WEBVTT - Wild card chase hits big bump on this road trip 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.120 It's a new edition of Birdland Territory and off day 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.440 edition coming out of the series of Minnesota and ahead 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.280 of the series in Tampa Bay. Amazingly, the Orioles are 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.320 still two games out of the wild Card. I really 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.440 thought it was three this point, checked again this morning 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.960 and double check. Wait, I'm I seeing that right now 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.480 they only have to climb over five teams to get 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.920 that spot. There is a real problem. Texas is holding 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.440 that spot, believe it or not. At sixty and sixty 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:39.600 one Minnesota, Detroit a halfback, Cleveland a game back, Toronto 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:41.479 game and a half back, which means the Oils are 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.559 last place by the way, and Baltimore two out. So 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.000 the math still works. But as we begin a new 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.680 Birdland Territory with Steve, tim and Brad, I would like 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.880 to ask my co hosts, where is your hope level 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.360 at this point? I think it reflects Land, which is 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.480 really low right now. Man, if we put this for 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.520 a vote to make it or not to be a 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.920 landslide against Having said that, you're a five game winning 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.080 streak away from making it real exciting. But we haven't 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.119 seen that much this year. What are your guys' thoughts 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.200 coming out of the Minnesota series. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.240 Yeah, my my biggest concern is that there's just more 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.759 teams climbing ahead of them, and that's it just gets 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.319 tough because when you win a game, you have to 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.200 expect five other teams to lose in order to actually 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.440 gain a game in the standing. So, yes, there are 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.840 only two games out, but when you start doing the math, 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:29.800 it starts to get a little bit more difficult to 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.440 climb up the standings. And it just it's the up 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.560 and down it's been all season. It's, you know, the 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.320 pitching hasn't been the best the last five games, and 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.840 the offense has kind of scored some runs, and it's 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.120 just that it's not lining up, and it just it 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.040 kind of just feels like the same thing that we've 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.960 been talking about the entire season. It's just the inconsistency 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.200 of both sides of the ball. And that's where I 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.160 feel like they're at in the standings. That's why they 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.880 are there, and it's it just to me, it's it's 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.280 just gonna get more difficult if you're not able to, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.200 like Steve said, put together five game winning streaks, because 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:01.960 I feel like that's what's going to take at this point, 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.280 and the inconsistency, to me is just kind of the 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.560 red flag that I just don't know if they're going 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.360 to be able to sustain that the rest of the season, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:10.079 even though. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.360 You know, they started talking about a fifty game sprint. 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:13.640 It's just over. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.840 When you look at the course of the season, you 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.520 just can this team actually sustain winning baseball and they 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.320 just haven't proven it to this point, So that would 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.919 be my concern with them getting back into the wild 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:24.880 card standings. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.240 Yeah, it's sort of just spinning your tires. And I 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.919 feel like we've said this about a lot of series, 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.359 but you can sort of say that this series is 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.400 kind of a microcosm where Game one Dean Kramer best 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.639 start of his season by far, one of the best 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.240 starts of his career, seven innings, just one in and 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.560 run one to hit, one walk, give them credit for 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.960 fighting late. Then Game two you score the runs early 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.360 and then the offense goes quiet, but you win. That 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.840 game sets up a rubber match, and then yesterday you 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.560 couldn't feel even better, you know, with Shane bos on 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.520 the mound, because over his last fifteen start he pitched 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.040 to us Sell up a three eer. But he's just 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.240 never gotten run support. Dylan Beavers had the big blast, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.280 the three run homer to put you up four to 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.120 one with Boz on the mound, but Boz didn't have 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.520 it and you ended up losing that game, losing that series. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.840 And it's just a bad direction that this team is in, guys, 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.160 because they've lost five of their last seven series. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.000 You're not gaining any sort of momentum. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.880 And now you're entering arguably, maybe not even arguably, you're 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.280 your toughest part of your schedule remaining. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:32.800 These next ten games. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.760 You have the Rays at the Trop and that that 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.040 was a rough series at the Trop last time they 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.840 were there, they swept the Rays of Camden Yards. But 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.400 the Rays of won nine straight games. They have the 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.480 best record in the majors right now. Then get take 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.480 on the Yankees, which that's always tough, and then the 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.400 Rays again. So these next ten games, that's a bearer 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.120 of a schedule. Over this next week and a half. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:03.200 You have the memo to national me never never say 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.880 again the Rays can't win it. Please please don't do that, 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.800 because in March. In March, the narrative was it's a 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.040 four team race in the Al East and any of 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.279 the four can win it, but we know Tampa won't. Okay, 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:23.040 well again as they just the Tampa Bay Ray's magic. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.839 They can change front office people, they change players, it 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.680 just keeps going. Whatever they have the you know, the 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.960 Oriels needs some of that to rub off on them. