At the end of this dismal four-game series in New York, one of these teams looked like a World Series contender. It wasn’t the Orioles. Not by any measure.
The 23-year-old Gibson did not seem to allow the eye-widening dimensions of Yankee Stadium or his high-level opponents to rattle him. It was almost the opposite — an at-ease kid taking this all in stride.
It continued a three-game losing streak in which Orioles starters have conceded five runs or more in four innings each, and now Baltimore is three games below .500 (15-18).
The Orioles are off to a better start than the Red Sox (at least according to the win-loss record), and yet against a team in a tailspin, Baltimore lost the series to drop once again to two games below .500 (13-15).
Rogers’ last three starts have all been defined by one poor inning, and on Saturday, in his shortest outing since 2022, that poor inning struck in the second.
After Coby Mayo crushed the sixth Orioles homer, the Camden Yards video board apologized. The stadium had run out of home run pyrotechnics, the message read, because there were too many home runs.