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Orioles trending up after 7-3 homestand · Birdland Territory

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Speaker 1: Pretty big homestand for the Baltimore Orioles as they go
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Speaker 1: seven and three against three teams and now hit the road.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in latest edition of Birdland Territory with Steve, Brad
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Speaker 1: and Tim And. I think we all felt, guys, before
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Speaker 1: that long home stand began, they needed to roll off
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Speaker 1: some wins, pretty vital homestand, and they got it done right.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not ready to say that's the season turning
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Speaker 1: homestand because you need more evidence, I think, but you
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Speaker 1: can't have a thirty game run without starting it with
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Speaker 1: a ten game run, So that's the hope. I think
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Speaker 1: around Birdland today, what did you guys think about how
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Speaker 1: important that stand was and things you liked about it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was really important.
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Speaker 3: I think them just going out there and getting some
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Speaker 3: wins and just get getting headed in the right direction.
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Speaker 3: I think it was the most important thing, and they
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Speaker 3: did that. They hit well, but to me it was
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Speaker 3: the starting pitching. The starting pitching really had a great
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Speaker 3: homestand collectively as a group, I just think they set
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Speaker 3: the tone really well for all the games they had,
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Speaker 3: and they faced some good competition. So to go there
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Speaker 3: and have a seven to three home stand like they did.
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Speaker 3: I really liked what I saw, and I think this
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Speaker 3: is the kind of what we kind of expected to
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Speaker 3: see this team do throughout the entire year, and I
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Speaker 3: think it's a good start and hopefully things can keep
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Speaker 3: rolling from.
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Speaker 2: Here as they head on this next road trip.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of those things, Steve, right, you can't say,
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Speaker 4: all right, print the playoff tickets right now, But if
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Speaker 4: the Orioles do end up making the playoffs, I think
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Speaker 4: we will look back to this home stand because Brad,
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Speaker 4: You're right, the pitching was the headliner, but to me,
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Speaker 4: it was sort of a carryover from what we've seen
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Speaker 4: a lot so far this year. This team fights, they
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Speaker 4: really do. Five of the seven wins were come from
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Speaker 4: behind wins this series, and of course the Memorial Day
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Speaker 4: comeback against the Rays and extra innings was fantastic. Saturday
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Speaker 4: was unbelievable where you're trailing four runs heading into the
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Speaker 4: ninth inning and then coming from behind to win that game.
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Speaker 4: I think it It really was the most complete home stand,
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Speaker 4: you know, in terms of pitching offense, and I know
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Speaker 4: there were some defensive blunders guys, but all in all,
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Speaker 4: the home stand as the as a whole. I felt
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Speaker 4: like the defense at least held its own and made
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Speaker 4: some standout plays. And even going back to that start
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Speaker 4: that Trey Gibson had, I thought the defense was spectacular
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Speaker 4: in that game.
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Speaker 1: I think they're trending up all three fascints. We could
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Speaker 1: add the offense seventy seven runs the last fourteen games.
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Speaker 1: That's five and a half the game. That's where we
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Speaker 1: thought was kind of a top bend for this offense.
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Speaker 1: They might average five or more games. Some teams are
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Speaker 1: averaging that this year, and they've been hitting more home runs.
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Speaker 1: That's impressive too. So a lot of things are coming
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Speaker 1: together and had to in a seven to three home stand.
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Speaker 1: It was in a emotional home stand. You had the
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Speaker 1: early walkoff wins by Cowser, you had incredible ninth inning
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Speaker 1: obviously Saturday night to final eight batters, go from five
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Speaker 1: to one down to a six to five walk off.
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Speaker 1: You blew a five nothing lead in there on Friday night.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you don't want a motion in baseball,
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Speaker 1: don't follow the twenty twenty six Orioles.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a little they had a little bit
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Speaker 3: of mix and everything there, and I think the toughest part,
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Speaker 3: like we've talked about all the year.
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Speaker 2: Is getting behind the eight ball with their record because they're.
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Speaker 3: Gonna have games where the bullpens are the bullpen's just
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Speaker 3: not going to perform. It's part of a baseball season,
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Speaker 3: and I think that's where we were just kind of
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Speaker 3: hoping they didn't get that eight to nine, ten games
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Speaker 3: below five hundred, because they could have won those two
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Speaker 3: games that they lost against.
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Speaker 2: The Blue Jays.
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Speaker 3: But then they came back in and scored five in
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Speaker 3: the nine. So it's baseball just has this top up
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Speaker 3: and down and you kind of kind of ride the
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Speaker 3: roller coaster type thing. But that was definitely a homestand
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Speaker 3: that if you're weak of the heart, you don't want
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Speaker 3: to follow this team and watch those games, because there
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Speaker 3: was there was some up and down during that homestand
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Speaker 3: but overall, like we said, it was a great homestand
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Speaker 3: I thought Pete.
