Five things we learned from the Orioles' week, including the Craig Kimbrel dilemma and the meaning of the sweepless streak

The Orioles swept the Cincinnati Reds and outlasted the Washington Nationals over 12 innings to pull out a split and extend their steak of not being swept in the regular season to 103 series. The Orioles' Wednesday night back-and-forth with the Nationals felt long and strange enough to make for an appropriate end to a streak that goes back two years. A dozen times since May 2022, the Orioles had been one loss away from a sweep, and they had won those games by a combined 41 runs.