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Rutschman was feeling a bit under the weather, so the O’s will play it safe and give him the night off. James McCann will do the catching for John Means on Friday night and will bat eighth against Nick Pivetta and the Red Sox.

The Orioles could have rearranged things to get Dean Kremer into the rotation after Zach Eflin went on the IL, but they decided against doing it immediately and Young, who dealt with back tightness in the spring and was one of the Orioles’ earliest cuts, came through nicely. That said, he wasn’t exactly dominant in finishing with two strikeouts, He had a 23-percent CSW and a 50-percent hard-hit rate. It’s unclear if he’ll get another start.

Helsley walked the first two batters he faced and missed again on his first pitch to Colson Montgomery before Montgomery grounded out on the second pitch. Lenyn Sosa also grounded out afterwards, scoring a run in the process. After the softest of all possible hits from Andrew Benintendi, Edgar Quero came up with two on and two outs. Helsley chose then to make probably his three best pitches of the night and got a game-ending strikeout. He’s 3-for-3 in save chances despite having allowed two runs in 3 1/3 innings.

Taylor again pitched a scoreless first, but the White Sox offense couldn’t get anything going tonight and Fedde dropped to 0-2 with a 4.09 ERA. He’ll face the Royals on Saturday, perhaps again behind an opener.

The second strikeout ended the game with the tying and go-ahead runs on base in the ninth. Quero has opened the season 4-for-23 with no extra-base hits or RBI, and it might be worth wondering if the White Sox will keep him in the majors after Kyle Teel returns. Quero just turned 23 today and still needs polish defensively. He might be better off catching regularly in Triple-A than backing up Teel and getting at-bats at DH in the majors.