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Speaker 4: Put it best when he was doing the walk off
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Speaker 4: interview with Massens Saturday, essentially saying like, yeah, we should
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Speaker 4: have won the game Friday. The Blue Jays probably should
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Speaker 4: have won the game Saturday, and baseball has its way
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Speaker 4: of evening things out. But it was great to see
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Speaker 4: Pete come through in that moment, because we know that
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Speaker 4: he's been a machine over the course of his career
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Speaker 4: in terms of runners and scoring position. But up until
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Speaker 4: that moment, he was zero for eight this season with
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Speaker 4: bases loaded. So for him to come through in that
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Speaker 4: spot I thought was really really big. And guys, you
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Speaker 4: can go back to April twenty eighth. Now for Pete Alonso,
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Speaker 4: he's fourth in the majors in RBIs, so he's starting
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Speaker 4: to be that force driving in runs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we see he'll go to write and write center
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Speaker 1: for homers and even the game winning single the other night.
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Speaker 1: And I think the emotion he shows out on the field, well,
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Speaker 1: it's clear by now we've seen enough it's genuine. This
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Speaker 1: guy isn't just this is what a leader should do.
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Speaker 1: I should raw Rod here. This is how he feels
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Speaker 1: when something good happens, especially for teammates. And I think, Brad,
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Speaker 1: you've been in clubhouses with guys who have genuine passion
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Speaker 1: for their team and that must be meaningful.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, and especially when it's a guy like Pete,
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Speaker 3: you know, the big signing we've talked about this offseason,
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Speaker 3: and he comes over and he's just a genuine guy
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Speaker 3: when he's out in the field, everything you see is genuine.
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Speaker 3: I don't think I don't think there's anything that's kind of,
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Speaker 3: you know, manufactured. He just goes out there and he
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Speaker 3: is who he is, and he just enjoys the game.
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Speaker 3: He enjoys his teammates. And I think that's kind of
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Speaker 3: a theme with this team that a lot of the
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Speaker 3: guys I've talked about how this clubhouse is really close
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Speaker 3: and really cheer for each other, and I think they
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Speaker 3: really truly do. And I think that is a really
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Speaker 3: big X factor that could get this team over the
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Speaker 3: hump here moving forward and kind of keep this momentum,
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Speaker 3: hopefully for this road trip and further on.
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Speaker 4: And Steve again go back to the walk off interview
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Speaker 4: on mathon one of the first things he says, Hey,
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Speaker 4: I don't have that chance to have that moment if
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Speaker 4: the guys before me didn't do their job. And that
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Speaker 4: was so much of the talk about Pete Alonzo coming here,
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Speaker 4: where it wasn't just the on field production, it was
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Speaker 4: the off the field leadership. It was who this guy
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Speaker 4: is inside of the clubhouse. And you know, I go
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Speaker 4: back to Ben MacDonald, an interview that we had with
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Speaker 4: him on my show on one of five seven, the
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Speaker 4: fan just him bringing up to Craig Albernaz during spring training,
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Speaker 4: like you haven't had that type of guy, Like that
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Speaker 4: type of guy has not been here over the past
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Speaker 4: couple of years, and now he is. And I think
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Speaker 4: you see the impact.
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Speaker 1: The comebacks Saturday night. This is how rare that was
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Speaker 1: entering the ninth down by at least four runs and
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Speaker 1: winning in the ninth has now happened three times in
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Speaker 1: oral history, which dates to nineteen fifty four. It happened
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Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty eight, it happened in nineteen ninety five,
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Speaker 1: and it happened Saturday night, So that is pretty remarkable.
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Speaker 1: And the Blue Jays got the first out of the
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Speaker 1: inning guys no one was on base. They didn't get
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Speaker 1: another out eight Street Orioles reached. The game ended with
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Speaker 1: the Orioles having one out, which they got to start
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Speaker 1: the inning. They were two outs away with no one
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Speaker 1: on base, and the Orioles won sixty five. Let's get
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Speaker 1: back to the starting pitching. Here are the numbers. Kyle
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Speaker 1: Bradish last five starts one seventy two, Shane Boss three
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Speaker 1: straight quality starts two twenty five, Brandon Young four games
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Speaker 1: two forty two A no. By the way, for the
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Speaker 1: year three thirty five ra Chris Bassett two quality starts
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Speaker 1: in his last four games three point eighty. That's playoff
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Speaker 1: caliber pitching. The week link is Trevor Rodgers, who was
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Speaker 1: rolling Friday night and then suddenly he wasn't Saturday. I
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Speaker 1: was at the pregame and Albernas talked extensively about how
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Speaker 1: he felt he was gonna take the positive from that
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Speaker 1: even though it ended so badly. And I'm wondering, both
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Speaker 1: of you guys, what you think how hard that is
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Speaker 1: to do when you rolling for six innings and it
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Speaker 1: all fell apart in the span of ten pitches. Now
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Speaker 1: here's another thing Albernas said which I didn't know or
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Speaker 1: see from Saturday. After the game. Zach Eflyn, who's out
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Speaker 1: for the year, was leading the charge of the locker
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Speaker 1: room and saying, we're you were great tonight. We're rolling
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Speaker 1: with that, just building up Trevor Rodgers, who we know
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Speaker 1: can be an emotional guy, and he said, axt zach
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Speaker 1: Ethlyn has just been a great teammate since he's been
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Speaker 1: out and doing these types of things, And Brad, does
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Speaker 1: that have importance in the clubhouse.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's huge.
