“What is happening in this ballpark tonight?” said MASN announcer Kevin Brown incredulously in the bottom of the eighth inning, just after the Orioles had let a third (third!) catchable fly ball fall in for a gift hit.
No statement better sums up the Orioles’ debacle of an evening than Brown’s rhetorical lament. In a game that looked promising for about three innings, the O’s shot themselves in the foot and limped out of Yankee Stadium defeated, a self-immolation on defense and in the bullpen dooming them to a 10-3 loss.
It’s a shame, because the Orioles got off to a fast start — literally — with Cedric Mullins’ speed wreaking havoc in the first.