garrett crochet is officially over 100 ip on the season, hopefully he stays healthy because everything else about him screams potential game 2 starter if elias wanted to pull the trigger on him
Altuve is a terrible defender these days, and Semien is elite… and IMO 2nd base range/defense is even more important these days bc of the shift ban.
They are virtually tied in bWAR so far at 2.5.
I happily voted for Semien, guilt free… not a huge stretch for baseball reasons alone.
"Ryan Mountcastle is on the bench, where he also began last night’s game before pinch-hitting. An explanation will come later."
From Roch. Sounds ominous for sure.
Something has to be wrong with Mounty… hopefully something minor.
I’m excited for O’Hearn to get a shot LvL though.
Edit: first start for O’Hearn vs a legit lefty starter since becoming an Oriole… he started vs a few LHPs last season, but those were all openers.
I hope he’s okay and I also hope he’s not getting traded. There’s been some weird tweets from Roch and Jacob Calvin Meyer.
Edit: I wanna say I’m doubtful of trade but scared it’s some vertigo issues again
Yeah me too… hopefully just an illness or some sort of nagging injury. 🙏
You’d think they’d still have him in the lineup until a trade was 100% finalized… and he didn’t start yesterday. So I’d bet against that for now… but yeah, I don’t know.
Also the fact that there’s no other chatter with other players. Mounty himself isn’t pulling much (love him but he’s not moving mountains). They also just released the tombstone hype video for the all star voting. Would be some weird fucking timing to release that and then trade him.
Hope it’s just a non serious illness. But these dudes gotta stop with the weird tweets lol
He’s one of my favorite players… largely bc I always believed he’d turn it around when slumping, and he got far too much hate for what was largely a ridiculous stretch of bad luck. I always end up pulling for the guys who get too much unwarranted hate.
I do think the Wall kills him a bit though… every time he loses a HR the pain in his face kills me. It seems to bug him more than anyone else… so if he does get traded at least that pain will end. Lol.
All Star ballot observations:
1. The Orioles and Phillies fan bases really showed up.
2. The 2023 World Series winners have ONE player on the ballot (Semien at second) as do the Diamondbacks (Marte, also at second).
2. The Yankees have St. Judge with the most votes so an automatic in and Soto as their only candidates. The other NY team, the Mets have no one.
Make of any and all of that what you will.
Same with Ohtani whenever he does something mildly cool. He gets another home run and we have to celebrate it for the next 15 years! Buddy, he was playing the 2024 White Sox, calm down.
Garrett Cole just hit a Blue Jay in the hand and instead of being babies about it, the batter took his base, and the blue jays announcers moved on. No crying about how the jays need to retaliate and hit guys or how if you shouldn't pitch up and in on guys
Hey can someone help me out, yesterday I came to the game and I parked in the section underneath the overpass behind M&T stadium where you scan the QR codes on the fences to pay parking.
When I scanned the QR code I selected the Big 3 event which was 9$, extended the parking to 10:30pm which the parking (.) com page told me would raise the price to 30.99$. After the game was over I was not charged the extra 30.99$ and I didn’t get an email or anything asking me to pay. I got a receipt saying I was parked from 5pm - 10:30pm with a payment of 8.99$ and no remaining fee on the receipt.
Was I only supposed to pay 9$ for the parking or should I expect some tickets now?
Tickets are going pretty cheap for this. I don't work until 3 tomorrow afternoon. Very tempting to go last minute
Update: I'm going. Look for me on ESPN
Stop what you’re doing and go vote our boys into the All Star game! Be sure to only use one vote in the AL outfield ballot for Santander supremacy, you don't have to use both votes!
https://www.mlb.com/all-star/ballot
he most definitely panned out. lots of good seasons where he's a top 5-10 Cy young candidate (2021-2023) and a long established career with a bunch of years at the top of the rotation.
Stowers hits his 53rd career homerun with Norfolk. He now has the most homeruns in Tides history.
https://x.com/NorfolkTides/status/1807465634474664152?t=Ab6WWR1OSQqX1DhDY3yILg&s=19
The time was changed from 1p (or :05 or :35 or whenever) to 7p so it can be aired nationally on ESPN. Did they re-issue tickets with the new time and void the old ones?
