Well, this is going to be a quick one: very little Mother’s Day baseball was played by Orioles affiliates as Frederick, Bowie, and Delmarva all got rained out. The Tides fell, 8-5, to Toronto’s AAA team, the Buffalo Bisons, in Game 1 of a doubleheader and got rained out in Game 2.
Luis Ortiz (1-3, 6.31 ERA) did not have a Mother’s Day to remember, going 5.1 innings and giving up 7 runs. After scoring two through the first five innings, the Bisons sent 11 men to the plate in the sixth. That inning, Ortiz gave up four singles and an intentional BB before he was pulled for Josh Lucas (0-0, 4.