The MASN booth was saying something like: “Gosh, Tomoyuki Sugano looks so good this month.” “Yeah, he’s really been limiting the home r—” Whoops. This was barely a game before Boston’s Roman Anthony put his team up 1-0, having launched a long ball into the right-center field seats.

Well, blame the booth. Sugano didn’t have his best command today, and the home run ball was a problem. Two home run balls, actually: after Anthony, the very first batter, homered, a clean four innings went by, then Jarren Duran hit a three-run home run that turned a 3-1 O’s lead into a 4-3 hole. The Orioles went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position, and it was that kind of night.

Boston trotted out a lefty opener in Brennan Bernardino, but this turned out to be kind of a red herring, as Bernardino only pit

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