The reappearance of the Orioles offense lasted for all of two games. After a flurry of hitting put the O’s with the chance to pull off the sweep on Sunday afternoon, they couldn’t make it happen again. The team finished with just five hits and only Anthony Santander’s eighth inning homer saved them from a shutout. Dean Kremer is not a pitcher who’s built to succeed with such little margin for error, and in this finale, he didn’t. The Orioles lost, 3-2.
The Orioles were not far off from having the kind of game where they were raining down dingers on an overmatched opponent.