Don\u2019t blame the starting pitching.<\/p>\n
Kyle Bradish held the Rangers to two unearned runs last night in six innings. The team committed two errors, went 0-for-3 with runners in scoring position and stranded six, and left-hander Grant Wolfram walked two batters in the eighth and surrendered a three-run homer to Corey Seager.<\/p>\n
Shane Baz tossed an eight-inning complete game Friday night with two runs, three hits and nine strikeouts. The offense went 1-for-5 with runners in scoring position and stranded eight.<\/p>\n
The Orioles have lost the first two games of an important series in a crucial road trip by a combined score of 7-2. Their record is 56-61, they\u2019re three games back for the final Wild Card, and four teams are ahead of them. The Mariners and Blue Jays are a half-game behind them.<\/p>\n
The club has seven hits or fewer in the last eight games, the third-longest streak in Orioles history after 11 in 2001 and nine in 1956, per STATS.<\/p>\n
The Orioles have scored one run in three consecutive games. The team record for tallying one run or fewer is four in a row, last done in 2024.<\/p>\n
An Orioles loss today would mark the first time the Rangers swept them in Texas since Aug. 28-30, 2015.<\/p>\n
Left-hander Cade Povich is on the mound this afternoon. He returned to the rotation on Tuesday against the Angels and tossed six scoreless innings with seven hits and seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Povich faced the Rangers in his fifth major league game on June 29, 2024 at Camden Yards and earned the win after allowing two runs in five innings.<\/p>\n
Seager is 1-for-2 with a home run against Povich.<\/p>\n
Gunnar Henderson stays in the leadoff spot and Jackson Holliday remains third in the order.<\/p>\n
Tyler O\u2019Neill is the cleanup hitter, Coby Mayo is at third base and Carlos Narv\u00e1ez is catching a day game after a night game.<\/p>\n
Holliday is batting .520 in his last seven road games dating back to July 22. Holliday belted his 28th career home run last night, his 27th as a second baseman. Only six other players have hit that many before turning 23 years old, according to STATS.<\/p>\n
Texas has won four in a row and right-hander Kumar Rocker makes today\u2019s start. The third-overall draft pick in 2022 (and the 10th overall by the Mets in 2021) has registered a 4.08 ERA in 21 games (19 starts). He had back-to-back quality starts, holding the White Sox to one run in six scoreless innings on July 21, before allowing three runs and 10 hits over 5 1\/3 innings in Houston.<\/p>\n
Right-handers are hitting .209\/.266\/.321 against Rocker and left-handers are hitting .286\/.361\/.477. He\u2019s never faced the Orioles.<\/p>\n
Christian Encarnacion-Strand is the only current player to face Rocker. He\u2019s 0-for-2 with a strikeout.<\/p>\n
The Orioles fly to Minnesota after today\u2019s game. Here are the probables, including former Oriole Dean Kremer:<\/p>\n
Monday: LHP Trevor Rogers vs. RHP Dean Kremer
Tuesday: RHP Brandon Young vs. RHP Bailey Ober
Wednesday: Shane Baz vs. RHP Zebby Matthews<\/p>\n
For the Orioles
Gunnar Henderson SS
Pete Alonso 1B
Jackson Holliday 2B
Tyler O\u2019Neill DH
Dylan Beavers LF
Leody Taveras RF
Coby Mayo 3B
Colton Cowser CF
Carlos Narv\u00e1ez C<\/p>\n
Cade Povich LHP<\/p>\n
For the Rangers
Wyatt Langford LF
Corey Seager DH
Ezequiel Duran SS
Brandon Nimmo RF
Jake Burger 1B
Justin Foscue 2B
Elias D\u00edaz C
Jonah Bride 3B
Cam Cauley CF<\/p>\n
Kumar Rocker RHP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t blame the starting pitching. Kyle Bradish held the Rangers to two unearned runs last night in six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140977,88727,1492,116163,7728,55030,115735,133598,27,29,28,429],"class_list":["post-402059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-cade-povich","tag-dean-kremer","tag-featured","tag-jackson-holliday","tag-lineups","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-orioles","tag-roch-kubatko","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}