Pitching has developed into a nice story for the Orioles this young season.
A team that the last few years has been among the worst pitching teams by any metric has, this time, been pretty solid. Baltimore ranks 16th in baseball with a 3.60 ERA, which is a dozen points better than the league average of 3.72. It’s also a far cry from the 5.84 number the team’s staff posted last year.
The Orioles are 12th in homers allowed with 20 so far, right in line with league average (the new dimensions at Camden Yards, which has seen the fewest home runs in baseball at seven, is undoubtedly a factor in this).