WEBVTT - O's blow the lead in Anaheim and have a losing road trip 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:13.120 That was frustrating, capital f other bedwords. Birdland is saying 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.560 tonight as the Oils let it get away. They had 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:17.800 a three run lead at Anaheim and a winning road 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.680 trip at hand, and they could not close the deal. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.320 They lose today seven to six the Los Angeles Angels. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.640 So they come home with the off day Thursday, thirty 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:29.640 eight and forty four. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:31.760 They're back to six under. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.680 Every time this team starts digging themselves out of a hole, 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.440 they never finish it. And now we're past a halfway point, 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.400 which you know that happened in Anaheim, and now you 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.919 know games are you know there's less than eighty one 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.400 to play. It's what I'm trying to say here after 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.600 a frustrating day of orio baseball, guys, Let's start with 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.600 the decision to take Trey Gibson out that frustrated me. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:54.880 Today. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.280 I saw him through a great fourth inning throw ninety 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:02.360 seven plus twice strikeout to batters sixty six pitches. The 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:06.520 argument that the Beat media was saying on Twitter they 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.400 needed to pitch some guys bullpen fully rested off day 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.600 tomorrow makes sense to me. What doesn't make sense is 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.760 this kid was dealing after he gave up a first 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.959 inning homer, and maybe you know if you didn't wanthim 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.800 to face the third time of the order. He's good 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.920 enough to face the Yankees, he's good enough to face 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.679 the Dodgers. He should have been, in my opinion, good 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.919 enough to face the Angels up three after four innings today, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:32.119 but he didn't get the chance. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.679 Yeah, it's frustrating. I mean, there's there's no other way 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.200 to describe that. Friday night hurt. Today hurt even worse. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.640 I feel like it was you felt like the game 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.800 was in hand there, they were scoring some runs, and 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.760 then the offense just kind of went silent, and I think, 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.240 on top of taking Trey out and kind of maybe 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.200 a questionable decision to trying to get fifteen outs out 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.160 of your bullpen that needed to work, it's just not 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.680 adding on. And I feel like that's been kind of 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.400 a running theme, is is they get leads and they're 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.400 just not able to add on and make it more 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.120 comfortable of a game where maybe that decision wouldn't have 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.079 come into play. But it's to me, it's just kind 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.480 of after watching that fourth inning that might have been 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.359 his best inning all year, and to take him out 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.360 after that I don't know. I know the bullpen needs work. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.639 It's I think the bullpen back in April and May, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.959 when they were rolling good. I think it's maybe a 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.079 different discussion. But as of late, it hasn't been as 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.240 rock solid as it was earlier in the season. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.079 And it's it's tough to get fifteen outs. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.280 It's tough to ask five guys to go out there 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:32.960 and get three outs. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.880 To finish that game. I know being part of bullpends. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:36.600 No matter how good a bullpen I've been a part of, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.399 you just know it takes one kind of missed link 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.600 in the cog there and a loss goes away. And 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.360 that's I mean, a win goes away. And that's kind 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.160 of what happened today. It's just a very very frustrating 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:46.959 loss to watch. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.760 Yeah, it really was. And it's just one step four, 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.519 one step back. I feel like I'm saying that every 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.600 single episode. You know, you get that great series win 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.800 against the Dodgers, you win Monday, Kyle Bradish was dominant 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.760 in that game. You just needed one of these last 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.799 two to have a winning road trip. And last night, 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.800 Ryan Johnson, a guy that's been getting shelled and he 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.720 no hit the Orioles. You know, through the first five 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.760 innings or whatever of that ballgame, went six shutout innings, 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.800 just faced two batters over the minimum. And then today, 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:28.280 you know, Trey Gibson, we were talking about live, you know, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.400 doing the show on the fan today, and I had 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.560 a feeling that there was definitely going to be a 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.800 quick hook for Gibson if he did get in trouble. