Baseball is “beautiful and horrifying,” like injured O’s starter John Means said the other day. How else to describe an MLB debut by Houston rookie Jake Bloss necessitated by pitching injuries that ended after 3 2/3 innings with Bloss grimacing as he grabbed his hurt shoulder? Eh. . . maybe more horrifying than beautiful tonight.
Ditto Grayson Rodriguez pacing in the dugout while a random injury to the home plate ump delayed the game, then giving up a three-run home run to lose the lead an inning later. Or Rodriguez leaving the game with two runners on in the sixth before an incompetent tandem of Jacob Webb and Dillon Tate allowed eight more runs to come home.