After David Hess faced the Boston Red Sox last month at Fenway Park, he took many lessons from his second major league start, none more important than the fact that pitches left over the plate will easily leave the ballpark.
He allowed three homers that night to one of baseball’s best batting orders, but in the three starts that followed, Hess was sharp, posting quality starts in each outing as it became apparent that he learned something from that rocky outing in Boston.
But facing the Red Sox again Tuesday night — this time at a half-filled Camden Yards — Hess wouldn’t get out of the fourth inning in the Orioles’ 6-2 loss in the shortest outing of his brief major league tenure.