Speaker 1: Well, it took ninety seven games those fans, But the
Speaker 1: Oriols have their first four game winning streak of the season.
Speaker 2: But typical of the place succeedment.
Speaker 1: With really bad news, the hit by pitch of Blaze
Speaker 1: Alexander from Lucas Ersag in the seventh inning. The bench
Speaker 1: is empty. Nothing really happened except they suffered a broken
Speaker 1: left hand, a non displaced fracture of the left hand.
Speaker 1: He's going to miss significant time. The Oriols have not
Speaker 1: told us how much. We can only speculate. This could
Speaker 1: be weeks, this could be a month or two. And Tim,
Speaker 1: let's start with you, because you were, you know, remnant,
Speaker 1: remembering that Jordan Westburg had a similar issue in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it happened the day after the trade deadline July
Speaker 3: thirty first, twenty twenty four. He suffered a right hand racture.
Speaker 3: Similar situation that Blaze Alexander got hit while batting and
Speaker 3: he didn't end up returning until September twenty second. And
Speaker 3: Jordan Westburg, we know how important he is to this
Speaker 3: Orioles team, going back to that point. But Blaze Alexander, guys,
Speaker 3: this is a pretty brutal blow considering the fact that
Speaker 3: he is leading all of baseball still in batting average
Speaker 3: since May first, but even more so, Brad, he's leading
Speaker 3: all of baseball with batting average with runners in scoring
Speaker 3: position since May first as well. This has been such
Speaker 3: an integral part of this team, one of, if not
Speaker 3: their biggest pleasant surprises of the year. And to lose
Speaker 3: him for an extended period of time right as you're
Speaker 3: building momentum, oh man, just a big, big blow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5: And they finally got over the hump of the three
Speaker 5: game winning streak, finally got that fourth game in a row.
Speaker 5: You know, you're going into the All Star Break excited,
Speaker 5: ready to These guys probably want to be back to
Speaker 5: it being Friday already as much as they want the
Speaker 5: time off. When you're on a roll like this, you
Speaker 5: want to keep going. And unfortunately it's just going to
Speaker 5: be some upsetting news in the clubhouse. Guys are going
Speaker 5: to be rushing out, going home, getting on their flights
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. But it's a big blow. I
Speaker 5: think he gives some of the best at bats in
Speaker 5: this entire lineup, uses all the fields.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna have the home runs of you know, Pete.
Speaker 5: Alonzo Gunner and those guys, but he keeps the lineup
Speaker 5: rolling after it. They've been kind of sliding him up.
Speaker 5: Today he was hitting in the six spot behind Basio
Speaker 5: and it's an integral part of this lineup that's gone.
Speaker 5: It's a guy that puts the ball in play, and
Speaker 5: like you said, with the runners and scoring position, he's
Speaker 5: just been so good since the beginning of May.
Speaker 4: This hurts.
Speaker 5: So it's going to be the next guy up again. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: We've we've talked about this multiple times this year. In
Speaker 5: this first half. It's these injuries are just killing this team.
Speaker 5: But it's they're hot right now. You just got to
Speaker 5: hope somebody can step up and just kind of, you know,
Speaker 5: keep the boat to float until he's able to come
Speaker 5: back hopefully healthy. And I think for him it's upsetting
Speaker 5: just because I think it's a career year for him
Speaker 5: across the board offensively, and it's it's career at bats,
Speaker 5: it's urbis, it's base it. I mean, it's across the board,
Speaker 5: he's having his best year and now he's gonna be
Speaker 5: looking at probably six weeks on the shelf. Like you said,
Speaker 5: we're speculating on that, but it's it's a big blow,
Speaker 5: and it's unfortunate going into the All Star break having
Speaker 5: this kind of news hit them.
Speaker 1: So do you guys think when he was hit by
Speaker 1: the pitch his reaction was as much about feeling this
Speaker 1: is something significant, But it seemed like he was upset
Speaker 1: at the pitcher At the same time.
Speaker 2: He said something to Ersag.
Speaker 1: Ersag said something back, and the mass and cameras were
Speaker 1: kind of guys who were eating his lips, saying, I'm
Speaker 1: just pitching, you know, In other words, I'm just so.
