Today’s matchup looked lopsided on paper, and it certainly felt that way at the get-go. You had Yankees’ Jordan Montgomery and his 3.52 ERA drawing whiffs with a sinking changeup and fastball that look exactly alike. On the other side, you had Chris Ellis, a guy making the third start of his career, looking congenitally unable to find the strike zone and sustaining all sorts of hard contact even when the Yankees made outs.
But baseball is weird sometimes, because after five innings, the Orioles had a 1-0 lead and Chris Ellis had somehow no-hit the Yankees.