Archives for May 2023

Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images Yesterday’s Ryan O’Hearn game-tying home run set up an eventual victory Hello, friends. The Orioles! These crazy characters have done it again. Yesterday saw them pull off an eighth-inning comeback fueled by a Ryan O’Hearn game-tying home run - really! Ryan O’Hearn! - and then they got the go-ahead run in extra innings when three-time … [Read more...] about Sunday Bird Droppings: The comeback Orioles have done it yet again

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Two big winners, two losers, and a fair number of home runs Triple-A: Norfolk Tides 12, Syracuse Mets 7 The Tides won yet another game thanks to their prolific offense, and it’s good that they have one because the starting pitching and defense were not there tonight. Bruce Zimmermann made the start and lasted just … [Read more...] about Orioles minor league recap 5/21: Jackson Holliday continues to rake

Toronto starter Kevin Gausman, whom I still don’t like seeing in blue. | Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images The Orioles are in the happy position of going for the sweep today, as Kevin Gausman and Dean Kremer take the mound. Good pitching and timely hitting are working thus far for the orange-colored birds in this three-game series in Toronto. After taking the first … [Read more...] about Sunday afternoon Orioles game thread: at Toronto, 1:37 ET

Austin Hays slides in with the Orioles’ sixth run in the eleventh inning. | Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports Toronto’s Kevin Gausman kept Orioles bats quiet over eight innings, but Dean Kremer and the bullpen kept things close until the offense exploded for five runs in the eleventh. Do you like offense? MLB certainly does, with its rule changes and its new commercials … [Read more...] about Orioles sweep the Jays in Toronto with an extra-innings explosion, 8-3