Speaker 1: Aw something you don't see every day, to walk off
Speaker 1: wins in two days for the Orioles who needed it.
Speaker 1: They needed a big homestand they have the makings of
Speaker 1: one here winning three of four to start the homestand
Speaker 1: against the Tigers and Monday thriller against their Rays nine
Speaker 1: seven and thirteen innings. What a wild game. And we're
Speaker 1: going to review that in a lot more today here
Speaker 1: on Berdland Territory with Steve Maleski, Brad Brock and Tim Barblace. So, guys,
Speaker 1: two to two game after nine that's hard to you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you might forget that the way it ended up,
Speaker 1: two in the eleventh for each team, one in the twelfth,
Speaker 1: two runs in the top of the thirteenth for the
Speaker 1: Rays that made it seven to five, and then the
Speaker 1: Orioles scored four to win it nine to seven. So
Speaker 1: much happened. And before we get into Cows, a real
Speaker 1: quick note on just a resiliency I guess of the offense,
Speaker 1: because I don't know how you guys felt watching that game.
Speaker 1: I felt, we get to the second or third time,
Speaker 1: they're not going to be able to answer this time,
Speaker 1: but they did each time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like you said, it was a thrilling win.
Speaker 2: I think when you're watching that game, just kind of
Speaker 2: how the season has been going. They gave up those
Speaker 2: couple of runs and you kind of get, you know,
Speaker 2: a little disheartened there, and it's all how they're gonna
Speaker 2: how they're gonna scratch together a couple here after not
Speaker 2: being able to do much the first nine. But like
Speaker 2: you said, that was just a big, big resiliency win
Speaker 2: and just big comeback each inning that they gave up runs,
Speaker 2: and I think, uh, this might have been one of
Speaker 2: the bigger wins we've seen this season. The opponent, uh,
Speaker 2: just getting down like they did in extra innings. We
Speaker 2: haven't seen them come back a ton, but just the
Speaker 2: offense did a great job and you know the pitchers
Speaker 2: there that they gave up some runs, but they didn't
Speaker 2: allow the lead to get bigger, and I think that
Speaker 2: was kind of the key there. They gave up the
Speaker 2: two but with this new extra innings format, it's two
Speaker 2: runs isn't a terrible number to come from behind. And
Speaker 2: I think, uh that that will get overlooked a little
Speaker 2: bit because they gave up their runs, but I think
Speaker 2: not giving up the third or fourth run is really
Speaker 2: what was able to allow them to win the game yesterday.
Speaker 3: It was such an unbelievable game. Guys like just and
Speaker 3: Stevie said it. The Race took the lead in the eleventh, twelfth,
Speaker 3: and thirteenth inning, and the Orioles were able to grind
Speaker 3: their way back into it every single time. And Colton Kowser,
Speaker 3: obviously he played the role of hero.
Speaker 4: But you think of all of the guys that.
Speaker 3: Led up until that point, you know, Leoti Taveres coming
Speaker 3: through with the double blaze, Alexander even Jackson Holliday hitting
Speaker 3: the sackfly to tie the game at that point.
Speaker 4: There were just so many guys that made big time
Speaker 4: impacts in that game. And heck, you know, with it
Speaker 4: going thirteen, you almost forget about Kyle Bradish and the
Speaker 4: start that he was able to deliver.
Speaker 1: Yeah, four hours of baseball, a lot happened, a lot,
Speaker 1: some good, some not good. But the Oriols outlasted the
Speaker 1: Rage and they the Oriols do have a winning record
Speaker 1: at home fifteen and thirteen something to build on, and
Speaker 1: they need to turn a three and one homestand start
Speaker 1: into a seven and three or something like that. It
Speaker 1: could really be a difference maker for this team. So, guys,
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, Colton Cawser was batting one ninety three with
Speaker 1: a five point thirty ops. Two walk offs in two
Speaker 1: days get his OPS over six hundred. The last oriole
Speaker 1: to do it, and back to back days, not games, remember,
Speaker 1: because there was a game in between that where he
Speaker 1: didn't have a walkoff Sunday night was Fred Lane in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. I believe it. What nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: May tenth and eleventh, So pretty impressive stuff. What could
Speaker 1: it mean for Calser here in the next few weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, See, we were kind of talking before the before
Speaker 2: the episode. It's just that powers there. Everybody knows it's there.
