Even all these months later, Ryan Mountcastle can’t do anything to erase what happened in April. The Orioles’ rookie slugger is, however, entering his fourth month of showing those struggles aren’t going to be easily replicated going forward.
Mountcastle homered for the 19th time to tie for the team lead and drove in two runs in Wednesday night’s 10-3 loss to the New York Yankees, continuing another of the hot stretches Mountcastle has used to pull himself back to the production he and the Orioles envisioned after his strong debut last summer.
The 24-year-old first baseman is batting .