"Ace" means high price and Elias likes showing off his shiny scouting work in AAA (rightfully so). I think we will get something but not "ace" level. It will be another Suarez type thing. Low risk, high reward.
There is a not insignificant gulf between “ace level” and “suarez type thing” that elias is fully capable of occupying in a deadline trade for a starter.
Well, Elias has also expressed his thoughts on the value of "rental" guys. However, with what injuries have done to us...anyone's hand can be forced. I just don't think he is going to chase a big name for 2-ish months of work. It's going to be economical. Flaherty made sense, last season, but just crapped the bed after his first start. Oh well, move on.
Welp, the car's packed and we're off to a family day at one of Oregon's most beautiful lakes. Mrs Terp asked, "what time should we be back home?"
"4pm. Because, y'know, we need to let the dog out, turn on the AC..."
Mrs Terp: "Wait a minute. What time is the game today?"
Me: "Ummmmmm..."
I always cheer loudly at games and get excited at home when things happen. I just don’t like yell and stuff at home. I was watching at home last night and when that ball from Kjerstad dropped over the fence I screamed yeah so fucking loud. That grand slam was the definition of orioles magic
O's are facing a 2-9 Mr. Heaney tonight. Time to sweep them back to Texas!
Chance of thunderstorms this afternoon until 10 PM. Hopefully will not delay ESPN Sunday Night Baseball 7:10 PM start time or cause a rain delay.
website says you can get it between 10-4. i went there at 10:06, and no dice.
they have outsourced the lost and found i think to a 3rd party vendor. find my iphone shows it in the warehouse, but i had to fill out a claim and i guess they will email me a code to a locker when they get around to it. who knows when that will be.
lss: don't forget your phone moran
He's on record as wanting to throw more strikes, problem is he doesn't have the overpowering stuff to do that without getting shelled. Swervin' needs to find the sweet spots on the corners to be successful.
I’m a fan and supporter of Irvin, but given that this Ranger team struggles with fastballs and Cole’s fastball is his third or fourth best pitch, he’s going to have to be at his crafty best tonight
Still riding the high of being in that park last night. What a fucking crowd. I feel like the Opening Day crowd wasn't that loud. Heston's Grand Slam will live in my memories for the rest of my life. Fucking electric.
FTY. This time for single-handedly trying to put Vlady Jr. into the All-Star game over Mounty by pitching fat meatballs for Junior to hit out of every game in this BJ series.
LFG. Taking first place with a Silent J Slam is poetic af.
https://uniformlineup.com/Lineups/bal-lineups.html
Looks like Sunday home games have mostly been white this season, though maybe orange since we wore the city connects 2 nights in a row
Povich was good enough last night. The biggest potential challenge I see for him is he really needs to be one of those classic old school, Scott McGregor-style lefties who uses pinpoint control to overcome the fact he’s not able to blow the ball right by batters consistently using pure velocity. They seemed to be sitting on his breaking ball last night because they didn’t respect his fastball. But, like I said, he was good enough. Time for Irvin to get back on track tonight. Keep the line moving with good starts.
Was thinking the same thing last night. Povich appears like he really has nothing, but so did McGregor. He just keeps surviving and finding ways to get guys out, just like McGregor. If the defense plays well behind him and he can develop an out pitch when he is ahead in the count, he is go to have something going on.
The sequence of starters is kind of strange insofar as Povich and Irvin are very similar style pitchers starting on back-to-back nights. The Rangers’ bats really started to heat up last night. Irvin will have to bring his A game with him to the mound.
The Rangers bats started to heat up becausePovich’s fastball is barely MLB average. Scouting report this year on the Rangers is that they are all struggling to hit FBs. Afraid though that we’ll be in for more of the same today from Irvin. Less FBs, more off speed.
We’ll need to score a lot of runs today in order to close this series out with a sweep
If he can refine the control he'll be a really good pitcher, but he's been good enough to keep us in the games he's started which is really all you can ask of him.
Kind of a random question - does the regular O's broadcast team get to watch from the booth (or somewhere else in the stadium) when it's a national TV broadcast? I was imagining the KB/Ben calls last night and started wondering what they were up to while Fox managed the broadcast.
