It’s one thing when momentum, as the baseball saying goes, comes down to the next day’s starting pitcher.
It’s rather unprecedented for a team to have their momentum halted, and their winning streak along with it, by a starting pitcher who spent the last week-plus quarantined in a hotel room as his team dealt with a COVID-19 outbreak and hadn’t pitched in a game in nearly twice as long.
That’s baseball in 2020, though, and that’s what happened to the Orioles in a 4-0 loss to lights-out starter Pablo López and the Marlins in the visitors’ return to action after their eight-day shutdown.