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.880 So question comes should they start playing for next year? 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.600 And I'm gonna tell you, if I hear any of 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.600 that from the Oriel management, it will shock me because 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.680 I think they just think, what you're two out, you 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.800 just you just still got to try to play for 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.400 this year. Even as bad as it's gotten. They are 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.440 four and seven this month, they're having to losing road trip, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.839 but just the signs are bad everywhere they look. But 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.159 even if they played for next year, what would that 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.520 even mean? More at bad for Jackson Holiday, they're playing 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.080 him more at bats for Kobe, they're playing him. I mean, 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.520 I'm not you know it, does it make sense? Is 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.720 there a play for next year they could even turn to? 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.599 I think by the just watching the last three or 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.919 four starts, I know the starters didn't have their best stuff, 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.840 but the fact that Trevor Rodgers Boz a couple of 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.760 the guys there in these last four or five starts, 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:25.000 they've only thrown like sixty pitches, eighty pitches at the most. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.280 If you're playing for next year, you're not pulling the start. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:28.760 I feel like you're not pulling the starter right there. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:30.720 Like I said, I know they didn't have their best stuff, 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.200 but I feel like if you're just kind of trying 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.400 to play out the games, you let the starters go 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.200 one hundred, then you go to your bullpen and kind 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.520 of see where it falls there. But they're clearly trying 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.320 to win these games. The bad start in Texas. Can't 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.279 remember who the starter was at the time, but I 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.440 think it was eighty pitches. He was COVID. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.640 Yeah, so it's two or three innings. He was out 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:51.000 of the game. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.279 Then Boz yesterday three innings, and I just feel like, 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.560 if you're playing for next year and trying to see 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.000 what you have, you're not going to these guys immediately. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.560 And Cam Sanders through two innings on Monday. He comes 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.760 back in yesterday trying to get multiple innings, which is 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.080 tough to do as a reliever, and probably a spot 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.719 he hasn't really done. So to me, it's I think 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.320 I think both can kind of be true. I think 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.520 you try to see the pieces you have for next 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.039 year moving forward and still try to win the games, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.960 and you don't want you know, yesterday, I think if 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.200 Boss stayed in there, it could have got really ugly. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.159 But so I think you're trying to win the games 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:22.760 the best you can and to see what you have 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.039 moving forward. So I feel like there's some kind of 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.760 wiggle room there between you know, playing for this year 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.400 and intending for the wildcard and really. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:31.800 Finding out what you have moving forward. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.640 Because the trades that they made to me scream we're 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.360 playing for twenty twenty seven and beyond. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.000 And Michael I said as much. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.919 Look it, he didn't like the position they were at 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.880 and that's why he told. And he said if they 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:46.919 were in a better position, he would have bought, but 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:47.760 they weren't. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:49.520 That was just their reality. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.120 And I've been pretty stepfast and saying this ever since 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:54.680 the deadline ten days ago. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.440 It feels like forever go with this point God, But. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.640 I'm leaning in the guys that you were just talking about, Steve. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.080 I want to see Jackson Holliday every single day. I 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.080 don't care if it's a left handed starter. I want 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.200 to see Kobe Mayo every single day. I don't care 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.800 if it's a righty. You know, Dylan Beavers and Kobe 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:15.480 Mayo as well. I look, I hate to say it, 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.920 and I know he's provided some boost for them recently, 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.280 even in the midst of his struggles prior to that. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.400 But guys like Leodi Tavers, you know he's not gonna 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.920 be here in twenty twenty seven. I'm curious how they're 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.920 going to use Chris Bassett because all signs point to 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.160 him probably coming back in the rotation. But Steve, I 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.520 know you'd like to see Trey Gibson. I'd like to 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.080 see Trey Gibson again even more kay Povich, I just 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.880 think you can still play these young guys and get 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.040 inventory on what you have. And I still don't think 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.920 that's waving the white flag. You can still manage the 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.920 game and play the game to win, but lean into 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.440 the young guys while doing it. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.400 Here's my guest. My guess is Michael Farrett has bumped 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.720 to the top of that list and that they'd like 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.600 to see him at some point this year after reacquiring 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.960 him in the Todler Wells trade. So the Orioles lose 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.560 seventy five to Minnesota fifty eight and sixty three as 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.560 their record as they head to Tampa. When we come back, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.200 what does the math say, Let's look at the numbers, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.600 what it might take to get the oreoles in. We're 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.200 still gonna do that. I know that sounds crazy, but 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.320 there is math that could make it work. Can this 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.680 team do it? 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This 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.079 product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:34.720 any disease. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.400 Berland Territory continues with you today, and so the recent 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.440 math says this, since sweeping Houston, now the break as 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.160 a very promising seven year win streak. At that point, 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.160 they're nine to twelve and they've gone two and five 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.400 the last seven series, losing road Trip two and four, 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.760 So there was momentum there. They couldn't keep it going. