Good pitching and timely hitting are working thus far for the orange-colored birds in this three-game series in Toronto. After taking the first two games, Saturday’s in exciting comeback fashion, the Orioles can make it a clean sweep today. To do that, they’ll have to get some key hits off a onetime Orioles starter who left town in the Great Baltimore Fire Sale of 2018 and get a clean outing from one who arrived during that time.
If you think of baseball teams like a genealogical tree, where instead of moms and dads having children you have trades and signings, then Kevin Gausman, who left Baltimore for Atlanta along with Darren O’Day, is the Orioles co-parent of Evan Phillips, JC Encarnacion, Brett Cumberland, and Bruce Zimmermann.