One bad pitch.
That’s all it took. John Means threw perhaps the most dominant game of his career on this Saturday night in Buffalo, but one bad pitch — a hanging slider that Cavan Biggio tagged for a home run — ruined his flirtation with history. And that, combined with a typically dormant O’s offense plus bullpen and defensive meltdowns in the late innings — doomed the Birds to a 5-2 loss to the Blue Jays in the season’s penultimate game.
My goodness, though, was John Means excellent tonight. He was already on a roll entering the game, having tossed three straight starts allowing just one run each, but he upped the ante in his season finale.