A 5-5 road trip

The O's had a chance to go 6-4 last night for one of their toughest road trips of the year. It didn't happen.

J.J. Hardy

Chris Tillman couldn't locate any pitch and never got out of the second inning. Despite an O's comeback that tied the game, gold glove winning shortstop J.J. Hardy made three errors as the O's fell to Texas 8-6.

Why the O's were playing Thursday night instead of at mid-day on a get out game is a question that only the hapless Bud Seelig could answer. And we are guessing though old Bud might throw out a few lame excuses for why MLB would send a team home in the wee hours of the morning for a series that begins tonight, nobody would be buying including Seelig. Greed is a contagious disease and greed is why the O's ran the gauntlet yesterday.

In the meantime, the sizzling hot Toronto Blue Jays continue to put distance between themselves and every other contender and pretender in the A.L. East. They did what the O's could not do last night, which is win their fifth straight in beating a loaded Detroit Tiger team again. The Jays have now won eight of their last ten and have been the best team in baseball the last five weeks.

The O's have their work cut out for them over the weekend. The always tough Oakland A's were resting comfortably in their Baltimore hotel rooms when the O's boarded their plane to head home from Dallas.