Playoff Notebook: October 11

A quick trip around the post-season horn

Oct 11, 2023

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Globe Life Field can begin preparations for the ALCS, as the Rangers completed an ALDS sweep of the Orioles last night. (Photo courtesy of AP.)

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IT HAD BEEN A WHILE

As I wrote in Saturday’s Playoff Notebook, the Orioles were the only team in Major League Baseball to avoid being swept in a series of 3 or more games in 2023. So after winning an American League-best 101 regular season games, they were swept 3 straight by Bruce Bochy’s Rangers in the ALDS.

The O’s had played 91 multi-game series since the last time they were swept: May 13-15, 2022, a 3-game series in Detroit.

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