There are lots of ways to win a baseball game, but here’s a suggestion for how not to win one: send your first 22 batters to the plate and manage exactly one hit, then allow four runs in the eleventh inning to make a close race into an impossible climb.
For nine innings today, a misfiring Orioles offense got a huge pickup from their pitchers, just like they did in three of four games during this tough series. Any day that Austin Voth, Jake Reed, DL Hall, Bryan Baker and Cionel Pérez combine to hold one of the AL’s top offenses to just one run is, to paraphrase Ice Cube, a good day.