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.000 So what does the math say. Now here's the way 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.839 I look at it. Forty one games to go, eighty 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.080 four wins might do it. You might even need less 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.880 this year, as we've discussed, But let's just say eighty 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.400 four was the number, which would be less than most years. 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.079 The eros would need to go twenty six and fifteen 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.320 at six thirty four ball. So it doesn't seem like 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.000 this team could do it, but other teams it didn't 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.840 seem like could do it did it. So the math 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.520 is still works for them. The issue is has to 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.720 happen on the field lineup, not hitting mostly some of 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.160 the starters even recently, some short starts, some leakage in 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.760 the bullpen, and that's how you get two and five 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.160 in the last seven series. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.800 Yeah, and then when you look at that number twenty 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.280 six and fifteen, you're going to the trup where I 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:41.400 think I saw last night. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:42.520 I think the numbers are. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.560 Right forty one and eighteen at home or something like 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.439 that this year. I don't know if that's the actual number, 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.240 but that's like that's insanety one. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:50.600 Yeah. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:51.760 So if you take. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.120 If you take that and you figure, okay, you win 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.880 that series. Now you're looking at twenty four and fourteen. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.200 That's at the best case scenario. You can't imagine. You 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.120 can't envision a sweep there. So it's just the numbers 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:04.120 just start to stack up. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.000 If you don't put. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.880 Together series win after series win, mix in a sweep 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.440 here or there, it just gets really tough. So it's 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.079 the stretch is not gonna get any easier. And I know, 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.920 I feel like we've made this statement fifteen times this year, 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.240 But these next ten games I feel like are gonna 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.280 determine whether or not they can actually make a run 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.480 at this thing. And it's it's gonna get way harder 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.120 before it gets any easier. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.560 During this ten game stretch. And maybe Steve I'll be 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.439 even more optimistic than that. I don't know if it's 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.120 gonna take eighty four wins, that this really might be 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.959 eighty two, eighty one, or maybe even eighty one. Who knows, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:45.439 But I'm looking at this ten game stretch for the O's. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.480 The bottom can't fall out, like this can't be a 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:50.240 two an eight. 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.520 This can't even be a three and seven. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:57.199 Like if you could go four and six, you're realistically 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:58.600 you're probably still in the mix. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.400 You're probably still with the striking distance. 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.120 If you go four and six, and if you go 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.800 five hundred or better, obviously that's that's gravy. But it's 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.199 a tough remaining schedule. You have a couple of series 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.760 where look, I bring up the A's, but the A's 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.200 just won a series against the Red Sox, the Rockies. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:21.560 That's a winnable the Matts, excuse me. But besides that, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.320 it's a lot of teams still in the mix. You 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.400 know that the Guardians, the Cardinals are still in the 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.200 mix for an NL wild card. The Blue Jays you 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:35.160 mentioned Steve are above the Orioles, now Yankees twice, the Brewers, 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.560 so if they if they get in, they'll earn it. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.960 I just think it's it's a daunting schedule one. Just 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:48.880 with this team's inconsistencies, it's gonna be an uproad to climb. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.280 I wish I'd double checked this before we start taping, 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.079 but I think I'm right here. The last time the 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.960 Oils played the Yankees, they won the series, and I 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.000 believe the last time they played the Race they may 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:03.320 have swept them. Yeah, so last time they played the Dodgers, 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.160 they wont We've mentioned this number before. They beat the Dodgers, 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.080 they beat the Yankees, they beat the Rays. The Euros 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.880 have shown us at their best what they can do. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.079 I don't think we've seen their best in weeks now, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.360 and they just don't have that look of a team 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.360 making a run. I mean they just don't. So are 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:20.800 we here to put a fork in them. I don't 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.200 think we are, but we're here to say we see 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.600 what the fans see, and when everybody's seeing right now 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.320 a team that doesn't have anywhere near the look of 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.680 a playoff team and a team that's frankly in last place. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:32.800 So the orel is going to have to live with 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.000 that for a little while. Let's go backwards and before 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.840 we start taping, Brad, you made some comments about Shane 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:45.160 Boss who just so crazy for this season, so perfect 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.439 that the one time they get him runs, he immediately 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.880 gave them back. It wasn't even didn't even keep the 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:55.839 lead for like two minutes. His loss. He was down 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.280 from ninety five point nine average ninety four, and he 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.559 gave up nine hits in three innings that tied his 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.199 career worst most hits allowed. He didn't have a lot 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.960 of bad games, this guy, he's pretty steady, but that 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:09.600 was one What were you seeing? 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:10.240 Yeah? 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.480 To me, it was just, you know, trying to get 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.960 the fastball down, trying to get his splitter was the 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:15.880 biggest thing I saw. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.200 His fastball was just kind of all over the place. 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.640 He was really getting into bad counts one oh two 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.200 to oho with his fastball. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.840 Then when he's throwing his splitter, it was just up. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.320 Everything just seemed to be up. 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.800 And when your velocities down a little bit, he relies 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.040 on that fastball riding by people at the top of 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.280 his zone. When you're not throwing ninety seven to ninety 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.240 eight like he normally has, it becomes hittable. And it's 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.600 crazy to think now that ninety four to ninety five 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.840 is not plus velo in the major leagues, but these 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.680 guys see it every single day. And if you're not 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.200 able to get ahead with them and get your knuckle curve, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.360 which yesterday just didn't seem to have the bite and 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.280 the break to it, you're gonna get hit. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:52.320 And the guy, the. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.040 Guys at that played the Twins yesterday were just super 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.600 comfortable up there. They got in advantages count advantage counts, 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.480 and they really took advantage of the fastball up and 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.720 it was hard contact a lot of the a lot 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.760 of the game, and he was lucky enough to keep 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.160 him in the ballpark, but it wasn't lucky enough to 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:10.640 you know, get out to people. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.960 It was it was line drives all over the place. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:14.840 And I just think it has a lot to do 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.360 with making a ton of starts, and he's been very 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.360 reliable and he's thrown a lot of innings and the 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:20.000 you know. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.640 The Orioles. Who knows where they would be if he 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.400 hasn't had the year that he's had. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.280 But it's just kind of one of those days where 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.560 Ben kind of made a good comment on the broadcast yesterday, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.520 one third of the year is gonna be you're just 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.680 not gonna have your stuff, and that was definitely the 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.960 one third that he just didn't have his stuff and 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.720 the Twins took advantage. And hopefully he comes out the 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.760 next start and just kind of lets this one go by, 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.640 but hopefully it doesn't linger into the you know, two, three, 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.520 four starts down the line, But it. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:46.840 Could just be the August fatigue. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.400 It gets tough this time of year, and Shane Boz 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.920 hasn't really made a full year's worth of starts before. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.080 It gets tougher guys at this time of year, and 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:56.520 it could just be one of those starts. So I 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.360 hope that he's able to just kind of wash this 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.160 one and move on, but it was a tough one 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.000 for him yesterday. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.920 Well, first and foremost, I'm just glad that he isn't heard, 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.120 because that was my fear watching that game, because whenever 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.240 you see a velosity drop of it was two miles 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.840 per hour on his fastball, two and a half miles 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.680 per hour on the change up. He also wasn't getting 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.120 anywhere near his normal spin rate on the knuckle curve. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.160 It was a difference of four inches compared to his 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.160 year average, which is pretty substantial. So Shane Bos didn't 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:33.680 have it last night, and it's really unfortunate because he's 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.000 had a heck of a year and again his prior 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.520 fifteen starts he had a two nine to three ERA. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.560 And the crazy part of it is the Orioles have 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.720 won just four of those fifteen starts. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:44.760 Prior to that. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.920 Way, it makes no sense they just don't score for 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.400 Shane Bos, but they did yesterday, and of course, in 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.200 almost typical fashion of the season guys that they end 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.960 up scoring for Boz and then Boz has a bad game. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:02.280 So just unfortunately, I'm. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.600 Really glad to have Shane Boz locked up because I 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.800 think it's about time this team can count on some 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.280 starters years down the road and they can say that 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.560 now about Bradish and Boz. Brandon Young's under team control. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.159 It's a great start on next year. And to me, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.880 Shane Boz is a real pro. Getting to know him 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.480 a little bit this year and being around on the 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.200 for USA first for me, obviously he wasn't an oriole, 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.680 but he handles himself so well. And I see, Brad, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.919 will you tell me what you see? Zero frustration with 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.280 the lack of run support, And I don't think yesterday 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.040 anying canna do with that. Some might say, oh, he 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.680 finally got ticked off. Now, No, this is get way 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.440 past that. This guy just goes out and does his 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.080 job and doesn't care about that. He would he loved 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.440 to get eight runs. Who wouldn't, of course, But he's 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.320 going to do his thing, and I think it's so. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.879 I just think he's still a pretty young pitcher, but 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.600 I think he can show Trey Gibson and Michael Farrad 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.040 and Kate Povich and these young guys a little bit 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.760 about how it's done every five days. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.840 Yeah, there's no doubt Shane boss is a true professional. 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:06.679 The way he carries himself on the field, you can 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.720 tell he's prepared every single start. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:10.600 That just happens in the big league. 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.159 Sometimes you can prepare do everything right, and you just 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.760 don't have your stuff or you're just not it's just 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.360 not there that day. But he never shows frustration, which 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.679 I give him a ton of credit for his record 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:22.520 at four and twelve. I think it is this year, 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.240