Even matched up against a New York Mets lineup that’s found it nearly impossible to score of late, the pair of starts turned in this week by Alex Cobb and Dylan Bundy are part of a slow progression toward stability that the Orioles rotation has been on for nearly a month.
That they enter this four-game set with Toronto with a rotation ERA of 4.53 since Chris Tillman landed on the disabled list and they settled on the current group of Cobb, Bundy, rookie David Hess, Kevin Gausman and Andrew Cashner is only notable considering that they had a 5.