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Speaker 3: And I think the fact that zach Ethlyn's Athlyn is
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Speaker 3: even around tells you what kind of guy and what
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Speaker 3: kind of teammate he is, because a lot of times
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Speaker 3: when guys have season any injuries, they go to the
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Speaker 3: spring training home or they're kind of in and out
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Speaker 3: throughout the year. But the fact that he's there in
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Speaker 3: the locker room and it's still a presence tells you
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Speaker 3: everything you need to know about him and the starting
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Speaker 3: group you can tell as a whole really.
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Speaker 2: Has each other's back.
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Speaker 3: They are going to each other after their outings, they're
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Speaker 3: sitting near each other in the dugouts, and a lot
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Speaker 3: of times that doesn't seem to happen. I think on
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Speaker 3: a lot of teams I've been on, you have a
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Speaker 3: couple guys who will kind of gravitate towards each other.
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Speaker 3: But you can tell this is a really close knit group.
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Speaker 3: And I hope Trevor Rodgers is able to take that
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Speaker 3: six strong innings. I mean that was six really strong innings.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't like he was kind of dodging, you know,
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Speaker 3: big innings or stuff like. I mean, he was really
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Speaker 3: really good for those six innings and Unfortunately it kind
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Speaker 3: of just unraveled there in the seventh. But I hope
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Speaker 3: he really can take this depositives from that outing and
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Speaker 3: carry forward, because that's the kind of picture this team's
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Speaker 3: expects to have, and they know that he can go
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Speaker 3: out there and give.
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Speaker 2: Those kind of outings. Outing after outing.
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Speaker 4: We're starting to see him trend upwards. And remember when
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Speaker 4: we did the episode of his prior start where we're
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Speaker 4: saying that Steve, you used the line, like you know,
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Speaker 4: some pitchers just two pitches. But it kind of was
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Speaker 4: with the Homers in that prior start, and then this
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Speaker 4: one he was so pitch effishent guys like I know
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Speaker 4: Albertas and he fell on the sword postgame saying I
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Speaker 4: probably should have pulled him, but fine with him sending
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Speaker 4: him back out for the seventh. Guys, he was.
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Speaker 5: Seventy pitches through six innings. I think you let him
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Speaker 5: keep rolling. He retired twelve straight batters at one point
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Speaker 5: in that start. It's really unfortunate how it ended, you know,
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Speaker 5: but I think that there's something that Trevor Rodgers can
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Speaker 5: really build off of where you're starting to see him
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Speaker 5: trend upwards.
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Speaker 1: We are, and he was getting in the kitchen to
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Speaker 1: the right handed hitters. That was so big. Pitching in
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Speaker 1: to right opens everything else up for Trevor Rodgers. That
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Speaker 1: is what he did so well last year. And Albert
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Speaker 1: has noted that, and he also noted that Ethlyn is
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Speaker 1: the ultimate hype man in there, which I always a
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Speaker 1: great line. And I mean, zach Eflyn is an elite teammate.
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Speaker 1: That's what he's been described as. And so it's nice
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Speaker 1: to know if he can't do things on the field
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Speaker 1: for the Orioles, he might be doing wonders off the
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Speaker 1: field behind the scenes in the clubhouse. Right now, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about some other topics here. Coming up on Birdland
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Speaker 1: territory there is presented by a fan dol and we're
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Speaker 1: going to nominate a familiar name here, Samuel Bissio, to
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Speaker 1: maybe pop one in Fenway Park. And right now, you
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Speaker 1: could pick a lot of Orioles for the daily Dingers.
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Speaker 1: By the way, they're hitting more homers. They've hit like
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Speaker 1: one in thirteen in the last fourteen games, something like that.
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Speaker 1: But Samuel Bisaio, guys, is a great choice. Right now.
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Speaker 1: Here are some of the numbers from May that the
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Speaker 1: month that just ended his ops in May was nine.
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Speaker 1: Hang on here, guy, I got it somewhere. Three yeah,
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Speaker 1: three or four ten. Let's flip a coin. But three
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Speaker 1: point thirty eight was his average, five to ninety seven
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Speaker 1: was his slug eight sixty one is his ops on
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Speaker 1: the year, and among oriel regulars, he's first in batting average,
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Speaker 1: slugging ops, third in Homer's fifth, and RBIs pretty special.
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Speaker 1: Young Geitner right now, who, by the way, in mid
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Speaker 1: April's ops are like five hundred. I don't think anybody remembers.
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Speaker 2: That now, No, definitely not.
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Speaker 3: And I just I can't get over the fact that
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Speaker 3: he's stole only twenty one years old. Like it's I
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Speaker 3: think that that that fact cannot be lost on Orioles fans,
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Speaker 3: that this guy is such a talented bat and talented
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Speaker 3: player overall, and he's still so young. It's just been
12:57
Speaker 3: so impressive to get off to the start that he
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Speaker 3: had to be where he is right now starting June.
