Bartolo Colon is kind of a joke around baseball on account of his age and size and completely ridiculous at bats. But he's also pretty good at pitching.
The Orioles dropped the first game in their short series with the New York Mets tonight, unable to solve the mystery that is Bartolo Colon. They wasted a solid but unspectacular start by Bud Norris, opting instead to strike out nine times against Colon as he pitched 7 u2154 innings with just one run allowed. A Chris Davis homer in the 9th made things exciting but didn't change the outcome as the Orioles fell, 3-2.