San Francisco Giants starter Anthony DeSclafani didn’t come out for the 4th inning after barely crawling out from the flaming and bent wreckage of the 3rd inning in Sunday’s 8-3 junker against the Baltimore Orioles.
The Orioles tagged the starter for 6 runs (5 earned) with 11 batters coming to the plate. All but one of those runs came with two outs, which means that DeSclafani nearly sneaked out of the inning chastised but not knocked out.
If only, if only...
The trouble started with a walk to James McCann, the back-up catcher, to lead-off the inning.