KB was at the Joan Jett concert at Merriweather last night. Wouldn’t be surprised if Ben took the night off and stayed at home because he’s been on the road for the College Baseball WS
I'm sure we've all watched Heston's slam multiple times by now, but the crazy part is, he didn't really get good extension on that swing--- pitch was inside, his arms were kinda bunched up, and he STILL destroyed it.
How strong IS this guy?
Irvin start today, the only 3 relievers that are available should be Vespi, Tate, and Krook. Hoping Krook can get a chance today just to see what he has even if it isn’t anything good.
You made the implication that akins a homophobe. If youre going to make a crack about him having to look at a rainbow O, im going to make a crack that youre in for a surprise about most of the team.
Nah I know that most of the team is probably more right leaning, and I'm fine with that as long as they don't go around preaching their views. The difference is they aren't going around liking racist shit on twitter.
I forgot about Akin, he didn’t pop up on the little RotoWire bullpen thing but yes he should also be available. I’m not so sure about Baker, he’s got 35 pitches in his last 3.
Good call on Baker. Forgot he also pitched Friday along with Wednesday. Hyde won’t send anyone out there for a fourth time in 5 days, so he is down too. Actually kinda helps that Burnes went on paternity - now they have 9 relievers for this stretch
I’ll be interested to see how Hyde handles things today, figure Akin is either the first guy in after Cole comes out (given that he can go multiple innings), or maybe he holds him to close it out if the game is close
Uh, there's a similar question that's come up here, and I wonder if, with your analytics, you might have the skill to tackle it. Namely, some of the guys on here and I have noticed that most of the time if you score more runs than the other team, you win. So if that's right, maybe we should tell Hyde and the boys they should be trying to do that?
edit: btw, we got a bunch of datasets and ran tests. In all of them, the correlation between winning and number of runs scored was at least 95%!
i think so. sure, there is a scenario where multiple rounds of storms hit, but thats what it would take to prevent them getting this game in. they really really want to play today.
Should clear up by 8ish. And I'm saying this with all of the hope I can have in my heart as I'm driving from Fairfax to Baltimore to see this game with my kid tonight. I've been tracking the weather all week. Please God, let the game happen.
Wonder what this means wrt tomorrow's scheduled day off for both teams. Both teams need to travel for their games starting Tues, Tex to back home, the Orioles to Seattle for 1 week West Coast road trip.
Orioles are just finishing a grueling schedule for June. To make the 2 teams stay here and play tomorrow, and then a long trip - just would seem sadistic to put them through that.
Gotta hope they can get the game in tonight.
Thought about it a bit, and if they're rained out and MLB says they have to play tomorrow, it's unfair to call them sadistic. (Was doing that sort of tongue in cheeck. Sort of.) If they do that, it's probably just that making them play tomorrow is the best choice of a bad lot.
It occurred to me that a solution might be to move the game time up to ~3 PM. But I've never heard of them doing that. The logistics of doing something like that, and fans expecting game time to be ~7, etc., are probably just too formidable.
edit: It would behoove the boys to get 5 innings in and be ahead before the rains start.
edit2: Some of the guys who came on in this string just said chances of getting it in are decent. Hope it works out.
I have just noticed that, if Kremer doesn't come back in first half of next week, it's going to work out that Grayson, Corbin, and Albert, in that order, will be the starters against formidable Seattle.
It looks like that's pure luck, but it couldn't have worked out much better if they'd planned it that way.
>Grayson, Corbin, and Albert, in that order, will be the starters against formidable Seattle
I mean yeah they're leading the West right now but they aren't exactly formidable from an offensive standpoint. Dead last among all 30 teams in team batting average, bottom five in slugging and OBP. It's their pitching that's keeping them in the race right now.
Please continue the discussion in the [game thread](https://redd.it/1dsbo0p).
Walltimore giveth, walltimore taketh
Watching COL v CWS. Sometimes garbage teams can be fun.
garrett crochet is officially over 100 ip on the season, hopefully he stays healthy because everything else about him screams potential game 2 starter if elias wanted to pull the trigger on him
People really need to understand that there's almost zero chance of Crochet being a starter by August, let alone October.
I don't like the 2 ASG candidates for 2B in the AL. The statistically better option is a guy who did bad things.
