One night after romping to a blowout win on the strength of a 20-hit offensive attack, the Orioles pulled out a very different kind of victory in Minnesota tonight.
Good teams are able to win games in a lot of different ways. Turns out the Orioles are a pretty good team. Did you know?
Tonight’s affair was a hard-fought, bare-knuckle battle against the AL Central-leading Twins, one in which the O’s had to scrape and claw for every run, ultimately defeating flamethrowing closer Jhoan Duran for the second time in six days. Pitching and defense led the way, buoyed by Cole Irvin’s best start of the year and Cedric Mullins’s outstanding, game-changing home run robbery in the fourth.