We’ll let the broadcasting booth sum this one up. “Offense-oriented,” said MASN’s Geoff Arnold. Less diplomatically, Jim Palmer quipped, early in the third inning, “So this is going to be a slugfest, isn’t it?”
Boy, were they right.
If you like pitching, avert your eyes. This was a hot mess. Eighteen runs scored before we made it out of the fifth inning. Nobody seemed interested in recording an out. Shane Bieber got hammered in one of the worst starts of his decorated career, and out of an Orioles bullpen collective of Keegan Akin, Austin Voth, Cionel Pérez, Mychal Givens, and Mike Baumann, no one looked good.