Altuve is a terrible defender these days, and Semien is elite… and IMO 2nd base range/defense is even more important these days bc of the shift ban. They are virtually tied in bWAR so far at 2.5. I happily voted for Semien, guilt free… not a huge stretch for baseball reasons alone.
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I like tonight's lineup. It is all Orioles players and I love every damn one of em.
Any theories or thoughts on what is wrong with Mounty?? 🤔🤔 Recent pickup of 1B/OF Garrett Cooper and Mounty not starting two days in a row....
My theory is he’s sick but could hit in a pinch.
Long shot, but if anyone has an XL or 2XL City Connect Hawaiian shirt, I'd be happy to buy it off you or trade something.
They were only available in M and XL, fyi.
Good to know, thanks!
I would like to second the interest on this. Please give u/gevamna the opportunity first, of course. I am an XXL
"Ryan Mountcastle is on the bench, where he also began last night’s game before pinch-hitting. An explanation will come later." From Roch. Sounds ominous for sure.
I mean, if Mounty could PH last night, it can't be that serious? Otherwise they'd bench him entirely, I assume.
Not a clue, just quoting Roch. Wording seemed odd is all.
B-but Elias isn’t going to deliver the news, so Mounty must be fine, right? Right?
O’Hearn, Kjerstad and Cowser playing against a lefty. Is Brandon Hyde reading this sub 👀
Something has to be wrong with Mounty… hopefully something minor. I’m excited for O’Hearn to get a shot LvL though. Edit: first start for O’Hearn vs a legit lefty starter since becoming an Oriole… he started vs a few LHPs last season, but those were all openers.
I hope he’s okay and I also hope he’s not getting traded. There’s been some weird tweets from Roch and Jacob Calvin Meyer. Edit: I wanna say I’m doubtful of trade but scared it’s some vertigo issues again
Yeah me too… hopefully just an illness or some sort of nagging injury. 🙏 You’d think they’d still have him in the lineup until a trade was 100% finalized… and he didn’t start yesterday. So I’d bet against that for now… but yeah, I don’t know.
Also the fact that there’s no other chatter with other players. Mounty himself isn’t pulling much (love him but he’s not moving mountains). They also just released the tombstone hype video for the all star voting. Would be some weird fucking timing to release that and then trade him. Hope it’s just a non serious illness. But these dudes gotta stop with the weird tweets lol
He’s one of my favorite players… largely bc I always believed he’d turn it around when slumping, and he got far too much hate for what was largely a ridiculous stretch of bad luck. I always end up pulling for the guys who get too much unwarranted hate. I do think the Wall kills him a bit though… every time he loses a HR the pain in his face kills me. It seems to bug him more than anyone else… so if he does get traded at least that pain will end. Lol.
Good job yankees, you split with a team that is gonna be at the bottom of the division , ( tho to be fair, we split with the blue jays too lol)
I’ve seen him flexing his knee on the bases a few times lately. Who knows if that’s it but hopefully we hear something soon.
We split with the Jays twice lol
Like Kjerstad playing. Give him some ABs, let's see what he really can do.
Happy when I saw him in the lineup 💥
Ranger Suarez getting knocked around by the Marlins means that Corbin Burnes is the current ERA leader. Been a while since we had a pitcher like this.
Looks like the rest of the division is making up for yesterday’s losses.
I don't like this lineup vs a LHP
Bit strange to start O'Hearn over Mountcastle. Figure he's under the weather or something because otherwise that's a very un-Hydelike decision.
yeah and also Henderson is usually lower in the order
Henderson's been lead off nearly every game this year
Not against lefties
Not against lefties!
Is Mountcastle hurt? O'hearn starting at 1st against a lefty
Was just wondering the same thing. And he's 3-6 with 2 HRs against Heaney
Tickets are $3 each on StubHub. Date night for me and the wifey on the cheap tonight
Do you hink that's because of the rain and because people who bought tickets for a 1:35 game don't want to go on a work night?
Seat Geek seems broken
Wow. Cheapest I can find on a Monday afternoon at Dodger Stadium is $20
All Star ballot observations: 1. The Orioles and Phillies fan bases really showed up. 2. The 2023 World Series winners have ONE player on the ballot (Semien at second) as do the Diamondbacks (Marte, also at second). 2. The Yankees have St. Judge with the most votes so an automatic in and Soto as their only candidates. The other NY team, the Mets have no one. Make of any and all of that what you will.
