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Amid big roster attrition, Aberdeen pushes for winning year

Amid big roster attrition, Aberdeen pushes for winning year
ABERDEEN - On the surface, one could see the high Single-A Aberdeen IronBirds' record at 54-51 and feel like they've had a decent year, posting a winning record on the farm. But it you look deeper at all the players the club has moved up to Double-A Bowie this year - players that have the Baysox in a playoff hunt where Aberdeen is not - it tells you the IronBirds players and staff have done a real nice job during the 2021 season. Their season-opening rotation of Grayson Rodriguez, Garrett...
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O's game blog: The series opener at Yankee Stadium

O's game blog: The series opener at Yankee Stadium
After losing two of three at Toronto followed by Thursday's off-day, the Orioles' road trip continues tonight when they play the first of three games in the Bronx against the New York Yankees. The Orioles beat Toronto 4-2 on Tuesday night, but lost 5-4 in Wednesday's series finale. The Orioles (41-91) have 30 games remaining beginning tonight. They have lost five of six and 24 of their past 27 games. They are 14-43 versus American League East teams, including a record of 5-8 against the...
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Bowie's Grayson Rodriguez has seen a rebuild as a fan

Bowie's Grayson Rodriguez has seen a rebuild as a fan
BOWIE - A few years before he became a first-round draft pick with a big signing bonus and later a marked man in professional baseball, right-handed pitcher Grayson Rodriguez was just another teenager in Nacogdoches, Texas, rooting for the big league team closest to home. But the team he rooted for lost a lot. They were rebuilding. The teenage Grayson would get to see that team go from worst to first and win the World Series. Now as an Orioles minor league pitcher with Double-A Bowie, he is one...
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Sulser's strong year, month-by-month breakdown and more notes

Sulser's strong year, month-by-month breakdown and more notes
Orioles reliever Cole Sulser made quick work of the Toronto Blue Jays to record the save on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre. On 12 pitches he recorded a 1-2-3 inning to pick up his sixth save as the Orioles beat Toronto 4-2. For Sulser it was the continuation of a solid year - one in which he now has effective weapons to get out both left- and right-handed hitters and now is no longer a big reverse-splits-only guy. In 49 innings, Sulser is 3-3 with a 3.12 ERA, allowing 38 hits with 1.204 WHIP...
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O's game blog: Looking for a series win at Toronto

O's game blog: Looking for a series win at Toronto
Some nights, when you get solid pitching and defense and a few timely hits, you can win and even beat some of the better teams. The Orioles had a game like that last night when they beat Toronto 4-2 at Rogers Centre. They held the Blue Jays to six hits, and while Toronto went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position, the Orioles went 3-for-7 and that was big in a low-scoring, close game. And while the Orioles have been near the bottom of the league in batting with RISP this year, they have hit...
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Tyler Wells on his big out versus Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

Tyler Wells on his big out versus Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
For a rookie pitcher who was a Rule 5 draft pick last December, one with just 34 big league games under his belt and no career saves, it was a big-time situation. Orioles right-hander Tyler Wells came in to face Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the last of the seventh last night at Toronto's Rogers Centre. There were two on and two outs and the Orioles were leading 4-2. Guerrero had hit his 39th homer an inning before on a 97 mph fastball. The night before, he had homered twice. In 11 games this year...
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Stowers' power: Stanford draftee leads O's farm in home runs

Stowers' power: Stanford draftee leads O's farm in home runs
BOWIE - Last Thursday night, the Double-A Bowie Baysox, chasing a playoff spot, were hosting Erie. Bowie had lost the first two games of that series, blowing a ninth-inning lead in the series opener, and on this night, they held a 6-3 lead. But by the eighth inning, the game was tied 6-6. But Bowie would not let this game get away. Lefty-hitting right fielder Kyle Stowers, the O's minor league home run leader, blasted one out to center for a two-run shot and an 8-6 lead. Three outs later, the...
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Akin solid again and O's get rare AL East win over Toronto

Akin solid again and O's get rare AL East win over Toronto
The Orioles had to wonder whether lefty Keegan Akin could put together another good start to follow up his recent seven-inning outing. As the game wore on, they also had to wonder if they would get to Hyun Jin Ryu, a pitcher who has finished in the top three of the last two Cy Young Award votes, once in each league. The answers were yes and yes. And they helped the Orioles pick up a rare win against an American League East opponent. The Orioles (41-90) beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 tonight at...
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O's game blog: Keegan Akin faces Toronto at Rogers Centre

O's game blog: Keegan Akin faces Toronto at Rogers Centre
After Monday's 7-3 loss at Rogers Centre, the Orioles face the Toronto Blue Jays again tonight looking for a win in the second game of a three-game series and six-game road trip. Ryan Mountcastle's 25th home run provided the Orioles a 1-0 lead in the first inning last night, and he added an RBI infield single in the sixth and scored their final run on Pedro Severino's single in the ninth. Mountcastle leads the team in both homers and RBIs, with 73. Last night was his 18th multi-RBI game, and...
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The former big leaguer serving as Delmarva mentor, plus O's notes

The former big leaguer serving as Delmarva mentor, plus O's notes
When the low Single-A Delmarva Shorebirds took the field the last two weeks, with their new-look roster featuring a host of 2021 draft picks, an older pitcher ran to the mound four times with them. He kind of fit in with his own youthful look, even though he is 30 and a veteran of 92 major league games. Before the game, some fans may have figured he was one of the coaches, but lefty Ty Blach is still a player. A player just over 13 months removed from Tommy John surgery and pitching with...
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O's game blog: Road trip begins at Toronto

