The 2023 Orioles simply refuse to win easy. It could have been a cruise control kind of game in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, with Grayson Rodriguez plowing through the Tigers lineup in his rematch of Sunday’s game at Camden Yards. Thanks to scratching together mostly singles in convenient order, the Orioles held a 6-0 lead into the sixth inning. Things got messier from there but they still ended up in the win column with a 6-4 triumph to avoid being swept on the doubleheader day by Detroit.
Let’s start with Rodriguez, because he had what was easily the best start of his big league career to date.