Orioles starter Zach Britton has an ERA over eight, and the O's are the league's worst fielding team.
Three hours later, his ERA is down to six, his teammates have turned three snappy rally-killing double plays, and the O's have a 3-2 win.
The only mistake Rick Porcello made cost him the game. Chris Davis hit it out with two on in the seventh.
Meanwhile, the Pretenders played Beavis-And-Butthead ball. It looked like they would never score. Peralta singled in two in the eighth, but Jim Johnson was waiting, and he shut the P's down on two dribblers and one soft fly ball.
If Prince Fielder is up with no one on, he'll get pitched around because five through nine have been so ineffective. Delmon Young, hitting behind Prince and Cabrera and Jackson/Berry all season, should have a lot more than 65 RBIs in mid-August. Alex Avila (.253) is a mystery. Watching the player formerly known as Bash hit makes you cry, and not from hay fever. Jhonny Groundout proved last year that he can do better than .261
So ineffective, in fact, that one through four won't (can't) carry them to post-season.
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