Zach Wilt: Soaking up the Orioles' historic run through June

I've got some good news and some bad news, Orioles fans. The good news is the Orioles have won 19 games in June, their highest total of any month this season. With an 19-8 record, they've recorded a .703 winning percentage this month, their highest winning percentage in any month since the 2012 season. The bad news is today is the last day of this amazing month. Tomorrow begins July. I don't know about you, but I've had an absolute blast watching this team take the field over their last 27 games. So before we turn the page on our calendars, let's take some time to truly appreciate what our favorite ballclub has accomplished this month. And hey, there's still one more game to go.

Whenever I compare statistics to other ballclubs in the Orioles' past, I typically look back at the 2012-2015 seasons. After all, the O's have the most wins of any team in the American League since 2012 (402). It seems like a good place to start.

The Birds have won 19 games in a month twice since 2012 (September 2012 and August 2014). As I'm sure you remember in both of those seasons, the Birds played baseball in October. They're a season-high 17 games over .500, have a 22-13 record against the AL East (the best in the division) and are on pace to win 99 games this season.

After 77 total games played, the Orioles have won 47. Their previous highest number of wins between 2012-2015 total after 77 games played was just 42 wins (2012 and 2013). The first-place Orioles also have a 5 1/2-game lead over the Boston Red Sox in the AL East, their largest lead of 2016. In 2014, when the Birds were champs of the East, their season-high lead was an astounding 14 1/2 games. Before that, their two-game lead in 2012 was their largest of this era.

Including their days off, the Orioles have spent 71 days in first place in 2016. When they won the division in 2014, they were in first place for 114 days. They spent 63 days in first place in 2012. Yesterday's 12-6 victory in San Diego matched the O's season-high win total, seven games. They've done that three times this season. They had several six-game winning streaks in 2012, 2014 and 2015, but never a seven-game streak. The Birds' longest losing streak of the season is four games, their lowest total since 2014.

How have the Orioles managed to be this successful in June? For starters, they've hit a bunch of home runs. Mark Trumbo's 23rd blast of the season became the O's 55th home run this month, which tied the record that the Oakland Athletics set in 1996 for the most ever in June. They're now three homers shy of the record for the most in any month, held by both the 1987 O's and 1999 Mariners. The Orioles have hit 124 home runs this season and are on pace for 261. That total would far exceed any of their previous seasons' marks.

The Birds have also had amazing success getting on base this month. With five more walks on Wednesday, the O's on-base percentage in June is a major league-leading .360. They had a .333 OBP in April and .309 in May. This season, their overall OBP is .334, a nice climb from their highest total over the past four seasons (.313 OBP in 2013).

Seven O's have an OBP of at least .350 in June in a minimum of 50 plate appearances (Hyun Soo Kim, Chris Davis, Jonathan Schoop, Manny Machado, Ryan Flaherty, Pedro Alvarez and Matt Wieters). Three of those players have a .350 or higher OBP for the season.

It's been nothing short of an amazing month for our Orioles and there's still one more game to be played. Tonight, there's a chance that the O's could make history by hitting the most homers ever in a single month. They could also break their season-high winning streak and increase their league-leading on base percentage. Whatever ends up happening against the Mariners, June has shown that the Orioles are certainly for real, and if recent history is any indication, they're on pace for some fun games in October.

Zach Wilt blogs about the Orioles at Baltimore Sports Report. Follow him on Twitter: @zach_wilt. His views appear here as part of MASNsports.com's season-long initiative of welcoming guest bloggers to our pages. All opinions expressed are those of the guest bloggers, who are not employed by MASNsports.com but are just as passionate about their baseball as our roster of writers.