Tonight the Orioles kick off a three-game series at Fenway Park before wrapping up the season against the Toronto Blue Jays. The team may be sleepwalking into the final six games of the season, but if you like pitching, there’s still a lot to watch for. Earlier this summer, there was a lot of speculation by Orioles fandom about whether the shortened season would block debuts by top prospects like Ryan Mountcastle, Dean Kremer, and Keegan Akin.
That question has finally been answered in the negative. Even better, a lot of those debuts have been surprisingly good, including Akin’s.