Who would have thought as April closed the Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates would be among their respective league leaders?
After losing two-out-of-three to the Red Sox opening the season, Baltimore has gone 13-5 since then and sits 4.5 games back of the Tampa Bay Rays for the lead in the AL East.
This is a rematch of the second game of the season where Sale and Kremer each had a bad day, giving up 7 runs and 5 runs in three innings apiece. Sale is coming off a masterful 6-inning, 11 strikeout, 1 run performance against the Minnesota Twins and wants to keep his Cy Young for rolling.