Speaker 2: I was just trying to throw inside or whatever, and
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 1: It went high and high and in and and got
Speaker 1: his left hand, not his throwing hand, but bad enough
Speaker 1: because you can't play with a non displaced fracture in
Speaker 1: either hand. And so initially his reaction, what do you.
Speaker 4: Think, Yeah, I think it was just he was mad.
Speaker 4: I think I think he felt it right away. I
Speaker 4: think it's just one of those things.
Speaker 5: As a hitter, they don't want to get hit, period,
Speaker 5: but when you get hit on your hand, you're pretty pissed.
Speaker 4: You gotta throw.
Speaker 5: I mean, I always had a hard time wondering how
Speaker 5: guys miss so high and tight on guys, if you're
Speaker 5: trying to throw a purpose pitch, throw it on the
Speaker 5: plate or just up. You don't have to throw it
Speaker 5: in off the plate towards a guy's face hand like
Speaker 5: upper shoulder area. I always felt like, if you're trying
Speaker 5: to go there for purpose, throw a little bit off
Speaker 5: the plate, but not inside the chalk. And it's just
Speaker 5: Hitters get frustrated when you when you do that, especially
Speaker 5: when you get hit where he got hit. And I
Speaker 5: thought when I saw it initially, Blaze's I mean, he's
Speaker 5: an excited player, but his reaction told me that he
Speaker 5: felt something immediately and he was just his initial reaction
Speaker 5: was he was pissed and he got hit, and obviously
Speaker 5: I think he felt something. I could just see as
Speaker 5: the reaction went further along that he was really kind
Speaker 5: of bathing his left hand and not using it to
Speaker 5: pick up his helmet. Then when he got the first base,
Speaker 5: it almost looked like there was a cut on his hand,
Speaker 5: and I could just tell he wasn't in a good spot.
Speaker 5: So I think it was just initial reaction of that hurt.
Speaker 5: And I think I might actually be hurt from that pitch.
Speaker 6: Curid.
Speaker 3: It's just the frustration of everything, guys, because at that point,
Speaker 3: the O's had already blown this game open. The game
Speaker 3: felt pretty secure. You're about to have your first four
Speaker 3: game winning streak, you're heading into the All Star Game.
Speaker 3: But then it's what Brad was just saying. This is
Speaker 3: a career year for Blaze Alexander and and for the
Speaker 3: first time in his big league career, he's an everyday player.
Speaker 6: You know, he wasn't that with the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: They Orioles acquired him, trading Kate Stroud among others. And
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the year, you know, he was
Speaker 3: seen as this utility guy. But he has really carved
Speaker 3: out a role in this ball club and he's just
Speaker 3: so much fun to watch. You know, a guy with
Speaker 3: high energy, a little bit of a cockiness to him,
Speaker 3: which you like as well, you know, you like on
Speaker 3: your team. And it sucks, man, it really sucks. And
Speaker 3: I'm sure he just felt a ton of emotion in
Speaker 3: that moment.
Speaker 1: Let's remind the viewers right now, very soon, we've got
Speaker 1: a mail bag show coming, maybe sooner than you think,
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Speaker 1: and we'll have a mailbak show coming very soon. There
Speaker 1: is a player on the Oriols forty man roster they
Speaker 1: could call now, and he's got major league time. His
Speaker 1: name is Christian and Carnacion Strand. He's playing the Major
Speaker 1: leagues with the Reds. He is on the forty man.
Speaker 1: He is, oh by the way, a third baseman who
Speaker 1: also dabbles at first base, corner infield, and oh by
Speaker 1: the way between two Triple A teams this year. His
Speaker 1: ops is eight forty eight and he's hit nine teen
Speaker 1: home runs. He has hit twenty one homers in four
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight career Major league at bats for
Speaker 1: the Reds. He's got some pop. I haven't seen him yet,
Speaker 1: but he just keeps rolling along, playing well. I think
Speaker 1: he's active and healthy as far as I know, and
Speaker 1: I'm just speculating. We don't know anything about what move
Speaker 1: they're gonna make. We do know this, Theos have time
Speaker 1: with the break now. It could even be a trade.
Speaker 1: I mean, they could make a deal between now and
Speaker 1: Friday to add someone.
