Showalter on O'Day having surgery and Schoop's reset

Orioles reliever Darren O'Day is going to have season-ending surgery on his strained left hamstring. Yesterday O'Day was moved from the 10-day to the 60-day disabled list. The recovery time will be six months after the procedure.

O'Day suffered the injury while trying to field a ball Tuesday night versus Seattle in what will turn out to be his last game of the 2018 season. He got a second opinion yesterday. He is 0-2 with a 3.60 ERA and 1.100 WHIP in 20 games.

"Just kind of deciding when and where and who," manager Buck Showalter said of the procedure. "This gives us a chance of this not being an issue again."

Meanwhile the skipper spent a good portion of his pregame press conference today talking about his struggling second baseman Jonathan Schoop who is batting .197/.242/.345. Schoop is getting today off and may get Sunday off as well.

"Thinking about giving him with the off day Monday a couple of days," Showalter said. "Really three to have a reset. A shorter version. Kind of what we did with Chris (Davis). I'd like to see (Steve) Wilkerson play a little bit, especially at second base.

"I've thought about this a lot. He's been struggling for quite a while with very few exceptions and he hasn't been able to put together that consistency that he did last year. He's not the only one."

Schoop is 0-for-6 the last two games and 2-for-27 (.074) the last seven games. Over his last 30 games he has just three homers and six RBIs.

"You keep waiting," Showalter said. "They are doing things every day. Jon, like I told you yesterday, you are trying to get it back in one swing. He's getting information and suggestions from every angle. Jon is a guy that is going to listen...if you have one swing or one at-bat and you don't hit a double in left-center field, you go to something else. You have to stay with a process and plan. That is kind of the thought with Chris. Stay with it when you don't have results. You have to change the way you look at results. If you look up at the scoreboard and are hitting .198, that will all take care of itself if you stay in the pitch, the at-bat. How do you define a good result? When you are taking a walk. That is hard to do when you are trying to hit .290 or .300 and you're hitting .190.

"Does it involve turning a great double play? Does it involve hitting a line drive that the second baseman catches? Does it involve laying off pitches out of the zone? Depends how you define it."

Showalter was asked of Schoop's defense has suffered along with his slumping bat?

"It's challenging when you are scuffling that bad and all the sudden here comes summer and all the different things we play in. You have to be challenged to separate the game. It's challenging for a young guy. I'm not going to say it's suffered. You know Jon takes a lot of pride in his defense. It's tough. It's hard. Then you couple on top of the fact that you are struggling offensively. It takes a lot of discipline."

Showalter said Schoop is fine physically.

The skipper was asked about right-hander Chris Tillman, who is making his third minor league rehab start tonight for Triple-A Norfolk. Tillman has pitched once each for short season Single-A Aberdeen and Single-A Delmarva. In those two games, Tillman is 0-1 wit an ERA of 8.44 allowing six hits and five runs over 5 1/3 innings.

"This is about getting people out at a level that he should be getting people out if he's coming back here. OK. It's kind of been a mixed bag, so really like to see him have one or two quality starts down there. And really pitch like a guy that is better than that level. That is what I'd like to see," Showalter said of Tillman's outing tonight.