Chris Davis was scratched from Saturday’s lineup about 45 minutes before first pitch with gastroenteritis – basically the stomach flu – marking just the third game this season he hasn’t started.
Davis missed Opening Day this year to complete his 2014 suspension and also was out of the starting lineup May 25, when the Orioles faced the Houston Astros and tough lefty Dallas Keuchel. He did enter that game in the eighth, however, so he had appeared in 85 of the club’s first 86 games this season before Saturday.
Steve Pearce took Davis’s spot in right field, and was placed sixth in the batting order.