Speaker 6: I think it's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be interesting just how they're going to fill this spread,
Speaker 3: because I would be surprised at this point if they're
Speaker 3: just gonna roll with Kobe Mayo. I think they feel
Speaker 3: comfortable in his role at this point. Look, he mashes
Speaker 3: left handed pitching, that is abundantly clear, but he struggles
Speaker 3: against right handed pitching. So I think they need to
Speaker 3: bring in someone just to scrape it together. Maybe you
Speaker 3: can have a platoon situation out at third base, but
Speaker 3: I think it's abundantly clear they need to make a
Speaker 3: move at this point. I don't think you can just
Speaker 3: throw the US all on Kobe Mayo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. I like like Steve kind of art.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe it is a true who knows, Maybe it's
Speaker 5: some kind of minor trade where somebody stuck in triple
Speaker 5: A behind somebody and they just make a minor move
Speaker 5: here before the deadline.
Speaker 4: I don't really know.
Speaker 5: But to me, the value of Blazer is that you
Speaker 5: can move them all over the place, and I don't
Speaker 5: know if the guys they have in the minor leagues
Speaker 5: can do that, and that's where you lose value with
Speaker 5: him going down. Also, if you need to get Gunner
Speaker 5: off his feet for one game, Blaze was very able
Speaker 5: to step in a shortstop as well. You can play
Speaker 5: second base. We've seen it in the outfield. So it's
Speaker 5: it's a it's a multiple kind of thing that you're
Speaker 5: going to try to have to replace here. Yes, you
Speaker 5: have the four days, but it's kind of looking at
Speaker 5: your rosters and I just don't know if they have
Speaker 5: that guy anywhere in their system right now.
Speaker 4: So it's just an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 5: But I'm sure, you know, they always have emergency plans
Speaker 5: on their on their minds and everything, so I'm sure
Speaker 5: they'll come up with an idea. But yeah, I agree
Speaker 5: with to him with you, you got to find somebody
Speaker 5: who can hit right hand and pitching at their base.
Speaker 5: I don't know if Kobe Mayo is at that point
Speaker 5: right now to play every day, but they're gonna have
Speaker 5: to figure something out here fairly soon.
Speaker 1: Let's tip our cap to Blaze. Alexander. What addition he
Speaker 1: has been. Three twelve is padding average. We don't see
Speaker 1: three hundred in the big leagues much anymore. Eight oh
Speaker 1: seven is his ops. As you guys said, versatility is
Speaker 1: there beyond that. He is energy in that clubhouse. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you you feel his energy at four o'clock when
Speaker 1: you're in there, and I know they darn well feel
Speaker 1: it at seven. And when those guys get to where
Speaker 1: they're going tonight, everybody's scattering for the break. They're gonna
Speaker 1: sit down and they're all gonna say, damn, I cannot
Speaker 1: believe we lost the energy on this team.
Speaker 3: That And I'm telling you and someone that can come
Speaker 3: through in big time moments. Guys, his batting average with
Speaker 3: runners and scoring positions since May first is four sixty two.
Speaker 3: Those are video game numbers. You can't even do that
Speaker 3: in MLB. The show like this is a big time
Speaker 3: player for them, and like Brad said, this isn't just
Speaker 3: a third basement. We've seen him play in the outfit.
Speaker 3: We've seen him play every single position pretty much this season.
Speaker 3: Besides him putting the catcher's equipment on seemingly it's just
Speaker 3: he also just seems like such a great teammate as well,
Speaker 3: and guys that you know really rally behind and like
Speaker 3: play him with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he's a gamer without a doubt. You can
Speaker 5: see that. I don't have to be in the clubhouse
Speaker 5: to know. I watched on the TV and you can
Speaker 5: just tell when he does something, they're all excited. Everybody
Speaker 5: gets excited for when guys do well. There's guys that
Speaker 5: everyone gets excited for, and he's one of those guys
Speaker 5: on this team. It's very easy to see and it
Speaker 5: comes across on the TV just watching it when we
Speaker 5: watch the games.
Speaker 1: Also, this is a guy that when reporters go up
Speaker 1: to interview him and you walk away, he shakes, He
Speaker 1: grabs your hand to shake it. He just as just
Speaker 1: as a polite and available and engaging guy as has
Speaker 1: maybe ever been in there. And that's a long list
Speaker 1: of guys we could put there, and so my heart
Speaker 1: breaks for him, But I think we're gonna see him
Speaker 1: again and the team has to pick up the slack.