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Speaker 2: It's just it's it's unbelievable. It's for a young.
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Speaker 3: Guy to be able to manage the struggles he had
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Speaker 3: early and turn the season around the way he has
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Speaker 3: and just be a formidable middle of the line of
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Speaker 3: bat has been extremely impressive. And to me, it's just
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Speaker 3: the power to all fields. The home run the other night,
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Speaker 3: to the backside, to left center field, and then he
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Speaker 3: has a pull power like everybody knows, but to just
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Speaker 3: use all fields and he's just he's got He's just
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Speaker 3: been really impressive. I've been super impressed on both sides
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Speaker 3: of the ball. But obviously is bad here as shining
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Speaker 3: this last month.
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Speaker 4: I know the stats a little dated, but Sam has
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Speaker 4: only gotten better since this stretch. But Basil at the
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Speaker 4: forty four game mark, so this was about a week ago,
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Speaker 4: he became just one of four catchers in MLB history
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Speaker 4: to post an OPS of over eight ten through their
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Speaker 4: first forty four games in age twenty one season. Pud
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Speaker 4: Rodriguez in ninety three, Darrel Porter in seventy three, Johnny
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Speaker 4: Bench in nineteen sixty nine, and Joe Tory in nineteen
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Speaker 4: sixty one. So that's pretty good, pretty good company for
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Speaker 4: Sam Pelosio to be in. Guys, I just I continue
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Speaker 4: to point back to that Kansas City game because heading
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Speaker 4: into that first one, you're right, Steve, he had a
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Speaker 4: five thirty three OPS and that was through what the
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Speaker 4: first sixteen games at that point, and since then he
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Speaker 4: has just really taken off guys. And what's crazy is
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Speaker 4: we're not even in the true summer yet, when when
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Speaker 4: it's getting really hot and that ball's really gonna be flying.
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Speaker 4: But Sam's at the point now where I know there
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Speaker 4: was an instance last week I think was the first
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Speaker 4: two games of the Blue Jays series where he wasn't
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Speaker 4: in the starting lineup back to back days because the
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Speaker 4: Blue Jays were tossing lefties. And I'm at the point
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Speaker 4: where man just let him face a left handed pitching.
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Speaker 4: I know Craig alvert As has talked in the past
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Speaker 4: about him that confidence in Sam facing left handed pitching,
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Speaker 4: But I think we're beyond the portion of his early
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Speaker 4: part of his career where you're sitting him back to
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Speaker 4: back days as long as he's healthy, of course, because
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Speaker 4: you want that bad in the lineup as much as possible.
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Speaker 1: Yep. And they signed him through twenty thirty three. By
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Speaker 1: the way, that deal with a team option for twenty
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Speaker 1: thirty four potentially bought out three free agent years. And
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Speaker 1: when he has his grandkids on his knee, many many
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Speaker 1: years from now, I'm going to tell him about August
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five. Well, when they to span about
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Speaker 1: ten days, he got called up, turned twenty one and
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Speaker 1: So, guys coming up for the Oriols a pretty important
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Speaker 1: road trip as they head to Boston for three in
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Speaker 1: Toronto for three now twenty eight and thirty two and
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Speaker 1: so there's only one hundred and two games to play
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Speaker 1: a lot of baseball to goal here for the Orioles
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, but Tim, the human road numbers
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Speaker 1: have been pretty drastic, so the Oils are doing fine
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Speaker 1: at home. They need to get a gallon on the road.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just thought it was important to visit this
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Speaker 4: considering the AL East opponents. Guys, the Orioles have played
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Speaker 4: on the road against AL East opponents twice, and you
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Speaker 4: can certainly make the argument maybe there isn't even an
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Speaker 4: argument that those were the two worst series of the
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Speaker 4: year in the Bronx, that four game series where they
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Speaker 4: got swept and then at the trot in that three
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Speaker 4: game series in which they got swept. You're heading to
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Speaker 4: Boston for three and then Toronto for three. But I
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Speaker 4: was looking at the splits and just the numbers and
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Speaker 4: things that really stood out to me. The offense is
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Speaker 4: top ten and pretty much every metric at home and
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Speaker 4: bottom ten in pretty much every metric on the road,
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Speaker 4: and they're averaging one fewer run per game. They're striking
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Speaker 4: out one and a half times more on the road
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Speaker 4: compared to at home. But the biggest disparity is with
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Speaker 4: the pitching staff, starters and relievers starting er or excuse me,
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Speaker 4: the team era at home seventeenth twenty first in team
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Speaker 4: whip at home thirtieth and team whip or team whip
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Speaker 4: on the road thirtieth and team era on the road
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Speaker 4: five eight six on the road compared to a three
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Speaker 4: seven six in at home, so you're talking two runs.
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Speaker 4: But you can break it down for starters and relievers.