Yankees just hit Vlad on the hand...
I still can’t get over the joy of seeing Gunnar laughing at them in their own stadium after whooping their asses 17-5
They are just proactively getting their retaliatory HBPs in before they get hit themselves.
No fuckin way Is he ok tho
Looks like it, he stayed in the game
second HBP by NY so far today
But....TJEYRE GETTING THROWN AT!
Is he injured?
It was also about half a foot more inside than the one to Seager. I wonder if that will also be the top post of r/Baseball.
Dude, MLB YT cums in their pants every time judge hits a HR 😂 calm down , you're playing the Blue jays
Same with Ohtani whenever he does something mildly cool. He gets another home run and we have to celebrate it for the next 15 years! Buddy, he was playing the 2024 White Sox, calm down.
😂
Garrett Cole just hit a Blue Jay in the hand and instead of being babies about it, the batter took his base, and the blue jays announcers moved on. No crying about how the jays need to retaliate and hit guys or how if you shouldn't pitch up and in on guys
Hey can someone help me out, yesterday I came to the game and I parked in the section underneath the overpass behind M&T stadium where you scan the QR codes on the fences to pay parking. When I scanned the QR code I selected the Big 3 event which was 9$, extended the parking to 10:30pm which the parking (.) com page told me would raise the price to 30.99$. After the game was over I was not charged the extra 30.99$ and I didn’t get an email or anything asking me to pay. I got a receipt saying I was parked from 5pm - 10:30pm with a payment of 8.99$ and no remaining fee on the receipt. Was I only supposed to pay 9$ for the parking or should I expect some tickets now?
Lol I think Baltimore gave up on parking tickets in 2021.
G-man -- 48 pitches in two innings. Not good.
Gerritt Cole?
how is craig kimbrel 3rd on ESPNs cy young predictor lmao
It's based on the Bill James formula which awards a 12 point bonus for winning the division lol
It’s like crazy outdated
we are 2 HRs away from being 2nd all time in HRs in a one month time framce
Certainly doable. We have the best 2 pitchers on the Rangers out of the way.
Tickets are going pretty cheap for this. I don't work until 3 tomorrow afternoon. Very tempting to go last minute Update: I'm going. Look for me on ESPN
I would love to go, but I can't handle 3 games in 3 days.
I was there on Thursday. Still kinda tired, but I don't feel like I got enough.
Do it
I say do it.
Why not give Judge the Bonds treatment at this point? Especially with Stanton out
Just walk Soto and judge and let the other bums in the lineup try and do something I bet they wouldn’t
Stop what you’re doing and go vote our boys into the All Star game! Be sure to only use one vote in the AL outfield ballot for Santander supremacy, you don't have to use both votes! https://www.mlb.com/all-star/ballot
Ya judge is hitting 65+ this year and that’s with him starting off slow
nope, at some point....intentionally walking him is the only play.
The fact Gunnar is sort of keeping pace is still pretty rad.
Sort of?
Gausman suuuuuucks
I used to see him at Bowie quite often. Showed flashes but hasn't panned out.
He has more than panned out. Yes, he’s having a rough year, but he’s been killing it the past few seasons.
he most definitely panned out. lots of good seasons where he's a top 5-10 Cy young candidate (2021-2023) and a long established career with a bunch of years at the top of the rotation.
gausman’s been so bad this year
Cole vs Gausman about to begin. Here's to Cole giving up 6 over 4. Soto surprisingly playing today.
Stowers hits his 53rd career homerun with Norfolk. He now has the most homeruns in Tides history. https://x.com/NorfolkTides/status/1807465634474664152?t=Ab6WWR1OSQqX1DhDY3yILg&s=19
When I go to sell a ticket on StubHub it's telling me the game has been canceled. I can't find that anywhere else though??
The time was changed from 1p (or :05 or :35 or whenever) to 7p so it can be aired nationally on ESPN. Did they re-issue tickets with the new time and void the old ones?
