Giving up hard contact and throwing a lot of balls doesn’t always mean giving up a lot of runs but pretty often, it means exactly that. Unfortunately for Dean Kremer and for Orioles fans, Wednesday’s start involved a lot of hard contact, many bad pitches, and six runs allowed in 4.1 innings. The Yankees hit Kremer hard all night, and before three innings were up, the game was out of reach. Broadcaster Kevin Brown tastefully called it a “learning experience” for Dean Kremer. Let’s hope.
On Monday night, Matt Harvey got squeezed by a strike zone as minuscule as home plate umpire Will Little’s name implied.