Speaker 1: Birdland. That one was crazy. The Orioles won a game
Speaker 1: Monday night that devised belief. They had one hit until
Speaker 1: the ninth inning. They were down to a one to
Speaker 1: two count. One more strike games over, they get shut out,
Speaker 1: and this show would have a different tone. But it
Speaker 1: didn't happen. Butsio came through, so did the Orioles seven
Speaker 1: late runs for a wild and crazy seven to five
Speaker 1: win at Kansas City. It was much needed and we
Speaker 1: got a lot to dissect over the next hour after
Speaker 1: that game, Steve, Tim and Brad another edition of Birdland Territory.
Speaker 1: We've acknowledged a couple times. These amazing wins don't often
Speaker 1: lead to win streaks, and the Oriols are zer for
Speaker 1: two in that regard. Maybe the third time will be
Speaker 1: the charm here, guys. But it felt different. It felt good,
Speaker 1: and I think some pressure maybe was relieved off this
Speaker 1: team with a victory. I hope.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think we've talked about before.
Speaker 3: Momentum is really hard to keep a game to game
Speaker 3: in one hundred and six to two game season. But
Speaker 3: I always thought these extra inning games where you kind
Speaker 3: of feel like your back's against the wall, you don't
Speaker 3: know if you're going to come through, you're waiting for
Speaker 3: somebody to come through. And I don't know, just the
Speaker 3: extra inning wins always had a different feel after winning them,
Speaker 3: especially a tight game like that, where I mean, like
Speaker 3: we said, if they don't get that hit in the ninth,
Speaker 3: we're talking completely different today. But it's there's just something different,
Speaker 3: and I think giving themselves a couple more innings there,
Speaker 3: they got the offense going hit a big Grand Slam
Speaker 3: in the twelfth, But I don't know, it just feels
Speaker 3: a little bit different when you win those extra aning,
Speaker 3: hard fought games, especially when you don't score in those
Speaker 3: extra inning frames to begin with, and you shut them
Speaker 3: out to give your offense another chance. So I really
Speaker 3: liked what happened there in the extra is not so
Speaker 3: much the first eight innings, but that doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: It's all about getting that You got to get the
Speaker 3: twenty seven outs and the Royals weren't able to do it,
Speaker 3: and the Ools capitalized on it.
Speaker 4: A bizarre game, guys, right, Like, it was so frustrating
Speaker 4: watching it through the first you know, eight and two
Speaker 4: thirds of the game, where the Orioles went thirty batters
Speaker 4: between hits. Taylor war getting the double in the first inning,
Speaker 4: and then Samuel Basil with two outs to go in
Speaker 4: the ninth. There was one stretch where fourteen consecutive Orioles
Speaker 4: were retired and it was funny.
Speaker 5: I was texting a buddy of mine.
Speaker 4: While watching that game, and I kept thinking, man like,
Speaker 4: the Royals had been dominating this game.
Speaker 5: Everywhere besides the scoreboard.
Speaker 4: They had so many chances to blow open that game,
Speaker 4: but they were just unable to deliver that blow. They
Speaker 4: had three bases loaded situations and didn't come through, two
Speaker 4: of them with two outs. One of them, Kyle Bradish,
Speaker 4: got out with no outs. The Royals had a chance
Speaker 4: to really take command of the game, but they kept
Speaker 4: the Orioles in and the Orioles took advantage.
Speaker 2: I think they were to.
Speaker 1: Their last strike guys, and it was Besidoh tying that game,
Speaker 1: and Beavers gave them a lead to Veris and Besio
Speaker 1: again in the twelfth and go ahead, Brad, what were
Speaker 1: you about to say now?
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, I think the Orioles are
Speaker 3: I mean, the royals losing streak had played into this
Speaker 3: a little bit, because teams seemed to find a way
Speaker 3: to lose when you're on one of these losing streaks,
Speaker 3: and I think it just kind of played into the
Speaker 3: Oriole's hand there where they weren't able to take advantage
Speaker 3: of any of these opportunities they had, which was it
Speaker 3: felt like from inning one to inning seven, they had
Speaker 3: an opportunity to score every single time and extend the lead,
Speaker 3: and they just weren't able to bright.
Speaker 4: I remember you bringing up on a prior episode just
Speaker 4: what type of lift it can give a team winning
Speaker 4: this type of long game, a twelve inning game where
Speaker 4: you really had to grind, there were self inflicted mistakes,
Speaker 4: but you ended up making the plays necessary to win
Speaker 4: the game. Like what was the clubhouse feeling last night
Speaker 4: in a game like that?