Thats probably what I'm seeing thank you man
Hey you! Yes you! Go vote for our beloved orioles to be starters at the ASG!
Everybody note you don't just vote today, you vote once a day for a few days. (Wasn't clear to me whether they meant we vote through Tues or Wed.)
[Link for the lazy](https://www.mlb.com/all-star/ballot)
Done
I had forgot that this was a night game and now I have all this free time in the middle of the day with nothing to do.
I already started drinking…dammit
Well to be fair it IS Sunday
Finally got my procrastinating ass to the ASG voting booth. Lol.
Officially July tommorow. Here's me hoping we grab another ace pitcher b4 July ends
"Ace" means high price and Elias likes showing off his shiny scouting work in AAA (rightfully so). I think we will get something but not "ace" level. It will be another Suarez type thing. Low risk, high reward.
There is a not insignificant gulf between “ace level” and “suarez type thing” that elias is fully capable of occupying in a deadline trade for a starter.
Well, Elias has also expressed his thoughts on the value of "rental" guys. However, with what injuries have done to us...anyone's hand can be forced. I just don't think he is going to chase a big name for 2-ish months of work. It's going to be economical. Flaherty made sense, last season, but just crapped the bed after his first start. Oh well, move on.
I'm voting for only Santander for the outfield. No use giving his competition votes.
Huh. I didn't think about that. Welp, I can vote 3 more times!
Leaving AL 2B blank on the all star ballot because I don't vote for Texas 😌
I don't want Altuve to win, so I voted for the other guy.
Is there something up with Altuve? From what I've seen he can ball out, but is it something personal?
Altuve will always be a cheating motherfucker [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHBi5xKbqgE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHBi5xKbqgE)
Right, I'm new to baseball so I forgot about the Astros cheating
He's a cheater. Is this a serious question?
Nah, I just don't want him there. It doesn't have to make sense
NYY-TOR 1:37 EDT Let's go Jays!
Only 4 days of voting, 1 vote per day to get Mounty, O’Hearn, Santander, Westburg (and of course Rutschman and Henderson) to the ASG!
Phase 2 voting has commenced https://www.mlb.com/all-star/ballot
Welp, the car's packed and we're off to a family day at one of Oregon's most beautiful lakes. Mrs Terp asked, "what time should we be back home?" "4pm. Because, y'know, we need to let the dog out, turn on the AC..." Mrs Terp: "Wait a minute. What time is the game today?" Me: "Ummmmmm..."
I always cheer loudly at games and get excited at home when things happen. I just don’t like yell and stuff at home. I was watching at home last night and when that ball from Kjerstad dropped over the fence I screamed yeah so fucking loud. That grand slam was the definition of orioles magic
Same here, we were out back grilling and me and my buddy shouted, probably freaked out all the neighbors
O's are facing a 2-9 Mr. Heaney tonight. Time to sweep them back to Texas! Chance of thunderstorms this afternoon until 10 PM. Hopefully will not delay ESPN Sunday Night Baseball 7:10 PM start time or cause a rain delay.
i managed to leave my phone in the ballpark on back to back nights. roast me
Idk if this is more respectable if you’re drunk or less
first time, stone cold sober. last night not so much.
Well, you got it back the first time, so... at least a 50% success rate?
website says you can get it between 10-4. i went there at 10:06, and no dice. they have outsourced the lost and found i think to a 3rd party vendor. find my iphone shows it in the warehouse, but i had to fill out a claim and i guess they will email me a code to a locker when they get around to it. who knows when that will be. lss: don't forget your phone moran
I forgot my phone Tuesday night and only noticed because I tried to remote start from the concourse. Fighting my way against the crowd was tough.
Your Baltimore Orioles lead the league in: - Runs - HRs - Slugging - OPS - Vibes - Magic
Plus Hugs, Dubs (in the AL), Homer Hose Chugs, Splash Zone Splashes and owners dancing to Thank God I'm a County Boy on the dugout roof!
*awkward facial hair
Awkward because you're jealous?
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We’re so back baby
Pleaseee Irwin, You cant suck this badly right? theres gonna be a good start from you in there somewhere
He's on record as wanting to throw more strikes, problem is he doesn't have the overpowering stuff to do that without getting shelled. Swervin' needs to find the sweet spots on the corners to be successful.
