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[BSLChrisStoner]

Kyle Gibson vs Joey Wentz

[BSLChrisStoner]

@masnRoch

Austin Hays said he can run tonight. Will try to swing bat in a few days. Fast recovery, he said. Was hit on right middle finger #orioles

[BSLChrisStoner]

Cedric Mullins CF
Adley Rutschman C
Ryan Mountcastle 1B
Anthony Santander DH
Ramón Urías 3B
Jorge Mateo SS
Adam Frazier RF
Ryan McKenna LF
Joey Ortiz 2B

[JStruds]

Welcome young Mr Ortiz.

[BaltBird 24]

@masnRoch
Austin Hays said he can run tonight. Will try to swing bat in a few days. Fast recovery, he said. Was hit on right middle finger #orioles

Fast recovery for Hays means he should be swinging a bat again by September.

[BaltBird 24]

That's some elite IF defense with Ortiz at 2B, Mateo at SS, and Urias at 3B.

[Mackus]

@masnRoch

Austin Hays said he can run tonight. Will try to swing bat in a few days. Fast recovery, he said. Was hit on right middle finger #orioles

 

If he can't even try to swing a bat for a few days he should be on the IL..  Bad decision to burn 4 days with a short bench just to have him over a replacement for the ensuing 6.  If we didn't have good alternatives like Stowers or Cowser, then maybe you push your luck, but we've got multiple perfectly acceptable alternatives. 

[JStruds]

If he can't even try to swing a bat for a few days he should be on the IL.. Bad decision to burn 4 days with a short bench just to have him over a replacement for the ensuing 6. If we didn't have good alternatives like Stowers or Cowser, then maybe you push your luck, but we've got multiple perfectly acceptable alternatives.

Agreed. Given his past history of less than rapid healing, this would have been an ideal time to see what Stowers or Cowser could do.

[makoman]

If he can't even try to swing a bat for a few days he should be on the IL.. Bad decision to burn 4 days with a short bench just to have him over a replacement for the ensuing 6. If we didn't have good alternatives like Stowers or Cowser, then maybe you push your luck, but we've got multiple perfectly acceptable alternatives.

I’m also worried about typical play-through-injury Hays if he’s not 100% once he can swing again.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Excited to see Ortiz

[JoyinMudville]

GIMME FIVE: The Orioles secured their fifth straight series victory yesterday, beating the Red Sox, 6-2, at Oriole Park to complete a 5-1 homestand...Ramón Urías set a career high with four hits and matched a career best with three runs scored after going 4-for-4 with three runs scored and an RBI...Cedric Mullins reached base three times, going 2-for-3 with a run scored, an RBI, a walk, and a stolen base...Tyler Wells surrendered two runs over 5.2 innings to earn his first win of the season.

Uríasr egistered the fifth game of at least four hits by an Oriole this season, joining Austin Hays (2x) and Adley Rutschman (2x); those five such games are tied with Chicago-NL for the most in MLB this season.

WHAT'S TRENDING: The O's have won eight of their last nine games, 10 of their last 12, and 12 of their last 15...The 16-8 record is tied for the third-best start to begin a season in team history (since 1954) and is the best opening to a campaign since the 2017 club also started the year 16-8...Only the 1997 and 2005 Orioles, who were both 17-7, had a better record through 24 games played than the 2023 Birds.

GIB AND TAKE: Kyle Gibson makes his sixth start of the season tonight, looking to improve to 5-0...No Oriole starting pitcher has started a season 5-0 since Jimmy Key went 8-0 in his first nine starts in 1997...Gibson had a career-high-tying 11 strikeouts in his last start against Detroit on April 22 at Oriole Park after entering the start with 13 total strikeouts in his first four starts of the year.

WHAT A RELIEF: The Baltimore bullpen has a 1.21 ERA (6 ER/44.2 IP) in the last 12 games since April 13...For the season, O's relievers own a 2.78 ERA (29 ER/94.0 IP), the third-best mark in MLB...The Orioles 'pen has pitched to a 2.95 ERA (14 ER/42.2 IP) on the road this season after working to a 3.72 (120 ER/290.2 IP) away from Oriole Park in 2022.

 

CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER: Cedric Mullins is batting .381/.509/.571 (16-for-42) with three doubles, one triple, one homer, five runs scored, 12 RBI, 11 walks, and five stolen bases in the last 13 games since April 12...During that time, he leads MLB in on-base percentage and ranks among MLB leaders in walks (T-4th), batting average (5th), and OPS (8th)...He entered this stretch slashing .163/.250/.326 (7-for-43) with one double, two home runs, seven runs scored, eight RBI, five walks, and five stolen bases in the first 11 games of the season.

 

THE CANO SHOW: Yennier Cano set down the first four batters he faced yesterday to tie the team record (since 1954) with 24 consecutive batters retired to start a season, joining Fred Holdsworth who set the record from July 17-24, 1976...The stretch ended on a Justin Turner hit-by-pitch with two outs in the eighth inning...Cano's 25 hitless at-bats to begin a season are also tied for the most to begin a season in O's history with Todd Frohwirth in 1991 and Steve Barber in 1967...The last MLB pitchers with 25-or-more hitless at-bats to open a season were Tampa Bay's Jason Adam and San Diego's Sean Manaea (both 28) in 2022...Milwaukee's Josh Hader did not allow a hit in his first 35 at-bats to begin the 2020 season.

 

ROSTER MOVES: The Orioles recalled Joey Ortiz from Triple-A Norfolk today...He will wear No. 65 and his first appearance will be his MLB debut...Ortiz was slashing .359/.389/.500 (23-for-64) with five doubles, two triples, six runs scored, five walks, and one stolen base in 16 games with the Tides this season...In a corresponding move,Terrin Vavra was optioned to Norfolk after yesterday's game.

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[JoyinMudville]

Not much of a sample size against Detroit's pitcher

 

Rutchsman 500 avg • 3 for 6 with 1 rbi

Mountcastle 200 avg • 1 for 5

Henderson 400 avg • 2 for 5

Urias 250 avg • 1 for 4 with 3 rbi

Mullins 0 for 2

Santander 0 for 3

[JoyinMudville]

That's some elite IF defense with Ortiz at 2B, Mateo at SS, and Urias at 3B.

 

What's the thinking behind bringing Ortiz up when we have Frazier, Henderson, and Varva in the infield.

 

Don't get me wrong. Happy for him. Just curious

[NewMarketSean]

Why are they in love with Frazier. Sub 200 avg last two weeks.

[fishteacher]

Why are they in love with Frazier. Sub 200 avg last two weeks.

I’d like to see his contact numbers though….they say how much of a contact guy he is.

[NewMarketSean]

Ortiz tagged it but Badoo made a great catch to rob him of a first AB hit.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Even from his first AB, it seems clear Ortiz is seeing the ball very well right now. He was all over that.

[BSLChrisStoner]

Os down 1-0 in the 3rd.

[Hooded Viper]

Gibson def doesn’t have it tonight

[BobPhelan]

Ortiz tagged it but Badoo made a great catch to rob him of a first AB hit.

.580 xBA