Speaker 3: I think they were super pumped. Like I said, I
Speaker 3: think that was a really uplifting win. I know we
Speaker 3: talked about the win against the Diamondbacks last week and
Speaker 3: how we were hoping that would kind of, you know,
Speaker 3: propel it.
Speaker 2: Into a further winning streak.
Speaker 3: But winning games like that is huge when you have
Speaker 3: every single guy in the bullpen basically contribute. That was
Speaker 3: available last night, even getting Tyler Wells up there in
Speaker 3: an extreme emergency situation. They just you can tell they
Speaker 3: were super pumped. Tyler Wells actually made a comment as
Speaker 3: he was going by the camera he was pumped up.
Speaker 3: It's just it's really uplifting like that and having, you know,
Speaker 3: rookies step up and guys who don't have tons of
Speaker 3: experience step up and get big outs. Rico Garcia continues
Speaker 3: to just be amazing for this team and uplift them
Speaker 3: in ways that I don't think anybody saw coming. It's
Speaker 3: just it's wins like that where it was a true
Speaker 3: team win where the bullpen kept giving the offense a chance,
Speaker 3: just waiting for them to get a run across the board,
Speaker 3: and wins like that are just huge and it's hard
Speaker 3: to quantify in the box score. Like I said, it was,
Speaker 3: I think the game had all the emotions. You were frustrated,
Speaker 3: you were a you were pumped, you were oh no,
Speaker 3: this is going to happen again. They're in the tall thning,
Speaker 3: but they pulled it out, and I think the clubhouse
Speaker 3: was super pumped after that game.
Speaker 1: So Berdland just the second win in the last seven
Speaker 1: games for the Orioles and now they are eleven and twelve,
Speaker 1: and there were plenty of things that went wrong, but
Speaker 1: they're better to dissect and repair and work on after
Speaker 1: you've won, especially one like that. And now we get
Speaker 1: to le Leote Taveres. This is amazing what he's doing.
Speaker 1: So last year, guys, he hit two o five. His
Speaker 1: OPS was five thirty in one hundred and eighty played
Speaker 1: appearances between Texas and Seattle two five, five thirty. Now
Speaker 1: he's batting three forty one nine to ninety eight and
Speaker 1: he's walked nine times in fifty four played appearances, where
Speaker 1: last year he walked five and oneint eighty. This is
Speaker 1: crazy on base percentage last year two twenty six, four
Speaker 1: point fifty three. Now he's doubled us on base. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously it's probably not sustainab we're not expecting him to
Speaker 1: hit three hundred this year, but what he's doing right now,
Speaker 1: it's just like we predicted tim Leota Tavares.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 5: I mean we were talking about this on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Guys, just these unlikely guys that you thought heading into
Speaker 4: the year keep coming up big for this club and
Speaker 4: Leodi Taveres.
Speaker 5: Where would they be without him?
Speaker 4: Brad Because Colton Kowser, it's been a rough start to
Speaker 4: the season. There's no way around it. There were a
Speaker 4: couple more strikeouts for him. Last night he ended up
Speaker 4: getting pinch hit for Weston Wilson came in in the
Speaker 4: eighth inning Tavers playing the strong defense, and Steve's right,
Speaker 4: is there going to be a regression to the mean
Speaker 4: If you look at.
Speaker 5: His career, he's never been this hot of a hitter.
Speaker 4: But we were talking on my show yesterday Brad just
Speaker 4: if he could be that guy that he was for
Speaker 4: the Rangers in twenty twenty three, where he played a
Speaker 4: big role in that club that ended up winning the
Speaker 4: World Series that year, getting ops plus of one oh one,
Speaker 4: so slightly above average to go along with the defense.
Speaker 5: You'll take it.
Speaker 4: But that being said, you're gonna ride this hot streak
Speaker 4: as long as possible right now.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I think the World Series experience is huge
Speaker 3: for this team. Last night in the postgame interview, he's
Speaker 3: talking about taking a side underneath his wing and just
Speaker 3: kind of stay with him. Man, you're a good player.
Speaker 3: It's going to come around. And we saw that come
Speaker 3: through too. So he's shown leadership on that side of it,
Speaker 3: throwing the defense that you already expected and now this
Speaker 3: unexpected offense. I think it's huge right now because it's
Speaker 3: almost building a bridge until the big names get going,
Speaker 3: and I think when you can kind of rely on
Speaker 3: the later in the lineup at that that he gives.
Speaker 3: And to me, it's more of seeing pitches in the zone.
Speaker 3: He's taking his walks when it's time to but the
Speaker 3: pitches in the zone he's not missing, like that high
Speaker 3: change up last night he hit for a grand slam.