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Speaker 4: The starters they're dead last in era and WHIP, the
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Speaker 4: relievers dead last and whip where they're more middle of
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Speaker 4: the pack at home. Starters twelfth in Home ERA, relievers
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Speaker 4: seventeenth and Home ERA. So the pitching is the biggest disparity,
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Speaker 4: but offensively, it's not the same offense away from Camden Yards.
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Speaker 2: To me, the weirdest part about all that is you
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Speaker 2: would think that.
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Speaker 3: It would be flopped with the pitching because we all
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Speaker 3: know Kami the Yards has definitely hit her friendly, so
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Speaker 3: it's just kind of crazy to hear those numbers and
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Speaker 3: see them on the screen.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 3: The hitters, I understand the run coming down a little
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Speaker 3: bit on the road because it's just cam Yards is
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Speaker 3: just so hitter friendly.
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Speaker 2: Guys get used to it. They love hitting there. When
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Speaker 2: you go on the road, it's just different.
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Speaker 3: But the pitching side, to me is just kind of
18:47
Speaker 3: the weird thing that they're doing better at home.
18:49
Speaker 2: Than on the road.
18:50
Speaker 3: And I don't know what it is, but hopefully they
18:52
Speaker 3: can get it going here. I always enjoyed pitching at
18:54
Speaker 3: Fenway Park. To me, it was just I like to
18:57
Speaker 3: pitch away to guys, so the righty's hit as far
18:59
Speaker 3: as you want to right center field, lefties as long
19:01
Speaker 3: as you don't hit it right down the line off
19:03
Speaker 3: the Monster. I always felt pretty good against them, So
19:06
Speaker 3: hopefull they can get to go with Boston. To me,
19:07
Speaker 3: I always felt a little bit more picture friendly there.
19:10
Speaker 3: So it's just about being aggressive in the zone and
19:13
Speaker 3: not hurting themselves with the walks. Really when you go
19:15
Speaker 3: to face these teams on the road, and hopefully they
19:17
Speaker 3: can kind of get it going here in these next
19:20
Speaker 3: two series on the road and start having success against
19:23
Speaker 3: teams in the division on the road. I think there's
19:26
Speaker 3: gonna be more coming up later in the season, and
19:27
Speaker 3: just kind of get started in the right direction against
19:30
Speaker 3: these teams.
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Speaker 1: Well, their next Al East Road wind will be there
19:35
Speaker 1: first because they've only played two series and they got
19:37
Speaker 1: swept in both by the Yankees and Raves. Oh and
19:40
Speaker 1: seven Al East Road and it's the Al East. The
19:44
Speaker 1: Orioles are eight and twelve overall, and there have been
19:47
Speaker 1: three sweeps. That's been really strange. You don't see a
19:49
Speaker 1: lot of al sweeps, but we have seen that, and
19:53
Speaker 1: we just showed you the Oils are in a ninety
19:54
Speaker 1: win pace in their home play and much less on
19:58
Speaker 1: the road, so they got to clean that up. I
20:00
Speaker 1: give them a great chance to do that because not
20:02
Speaker 1: only are they playing better, but they're in two familiar ballparks.
20:05
Speaker 1: Many of these players are very used to Fenway and
20:08
Speaker 1: Rogers Center, two familiar opponents that they've seen already this year.
20:13
Speaker 1: I think that helps. So the pitching is on such
20:15
Speaker 1: a role here. I just see the Orioles having a
20:19
Speaker 1: good road trip and keeping the momentum going.
20:22
Speaker 3: What say you, guys, Yeah, I think I'm just saying before.
20:26
Speaker 3: I think where the starting rotation is right now always
20:28
Speaker 3: gives you a chance to play better and get more wins.
20:31
Speaker 3: And I think they're just kind of in a role
20:33
Speaker 3: right now. And I think for this team to turn
20:35
Speaker 3: the season around, it's going to start and end with
20:37
Speaker 3: the starting pitching. It always usually is with teams, but
20:40
Speaker 3: I mean we really have seen it with this twenty
20:42
Speaker 3: twenty six Orioles team. When the starting pitching is doing well,
20:45
Speaker 3: the offense is engaged, the defense is better, and you
20:48
Speaker 3: just see it overall better quality of baseball when the
20:51
Speaker 3: starting pitching is doing better and they've really done a
20:54
Speaker 3: great job the last ten to twelve games, and it
20:56
Speaker 3: proves it because of the record, but it just seems
20:59
Speaker 3: like a better over a quality of baseball. The defense
21:02
Speaker 3: is more engaged, they're making better plays. We haven't seen
21:04
Speaker 3: the misques when the starting pitching is kind of rolling.
21:07
Speaker 3: That's kind of to me the biggest thing. The offense
21:09
Speaker 3: is going to do their thing. We know they're going
21:10
Speaker 3: to score runs. The power is a great sign seeing
21:14
Speaker 3: that we're starting to see more home runs, don't have
21:15
Speaker 3: to stream together as many hits. So for me, it's
21:18
Speaker 3: just I just feel like with the starting pitching the
21:21
Speaker 3: way it's going right now, they have a really good
21:23
Speaker 3: chance here to kind of roll off some wins and
21:25
Speaker 3: get themselves closer to five hundred and hopefully over five
21:28
Speaker 3: hundred here in the next couple weeks.
21:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is really going to be the big test
21:32
Speaker 4: for these splits, right guys, Because you look at the
21:34
Speaker 4: Red Stocks, and obviously you just play the Blue Jays.
21:37
Speaker 4: These aren't exactly offenses firing on all cylinders. So this
21:41
Speaker 4: starting rotation is in a great groove right now, two
21:45
Speaker 4: three eight era over the last twelve games for the
21:48
Speaker 4: starting staff, so you expect them to continue it. But
21:51
Speaker 4: also it's the offense that has me excited as well,
21:55
Speaker 4: where sixty runs in that ten game homestand they're just
21:59
Speaker 4: really rolling, and you're starting to see the emergence of
22:02
Speaker 4: Colden Cowser, which is just so huge for this offense,
22:05
Speaker 4: and you're hoping for at least to split. I feel
22:09
Speaker 4: like if you go three and three, you feel pretty
22:12
Speaker 4: fine with that. On this road trip.
22:15
Speaker 1: The run of pitching by the rotation has now left
22:18
Speaker 1: the rotation with a better ERA than the bullpen. I
22:22
Speaker 1: think this might be the first time this year we've
22:24
Speaker 1: seen this out of the ools. But for a rare
22:26
Speaker 1: game or two, the starters a rotation era is for sixty.
22:30
Speaker 1: The penn era right now is for seventy one. The
22:33
Speaker 1: starters had moved up to twenty third in baseball, which
22:36
Speaker 1: doesn't sound impressive until you remember they were like twenty
22:39
Speaker 1: ninth a week or two ago. So they are trending
22:42
Speaker 1: up and that is good to see. Let's check in
22:45
Speaker 1: on some runners in scoring position numbers and some other
22:48
Speaker 1: stats coming up here on Birdland Territory.
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23:11
Speaker 1: You know, I've watched baseball a lot of times years.
23:14
Speaker 1: You guys have two I don't know why one team
23:18
Speaker 1: or one guy hits well with runners in scoring position
23:21
Speaker 1: and another doesn't. The best they can come up with,
23:24
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like a truck going downhill. It's momentum.
23:27
Speaker 1: One or two guys get that big hit, and all
23:29
Speaker 1: of a sudden it's easier for the next guy. One
23:31
Speaker 1: or two guys don't get that big hit, and all
23:34
Speaker 1: of a sudden it's harder for the next guy. What
23:38
Speaker 1: an example of it in the Toronto series? Over ten
23:41
Speaker 1: first two games, they scored six runs seven for sixteen.
23:46
Speaker 1: The last two games they scored fifteen runs. Is it
23:50
Speaker 1: just that simple? I guess in this series it was.
23:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's just I mean, that's kind of wins and losses.
23:58
Speaker 3: In my opinion, it's straining runners when you're pitching and
24:01
Speaker 3: kind of getting hits when guys are running score position.
24:03
Speaker 2: It makes no sense.
24:04
Speaker 3: There's no rhyme of reason why it happens the way
24:07
Speaker 3: it does. Like you said, look at those last four
24:09
Speaker 3: games is a perfect example. It's just it doesn't make
24:11
Speaker 3: any sense. But I agree se If. I think when
24:13
Speaker 3: you start getting guys in front of you doing it,
24:16
Speaker 3: it makes it a lot easier for the guys behind you.
24:18
Speaker 3: And I know it playing at home a lot of
24:20
Speaker 3: times too. It's when you're struggling in a certain area.
24:22
Speaker 3: I feel like the fans kind of know the errors
24:24
Speaker 3: you're struggling in. So when they go oh for ten
24:27
Speaker 3: the first two games, it's kind of like the fans
24:29
Speaker 3: are like, you can feel the tension in the stands,
24:32
Speaker 3: but when they get the hits, the fans are really excited.
24:36
Speaker 3: So it's kind of playing at home can kind of
24:38
Speaker 3: be Catch twenty two at times. I feel like when
24:40
Speaker 3: certain things because the fans are well aware of what
24:42
Speaker 3: the team is good at and they know what they're
24:44
Speaker 3: kind of struggling with, so you kind of roll with
24:47
Speaker 3: the momentum and the excitement in the stands while that's
24:50
Speaker 3: going on.
24:50
Speaker 2: But I wish there was a rhyme.
24:51
Speaker 3: Of reason because it really determines seasons when you look
24:56
Speaker 3: at it is how you do with runners.
24:57
Speaker 2: In scoring position on the pitching and hitting. It's a weird,
25:01
Speaker 2: weird thing.
25:03
Speaker 4: Two of the most crucial stats in baseball without questions,
25:06
Speaker 4: Scoring runs and preventing runs. That's the name of the game.
