On an afternoon when the unexpected manifested itself often, perhaps the biggest surprise of all was made more so by the fact that it’s happened so infrequently this season: the Orioles bullpen yielded.
One of the game’s best relief corps relied on three of its best arms in a back-and-forth game Sunday at Oakland’s RingCentral Coliseum, yet the Orioles still came away with a 7-5 loss to the Athletics that denied them a three-game sweep in gut-wrenching fashion.
With a tie game in the eighth inning and a runner on second base, Oakland center fielder Ramón Laureano leapt at the wall to catch a drive from DJ Stewart to end the inning.