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High fives for the Birds

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 3, 2004

Hardly anybody has noticed, but the Orioles could be headed for one of the most unique seasons of all time. Heading into their game Wednesday (in which they blew a 5-0 lead in New York and lost, 6-5), they were last in the league in ERA (5.35) but still had a .500 record (24-24). How hard is that to do? Well, no American League team has ever had an ERA that high and finished the season at .500 or above. And no National League team outside of the picturesque state of Colorado has done it since 1 ...

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