Luis Ortiz started for the Orioles but left in the second inning Friday with an injury. The fact that the Orioles ended up wasting two home runs by Trey Mancini and suffering a soggy 8-6 loss to the Chicago White Sox before an announced crowd of 18,265 at Camden Yards is all but irrelevant at this point. The pitching situation is in such a sorry state that the Orioles (42-105) are literally running out of candidates to fill the rotation. The Sox scored a run in the first inning and two more in the second, one of those scoring on an RBI triple by former Orioles prospect Nicky Delmonico. White Sox veteran James Shields delivered a solid six-inning effort that was marred only by the pair of line drives into the left-field bleachers by Mancini, whose roller-coaster offensive season might again be on the upswing.

Source: Washington Post September 15, 2018 03:11 UTC