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.560 But kind of like what you guys were saying, that 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.760 was a really strong inning, and Craig Albern has acknowledged 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.760 as much in his postgame press or that he got 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.800 better as the game went on. You know, had scuffled 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.080 a little bit the first inning. I think he entered 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.560 that game knowing that it was kind of a pseudo 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.640 bullpen game because they really haven't pitched much over the 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.720 past couple of days. Albert Suarez went three inning yesterday, 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.000 Rico Garcia only threw one inning. But Brad, I think 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.120 you bring up a good point, like just look at 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.040 some of the guys that have pitched Wolfram Wells, they 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.840 were fantastic and heck, even Helsley, I'll throw him in there. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.839 But Rico Garcia, he's hitting a bit of a wall 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.240 here and that was inevitable, like he was on this 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.960 magic carpet ride for so long that he was going 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.200 to face some adversity. You ner Cano, he didn't have 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.320 his command. He walked a couple guys, Keegan Aiken. I 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.080 was probably the best we've seen him in a while. 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.400 But yeah, then it gets back to the defensive blunders, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.279 which has been a season long theme, and it kind 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.480 of settled a bit there for a while. But boy 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.320 is rough and shoddy defense really reard tot ugly head 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:44.560 in the past week or two. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.360 Yikes, let's talk about the ending one out to get 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.839 ground ball. Why the first Peter Linzo makes one move 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.360 to second, and that changed everything because now he couldn't 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.200 get to the fir Aken is trying to get there, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.560 not knowing his Pete's going to get there, and it 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.960 was a cluster and the ball was not caught. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:08.960 If, as Palmer said, if. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.479 He catches it, it would have been a really difficult play. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.080 But the game's over didn't catch it. So now the 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.720 runner advanced the third Sammy tries to tag him, he 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.760 went wide. I didn't hear anybody mention out a base line, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.400 and I guess that didn't factor here. He went wide 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.080 to that tag and he could have thrown the first 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:27.800 maybe gets and maybe he does. And all these are 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.640 split second, game on the line decisions that all didn't 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.840 work out today, at least two of them didn't at 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:34.800 the end for the Orioles. 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.800 Yeah, and it's I mean that ground ball the second base. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.719 That game has to be over like that is as. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.200 Routine the big league play as it comes. And you know, 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.720 play with Pete. He's been phenomenal at first base this year. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:47.760 Let me say that first. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:48.839 He's been unbelievable. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.560 I think he's been way better than anybody of the 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.640 Orioles expected this season. To me when I played with 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.320 him in New York, that was kind of a tendancy 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.360 he had was to take a step or two towards 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.960 second base. You knew that as a pitcher, so I 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.280 think Keegan aken did get there in time. But when 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.120 you see Pee coming at you, that's a big man 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.200 coming at your first base, and I think that was 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.880 a hesitancy to keep going because it did look like 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.840 he might get there. And it's just that it I mean, 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.680 it's just that game has to be over there. It's 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.919 just frustrating, and it's, uh, you know, I kind of 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.400 going back to Steve what you said about, you know, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.000 the beat writers calling for you know, guys that get 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:24.719 in the game. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.320 To me, it's not spring training. These games count, they matter. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:29.359 You need work. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.479 There's a bullpen out there, you can throw one hundred 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.280 pitches if you need work after the game. And that's 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.040 what bothers me about the way baseball is kind of 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.840 being played at this point, is that it's almost like 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.400 it's a pseudo between Triple A and the major leagues, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.240 and it's we got to get these guys in because 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.160 they need work, because we have today tomorrow. He's had 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.960 four days off. There's always time after the game to 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.640 do these things. And it's just when you see the 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.679 pitcher go out there in the fourth inning and dominate 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.880 like he did, there's no reason to have to throw 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.800 five guys in the game today to get the win. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.800 And I know I'm kind of off topic, but it 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.360 just kind of bothers me when I hear people talking about, like, well, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:04.240 the bullpen needs work. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:05.120 They've had a lot of rest. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.560 It's just the game, Like when the game starts, that 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.240 stuff goes out the window and you have to get 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.120 the win. And to me, it was just a tough 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.560 strategy to go about that game today, to try to 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.760 get that win in to salvage this road trip, which 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.000 was so promising on Monday. Like you said, Kyle Brad 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.560 is dominated. And unfortunately though the plays at the end 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:23.920 of the game too, is kind of added to the 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.360 frustration because we've seen those types of play all year. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.000 Yeah, I don't buy that argument either. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.520 You asked the bullpen today to cover fifteen outs wound 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:34.840 up being more because we went to the ten. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.800 They needed fifteen outs of work. They couldn't get it 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:39.720 done with seven. 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.080 Or eight or nine, because each time you turn to 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.960 a new guy, he may not have it. And so 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.480 I just today was if this was about analytics or 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.600 third time through or all these decisions that are prevalent 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.760 in baseball today, sometimes you got to look at your 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.240 picture and what is he doing? And like you mentioned Tim, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.600 they needed work. If he had given up runs in 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.800 the fourth, maybe I'm more open to what happened. But 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.160 he gave up runs in the first, and then he 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.480 pitched three scoreless, and then he's throwing ninety seven and 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.000 then he's striking guys out and then he's. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:12.400 Out of the game. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.320 It doesn't add up this If this was analytics, then 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:23.480 analytics today when oh And won for the Orioles. I mean, 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.840 it's just, you know, why not just leave the kid 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.880 in the game who's throwing ninety seven and striking guys out. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:35.439 He's your best pitching prospect. You started him at Yankee Stadium. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.920 He was good enough to do that. You started him 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.520 in Dodgers Stadium, he was good enough to do that. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.120 Why is he not good enough at sixty six pitches 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.200 to take the mound in the fifth against the last 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:51.160 place Angels leading by three runs. That's as calmly as 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:51.840 I can say that. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.920 Well, and Brad I think makes a great point, Like, guys, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.679 we're past the halfway point at this point, and the 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.840 Orioles heading into today, they're five games below five hundred. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.040 Despite that, you're still two games out of the Wild Cards, 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.199 so you have to do everything in your power to 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.640 win games, and style points are out the window, you know, 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.080 getting guys in to get this type of work, because 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.559 each of these guys that you throw in bullpen wise, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.920 which what they threw seven guys. I believe the variance 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.800 continues to add up because I think Brad or Steve, 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.320 one of you guys said it not everyone's gonna have 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.920 it today, and they didn't. You know, we went through it. 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.720 Cano wasn't sharp. Kitchridge, it's been a little rough for him. 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.679 Rico Garcia it's been rough for him of late. Like 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.320 each one that you add, you're adding more of a 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.600 probability going to the analytics of that guy's not gonna 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.679 have it, you know. So if you can prolong that 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:55.839 and have Trey Gibson get an extra out two, three, four, 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.880 then that brings that probability down. You're gonna have to 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.199 use one or two less bullpen arms. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.560 Yeah, And the other thing to consider here is at 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.040 the back end of that, you had Helsley, who threw 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.520 a really good inning, but he's coming off an arm issue. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.960 You didn't want to pitch him a second inning, so 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.040 you got to remember that, I don't have him for 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.000 thirty pitches today. I got him for fifteen, which is 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.679 when he threw sixteen I think, and he was really good, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.280 but because they use so many guys to get to him, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.719 he didn't really have a late inning back up there. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.680 And then Aiken did enough to win it, and they didn't. 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.760 Win it, so frustration in Birdland today Man times ten. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.439 It just was is a tough day for fans to 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.640 team everyone connected with the Orioles to see that one 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:43.320 get away and not have a winning road trip. We 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.360 got more to do. We talk about some happier things here. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:54.199 Stay with us on at Birdland Territory. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:54.960 Time out for. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:59.400 Daily Dingers, presented by a fan dol And you know, 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.720 guy had to home run. Say this young man, Samuel Basio, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.000 turns out he's pretty good at twenty one today, hit 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.920 that first ball four thirty four. Guy hadn't given up 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.560 a homeer on a split all year, and he hits 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.079 one halfway to La impressive man. So he's going to 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.400 be a good pick for Daily Bingers and fans of that, 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.640 I think anytime, because he can hit one out of 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.959 any ballpark against any pitcher. So that was a special 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.079 game for him today. It's too bad at then resulting 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:27.880 the win, but it's got to do a lot for 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:28.640 his confidence. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.760 Yeah, definitely. I mean those were two amazing swings that 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:32.120 he took. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.320 It it's clear, I think the sky reporters out if 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.439 you leave anything out over the plate, it doesn't matter 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.360 if you have zerox or base hits given up on 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.800 that pitch. Samy can hit it a long way, and 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.040 I think it's kind of it's out there now that 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.199 if you make a mistake out over the plate, he's 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.160 gonna make you pay in a big way. And I 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.600 mean that first ball was absolutely hammered. It was absolutely 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.840 no doubter. And then the next one hit a line 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.040 drive that, as Jim Palmer said, it was going to 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.600 go through the wall out there in right field. So God, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.800 I think he was a big factor in all five 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.600 of those runs. I think it was all five RBIs 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.240 or if not five, it was four, and just got 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:06.880 him on the board there early, and it was looking 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.679 like I thought he was gonna have a three or 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.640 four home run game the way he was swinging the bat, 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.719 and he took a couple of really good swings his 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.520 third at that two that I feel like he just 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.000 missed a couple of those pitches. But it just goes 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:18.640 to show that the talent this kid has. I mean, 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.640 it's still twenty one years old and he's doing everything. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.200 He caught a great game. He took a bunch of 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.080 balls off his mask and off the chest protector, stayed 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.800 out there and you know, that last play. It was 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.400 one of those last second decision plays and you can't 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.520 second guess when he goes out there to make that play. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.200 He thought his best shot was to get. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.319 The runner, and unfortunately he was too far out of 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.080 range to tag him there. But he's been doing a 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.080 phenomenal job on both sides of the plate and really 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.280 showing some of his toughness through He had. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.240 A lot of foul balls off of himself that I. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.560 Stayed in the game and there's really nowhere else to go. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.079 He was standing in there the whole. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.760 Nine well, he had the one moment where the ball 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.000 went off his head and he's waving like, don't come 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.920 out here. No, I'm good, I'm good. I'm staying in 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:03.480 this ball game and talking defensively Brad Trevor Rodgers over 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.439 the weekend Saturday, after the game, he was really singing 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.240 Samuel Besillo's praises after he just threw seven shutout innings 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.760 one hit ball against the Dodgers, and he credited the 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.120 twenty one year old. But he's doing a ton of 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.120 damage to fastballs. He's doing a ton of damage to 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.600 off speed pitches, and I do want to make mention 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.720 that Steve did hit his daily dinger last time out 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:31.440 with Taylor Wards, so I say, hey, you know, yeah, 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.040 trying to start the street. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.679 Well, Fasio hits one, I'm not gonna take any credit 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.680 because he's gonna hit a lot of and so you know, 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.200 just keep predicting every night you're gonna run into it. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.560 That's like he's going to run into it. But really 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.079 impressed with this kid's handling the challenges of the last 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.080 few weeks. And it seems like the manager's working hard 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.720 to repair if that's the word anything that was needed here. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.080 Yet whenever you see him in the dugout, they're laughing, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.320 they're talking all the time. And I said Tim on 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.280 the show, I think if the kid struggles for the 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.720 next three weeks, we're all going to point back to that. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.040 But I don't think he's going to and I don't 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.280 think he is. So he's not tearing it up like 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.840 he was until today. But he's going to be fine. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.480 And what a nice player to have under contract for 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:19.680 about eight more years. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.880 Oh yeah, having him at twenty one, get him all 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.720 the way through is twenty nine and thirty season. That's 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.880 the hope. I mean, that's kind of when you have 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.200 the Orioles and you don't have the biggest budget. These 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:31.640 are the guys you got to hit on. And it 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.200 just seems like he's going to be that kind of 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.400 player for it in the mainstay for a while now, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.200 and he's showing it at a young age. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.320 And we've even. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.680 Seen it just in the first three months, how much 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.840 he's matureered on both sides of the ball. Everybody who's 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.600 going to hit, and like Steve, you talked about the Orioles, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.640 were sure this kid could catch, and he's proven that. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.880 He's showing that he can handle his staff. He's getting 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.680 praises from his pitcher, which is that's what you want 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.520 to hear on the defensive side of things. And he's 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.000 got an absolute cannon. So he's a big guy, big 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:58.640 target behind the plate. He keeps all the balls in 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.400 front of him and he throws base runners out. What 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:01.680 else more could you ask for? 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:03.240 Nothing? 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.000 And he flashes that smile that lights up the room. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.600 I've seen that since I started interviewing when he was 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.840 in a ball So thrilled to see Samuel Bissio had 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.400 the game he had today. First of a few birdland, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.880 He's going to hit a few two humbre games over 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:21.160 his oil career. Just happened to be number one. Happened today? 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See terms at sportsbook dot FanDuel 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.520 dot com gambling problem caller tax one eight hundred gambler. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.440 So, guys, how do they bounce back this time? 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.880 Is this bounced back number twenty or twenty five of 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.600 the year we've called for and they've had to do. 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.600 I mean, I thought they were gonna get rolled after 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.080 Friday night at Dodger Stadium. That was such a brutal, 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.160 bitter loss. I thought, oh man, how they beat the 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.680 Dodgers after this? And then they did. They gotta do 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.400 it again. At least they got an off day every 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.560 group and they're coming home. But I'll tell you, we 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.800 have heard some blue birds this year at the yard 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.840 and if this team doesn't come out playing with fire 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.240 and passion from the get on Friday Night with their 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.720 neighbors from the Natch, if the Nats come into Baltimore 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.320 and make them look bad, there are going to be 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.480 some startup fans at Oriel Park. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:32.640 Yeah. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.520 And it's you know, kind of referencing Mark Trumble the 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.720 other day when he was on our show. It's just 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.800 kind of it's go time there. I mean, it's it's 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.480 the middle of June. This is this is absolute go time. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.640 This is you have to put the best line up 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.560 out there every day that you think can win games, 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.160 because it's gonna get to end of July and you're 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.840 gonna be so far out of it it's not gonna matter. 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.200 So it's just to me, it's just the sense of 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.520 urgency needs to be ticked up just a little bit. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.800 Like you're saying, Steve, I think Friday, they just got 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.000 to come out on fire. Baseball is not that kind 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.840 of sport. But it's at a tricky stage here from 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.639 now to the All Star break where it's the season 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.040 like it's gonna be made or broke in these next 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.800 couple of weeks, and it's I know, we said this 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.480 a few times on the show. I'd say over the 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.160 last month, but I mean it's they push themselves into 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.280 the corner. There's nowhere to go except to fight their 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.199 way out of this and to show some emurgency and 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.399 show some fire and just go out there and just 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.080 play their best brand of baseball. Because if you go 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.000 into the All Star Break ten games under five hundred, 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.440 where's the season going to go? I mean we're gonna 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.359 be having episodes on here, who's gonna be getting traded, 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.160 who's gonna be getting sent here and there? And that's 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:34.960 not what the fans want, that's not what we want, 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.360 that's not what this team wants, nor that's what nobody deserves. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.399 So it's just kind of got to just put the 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:42.040 throttle to. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.479 The floor right now and just go out there and 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.840 just put your best foot out there every single night 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.720 and play the best bit brand of baseball you possibly can. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.400 And if we're just looking in this immediacy of these 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.800 next two series, where obviously heading into the year, everyone 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.320 thought that the Orioles would be contenders. Vegas thought Theos 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.000 would be contenders. And you look at a series against 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.000 the Nats, you look at a series against the White 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.520 Sox and you're thinking back in March, Hey, these are layups, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.840 but they're not. You know, baseball has been crazy, and 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:15.240 the Nats have been an upstart team this year, basically 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.520 in this same stretch since May twenty second. The National 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.760 starting pitching has been the best in baseball. Their bullpen's 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:24.399 been an issue, and we saw that the other night 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.360 against the Phillies. But we know that that lineup can 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.719 mash and it's going to be fun to see this 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.879