Chris Tillman pitched seven strong innings and Mark Trumbo hit a grand slam to power the O’s to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Athletics.
When a garden hose has a kink in it and water stops coming out, that doesn’t mean that the hose is broken. It just means somebody needs to straighten out the kink. For the first three games of the series against the Athletics, the Orioles were a kinked hose. In the series finale, they worked out the kink, at least for now, and runs flowed out in a 9-6 win.
Finally, the Orioles offense did what it was supposed to have done in the first three games of the series against a succession of mediocre Oakland pitchers.