The 'Nobody gave us a chance' Orioles win 100th and AL East – BaltimoreBaseball.com

BALTIMORE–Brandon Hyde stood in the Orioles clubhouse and yelled: “Nobody gave us a chance at the start of this year. Nobody. That’s 100 wins right there, 100 wins. We just won the AL East!” The Orioles manager spent time with each player on the field after they clinched their first AL East title since 2014. “We won 83 games last year. That was the message in spring training this year. We’re going to build off this 83,” Hyde said. “We’re not surprising teams anymore. People know how talented we are. Nobody was giving us a chance to win. It was in every publication everywhere, we were going to regress, and I wanted our guys to know that. They took it personal, and we just won 100 in the AL East.” The 100th win was a 2-0 win over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night. “I wouldn’t have thought we were going to win 100 before the year, but I knew we were a good club,” Hyde said. “As the year goes along, and we’re piling up wins and winning a ton of series, it wasn’t impossible for us to do that.” Eleven days before, the Orioles celebrated their first
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