Saturday night was the kind of performance the Orioles envisioned when they signed Alex Cobb to a four-year, $57 million deal in 2018.
Unfortunately for the Birds, that performance came against them, not for them.
Cobb showed the form he never got to show often in Baltimore, working into the eighth inning and leading his new team, the Los Angeles Angels, to an 4-1 victory over the Orioles in the second game of their series.
While Friday was just another chapter in Shohei Ohtani’s fantastic 2021 story, Saturday was largely about one of the newest Angels.