Thursday afternoon Orioles game thread: 1:10 ET, at Guardians

OK, this has been quite enough baseball against good teams—Baltimore just went 2-6 against Tampa, Miami (ish), Cleveland—and I’m ready to beat up on a bad team now. After today’s game, Cleveland is off to face the underperforming Royals, while the Orioles welcome to Oriole Park the worst team in the league in Colorado.

But before we get to that, we still have one more game against the Guardians. The season series ends today (Cleveland has unsurprisingly won it, with 4-2 advantage) with a 1:10 afternoon game to allow both teams to hit the road.

The Orioles can’t win the series but they can salvage their dignity (?) with a win over Cleveland and left-hander Logan Allen (6-8, 4.06 ERA). The…