25:09
Speaker 4: But it is amazing though, right, Steve, Like it's still
25:15
Speaker 4: the same game, but there's guys on base. That's the
25:18
Speaker 4: only difference. You're still throwing, you know, sixty feet six
25:21
Speaker 4: inches guys in the back batter's box. But you're right,
25:25
Speaker 4: some of these guys both sides. You know, some guys
25:28
Speaker 4: really excel in the fact of stranding runners, you know,
25:31
Speaker 4: Bullpeng guys, or some guys just had the clutch gene.
25:35
Speaker 4: Like I always view Jordan Westburg as the perfect example.
25:39
Speaker 4: He was just such a great run scorer, and you
25:42
Speaker 4: always felt good about him coming up with the runners
25:44
Speaker 4: in scoring position number.
25:46
Speaker 2: But it was.
25:47
Speaker 4: Amazing because you can even put that stat out even further, Steve,
25:51
Speaker 4: I think they only had one hit with a runner
25:53
Speaker 4: and scoring position heading into the ninth inning of Saturday's game,
25:57
Speaker 4: and then it was just a barrage at that point,
26:00
Speaker 4: which it's crazy. I don't know the rhyme or reason
26:04
Speaker 4: for it, but I guess you could say the momentum,
26:06
Speaker 4: the positive momentum.
26:08
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I've had hitters say when the bases
26:11
Speaker 1: are loaded, I try to remember the pitcher's the guy
26:13
Speaker 1: in trouble, not me, the guy who loaded the bases,
26:17
Speaker 1: and so I'm just gonna go do my thing. But
26:19
Speaker 1: that sounds good, except when the bases were loaded and
26:22
Speaker 1: two guys in front of you made outs and didn't
26:24
Speaker 1: score a run, and now it's like, oh, we're gonna
26:26
Speaker 1: blow this thing. And now you're up, and you chase
26:29
Speaker 1: that pitch three inches outside. The anxiety and the mental
26:32
Speaker 1: game of baseball has got to be pretty crazy there.
26:36
Speaker 1: And so the Oil guys had a thirteen and sixteen
26:40
Speaker 1: may I wonder what you make of that. It doesn't
26:43
Speaker 1: sound great until you remember last year was like nine
26:46
Speaker 1: and eighteen, Brandon Hoyt got fired, the whole season fell apart. Here,
26:50
Speaker 1: it feels like they held onto the season, if that's
26:53
Speaker 1: the phrase. For now we know they're only like a
26:55
Speaker 1: game out in this ridiculous AL wild card race. And
26:58
Speaker 1: so first the two different Mays, was it first a
27:03
Speaker 1: second half?
27:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, big time.
27:05
Speaker 3: I think it's crazy when you look at it after
27:08
Speaker 3: it's all said and done, it's all played, you look
27:10
Speaker 3: back at the record, thirteen and sixteen is like I
27:13
Speaker 3: would have taken that.
27:14
Speaker 2: Or the first or second week of May.
27:16
Speaker 3: It's like, it's just a weird Baseball is just such
27:19
Speaker 3: a weird long run stretch of games that it's it's
27:22
Speaker 3: hard to get too high and too low. And when
27:24
Speaker 3: you look back and you look at your records, eats
27:26
Speaker 3: a month. To me, it's their trending up. But if
27:29
Speaker 3: you would have, you know, looked at thirteen and sixteen
27:31
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the month, you would have been like,
27:33
Speaker 3: I take that all day. It's just a it's a
27:35
Speaker 3: weird numbers thing and it makes no sense half the time.
27:38
Speaker 3: But to me, I just think that that's a great
27:41
Speaker 3: record considering how the month started. They're playing way better baseball.
27:44
Speaker 3: The offense looks better, starting, pitching looks great, the bullpen
27:47
Speaker 3: will come back around. I think that's an EBB and
27:49
Speaker 3: flow game with the guys they have there right now.
27:52
Speaker 3: But I think this team's turning up, and I think
27:55
Speaker 3: fans should be excited heading into the summer months.
27:57
Speaker 2: And that's that's really all you can ask for.
27:59
Speaker 3: At this point, still in it their game out of
28:01
Speaker 3: the wild card regardless of records.
28:03
Speaker 2: Throw that out of the way.
28:04
Speaker 3: They have a chance to make the playoffs and they
28:05
Speaker 3: just have to play better baseball from here on out.
28:08
Speaker 4: It's sort of been the story of the season, right,
28:12
Speaker 4: Like they've had such high highs this month and low
28:15
Speaker 4: lows where I believe the month of May started with
28:18
Speaker 4: that series in the Bronx, if I'm not mistaken, and
28:21
Speaker 4: that was really low, and then you just look heading
28:24
Speaker 4: into this homestand that lost that they had on Wednesday
28:28
Speaker 4: where they had the two run league going into the
28:30
Speaker 4: eighth against the Raids. You get swept there and that
28:33
Speaker 4: felt like rock bottom of the season. I think there
28:35
Speaker 4: were eight games below five hundred at that point, and
28:38
Speaker 4: it was funny. I remember Pete during his pregame scrum
28:44
Speaker 4: prior to the home stand starting, he was like, look,
28:46
Speaker 4: this is a great opportunity for us. And I know
28:48
Speaker 4: some fans probably rolled their eyes at that, but what
28:50
Speaker 4: did they take advantage of that great opportunity? Like if
28:54
Speaker 4: you would have told any of us, hey, they're going
28:56
Speaker 4: to go seven to three in this homestand everyone would
28:59
Speaker 4: have signed up for that, so they're certainly playing their
29:03
Speaker 4: best ball as they enter the month of June.
