In what can only be described as the most success the Baltimore Orioles have achieved in some time, the team’s uniforms were named the league’s best in an ESPN.com bracket. The Orioles were a mere 13-seed — on the American League side.

Let’s face it, if you’re one of the few people baseball announcers refer to as “scoring at home,” you’re probably not scoring at home (wink wink). However, if you happened to be scoring last night’s Yankees/Oriels 14-second-inning-ending-rundown-party, you probably nearly fell out of that recliner you haven’t left since 1987. Here’s 4-6-5-6-5-3-4 long hand: Cano to Nix to Youkilis to Nix to Youkilis to Overbay to Cano. Bad base running? Sure. Great excuse to get out of that recliner? Definitely.

Baltimore Orioles manager and baseball legend Earl Weaver passed away Friday night. He was 82.

Baltimore Orioles pitching prospect Kevin Gausman is a man of superstition. Besides subscribing to the normal do-this-tie-that-step-there ritual, he has some mid-game quirks as well. Okay so really it’s just snacking on delicious Hostess “donettes,” which are mini powdered doughnuts. But this snacking is a systematic demolition, specifically four donettes between each inning.

The Nationals and Orioles had great seasons. They each made the playoffs for the first time in years – in the Nationals’ case, for the first time since moving to Washington. They had the types of seasons that energize fanbases, so now is not an especially goo time to squander that goodwill.

There was only one sport going last night: baseball. Two Game 5′s in the MLB Playoffs were played Friday night. Let’s take a look at who is moving on and who was sent packing.

Alex Rodriguez has been the Yankee scapegoat in their ALDS series against the Baltimore Orioles, the man ridiculed most for their alarmingly inept offense over the first four games of the series. It’s not without merit that the critics have focused on A-Rod, considering his gargantuan contract and 2 for 16 with nine strikeouts thus far in the playoffs.

Almost everybody in the Orioles lineup has seemed been pretty content with folding to the Yankees tonight — everyone, that is, except left fielder and leadoff man Nate McLouth. Regardless of whether or not the Orioles eke out a win in extra innings and live to see a Game 5 or if their season dies on the operating table tonight, McLouth can sleep easy tonight knowing he single-handedly kept his O’s in this game.

The New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles played quite the epic Game 3 last night, as Raul Ibanez tied the game with a pinch-hit solo home run in the 9th and blasted the game-winning jack in the 12th.

Wow. Joe Girardi must feel like a genius right now. After tying Game 3 of the ALDS between the Yankees and Orioles in the 9th inning with a solo HR, Raul Ibanez has done it again in the 12th inning with an absolute bomb of a home run to win the game.