Speaker 3: If he's swinging kind of crazy, he probably swings underneath
Speaker 3: that or over the top of it. But right now
Speaker 3: he's seeing the zone so well, and that's what I'm seeing.
Speaker 3: It's just a short, simple swing. That ball didn't seem
Speaker 3: to me like it should have got out, but he
Speaker 3: absolutely crushed it. And it's just a short, simple swing
Speaker 3: in the zone right now, and he's taken advantage of
Speaker 3: the mistakes The's pitchers are giving him.
Speaker 1: It kept carrying like any power hitter would hit one
Speaker 1: four nineteen is where it ended up, and four runs
Speaker 1: for the Orioles, and as it turned out, they pretty
Speaker 1: much needed them all in a seven to five win.
Speaker 1: So many more aspects to get into bradish is outing
Speaker 1: what about Pasio, lauded for his work behind the plate
Speaker 1: and at the plate in this game, Gunner picked off twice.
Speaker 1: That was frustrating. And the bullpen roster moves that are upcoming,
Speaker 1: it's going to be challenging for the Orioles in a
Speaker 1: department and an aspect of this team performing well. How
Speaker 1: they're going to get all these guys on the roster
Speaker 1: who are soon to come back. We'll touch on that
Speaker 1: and more coming up Birdland Territory.
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Speaker 1: Props to see Geek Birdland Territory rolling on here after
Speaker 1: the Orioles incredible win on Monday night, as we tape
Speaker 1: this Tuesday morning ahead of too in Kansas City. So
Speaker 1: when he was on the farm, guys, and I was
Speaker 1: covering the Oriel miners as I do, I heard from
Speaker 1: many people, most outside the organization doubted Samuel Bessaio's defense
Speaker 1: at the major league level as a catcher. The Orioles,
Speaker 1: to their credit, never did. I kept telling fans Oriel
Speaker 1: Brass feels this guy can catch into big leagues. They
Speaker 1: keep telling me that. And because he's got a hose
Speaker 1: for an arm, he's agile for a big guy of
Speaker 1: that size back there, and he wants to do it
Speaker 1: so badly. He told me with all his heart and soul,
Speaker 1: I want to catch in the big leagues and show
Speaker 1: these guys I can do it. And I think he
Speaker 1: made strides late last year the pitching staff started to
Speaker 1: believe in him and Brad that's really what has to
Speaker 1: happen here. If the pitchers think the same way some
Speaker 1: of those scouts thought and have doubts about this guy,
Speaker 1: maybe this can't work. But it is working, yeah.
Speaker 3: And I mean if you watch a game last night,
Speaker 3: he was like a hockey goalie back there. Kyle Bradish
Speaker 3: had a hard time throwing his fastball, and he went heavy, heavy,
Speaker 3: breaking balls, and he blocked every single one. And there
Speaker 3: was multiple times there where he made great backhanded picks.
Speaker 2: To keep the ball in front of him and keep
Speaker 2: it running from scoring.
Speaker 3: And if you don't have confidence after watching that game
Speaker 3: last night as an Orioles pitcher, then I don't know
Speaker 3: who you'd have confidence in, because he did a great
Speaker 3: job back there. There was even a couple of times
Speaker 3: he called time out, went and talked to the picture,
Speaker 3: settled them down.
Speaker 2: And that's what you want to see.
Speaker 3: It's it's tough as a young catcher to go out
Speaker 3: there and instill confidence in these guys. If you don't
Speaker 3: know what you're gonna say when you got there, you're
Speaker 3: nervous to go out there and just kind of calm
Speaker 3: the picture down. But he showed great confidence back there
Speaker 3: behind the play, calling pitches and then, like I said,
Speaker 3: those timeouts, they were huge to just kind of settle
Speaker 3: Bradish into a couple of times where he got of
Speaker 3: those big jams and didn't wasn't prompted by the dugout.
Speaker 3: He went up by himself right away called time and
Speaker 3: I think that was that was great to see. And
Speaker 3: I think the injury to Adlie might end up being
Speaker 3: a blessing in disguise for Orioles. I think getting more
Speaker 3: opportunities for him behind the play he might give him
Speaker 3: more confidence moving on the season, not only behind the plate,
Speaker 3: but while he's hitting also, And I think he's just
Speaker 3: doing a great job.
Speaker 2: Last night really displayed it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And Adlie Rutchman he's eligible to come off the
Speaker 4: IL today. We'll see if he ends up getting activated
Speaker 4: or not. But for me, that was Samuel Pisio's best
Speaker 4: game so far this season, just most all around game
Speaker 4: where he had the two big hits in the ninth
Speaker 4: inning where he was down in the count it was
Speaker 4: one two and you're thinking, oh, geez, here we go.
