Much like Alex Cobb’s splitter dived beneath the Miami Marlins’ bats Wednesday evening, the Orioles’ hot start to the abbreviated 2020 season made its way into the dirt.
Cobb dazzled in his third start of the campaign, but Baltimore’s lineup was again outmatched by a pitcher who hadn’t faced a major league opponent in nearly two weeks. After Pablo López worked the first five innings of a shutout Tuesday, Elieser Hernández nearly equaled him in the Marlins’ 1-0 victory over the Orioles, coming in the first game of a doubleheader in which both games were scheduled for seven innings.