When I sat down to watch tonight’s game, the first of the year I was slated to write the recap for, I wasn’t expecting to see a win. Mike Wright Jr. vs Justin Verlander seemed like a game whose result was written in the stars. And yes, the Orioles did lose. But would you believe that it wasn’t because Verlander shut down the offense and Wright fell apart?
No, the reasons for the loss were a bit more complicated than that but ultimately boiled down to what we all know: the Astros are a better baseball team than the Orioles.