The Orioles’ offensive motto this season, according to rookie outfielder Austin Hays, is to have one another’s backs.
Through the first three games of their series with the Miami Marlins, the Orioles’ lineup has been united only in struggling to score. After being shut out in the series opener Tuesday in what was Miami’s first game in nine days after a spate of positive coronavirus tests, the Orioles waited to put a run on the board until the sixth inning of the second game of Wednesday’s doubleheader, in which both games played lasted only seven innings.
The Marlins were without their top three starters and all but four members of their original bullpen because of the positive tests, but a pitching staff pieced together with call-ups from their alternate site, waiver claims, trade acquisitions and the players who avoided the virus managed to keep the Orioles scoreless through the first 21 innings of the series, leading to three victories.