Dean Kremer, the guy who had an ERA near 8 last year, against Alek Manoah, one of 2022’s Cy Young contenders? Not a recipe for an easy win. Compound this with the fact that the Orioles had dropped the first two games of this series to the Toronto Blue Jays, and if you chose to write this game off as a waste of a perfectly good Sunday, I get it.
Over eight innings, you would have casually checked the score on your phone, shrugged, shaken your head, and gone back to watching football, or whatever.
But this time, you would have been WRONG!