The Orioles’ Saturday night matchup with the New York Yankees quickly devolved into a bullpen game. They could be staring at another.
A brief Jorge López outing in an 8-2 loss to New York left seven innings for the bullpen in front of a sellout crowd at Camden Yards, and with the Orioles electing to push All-Star left-hander John Means’ next outing to Wednesday rather than use him in Sunday’s series finale as originally scheduled, relievers could be tasked with handling all nine innings as Baltimore tries to avoid a sweep.
Means will instead pitch on the two-week anniversary of his 113-pitch no-hitter against the Seattle Mariners.