Good morning Birdland,
This won’t be an original take, in fact I think I even said this in a Bird Droppings recently, but I’m not getting too hung up on final scores in the season’s final month. I do not enjoy watching the Orioles lose, but I am also aware that the losses don’t matter as much as some of the encouraging individual performances do. And there have been plenty of individual performances worth attention.
The bullpen was asked to throw all 9.2 innings of Tueday night’s loss to the Phillies, and they did a pretty good job.