Despite spending the final weeks of the 2019 season with Triple-A Norfolk, Orioles right-hander Dean Kremer had never pitched at Buffalo’s Sahlen Park before Thursday night’s visit.
If not for the coronavirus pandemic, Kremer would’ve spent a good portion of the 2020 campaign with Norfolk, possibly getting the chance to take the mound at the home of the Toronto Blue Jays’ Triple-A affiliate as he took the final steps of his minor league development. Instead, with the Blue Jays calling Buffalo home for a second straight year because of pandemic-related travel restrictions, Kremer got a rude welcoming to Buffalo, recording only one out while allowing the first six runs of a 9-0 defeat.