Coming into Sunday, everything was coming super easy to the 2024 Orioles in this opening series against the Los Angeles Angels. On Thursday, they delivered an 11-3 beatdown in Game 1 and yesterday, a 13-4 butt-whupping in Game 2.
But as the baseball saying goes, even the best teams still lose 60 games in a season. OK, let’s hope there’s only 59 more of these soggy showings for the Orioles this year.
Orioles right hander Tyler Wells wasn’t supposed to be making this start today: he was thrust into the #3 spot in the rotation by Kyle Bradish’s unwelcome UCL sprain, announced back in February, and John Means’ recovery, which has hit a snag.