After suffering a deflating defeat on Tuesday night, the Orioles seemed to be suffering from a post-loss hangover Wednesday night against the Astros. The O’s fell behind early, and the bats could never get enough going in their 8-2 loss to Houston.
Before the Orioles’s lineup got their first at-bats, Baltimore found themselves in a 2-0 hole. After hitting the game-winning grand slam on Tuesday, Kyle Tucker got the scoring started Wednesday with a two-run homer. It looked like the O’s would have an immediate response of their own, as Adley Rutschman led off the bottom of the 1st with a bloop triple down the left field line.