It was supposed to be better than this. The Orioles were making their triumphant return from a 5-1 road trip that saw them win consecutive series against other AL East teams. They were debuting the brand new City Connect uniforms on the field. The weather was nice for the first day of a holiday weekend. A decent-sized crowd was there. Grayson Rodriguez was on the mound. It should have been fun. It wasn’t.
A number of the starts that Rodriguez has made up to this point that weren’t very good have at least had things about them where you could look at them and feel like there were signs of progress.