Another hard night for pitchers

Bronx Bombers live up to their name in beating Kremer

Boasting two rookie pitchers in the starting rotation is a boom-bust proposition for a team like the Orioles. The good nights for Dean Kremer, Bruce Zimmermann and eventually Keegan Akin will foretell a rebuild on track.

The rough nights, like Zimmermann endured Tuesday and Kremer matched Wednesday in a 7-0 slugging by the New York Yankees before an announced 7,338 at Camden Yards, sting doubly.

Even if they all have the potential to pitch well in the rotation for years — even against thesesameYankees—gettinghitaroundthe park with authority goes a long way to scuffing up the veneer these 10-14 Orioles are using to glow up another year of future-focused baseball at the big league level.

As it was against Zimmermann on Tuesday, most of what the Yankees accomplished at the plate was done with authority Wednesday.

Kremer benefited from a wonderful double play started by Maikel Franco at third base on a 119.4-mph ground ball from Giancarlo Stanton in a scoreless first inning, but allowed a home run to Mike Ford to open the second and eventually had four runscomeacrossinthefourthinning.Three were on a home run by Gio Urshela.

One final run came around to score after Kremer passed the game off to Shawn Armstrong, bringing the rookie starter’s ERA to 8.40 with a 2.000 WHIP in four games with 4 ⅓ innings of six-run, 10-hit ball in his return from a minor league assignment at the Bowie camp.

Germán engineering

Yankees starter Domingo Germán had no such issues getting through the Orioles’ lineup Wednesday, carrying a no-hit bid into the fifth inning before Ryan Mountcastle legged out an infield single with two outs.

Trey Mancini and Pedro Severino had hits in the seventh inning, but the Orioles never threatened otherwise.

Eight of the Orioles’ 16 runs over six games of the current homestand came on Sunday, and they’ve scored just five runs in three games against the Yankees this week.