

Another long losing streak.

Clinched within that, another losing season. Good morning to you. Good. Thursday morning,

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Orioles, two, Pirates won in 10 innings. Kyle Nicholas was a mess in the 10th, loaded the bases.

Dylan Beavers shot a single past Spencer Horwitz and that was that. Not that it mattered.

Skeens was outstanding through five innings. No runs, two hits, no walks, eight strikeouts.

His ERA is at 1.9, too. He's winning the Cy Young. Isaac Mattson allowed the Orioles their tying run in the 8th.

Not that the pitching mattered.

I'm going to try something a little bit different here this morning

instead of all the usual fire Ben Charrington, fire Charrington yesterday,

fire him last month, fire him last September.

I'm instead gonna look at this box score,

and you owe it to yourself as a follower of this franchise

who's insane enough to have pressed play this particular program today.

And really, I don't have a kinder assessment of your mental state in this context.

I'm going to read the box score.

I'm going to read the visitor's side of the box score to you.

And you've got to just sit there and hear it out.

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