Speaker 4: But he came through in that big spot and then
Speaker 4: came through again in the twelfth inning to lead off
Speaker 4: that inning and drive in another run. He also worked
Speaker 4: two walks, and Brad, you're one hundred percent right. His
Speaker 4: blocking last night was fantastic, and that has to give
Speaker 4: pitchers so much confidence in him that, Okay, this ball
Speaker 4: is not going to get beyond him. We're not going
Speaker 4: to give a base runner potential extra ninety feet. But
Speaker 4: how about the throw to holds Mike Helgercia. That was
Speaker 4: a perfect throw to get him trying to steal second base.
Speaker 4: Samuel Bessie was really really strong last night.
Speaker 1: Really strong, and he short hopped that throw. And here's
Speaker 1: something I asked richmand about during the last homestand since
Speaker 1: ADLEI has short hopped numerous throws, I went up to
Speaker 1: him and I said, don't yell at me for suggesting this,
Speaker 1: but are you intending to short off some throws? And
Speaker 1: he said no, but you're trying to make the perfect
Speaker 1: throw low into the bag. And if I'm going to air,
Speaker 1: I'm going to air low rather than high. And so
Speaker 1: it's interesting because I wondered to him, I said, I
Speaker 1: was wondering, maybe analytics is telling you the ball gets
Speaker 1: there faster I it skips, and these infielders are so
Speaker 1: good at picking them, you're not worried about it. But
Speaker 1: he said, no, it's not that he goes. It's trying
Speaker 1: to make a really great throw and if you're wrong,
Speaker 1: you want to be wrong short then high.
Speaker 3: Interesting take there, definitely, And I think having the confidence
Speaker 3: of the taggers between Gunner and Jeremiah at second that
Speaker 3: they work from up to down, where a lot of
Speaker 3: guys when they try to pick it they try to
Speaker 3: start with their glove moving up and then it's really
Speaker 3: hard to come back in time. But they do a
Speaker 3: great job of kind of setting where they want to
Speaker 3: start the tag and just going straight to the ground.
Speaker 3: That was one of the things when I was with
Speaker 3: the Orioles, Bobby Dickerson was amazing with JJ Hardy and
Speaker 3: Jonathan Scope. They worked from they got their high point
Speaker 3: and they worked down, and I mean with our with
Speaker 3: Weeders back there and Caleb Joseph, it was just one
Speaker 3: of those things I'm starting to see that again with
Speaker 3: the orioles, where they kind of set the glove where
Speaker 3: they want to start it and work their way down
Speaker 3: and if it's above that, it's going to be really
Speaker 3: hard to tag the runner out. But I mean, every
Speaker 3: single time in these short hops, it's a short hop,
Speaker 3: the glove stays where it is at the highest point
Speaker 3: and it goes straight down and that, you know, that
Speaker 3: tenth of a second there makes all the difference. And
Speaker 3: last night Jeremia's pick at second was a great example
Speaker 3: of that. Just put the glove where you want to
Speaker 3: start it, and he caught it and tagged him and
Speaker 3: it wasn't even close to the second base, where a
Speaker 3: lot of times, if you're working the glove up towards
Speaker 3: the sky, it's gonna be really hard to bring it
Speaker 3: down and tag him out there.
Speaker 4: Bret, I wanted to get your thoughts on something that
Speaker 4: Ben said yesterday on the broadcast where it was early
Speaker 4: on in the game, Bradish was still in and Bassio
Speaker 4: would set up he would set up his glove but
Speaker 4: then pull it down, and Ben kind of brought up
Speaker 4: the point saying, Hey, you know, if I was a pitcher,
Speaker 4: I'd want him to just keep that that way of
Speaker 4: a target to hit.
Speaker 5: What did you think of that explanation? Were you the
Speaker 5: same way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of a new way of catching, and
Speaker 3: I think I it led to some of my struggles
Speaker 3: later in my career. I mean, I'm just so used
Speaker 3: to the target being set, but with how they're grading
Speaker 3: catchers now, they want him to work down up to
Speaker 3: give the umpire a better look and kind of still
Speaker 3: strikes at the bottom of his zone.
Speaker 2: So for me, I really struggle with it because I
Speaker 2: was so used to.
