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Orioles minor league recap 9/23: Norfolk allows four home runs in a 12-3 season finale loss

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This game entered the fourth inning a 0-0 tie, then Norfolk proceeded to allow ten runs in the fourth and fifth combined. Ouch. Lefty Tucker Davidson made his mistakes, but he got three ground balls that should have ended the inning. They didn’t, so instead five runs came home, just one earned, though Davidson did walk three, which isn’t great. Nolan Hoffman’s fifth inning was dreadful, and no errors were required: the mind-numbing sequence was single, homer, single, single, homer.

The rest of the relievers were better. Levi Stoudt pitched 1.2 innings and allowed one solo homer. Colin Selby tossed a brilliant seventh inning, striking out the side.