Bud Black still has a Kyle Freeland problem.
The Rockies manager said before Saturday night’s game with Baltimore that interleague ball — Freeland came into the evening with a career 6-1 record and a sparkling 2.20 ERA lifetime against American League foes — might just be the corner that turns around his struggling left-hander’s season.
Instead, the Orioles had Freeland and the Rockies outfielders, turning — actually, sprinting was more like it — toward the outfield walls at Coors Field in Baltimore’s 9-6 victory, evening the weekend series at a game apiece.
The Denver native was torched for 10 hits and seven earned runs over four innings while fanning two.