Maybe if the Orioles had two more innings in the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader against the Rays, they would have found a way to score more than one run. Under the 2020 rules, they only got seven innings. That was just enough time for the Rays to score three runs. For the Orioles, not so much. They lost the opener, 3-1.
This one slipped away from the Orioles in the top of the seventh. Well-traveled reliever Cesar Valdez entered a 1-1 tie game to try to preserve the tie and give the O’s a chance to walk it off in the bottom of the inning.