Tonight’s loss by the Baltimore Orioles showed off perfectly why they started this day 15.5 games behind the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox got good pitching and good hitting, the Orioles got bad hitting and bad pitching. That’s really all there is to it. It’s not a good combination if you happen to be a person playing or rooting for the Orioles. The end result was a 6-2 loss in a game that never felt close.
Really, it was a tale of two pitchers. One pitcher threw way too many pitches and couldn’t put batters away.