A day after the seventh inning showed the Orioles’ greatest strength — their power at the plate — Saturday’s seventh inning exposed one of their greatest questions: the starting rotation.
Having already coaxed a good start out of Yovani Gallardo, manager Buck Showalter sent him back out for the seventh inning and watched a two-run lead turn into an 8-4 loss to the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Park.
Gallardo had thrown 96 pitches through six innings and was flattered by the results he’d gotten to that point, with Texas smacking eight hits and plenty of hard outs while scoring just twice.