Kyle Gibson lasted only three innings in his previous start, the shortest of his Orioles career, in a 13-1 loss to Seattle. He threw 35 and 34 pitches in the last two frames and followed up tonight with a 30-pitch first.
And he was better than Luke Weaver for a while.
Rain didn’t slow tonight’s game. The teams did it.
The first inning lasted 38 minutes and featured 18 batters, 70 pitches and seven runs. The Reds scored three in the top half and the Orioles answered with Ryan O’Hearn’s RBI single and Gunnar Henderson’s bases-loaded triple.
Just as storms blew past the last two nights, the offense suddenly went away after the Reds reclaimed the lead in the second. The Orioles didn’t score again and were held to one hit entering the eighth, and Buck Farmer retired the first two batters.