It’s good to be home. What started as kind of a fun road trip in Oakland and Anaheim took a left turn as the pitching and defense hit the skids. Now, the Orioles are back in Camden Yards for a three-game series against an 8-12 Boston Red Sox.
And, after months of playing it coy about prospect promotions, the Orioles are finally calling up the first of their Elias-era pitching prospects, Kyle Bradish, acquired as part of the trade that sent Dylan Bundy to the Angels, to stabilize this injury-decimated rotation. For a while now, Mike Elias had made it sound like Orioles fans wouldn’t see any pitching prospects promoted until mid-summer but, as they say, fate—and three injured starters—have a way of making a mockery out of your plans.