This was Chinese water torture. Death by a thousand cuts. Or being hole-punched to death.
The Orioles were blown out Sunday, but they weren’t blown away. Instead, the manner of execution was slow and deliberate - a single here, a walk there, another single. A run, two runs, three runs...
It’s methodical, but as the Orioles found out, it’s plenty effective. The Mariners scored eight runs in the third inning to doom Gabriel Ynoa to a miserable outing, Matt Wotherspoon to just as bad an afternoon, and the Orioles to what ended up being a 13-3 loss.