Speaker 1: Who would have thought we'd be talking about like the
Speaker 1: NBO that's what he feels like. It feels like the
Speaker 1: most valuable player on this team, which if they had
Speaker 1: to take that vote today, he'd be on a lot
Speaker 1: of pallets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well just think of all the names. Guys like
Speaker 3: Brandon Young would be way up that list as well.
Speaker 3: And we were talking about this on the show on
Speaker 3: the Fan last week, like when you think a Gunner
Speaker 3: Henderson and how far behind he'd be, you know, like
Speaker 3: a Brandon Young, a Blaze, Alexander As, Samuel Bissio and
Speaker 3: and all these There's been so many great surprises on
Speaker 3: this team, and I think that's what's so frustrating Leodi
Speaker 3: Taveras today. I know he hadn't had an RBI in
Speaker 3: a while, but three big RBIs how big was he
Speaker 3: in the month of April? Jeremiah Jackson drove in a run?
Speaker 3: How big was he in the month of April. They've
Speaker 3: had so many of these cool stories, but Blaze being
Speaker 3: at the top.
Speaker 1: I want to touch on a lot of things in
Speaker 1: this show Go Anywhere. If you're watching Why the Ools
Speaker 1: won four in a row?
Speaker 2: What went right?
Speaker 1: We're gonna touch on that their offense came to life
Speaker 1: in this series. The attendance was really good this weekend
Speaker 1: for two teams with losing records, and I think we
Speaker 1: should note that, and we will, And what are the
Speaker 1: Ools need to do coming out of the break, big
Speaker 1: road trip to Houston and Boston.
Speaker 2: We're going to touch on that too.
Speaker 1: A lot to do as we roll on today here
Speaker 1: on Birdland Territory.
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Speaker 1: Well, Tim, we got to get to that that you
Speaker 1: were as I push some buttons here as you were
Speaker 1: at the game today in Philadelphia and then you came
Speaker 1: back to Baltimore area so we could tape our show.
Speaker 1: So for the Oriols today, ike Iris show. For one,
Speaker 1: he had a strikeout.
Speaker 2: On a walk.
Speaker 1: We did not see the lefty Jerwan until the last inning.
Speaker 1: He got one bat or two pitches he got him out.
Speaker 1: So not big big day for oriole prospects. But what
Speaker 1: was it like being at the futures game today?
Speaker 6: It was awesome.
Speaker 3: That was my first time I've ever gone to the
Speaker 3: futures game. My dad he went to the futures game,
Speaker 3: I believe back in twenty nineteen when DC hosted the
Speaker 3: All Star Game. That was my first time at the
Speaker 3: Phillies Ballpark. What an awesome ballpark. And then they got
Speaker 3: this new little complex open up because obviously all.
Speaker 6: Three of their stadium's arenas are there. But there's this sort.
Speaker 3: Of battery light with the Braves have going on with
Speaker 3: all these outdoor bars and restaurants, and it was really neat.
Speaker 6: But the game itself really cool. Adam Jones was there.
Speaker 3: He was a part of the American League coaching staff
Speaker 3: and he got an standing oh as did Jurua and
Speaker 3: Ike Irish when they got introduced. But it's really cool,
Speaker 3: man Like. It's been an event that Orioles fans in
Speaker 3: particular have kept an eye on over the years just
Speaker 3: because gosh, their farm system was so loaded for so long,
Speaker 3: and you'd see so many of these guys in this
Speaker 3: Futures Game.
Speaker 6: But it was awesome to be there. It was definitely,
Speaker 6: really really cool.
Speaker 1: Here's my twenty second editorial and I'll move on. I
Speaker 1: don't think Major League Baseball is doing right by its
Speaker 1: young miller. The Futures Game needs a.
Speaker 2: Standalone own night itself.
Speaker 1: This is the store building them the stars of the future,
Speaker 1: so where they're playing while the Draft is going on
Speaker 1: and MLB games. I had needed six TVs in here
Speaker 1: today to try to follow and track everything going on,
Speaker 1: updating my Twitter and my substack, the Twitter, the Futures game,
Speaker 1: the Draft, and the Orioles. Other than that, quiet, why
Speaker 1: can't we give these kids some more of a bigger form.
Speaker 2: That's just my which went longer than that.