Speaker 3: Throwing to where the glove was, but you have a
Speaker 3: tendency as a catcher to kind of drop your glove
Speaker 3: as you catch it. So I know what Ben was saying,
Speaker 3: But like he said, these guys are so good now
Speaker 3: that it's they're not looking for a target. They're just
Speaker 3: throwing to an area and they're using their stuff. So
Speaker 3: it's it's like a I watched some of these games
Speaker 3: sometimes and I feel like I'm watching a completely different
Speaker 3: game that I played. So I know exactly what Ben
Speaker 3: was saying, but it's just kind of how they do
Speaker 3: it now. They set the target where they kind of
Speaker 3: want it, drop it, and then bring it back up
Speaker 3: towards that area, so beside, I was doing exactly what
Speaker 3: they're they're teaching him, and that's that's how they want
Speaker 3: guys to do it now.
Speaker 2: But for me, I definitely struggle with that.
Speaker 3: But with with Braders thrown so many breaking balls, I
Speaker 3: don't think he really is.
Speaker 2: Looking at the target.
Speaker 3: He's just thrown to an area and I think it
Speaker 3: helps the catcher be able to frame it better, maybe
Speaker 3: steal a couple of strikes here or there. And then
Speaker 3: last night we saw what the picks. It's the ball
Speaker 3: you start your golo down, and if it's in the dirty,
Speaker 3: I think it gives them a better chance to keep
Speaker 3: the ball in front of them.
Speaker 1: So changing topics, Gunner gets picked off twice last night.
Speaker 1: I like how Albernez addresses that in the post game,
Speaker 1: almost in a joking manner, where he says to the media,
Speaker 1: I told Gunner, there's your pickoff quota for the year.
Speaker 1: It's his way of saying that's not acceptable. But I'm
Speaker 1: not throwing and our start player under the bus here
Speaker 1: on it. But I'm not gonna ignore it either, and
Speaker 1: I've already addressed it with the player. I'm sure Gunner
Speaker 1: feels terrible to his credit, he had to focus to
Speaker 1: make that defensive play at third base when the ball
Speaker 1: got away from Weston Wilson, critical double play and extra innings.
Speaker 1: So here's my take, guys. I'm just not gonna worry
Speaker 1: about Gunner Henderson right now. I know he's not hitting
Speaker 1: the way He's gonna two pickoffs, it's just not like him.
Speaker 1: But I'm still gonna say this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: great year when it's over. Right now, though it's not that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know what I'm starting to see last
Speaker 3: night in his bats when he took those walks, he
Speaker 3: was like a frustrated bat throw He wants to help
Speaker 3: the team win so bad and he's willing to take
Speaker 3: his walks when he gets it. But I think he's
Speaker 3: trying to do anything he can to help out if
Speaker 3: his bat's not there at this moment. And that's just
Speaker 3: my take on it. I might be completely off on that,
Speaker 3: but there was when he took those two walks, he
Speaker 3: seemed extra adamant about taking the walk, and he was
Speaker 3: just kind of he was pumped about it, but at
Speaker 3: the same time, you could tell there's a little bit
Speaker 3: of frustration creeping in there. The second basement. It made
Speaker 3: a nice diving play on the ball in the hole,
Speaker 3: and he just kind of feels you can kind of
Speaker 3: see hitters and a lot of times.
Speaker 2: You want to face those guys when they're going through
Speaker 2: those moments.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, a hitter like Gunner, you
Speaker 3: know he's going to come out of it, So you're
Speaker 3: getting worried that the clock is ticking on batters like Gunner.
Speaker 3: So I think he's just trying to do anything he
Speaker 3: can help this team, maybe take an extra step lead,
Speaker 3: or maybe the Royals had something because it was two
Speaker 3: quick picks. It almost the broadcast almost didn't even pick
Speaker 3: up their pickoff throws at first base, So I feel
Speaker 3: like there's something there. But I agree with you, Steve,
Speaker 3: it's one of those things. He met his pickoff quote
Speaker 3: for the year, and he might take that extra half
Speaker 3: step towards the bag now to make sure it doesn't
Speaker 3: happen again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, it can't happen, you know in those moments.
Speaker 4: It definitely can't happen twice in a game. And what's
Speaker 4: really unfortunate is in both of those instances, he probably
Speaker 4: would have came around to score because he worked the
Speaker 4: walk and then Taylor had the double in the first
Speaker 4: inning and he probably would have scored on that. And
Speaker 4: then in the ninth inning, with how it played out,
Speaker 4: you know, Ward ends up walking, Beavers ends up in
Speaker 4: founder that would have moved him over the third and
Speaker 4: then Sam wall I'm sure he's kicking himself. Those type
Speaker 4: of moments can't happen in that type of game where
Speaker 4: runs are at a premium and your offense is really
Speaker 4: really scuffling. But Brad, I kind of want to get
Speaker 4: your thoughts from a reliever perspective, from a pitcher perspective,
Speaker 4: like picking off a base runner, how difficult is that?
