Every passing day brings us closer to the regular season. The closer it gets, the more important it is that the players who matter are looking like they’re getting into regular season form. The Orioles played the Pirates on Monday night and the most important thing was Félix Bautista continuing to get his work in. As a nice bonus, the Orioles won, 6-3, their first spring win over Pittsburgh in five tries.
One way that you can tell that the outcome of the game didn’t matter is that the Orioles starting pitcher was Matt Bowman. The Maryland-born Bowman pitched in 15 games for the O’s a year ago and is back in this camp as a non-roster invite.