A horrid month of Orioles baseball came to an appropriate end on Sunday afternoon in San Francisco, where the Giants blew out the O’s 13-2 to win the weekend series at Oracle Park.

How bad did things get, you ask? Alex Jackson, the Orioles backup catcher, had to make a pitching appearance in the eighth inning. He threw meatballs in the general direction of Giants hitters, and got smacked around. But he was far from the only “pitcher” to struggle for the visitors.

Tomoyuki Sugano did not have a good game. The Orioles starter lasted just 3.1 innings and gave up seven runs on 10 hits, one walk, four strikeouts, and a home run. But it’s not as if he was getting hit consistently hard. In fact, Statcast only counted two hard hit (95+ mph) balls in this outing, although it seems to have malfunc

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