After Friday’s news that two Baltimore starters, John Means and Tyler Wells, are lost for the season with elbow injuries, the Orioles will be needing some clutch performances out of their starting rotation.
Well … today wasn’t that. With all the concern about starting pitching these days, we can’t sugarcoat it: Kyle Bradish’s sixth start of the season was pretty disastrous. It took him 76 pitches to get through 2 u2154 laborious frames, during which he surrendered five runs.
This stings a lot less because, when the smoke cleared, Tampa Bay’s Taj Bradley looked even worse, allowing an eye-popping nine runs in 3 u2153 innings.