O's game blog: Road trip begins at Toronto
The Orioles begin a two-city, six-game road trip tonight playing at Toronto, where they have not played since Sept. 25, 2019. The Orioles play three games at Rogers Centre and then, after Thursday's off-day, play three games at Yankee Stadium. The Orioles got swept three by Tampa Bay over the weekend by 6-3, 4-3 and 12-8 scores. They went 1-18 versus the Rays and have lost 22 of 24 games overall. The Orioles were swept for the 17th time and Tampa Bay recorded its 13th series sweep. The road...
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Westburg's slow start at Bowie and Mountcastle's home run chase

Westburg's slow start at Bowie and Mountcastle's home run chase
BOWIE - For a player that has had one of the most productive bats on the Orioles farm this year, it is strange to see infielder Jordan Westburg with a .143 batting average right now at Double-A Bowie. But his bat has yet to take off with the Baysox. However, for this player in his first full pro season, there is no concern right now and both his manager and hitting coaches expect the hits to start coming and sooner rather than later. "He's taking some lumps, which I think is good for him,"...
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O's game blog: Trying to extend the quality starts streak

O's game blog: Trying to extend the quality starts streak
It started with Keegan Akin's solid seven-inning outing on Thursday afternoon, when he allowed just three hits and one run. That started a run that is now three consecutive quality outings by O's pitchers as Matt Harvey and John Means followed Akin with strong outings of their own. Three straight quality starts is a first for the 2021 Orioles. They had had two in a row but never three until now. In this span, the three starters allowed six runs and 12 hits in 19 1/3 innings with three walks...
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A look at Adley Rutschman's strong start with Norfolk

A look at Adley Rutschman's strong start with Norfolk
The No. 1 prospect in baseball, Triple-A Norfolk catcher Adley Rutschman, has been at the minors' highest level for just over two weeks now. After starting with eight hits in his first 17 Norfolk at-bats, his hitting has leveled off a bit, but it's still been a strong start for Rutschman with the Tides. Earlier, over 80 games with Double-A Bowie, Rutschman hit .271/.392/.508/.901 with 16 doubles, 18 homers and 55 RBIs. Through 15 games with Norfolk at Triple-A, he's batting...
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O's game blog: John Means faces Tampa Bay at the Yard

O's game blog: John Means faces Tampa Bay at the Yard
The Orioles are still trying to figure out a way to beat the Tampa Bay Rays. Tonight they turn to their ace lefty John Means to try to defeat the Rays for just the second time this year. But tonight's start comes at a time when Means (5-6, 3.50 ERA) is struggling badly. On Aug. 6, Means allowed just one run over five innings versus Tampa Bay. But in the three starts since then - one that came versus the Rays - Means is 0-3 with an 8.16 ERA. He has allowed 13 earned runs and 20 hits, yielding...
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Next challenge for baseball's best pitching prospect: Bouncing back

Next challenge for baseball's best pitching prospect: Bouncing back
BOWIE - When he takes the mound tonight for Double-A Bowie against Erie, the highest-ranked pitching prospect in baseball, right-hander Grayson Rodriguez of the Baysox, will face a unique challenge. It is one he seldom faces. He'll try to pitch well coming off a poor start. Last Tuesday versus the Reading Fightin Phils, the 21-year-old Rodriguez allowed two hits and one run over five innings with one walk and six strikeouts. That start was like most of the 19 he has made this year for both...
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Notes from Bowie on playoff push, Stowers' homers, Lowther's outing (updated)

Notes from Bowie on playoff push, Stowers' homers, Lowther's outing (updated)
BOWIE - With 23 games left to play in this minor league season, a playoff push is on at Double-A Bowie, where the Baysox picked up a huge 8-6 win over Erie last night when right fielder Kyle Stowers hit his second homer of the game to break a 6-6 tie in the last of the eighth. When he hit homers No. 19 and 20 Thursday night, Stowers, the Orioles' No. 71 overall draft pick in 2019 out of Stanford, helped the Baysox improve to 19 games over .500 and hang onto the second-best record in the...
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O's game blog: Series begins vs. Rays

O's game blog: Series begins vs. Rays
After scoring 23 runs in back-to-back wins that followed a 19-game losing streak, the Orioles have a bit of momentum as they head into the series that begins tonight at Oriole Park. But this series is against the team with which they have had the toughest time this year. The first-place Tampa Bay Rays (79-48) come to Baltimore for a three-game weekend series to wrap up a nine-game homestand for the Orioles. The Rays are 15-1 this season against the Orioles and have outscored Baltimore 128-57 in...
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Jorge López gets off to good start in 'pen, plus other O's notes

Jorge López gets off to good start in 'pen, plus other O's notes
It was two innings at the end of a blowout win for the Orioles. But for the second time in two outings, right-hander Jorge López threw scoreless ball out of the bullpen. He's now thrown three scoreless innings in his new role on the pitching staff. Over two innings Thursday against the Los Angeles Angels, López, who went 3-14 with a 6.35 ERA in 25 games as a starter, retired six of seven batters, fanned four, allowing no hits or runs. In his first relief outing, when he pitched one...
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Akin's strong start, Mullins steals, Severino slam as O's win again

Akin's strong start, Mullins steals, Severino slam as O's win again
When the day began and he took the mound with a record of 0-8 and 7.92 ERA, lefty Keegan Akin would probably have been an unlikely candidate to become the first Baltimore pitcher this year not named John Means to go seven innings or more. But he pitched his way out of an early jam in the top of the second and got rolling after that. Akin was stellar on the mound in the heat of Camden Yards this afternoon, and the O's put up a big inning in the last of the fifth to beat the Los Angeles Angels...
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