Harvey’s solid outing is backed by dominant bullpen, O’s top Red Sox 4-2

Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports For the second straight day to begin the 2021 season, the Orioles pitching staff quieted the Boston bats while the team’s offense did just enough to get them into the win column.

The biggest concern for the Orioles entering the year was, understandably, their starting rotation. But you wouldn’t know that based on the first two games of this series in Boston.

Matt Harvey followed up John Means’s dominant Opening Day performance with a solid outing of his own. Over 4.2 innings, the Dark Knight worked around six hits and a walk to allow just two runs and strike out four batters.

It was not the cleanest of starts; Harvey had just one inning without a baserunner. But…