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2009 With an 8-5 win over Milwaukee at PNC Park, the Pirates snap their 17-game losing streak against the Brewers, the longest skid against a single opponent in 39 years. During the 1969-70 seasons, the Royals dropped 23 decisions to the Orioles to establish the major league mark.
2015 ðŸ‡ĻðŸ‡ģ Xu Guiyan, nicknamed 'Itchy' at the MLB China Development Center in Wuxi, signs with Orioles, becoming the first Chinese player by birth and ancestry to ink a contract to play in the United States. In the spring, the Orioles scouts will evaluate the 19-year-old outfielder/first baseman Jiangsu before being assigned to a minor league affiliate.
2021 Melanie Newman, as part of the first all-female broadcast team, does the play-by-play when the Rays host the Orioles in a game streamed nationally on YouTube. Color analyst Sarah Langs, on-field reporter Alanna Rizzo, and pregame and post-game show anchors Heidi Watney and Lauren Gardner join the MASN and Orioles Radio Network announcer to complete the historical on-air crew.

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