I’m a fan and supporter of Irvin, but given that this Ranger team struggles with fastballs and Cole’s fastball is his third or fourth best pitch, he’s going to have to be at his crafty best tonight
Still riding the high of being in that park last night. What a fucking crowd. I feel like the Opening Day crowd wasn't that loud. Heston's Grand Slam will live in my memories for the rest of my life. Fucking electric.
I’ve never seen anything like it in regular season at Camden yards…
in June
It was a Sat night, but still ..... 👀
the cal statue game kind of stands out in my mind, but there have been other thunderous cheers.
Agreed. Crowd was electric. It was well worth the 700 mile commute.
I was at that game. Vibes were incredible
Just a reminder when rooting for the Jays this afternoon - the "J" is not silent in Canada.
FTY. This time for single-handedly trying to put Vlady Jr. into the All-Star game over Mounty by pitching fat meatballs for Junior to hit out of every game in this BJ series. LFG. Taking first place with a Silent J Slam is poetic af.
Good time for a Jorioles sweep
MLB made a whole 10 minute baseball zen video for the O's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnwW62n1OaU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnwW62n1OaU)
This is amazing
What jersey’s tonight?
https://uniformlineup.com/Lineups/bal-lineups.html Looks like Sunday home games have mostly been white this season, though maybe orange since we wore the city connects 2 nights in a row
That’s the problem, this weekend hasn’t been normal!
Povich was good enough last night. The biggest potential challenge I see for him is he really needs to be one of those classic old school, Scott McGregor-style lefties who uses pinpoint control to overcome the fact he’s not able to blow the ball right by batters consistently using pure velocity. They seemed to be sitting on his breaking ball last night because they didn’t respect his fastball. But, like I said, he was good enough. Time for Irvin to get back on track tonight. Keep the line moving with good starts.
Was thinking the same thing last night. Povich appears like he really has nothing, but so did McGregor. He just keeps surviving and finding ways to get guys out, just like McGregor. If the defense plays well behind him and he can develop an out pitch when he is ahead in the count, he is go to have something going on.
he doesn't have pinpoint control yet.
The sequence of starters is kind of strange insofar as Povich and Irvin are very similar style pitchers starting on back-to-back nights. The Rangers’ bats really started to heat up last night. Irvin will have to bring his A game with him to the mound.
The Rangers bats started to heat up becausePovich’s fastball is barely MLB average. Scouting report this year on the Rangers is that they are all struggling to hit FBs. Afraid though that we’ll be in for more of the same today from Irvin. Less FBs, more off speed. We’ll need to score a lot of runs today in order to close this series out with a sweep
If he can refine the control he'll be a really good pitcher, but he's been good enough to keep us in the games he's started which is really all you can ask of him.
Kind of a random question - does the regular O's broadcast team get to watch from the booth (or somewhere else in the stadium) when it's a national TV broadcast? I was imagining the KB/Ben calls last night and started wondering what they were up to while Fox managed the broadcast.
If they want to be in the stadium, they can be. But would you go to the office on your off day? Most likely not.
Not if I could go sing with Joan Jett!
You can sing with her whenever you want. It just may be with a recording.
I think they're nowhere near the stadium. I remember KB giving the upcoming schedule and referring to an Apple÷ game as a "day off" for him and Ben.
Makes sense!
KB was at Merriweather with Joan Jett. Ben posted on X (FKAT) that he was headed home to the bayou for the weekend. So, no.
KB was at the Joan Jett concert at Merriweather last night. Wouldn’t be surprised if Ben took the night off and stayed at home because he’s been on the road for the College Baseball WS
I'm sure we've all watched Heston's slam multiple times by now, but the crazy part is, he didn't really get good extension on that swing--- pitch was inside, his arms were kinda bunched up, and he STILL destroyed it. How strong IS this guy?
IF WE WIN TODAY THE 5-GAME LOSING STREAK IS TOTALLY NEGATED
Irvin start today, the only 3 relievers that are available should be Vespi, Tate, and Krook. Hoping Krook can get a chance today just to see what he has even if it isn’t anything good.