Speaker 3: I know I'm gonna piggyback off that for a second, Steve,
Speaker 3: because you're so right, and there were so many things
Speaker 3: that MLB could do better, and this just seems like
Speaker 3: a layup right the All Star week outside of the
Speaker 3: home run derby and the game, of course, it's the
Speaker 3: most dead week on the sports calendar all year long.
Speaker 3: There's no games, there's nothing on Wednesday and Thursday. Have
Speaker 3: it during one of those days. Have the draft on
Speaker 3: during one of those days. We had our buddy Jim
Speaker 3: Kallis on a couple of weeks ago, and we loved
Speaker 3: Jim and got it with such a fun episode. And
Speaker 3: you haven't watched it, You one hundred percent should go
Speaker 3: back and watch it. But when Jim was trying to explain,
Speaker 3: all right, it's this channel for the first ten picks
Speaker 3: and then it's this app for the.
Speaker 2: Next It's what I think.
Speaker 6: It's complicated, man, just having it one spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy, you know sometimes less you know.
Speaker 1: I'm watching the draft. They do ten rounds today with
Speaker 1: the analyst Alison. Those guys are doing a great job.
Speaker 2: Then you're gone.
Speaker 1: They're not there for eleven through twenty, and they wait
Speaker 1: an hour so they get your love. I don't know
Speaker 1: who drew this up, but they might have been an
Speaker 1: happy hour when they put it on an actor or something,
Speaker 1: and they need dating to work on this. MLB could
Speaker 1: be doing better by its too talent than what they're
Speaker 1: doing right now. We digress back to Birdland, where the
Speaker 1: Oils have won four in a row.
Speaker 2: This is the rocky road they've been on.
Speaker 1: They won three in a row, they lost three in
Speaker 1: a row, they won four in a row. So they're
Speaker 1: seven and three in July. They're giving some hope here.
Speaker 1: I know Oriil fans are saying, you suck me back
Speaker 1: in again. I'll be watching Friday Night now and they're
Speaker 1: two outs in this wild card behind a couple teams.
Speaker 1: I've asked this question a dozen times of you guys
Speaker 1: will ask it again, Are they finally getting this thing going?
Speaker 5: I honestly feel this might be the first time they
Speaker 5: I feel like they actually might be gaining some momentimum
Speaker 5: might be able to carry. I say that because the
Speaker 5: offense is doing what we kind of had thought and
Speaker 5: hoped that they would do. They're hitting home runs, the
Speaker 5: starting pitching has been consistent, and it just feels different.
Speaker 5: This weekend felt different than the previous three game win streaks.
Speaker 5: And I don't know what it was, And even Ben
Speaker 5: McDonald today was talking about it on the broadcast. It
Speaker 5: just the park felt different and the team's energy just
Speaker 5: seemed different. I can't put my finger on exactly what
Speaker 5: it was, but it just felt like a different weekend.
Speaker 4: He said. Maybe the Royals had something to do with it.
Speaker 5: The record was not as good, but still a win
Speaker 5: is a win, and four wins in a row and
Speaker 5: the major leagues is still good. And they finally got
Speaker 5: off of that two team list that they were stuck on.
Speaker 5: The only two teams left to not have a four
Speaker 5: game win streak, So going into the also break, this
Speaker 5: is really all you could ask for. They had four
Speaker 5: games left to go, they won all four of them,
Speaker 5: and they have some momentum going whether coming out of
Speaker 5: the four day break is tough because everyone kind of resets,
Speaker 5: so you're coming out facing everybody's a game from the beginning.
Speaker 5: You have your best starters and all your relievers rested,
Speaker 5: and it's a different feel the first couple games out
Speaker 5: of the break. But they have a momentum and hopefully
Speaker 5: when they come in on front, they can just continue
Speaker 5: what they did this weekend because that was complete baseball,
Speaker 5: and that's what I think the fans expected when this
Speaker 5: season started.
Speaker 6: That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, you could certainly make the case that this
Speaker 3: was their most complete series that they've had in quite
Speaker 3: some time. I believe it's their first series sweep since
Speaker 3: they swept the Rays late May around Memorial Day.
Speaker 6: Look part of it.