Speaker 4: Like what goes into that in trying to execute it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, after the leadoff walk, you're kicking yourself
Speaker 3: because that's the last thing, especially in a one nothing
Speaker 3: game of the ninth inning, that's the absolute last thing
Speaker 3: you want to do. You'd rather hit a hard single
Speaker 3: through the hole. For whatever reason. That the leadoff walk
Speaker 3: thing is real and I can't explain it. But when
Speaker 3: you were you're able to go over there, you walk
Speaker 3: them without even making another pitch to the next hitter,
Speaker 3: You pick off a runner. I mean, you're thinking the
Speaker 3: games over when you get and out like that, that's
Speaker 3: a freebie, and it's just handed to you on a platter.
Speaker 2: You're thinking this game's over. There's no way.
Speaker 3: And then of course he goes to walks the next hitter,
Speaker 3: maybe by the next two, and you put yourself in
Speaker 3: an even worse spot. But when you get a pickoff
Speaker 3: like that, you're thinking it's over, because that's to me,
Speaker 3: it was always the first out of the end. If
Speaker 3: you get that first out, everything seemed to roll from there.
Speaker 3: If the runner got on, especially on a walk, you're
Speaker 3: really just pressing to make pitches from there on. So
Speaker 3: that had to be a huge lift for ers there
Speaker 3: in the ninth. And yeah, he wasn't able to get
Speaker 3: it done, but that was a huge lift in that moment.
Speaker 3: I was shocked that he actually wasn't able to get
Speaker 3: through that inning after that pickoff.
Speaker 1: So a few more things to dissect about this wild
Speaker 1: night in Kansas City, including Kyle Bradish allowing ten hits
Speaker 1: but one run. He's getting close to being himself. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna see it real soon. Touch on that,
Speaker 1: and we touch on the bullpen roster moves coming, how
Speaker 1: the oriol is gonna make this work. We'll touch on
Speaker 1: that in a moment here on Birdland Territory, Big Bad.
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Speaker 1: one run, three walk, seven k's. They had plenty of
Speaker 1: chances to really do big damage and he didn't let
Speaker 1: it happen. Three nine six Era. How is he doing? Guys?
Speaker 1: Where is he at right now as he tries to
Speaker 1: be that number one or two pitcher for the Orioles.
Speaker 3: I think I saw it last night when he was
Speaker 3: able to front those sinkers to the lefties. That to
Speaker 3: me is Kyle bradd She's gonna throw his breaking ball
Speaker 3: and when he can, when he can dot that sinker
Speaker 3: into a lefty, that's when he's at his best, and
Speaker 3: he showed flashes of it last night.
Speaker 2: Well Ben made a really good point in the broadcast.
Speaker 3: He thought that his box is just slightly ahead of
Speaker 3: his arm when he's throwing his fastball, and we saw
Speaker 3: that fastballs elevated, and I think that's why he had
Speaker 3: so many hits against him, was that he was elevating
Speaker 3: the fastball a little bit too much where he wasn't
Speaker 3: trying to. Obviously, his breaking ball and his breaking stuff
Speaker 3: is gonna be what makes him who he is, and
Speaker 3: we saw that he I mean almost exclusively abandoned the
Speaker 3: fastball there after about the second or third inning and
Speaker 3: through I'd say it was like ninety percent breaking balls
Speaker 3: there at the end of the game. So those are there,
Speaker 3: He's right there where he wants with the breaking balls.
Speaker 3: But those dotted fastballs sinkers that he ran off the
Speaker 3: play into a lefty for a looking strikeout, to me
Speaker 3: is what makes him so good. When he throws that
Speaker 3: force to me, that cuts a little bit into the
Speaker 3: lefty to get him off of it, then he can
Speaker 3: throw the sinker in and that to me is when
Speaker 3: he becomes elite elite, and last night we saw flashes
Speaker 3: of it. And you know what you got to give.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna have a perfect outing every single time.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna have perfect innings, but he made pitches
Speaker 3: when he had to, and that's what you want to
Speaker 3: see from a front end starter.
Speaker 5: That's exactly it, Brad.
Speaker 4: I think when you look at that game, did Kyle
Speaker 4: Bradish have his best stuff?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: Was the command there, No.
Speaker 4: I think he went three to zero to three of
Speaker 4: the first six batters in the game.
Speaker 5: But in a weird way.
