There’s two ways to look at this one. The glass half-full version is that Miami is a way better team than advertised and has been conducting a rebuild the right way, sneakily building up depth with huge trade pieces like Marcell Ozuna and Giancarlo Stanton. Here’s the other way: the Orioles just lost to a team out for nine days with COVID, missing 18 of its regulars, and whose manager had to introduce himself in the dugout to replacement players he was meeting for the first time.
Classic trap game.
Coming into this, it was hard to say what the O’s were facing in Miami, because the Marlins had played all of three games before the outbreak.