When six solid innings from a starting pitcher are as rare and valuable as they have been for these Orioles, there’s no such thing as having a bullpen with too much length.
Yet there was manager Buck Showalter after Friday’s demoralizing 9-5 loss to the Los Angeles Angels at Camden Yards, in which he had to accommodate another short start by Ubaldo Jimenez with 4 1/3 innings of Mike Wright, yet still needed to burn another of their reliable long relievers, Odrisamer Despaigne, to get through the ninth inning.