A post-clinching hangover? Manager Brandon Hyde resting a few of the starters? Gunnar Henderson had the night off, and Adley Rutschman and Ramón Urías were late scratches with “something going around the clubhouse.” (Was that something “We drank our faces off after winning the AL East last night”?)
Whatever it was, the Orioles offense didn’t show up to this Friday night contest, which the Red Sox won handily behind an excellent seven innings from right hander Nick Pivetta. On a night where the Orioles honored a bona fide classic, ace Jim Palmer, before the game, tonight’s contest was a fitting showcase of great starting pitching.