The wishes of some baseball fans in the Baltimore-Washington area to see an Orioles-Nationals World Series this year are over. The Nationals, the team I root for despite living closer to Baltimore, were eliminated last week in a National League Divisional Series loss to the San Francisco Giants, three games to one. The Orioles, after sweeping the Detroit Tigers in the American League Divisional Series, found themselves in the exact opposite position in the American League Championship Series against the Kansas City Royals. The Royals completed their sweep of the Orioles in Kansas City on Wednesday to win the American League pennant.
The Nationals and Orioles both won their respective divisions (NL East and AL East) this year. Both teams also went to the playoffs in 2012, when the Nationals also won their division, but the Orioles got in on a wild card berth. Both teams were ultimately eliminated after the divisional round. This time, even though the O's and Nats were both division champions, the hopes of a World Series featuring the two teams was probably just wishful thinking by fans whose expectations were too high. But the 2014 MLB postseason is still one to remember for Baltimore and D.C. fans, because it's not often that both of these cities have teams make the playoffs and win their divisions in the same year.
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