Speaker 4: The turning point in Kyle Bradish's start, to me was
Speaker 4: the bases loaded situation. Not the first out that he got,
Speaker 4: but the second out that he got on cag leone,
Speaker 4: the slider away. It was a nasty pitch and he
Speaker 4: was able to get out of that inning. And then
Speaker 4: I think he allowed one base runner in the fourth inning,
Speaker 4: had a clean fifth inning, and then they let him
Speaker 4: stay in in the fifth inning, when I think it
Speaker 4: was Isabel trying to get a bunt down, but with Bradish,
Speaker 4: the swing and miss was there. He got fifteen whiffs
Speaker 4: and he had seven strikeouts. But to the other side
Speaker 4: of it, the ten hits. That's the most amount of
Speaker 4: hits he's given up since twenty twenty two. The walks
Speaker 4: kind of resurfaced again for him after only having one
Speaker 4: walk in his last outing. He had three walks yesterday.
Speaker 4: So I think you see the flashes, but if you
Speaker 4: are pulling the positives out of this. That's what you
Speaker 4: expect out of your top of the line guys when
Speaker 4: they don't have their A game, you want them to
Speaker 4: keep you in the game. And that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 4: He gave up one air and run over five and
Speaker 4: a third.
Speaker 3: And for me, also sorry, Steve, just real quick the uh.
Speaker 3: I love that he was able to get into the
Speaker 3: sixth after that long first inning. I think he threw
Speaker 3: almost thirty pitches able to get into the six It
Speaker 3: just makes the bullpen be able to be extended a
Speaker 3: little bit longer, which they needed last night. And I
Speaker 3: think just being able to get the even the one
Speaker 3: out and the sixth inning there was huge in that game.
Speaker 3: And I know it's like one of those finer points,
Speaker 3: but I just think being able to get it back,
Speaker 3: get the ship rolling again in the right direction and
Speaker 3: get into the sixth inning is huge and it will
Speaker 3: play for the next two games, I think.
Speaker 1: Also, yeah, and I see six innings, three hits, no runs,
Speaker 1: ten strikeouts coming. That's coming for Bradish. He can't do
Speaker 1: that every night. Who can. But I think he's building
Speaker 1: to where we get that breakout start, and really his
Speaker 1: season is starting to turn for the better. That's great
Speaker 1: news for Birdland. Now in our final minutes, the Orioles
Speaker 1: have ends, Achin and Kittrich all on minor league rehab.
Speaker 1: Right now, that's three key bullpen pieces. Cameron Foster is
Speaker 1: obviously someone who could be optioned back. But then after that, guys.
Speaker 1: Three pitchers have no options, Garcia, Hellsley, Suarez. Five have options,
Speaker 1: most of which you wouldn't want to send out right now,
Speaker 1: from Nunez to Cano to Wolfram to Wells and Foster.
Speaker 1: Foster is the only one of the five that, okay,
Speaker 1: he might have to go back. How are they going
Speaker 1: to pull this off?
Speaker 5: I have no idea. We were talking prior to the show.
Speaker 4: I think Grant Wolfram might be in danger just because
Speaker 4: Dietrich Enz and Keegan Akin are both lefties, and of
Speaker 4: course Wolfram is the only lefty in the bullpen right now.
Speaker 4: He might be one of the guys just playing the
Speaker 4: numbers game, and he of course has options. But that
Speaker 4: third picture, I have no idea who it's going to be. Guys,
Speaker 4: I really don't know, like all off the top of
Speaker 4: my head, I almost would.
Speaker 5: Lean Suarez, but Suarez doesn't have options, so that complicates it.
Speaker 5: So much, Brad. It's it's really a roster crunch here.
Speaker 4: For Mikelias and who would have thought we'd be having
Speaker 4: this conversation prior to the season, but the bullpenz just
Speaker 4: been that good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's it's one of those subjects that's super
Speaker 3: I'm super sensitive too, and it's, uh, it almost gives
Speaker 3: you a PTSD because everybody there there, they know, they know
Speaker 3: what's happening down there, and guys understand. You hope that
Speaker 3: they're having conversations with the coaching staff that you know,
Speaker 3: you might not deserve to go down. It's just where
Speaker 3: we're at with the roster right now, and I think
Speaker 3: options are gonna play into it. If unless you're willing
Speaker 3: to possibly lose Suarez, you're gonna you're gonna have to
Speaker 3: option three guys down and guys that don't deserve to
Speaker 3: go down, and you just gotta you.
Speaker 2: I hope that the coaching staff.
