When you’re more than 40 games below .500 and on your way to being swept for the second straight series and third time in four tries, a single inning pitched by one reliever would seem merely to be a footnote.
Unless that pitcher is Hunter Harvey. Because then it’s big news.
And as well it should be.
Harvey’s odyssey has been one of the most frustrating in recent memory for Orioles fans, but it was hard not to feel spurred on by the brief image he showed Saturday night. Pumping high-90s heat, Harvey fanned two of the four batters he faced, and raised the eyebrows everyone in the Orioles community was hoping he would when he was drafted in 2013 and soon become one of the team’s most promising prospects.