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BALTIMORE — Matthew Boyd wanted to stay in the game.
Of course, he did. Boyd always wants to stay in the game. He’s built for this, he said that one time, prompting his teammates to mock up T-shirts with “Boyd-isms” on the back – “Stupid, funny comments by Boyd himself,” as one teammate described them.
Boyd was at 96 pitches when Detroit Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire walked to the mound in the bottom of the seventh inning on Tuesday night. His cruise up-and-down the Orioles lineup had hit traffic, with two baserunners on, nobody out, and his opponents now one swing away from tying the game.