Good morning, Birdland!
July got off to a rough start on Friday night as the Orioles lost a 3-2 heart-breaker to the Twins. It’s a shame that a fine Spenser Watkins start (six innings, one run, one walk, five strikeouts) got flushed down the drain due to a rare rough outing for closer Jorge López. But that’s baseball. López has been terrific to this point, and he likely will be after this. Sometimes you just get beat.
The Baltimore bats didn’t do much to back up the pitchers anyway. They combined for just four hits, two of which were from Ryan Mountcastle.