Speaker 3: Is just having these conversations with them, and when they
Speaker 3: go down at Triple A, they kind of keep where
Speaker 3: they're at because all these guys are looking so good
Speaker 3: and so sharp right now. It's you could flip a
Speaker 3: coin for anybody that's going to be sent out.
Speaker 4: How difficult is it living that brad as that guy.
Speaker 4: All of these guys are pitching well that we're bringing
Speaker 4: up and you probably know, hey, if I have a
Speaker 4: rough outing in the next week, that that could do
Speaker 4: me in. There's a lot of pressure there for these guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sucks.
Speaker 3: There's there's no other way to kind of describe it.
Speaker 3: It's you're thinking about it. You know, when you go
Speaker 3: out there, you feel like you have to be perfect,
Speaker 3: and it's just you can't. You can't fully perform at
Speaker 3: that level. And that's it's one of those things where
Speaker 3: you hope you put yourself in the spot. But like
Speaker 3: we said, with with what they have to do right now,
Speaker 3: every guy's put themselves in a spot to stay on
Speaker 3: the roster for one reason or the other. Like they
Speaker 3: were talking about last night with Suarez, if you wanted
Speaker 3: to get rid of him, who's gonna be the long guy?
Speaker 3: Maybe Tyler Wells. Maybe you don't know. You don't know
Speaker 3: what they're thinking. You don't know where they're gonna go
Speaker 3: with this. So it's it's really none of these guys
Speaker 3: deserve to go, but you can only have like we
Speaker 3: were talking about, for the show thirteen pitchers, So there's
Speaker 3: it's just one of those things that's part of the
Speaker 3: game which sucks. And these guys who can tell, are
Speaker 3: rooting for each other. They have each other's backs. They're
Speaker 3: all picking each other up, and the bullpen units are
Speaker 3: really strong, and it's what's keeping them at their record
Speaker 3: right now and keeping them afloat. They're just giving their
Speaker 3: offensive chance to get going here. So you hate to
Speaker 3: see any of these guys leave, But like we said
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it's just kind of
Speaker 3: the way baseball works, and it's a roster crunch, like
Speaker 3: we said.
Speaker 1: And on the starting side, we've seen players optioned out
Speaker 1: not because of performance, because they needed a spot. It's
Speaker 1: already happened to Povich, it tappened to Brandon Young. To
Speaker 1: their credit, they went to Triple A and pitched great
Speaker 1: Brandon Young International League Pitcher of the Week for a correct,
Speaker 1: incredible out and e Ad and Povic has been good.
Speaker 1: So that's what you want. You want guys knocking on
Speaker 1: the door at Triple A. And if they have to go,
Speaker 1: as you said, Brad, keep rolling, keep doing your thing
Speaker 1: and realize I didn't do anything wrong here, but I
Speaker 1: have to stay sharp. I can't sell for a minute
Speaker 1: or end. Maybe when they need a guy, it won't
Speaker 1: be me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's where it gets a little
Speaker 3: tricky and triple A is you're hoping it's.
Speaker 2: Only the ten days or the minimum to go down.
Speaker 3: But then when it starts leaking in two weeks, the
Speaker 3: three weeks to four weeks, you just never know. Oh man,
Speaker 3: I pitch so well up there, you know, And that's
Speaker 3: when the I deserve to be up there, I should
Speaker 3: be there, And that's when it just gets really tough
Speaker 3: to overcome. So, like I said, I just hope the
Speaker 3: front office and the coaching staff is having these conversations
Speaker 3: with these guys that they all deserve to be there,
Speaker 3: they just can't be. And when you go down, triple A,
Speaker 3: do the best you can to just stay where you
Speaker 3: are right now, because anything can happen on any given day.
Speaker 3: And that's what the best teams do, is they go down,
Speaker 3: they stay focused, they're able to stay connected with the
Speaker 3: big league team and the coaches and all that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff, and when their time comes again, they're ready
Speaker 3: to go back up.
Speaker 1: I call a baseball season one hundred and sixty two chapters,
Speaker 1: with so many more to be written, and to me,
Speaker 1: it's fascinating. I mean to think the Ools had this
Speaker 1: great win. So what will it mean for the next
Speaker 1: ten days? None of us know. Will Leonte Tavera still
Speaker 1: be had nine hundred ops in ten days? None of
Speaker 1: us know, will Gunner and and Lolonzo finally get locked
Speaker 1: in like we expect. None of us know, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out. We're gonna be here to talk about
Speaker 1: it all throughout. So hope you guys enjoyed this one,
Speaker 1: and thanks to Tim, Thanks to Brad. I'm Steve Mleski
Speaker 1: catching next time on another edition of Berdland Territory.