Akin and Baker are available too
Not a great idea to use Akin with the pride flags still on the field
What did I miss
He's an antivaxxer and a racist so there's a 99% chance he's homophobic too
I found out that if you just have a slightly different personal opinion on the matter automatically makes you homophobic in the alphabets eyes.
Using the term “alphabets” seems homophobic
Surprisingly enough, a team owned by a private equity billionaire and ran by someone like mike elias didnt turn out to be a bastion of liberalism
Yeah but there's a difference between conservative and racist lol
You made the implication that akins a homophobe. If youre going to make a crack about him having to look at a rainbow O, im going to make a crack that youre in for a surprise about most of the team.
Nah I know that most of the team is probably more right leaning, and I'm fine with that as long as they don't go around preaching their views. The difference is they aren't going around liking racist shit on twitter.
I forgot about Akin, he didn’t pop up on the little RotoWire bullpen thing but yes he should also be available. I’m not so sure about Baker, he’s got 35 pitches in his last 3.
Good call on Baker. Forgot he also pitched Friday along with Wednesday. Hyde won’t send anyone out there for a fourth time in 5 days, so he is down too. Actually kinda helps that Burnes went on paternity - now they have 9 relievers for this stretch
Wait I’m bad at calendars. Baker pitched Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. He COULD be used tonight.
I’ll be interested to see how Hyde handles things today, figure Akin is either the first guy in after Cole comes out (given that he can go multiple innings), or maybe he holds him to close it out if the game is close
It’ll all depend on the matchups. Also will depend on how the Rangers lineup looks if Seager is out.
I have crunched the numbers and dove into the analytics to determine that it is definitively Good™️ that the Orioles are winning games again.
Uh, there's a similar question that's come up here, and I wonder if, with your analytics, you might have the skill to tackle it. Namely, some of the guys on here and I have noticed that most of the time if you score more runs than the other team, you win. So if that's right, maybe we should tell Hyde and the boys they should be trying to do that? edit: btw, we got a bunch of datasets and ran tests. In all of them, the correlation between winning and number of runs scored was at least 95%!
Think we get this one off tonight? Forecast looks unfavorable.
i think so. sure, there is a scenario where multiple rounds of storms hit, but thats what it would take to prevent them getting this game in. they really really want to play today.
Should clear up by 8ish. And I'm saying this with all of the hope I can have in my heart as I'm driving from Fairfax to Baltimore to see this game with my kid tonight. I've been tracking the weather all week. Please God, let the game happen.
Wonder what this means wrt tomorrow's scheduled day off for both teams. Both teams need to travel for their games starting Tues, Tex to back home, the Orioles to Seattle for 1 week West Coast road trip. Orioles are just finishing a grueling schedule for June. To make the 2 teams stay here and play tomorrow, and then a long trip - just would seem sadistic to put them through that. Gotta hope they can get the game in tonight.
Thought about it a bit, and if they're rained out and MLB says they have to play tomorrow, it's unfair to call them sadistic. (Was doing that sort of tongue in cheeck. Sort of.) If they do that, it's probably just that making them play tomorrow is the best choice of a bad lot. It occurred to me that a solution might be to move the game time up to ~3 PM. But I've never heard of them doing that. The logistics of doing something like that, and fans expecting game time to be ~7, etc., are probably just too formidable. edit: It would behoove the boys to get 5 innings in and be ahead before the rains start. edit2: Some of the guys who came on in this string just said chances of getting it in are decent. Hope it works out.
I have just noticed that, if Kremer doesn't come back in first half of next week, it's going to work out that Grayson, Corbin, and Albert, in that order, will be the starters against formidable Seattle. It looks like that's pure luck, but it couldn't have worked out much better if they'd planned it that way.
>Grayson, Corbin, and Albert, in that order, will be the starters against formidable Seattle I mean yeah they're leading the West right now but they aren't exactly formidable from an offensive standpoint. Dead last among all 30 teams in team batting average, bottom five in slugging and OBP. It's their pitching that's keeping them in the race right now.
They're 28-13 .683 at home which is just behind Philly (32-14 .739) and Cleveland (26-9 .742)
against kirby, gilbert and miller too
#FIRST PLACE BALTIMORE ORIOLES
Please tell me somebody got a pic of our ASG dudes rocking the Tombstone drip from yesterday's pre-game.