Speaker 3: Like you said, Brad, the Royals are having a really
Speaker 3: tough year, There's no doubt about it, and their pitching just
Speaker 3: has not been up the snuff. The lineup, but the
Speaker 3: Orioles they took advantage, and they took advantage of the
Speaker 3: Royals mistakes, especially today. Gunner Henderson three hits today, He's
Speaker 3: hitting a ball hard. I know that hasn't always resulted
Speaker 3: in the best of luck. Even over these past couple
Speaker 3: of days, he's looked a little bit different.
Speaker 6: I'm not ready to say they're back yet. I think
Speaker 6: that you know.
Speaker 3: We've seen this so many times, guys, but Steve just
Speaker 3: flashed up the schedule and look at the next four series.
Speaker 3: I think the next four series are really going to
Speaker 3: determine how mich Elias is going to approach this deadline.
Speaker 3: So it's at Houston, at Boston, two teams that are
Speaker 3: ahead of you and the wildcard race. The Braves come
Speaker 3: to town and obviously the Braves are having a great, great season,
Speaker 3: and then you head to Detroit to take on the Tigers,
Speaker 3: and the Tigers are right around the Orioles. I think
Speaker 3: they're a game behind them in the wildcard standing. So
Speaker 3: three of your next four series, which by the way,
Speaker 3: three of those four against the American League teams fighting
Speaker 3: for wildcard, all on the road, where the Orioles have
Speaker 3: struggled this year. If they're able to start stacking some
Speaker 3: series wins there and gaining some ground on some teams,
Speaker 3: then I can really buy in. But this is a
Speaker 3: great run into the All Star break. It's a run
Speaker 3: that they absolutely needed. And Hey, even just looking at
Speaker 3: the homestand as a whole four and two homestand if
Speaker 3: you would have told Orioles fans that heading into this
Speaker 3: six game home stand, you go four and two heading
Speaker 3: into the break, everyone would have taken it.
Speaker 2: Now they need a four and two road trip coming
Speaker 2: out and break. Win at Houston, win at Boston.
Speaker 1: If they can do that, they'll get more believers than
Speaker 1: they have at this minute. They'll cut more games under
Speaker 1: five hundred, and they may even get closer than two
Speaker 1: games to the wild card. They might be right there
Speaker 1: on the doorstep. This season is salvageable because the American
Speaker 1: League opponents are making it that way. For the Orioles,
Speaker 1: they just keep giving them chance after chance after chance,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is the time they're actually going to
Speaker 1: take it and run with it. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of folks in the stands this weekend. We want to
Speaker 1: touch on that coming up next on Birdland Territory.
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Speaker 1: The three game attendance Orioles Royals at the Yard this
Speaker 1: weekend was eighty seven thousand and three six, about twenty
Speaker 1: nine per game. They were promotions. There was the drone
Speaker 1: show after the game Saturday night, which looked great highlights.
Speaker 1: I saw there to see it in person. But I'm
Speaker 1: not selling this as anything at all, except there are
Speaker 1: two things that draw on right now, Birdland promotions and weekends.
Speaker 1: You get those two together. The Yankees don't have to
Speaker 1: be there for fans to come in the stands. This
Speaker 1: weekend shows that the Royals have one of the worst
Speaker 1: records in baseball, but it was still nice to be
Speaker 1: the see and you guys have already referred to the energy.
Speaker 1: The players have noted it. Ben McDonald noted it, and
Speaker 1: it makes a difference.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big time. I mean, there's a reason why they
Speaker 4: have home field advantage.
Speaker 5: And when the when there's nothing like kam the Yards,
Speaker 5: when it's packed and there's there's people in the stands,
Speaker 5: doesn't matter your record. Like you said, it doesn't matter
Speaker 5: who you're playing, doesn't matter where the Orioles record. It's
Speaker 5: a great place to be. It's a It makes the
Speaker 5: atmosphere electric. The noise is so loud when you when
Speaker 5: something big happens, it sounds like a gunshot went off.
Speaker 4: When when it's when it's packed like that.
Speaker 5: It was always my favorite when a Friday, Saturday Sunday
Speaker 5: series came in and you had, you know, just just
Speaker 5: energy in the stands. It just makes the game that
Speaker 5: much more exciting and the players are more into it,
Speaker 5: and it's it's awesome having the fans behind you, and
Speaker 5: it gives you that little extraute boost when you need it,
Speaker 5: and that's when the Orioles needed it this weekend and
Speaker 5: they really got it. I think the fans really helped
Speaker 5: provide that for them and.