29:08
Speaker 1: I just can't get over how remarkable a ten games
29:10
Speaker 1: it was. You can go through a ten game stretch
29:13
Speaker 1: and not see three walk offs on one homestand and
29:16
Speaker 1: a blown five nothing lead and a sweep of Tampa
29:21
Speaker 1: Bay which they had been swept the week earlier. I mean,
29:25
Speaker 1: that's just remarkable, all the crazy things that happened on
29:29
Speaker 1: this homestand, and it's just it's been something.
29:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's old.
29:34
Speaker 3: I almost forgot that they played the Tigers on this
29:36
Speaker 3: home standing walk off. Like it's amazing how long ten
29:41
Speaker 3: games can feel when they're the games are that exciting,
29:44
Speaker 3: and it's ten games is like a blip on the
29:47
Speaker 3: season radar, But it's it's just.
29:48
Speaker 2: Funny how certain certain ten games.
29:51
Speaker 3: Can look so much different and feel so much different
29:53
Speaker 3: than You're just not gonna get many more exciting games
29:56
Speaker 3: than a ten game stretch than they had in that Homestand.
29:59
Speaker 4: I would put that Memorial Day game against the Rays
30:03
Speaker 4: for game of the year across the league like that,
30:06
Speaker 4: that's gotta be in consideration where thirteen innings and the
30:10
Speaker 4: O's were trailing in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and came
30:13
Speaker 4: back every single time and ended up walking it off
30:16
Speaker 4: with Colton Cowser for a second straight day. Like that
30:19
Speaker 4: game in particular, that's a Game of the Year candidate
30:22
Speaker 4: for me.
30:24
Speaker 1: Be trazy roster stuff, guys, because you had ends and
30:28
Speaker 1: asked Albert Suarez designated for assignment, and the fans were
30:32
Speaker 1: shared up that they're going to lose those guys. Albert's
30:35
Speaker 1: already back in his pitch for the team and just
30:37
Speaker 1: back at TRIPLEA. We know he'll be back in Baltimore.
30:40
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that's ten days that you had
30:43
Speaker 1: to pay attention because it is crazy.
30:45
Speaker 2: It was a season long journey in ten games. Really
30:50
Speaker 2: it was.
30:50
Speaker 3: It was ups and downs, it was. And it's funny
30:52
Speaker 3: too when you talk about the memorial game. To me,
30:54
Speaker 3: that was one of those those games I loved playing
30:57
Speaker 3: as a player, A long one battle back and forth.
31:00
Speaker 3: When you come out of those games, so much momentum
31:03
Speaker 3: comes out of wins like that. It's such a team building,
31:06
Speaker 3: team bonding type of experience. It's hard to explain unless
31:09
Speaker 3: you're in the clubhouse. Those long ones that go like
31:12
Speaker 3: that and you're able to come back and win and
31:14
Speaker 3: vice versa. On the other side, Tampa, when you lose
31:17
Speaker 3: that one, it's a gut wrenching loss. So I think
31:20
Speaker 3: that really kind of springboarded them there the last seven
31:23
Speaker 3: games of the homestand it just kind of it's just
31:25
Speaker 3: one of those things that it's a weird thing to
31:27
Speaker 3: be a part of, and it's an awesome experience in
31:29
Speaker 3: the clubhouse and being part of wins like that.
31:33
Speaker 1: And if they lost those first two games to Toronto,
31:35
Speaker 1: what did all Birdland feel? All the blue Jay's got
31:38
Speaker 1: to go And now they're going to roll right through
31:40
Speaker 1: the Orioles. This home stand, which looks so good it's
31:43
Speaker 1: going to end as a dot until it didn't, and
31:46
Speaker 1: the Orioles turned it and made it much better for themselves. So, man,
31:52
Speaker 1: this is a wild edition of Birdland Territory, a roller
31:54
Speaker 1: coaster for us with all those ups and downs too.
31:57
Speaker 1: But we'll be here to keep talking about and let everybody.
32:00
Speaker 1: I know that pretty soon Zach Britton will appear on
32:03
Speaker 1: this show. I think Brad knows him pretty well, and
32:06
Speaker 1: those fans remember Zach Britton. Finally that incredible year he
32:10
Speaker 1: had at Great Oriel. He was He's got some new
32:13
Speaker 1: ventures and he's got a lot to say, so we'll
32:15
Speaker 1: check in with him very soon on this show, so
32:18
Speaker 1: keep watching Birdland Territory. Thanks for checking in today, and
32:21
Speaker 1: we'll see you next time.