The Orioles lost again tonight, their 18th consecutive loss on the road. This is getting silly, guys. The bats did make some noise, but thanks to one abysmal five-run inning from Cleveland, it just wasn’t enough to matter.
There isn’t much good to say about a starting pitcher who gives up eight runs in 5.2 innings, but I am going to try because the box score doesn’t tell Akin’s whole story. His third inning was abysmal and he couldn’t close things out in the sixth. But the rest he actually looked pretty good. No, that doesn’t matter for this game.