Speaker 4: Kind of get them over that home.
Speaker 5: Maybe they'll run off ten games in a row now
Speaker 5: that they got past the three mark here.
Speaker 4: You just never know.
Speaker 5: So that was it was cool to see that many
Speaker 5: people in the stands and you could tell the players
Speaker 5: reacted to it.
Speaker 4: So it was it was a great weekend all around.
Speaker 6: It's awesome.
Speaker 3: It's awesome when Camden Yards is packed, and obviously the
Speaker 3: Orioles just have such great fans, but also a lot
Speaker 3: of cool moments, man like Samuel Bissio with the go ahead,
Speaker 3: two run homer.
Speaker 6: On Friday, throwing the bat like that was awesome.
Speaker 3: And Saturday, I think Craig Albernaz was saying in his
Speaker 3: postgame presser he was, man, this was the most energy,
Speaker 3: the most juice. This uh fans the stadium has had
Speaker 3: since opening day, and and I.
Speaker 6: Thought that that was telling.
Speaker 3: You know that the the players definitely recognized it. Craig
Speaker 3: Alberna has definitely recognized it. I do want to give
Speaker 3: one shout out though. One of the highlights of the weekend. Guys,
Speaker 3: I'm sure you saw it on masson the one hundred
Speaker 3: three year old World War two vet who did the
Speaker 3: anthem on Saturday?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Like that was the coolest thing ever?
Speaker 6: One hundred three is standing up getting into it. I
Speaker 6: thought that was awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The oil's honor military every night, every home again eighty
Speaker 1: one he won this year there will be a military
Speaker 1: honoree and that's awesome. His poor movie, very very exciting
Speaker 1: for the fans. A couple quick notes from the game today.
Speaker 1: Leonti Taveres hit one four forty eight, Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: furthest of his career. Second farthest bine oil. Kobe Mayo
Speaker 1: hit one four point fifty two in April at KC.
Speaker 1: And how about this note, Pete Alonzo sixty fifth rbi today,
Speaker 1: the most fine oil at the break since Manny.
Speaker 2: Machado in twenty eighteen. That snuck up as fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this guy's just been mister dependable ever since
Speaker 1: the first few weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's like an avalanche.
Speaker 5: It's not like it's just a snowball that just keeps
Speaker 5: going and you don't realize it at the time when
Speaker 5: you're watching series by series or month by month, but
Speaker 5: also you look up and like I said back in April,
Speaker 5: I think, like playing with him, the numbers are going
Speaker 5: to be there. You just know what to expect when
Speaker 5: this guy's on the field, and he might go through stretches.
Speaker 5: I mean all power hitters go through those stretches where
Speaker 5: they might not seem like they're driving runs or this
Speaker 5: or that, but he picks up his runs as it
Speaker 5: goes along. And I mean he's at twenty something home
Speaker 5: runs too, which doesn't seem like he's hit that many
Speaker 5: too also, but it's just the numbers are there. Somehow
Speaker 5: over time they got there. But it's impressive. Sixty five
Speaker 5: before the break the most since Manny in twenty eighteen
Speaker 5: is not a small number. It means he's going to
Speaker 5: get close to one hundred if he doesn't get past it.
Speaker 4: So that's great to see.
Speaker 3: And Pete, you can you do the same split that
Speaker 3: you do with Blaze Alexander. Since May first guys, heading
Speaker 3: into today, Pete Alonso had fifty one RBIs second most
Speaker 3: in all of baseball, second most, and his ops over
Speaker 3: nine hundred those first couple of weeks of the season,
Speaker 3: and thinking that presser, meet him, meet with the media
Speaker 3: after that Giants game coming up short, you know how
Speaker 3: emotional he was.
Speaker 4: I feel like that was the.
Speaker 3: Turnaround for him. Ever since then, he's just been on
Speaker 3: a tarror. He's been Pete Alonzo.
Speaker 2: We come back.
Speaker 1: I want to give one more note on Pete hat tip,
Speaker 1: although I'm not wearing one currently, and one more note
Speaker 1: on the Oriel Bullpen sneaking up one of some of
Speaker 1: these stats in a minute here on Birdland Territory.
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Speaker 1: So this will mean much to people outside of the media,
Speaker 1: but if you're in the oil club ass as much
Speaker 1: as I am. On Friday, Pete Alonzo had six consecutive reporters, radio, television,
Speaker 1: print approach him consecutively, taking up about half the time
Speaker 1: of the clubhouse was open, and he had time for
Speaker 1: everybody who came up to him. People from Kansas City,
Speaker 1: people from Baltimore, people from outside both cities. They just
Speaker 1: kept hitting this guy up for interviews. And I almost
Speaker 1: wanted to go over, and I'm like, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to right now. The guy's been talking to guys for
Speaker 1: a half hour. I could give him a break, and
Speaker 1: so I just I just say thank you for that.
Speaker 1: As a media guy, though, that's above and beyond the call,
Speaker 1: you almost feel like you want to go up to
Speaker 1: your media partners and go, can we give this guy's
Speaker 1: been talking to people for an hour here and you
Speaker 1: let him be ready for the game. But they kept
Speaker 1: coming and he kept greeting them so tremendous. I mean,
Speaker 1: for media guy, that's all you ask. And he's the
Speaker 1: biggest name in there, and he has time for everybody.
Speaker 1: You're a bullpen guys eight and two thirds scoreless this weekend.
Speaker 1: The last eleven games are two forty eight. Here they
Speaker 1: go again, getting some things together at a time the
Speaker 1: team really needs it. The pitching by the way, during
Speaker 1: the four game win streak, gave up eight runs, seven earned,
Speaker 1: and five walks thirty two strikeouts.
Speaker 2: So them, some things really came together.
Speaker 1: Yes, against a bad team, but don't forget they beat
Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the Yankees and the Rains too. They're
Speaker 1: showing us what they could be. They've given hope for
Speaker 1: the All Star Break.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. I mean that's all you can ask for.
Speaker 5: It's it's like I said, this series kind of had
Speaker 5: a little bit of everything. You have, bullpen, pitching, starting pitching, hitting,
Speaker 5: It all kind of came together. This is this is
Speaker 5: the pieces that we've seen at times and they just
Speaker 5: haven't lined up. You just got to hope that now's
Speaker 5: the time it lines up. And like we said, they're
Speaker 5: facing Houston and Boston, two teams that are ahead of
Speaker 5: them here in the Wildcard. It's huge series right after
Speaker 5: the break, and it's it's it's gonna show whether like
Speaker 5: we had a show about last week the trade deadline.
Speaker 5: This this is I know we've mentioned it for a
Speaker 5: couple weeks now, but it's it's it's now or ever.
Speaker 5: It's if you get swept by Houston that puts you
Speaker 5: three games behind them, worse ahead of them, and the
Speaker 5: Red Sox right now have one nine in a row.
Speaker 5: So it's like it's just everybody's kind of finding their
Speaker 5: stride and the Orioles are finding it maybe with them,
Speaker 5: so it's it's it could be a battle here, and
Speaker 5: thankfully the standings haven't gotten away from them and they're
Speaker 5: still in it statistically in the standing, so it's it's
Speaker 5: an exciting time and it's great to have all three
Speaker 5: phases kind of going to the same time, which we
Speaker 5: have not seen yet this year.
Speaker 3: I think that what's even more impressive about the Bullpen
Speaker 3: guys is the fact that Ryan Hellslan, Keegan Ake and
Speaker 3: have both been sidelined for quite some time. And Aken
Speaker 3: it doesn't sound great. I know he got the second
Speaker 3: opinion on his elbow. I know Hellsley he got a
Speaker 3: better prognosis over the weekend. It sounds like he's gonna
Speaker 3: be out for a while, but maybe avoids Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 3: But the Bullpens showing up big even though they were undermanned,
Speaker 3: I think that that's even more impressive.
Speaker 1: Good note to end the last show of the first half,
Speaker 1: but we have a lot more coming up. Including this week.
Speaker 1: During the break, we won't be going anywhere. Even while
Speaker 1: MLB takes a few days off, we'll still have shows
Speaker 1: coming your way. So the Birds are forty six and
Speaker 1: fifty one. That's show you how such a fine line
Speaker 1: it is. You come out of the break of two
Speaker 1: and four, that's a buzzkill. You go four and two.
Speaker 1: Now you're charging towards something that little difference in a
Speaker 1: game or two. Big week coming up at Houston and Boston,
Speaker 1: and we'll be here to talk about all of it.
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