Speaker 2: Just got to see more contact. It seems like whenever
Speaker 2: he makes contact, solid contact with the ball, it's a
Speaker 2: four hundred foot homer. It's it's really impressive with his contact,
Speaker 2: and I see him having better at bats. Early in
Speaker 2: the season, he really really struggled on off speed pitches.
Speaker 2: To me, it's now he's able to kind of spoil
Speaker 2: those pitches to kind of get to more fastballs. At
Speaker 2: least that's what it's seen here in the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. I think you know them just talking about
Speaker 2: we talked about the other day, just him working really hard,
Speaker 2: and I think it's more of an approach base than
Speaker 2: it is working on a swing. He kind of mentioned
Speaker 2: it after the game yesterday. It's just get up there,
Speaker 2: forget about the approach. Just try to put the bat
Speaker 2: on the ball and get better swings off. And that's
Speaker 2: kind of what you're seeing here lately. And I'd love
Speaker 2: to see him get more at that. It's more consistent
Speaker 2: playing time. I know they try to get him against
Speaker 2: righties only, but he's just one of those guys I
Speaker 2: feel it could be a huge difference maker that I'd
Speaker 2: love to see him just get a four or five
Speaker 2: game stretch where he played every game, took every bat.
Speaker 2: You just never know what you can get from him.
Speaker 2: He has shown it before and I'd love to see
Speaker 2: it again.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We touched on this a lot Sunday guys, where he's
Speaker 3: such a big X factor for this offense, and he's
Speaker 3: been a feaster famine player throughout his career, but right
Speaker 3: now he's doing a lot of feasting and in the
Speaker 3: month of May he's got a very respectable seven eighty
Speaker 3: nine ops but especially in these past eight games where
Speaker 3: three point thirty three batting average ops over twelve hundred.
Speaker 3: He's got the three home runs, obviously two of those
Speaker 3: being walkofs. You know what, he can deliver defensively, but
Speaker 3: if he can just be more consistent as a hitter,
Speaker 3: that's just gonna do wonders for this team. It really will.
Speaker 1: Interesting scenarios coming up Tuesday night or right handers, so
Speaker 1: cows are almost assuredly we'll be in there Wednesday and Thursday,
Speaker 1: look like lefties the Oels will face. I'm reaching the
Speaker 1: point where I'm putting Cows are in over O'Neill. It's
Speaker 1: gotten that bad for Tyler O'Neill. He was signed to
Speaker 1: hit lefties. He's not even coming close to hitting them.
Speaker 1: I think that's a decision they got to consider here
Speaker 1: coming up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. And you know what I
Speaker 2: think with Colton, he has such a contagious personality that
Speaker 2: when he gets going, I feel like he could jumpstart
Speaker 2: other guys on this team in this offense. I could
Speaker 2: just tell by the reactions how much this team really
Speaker 2: cares about Colon and how like his success. And it's
Speaker 2: just one of those things I'd love to see him
Speaker 2: and get out there. Like I'm with you, Steve, I
Speaker 2: think he should play these next three four games, just
Speaker 2: see you just never know. It's the production isn't coming
Speaker 2: from the other guys. You just have reached the point
Speaker 2: of the season. Why not give it a shot and
Speaker 2: see what he can do? Like you said, t him
Speaker 2: with his defense, he gives you more out there than
Speaker 2: other guys give. And I just love to see if
Speaker 2: he could get high.
Speaker 4: You just never know.
Speaker 2: He could go in a two week tear and have
Speaker 2: five or six homers and really just kind of jump
Speaker 2: start everybody. And like I said, with his personality, just
Speaker 2: being around the team a couple of years ago in
Speaker 2: the clubhouse, he was so friendly to everybody. Was guys
Speaker 2: kind of joke with him. He's kind of the one
Speaker 2: that guys go to and joke with and get along with.
Speaker 2: So well, you just never know what he could do
Speaker 2: for the team as a whole.
Speaker 3: He's definitely got that outgoing personality and it's very infectious
Speaker 3: and you can tell that the team really really loves it.
Speaker 3: But he seems like he's in this hot streak like that.
Speaker 3: That's where it's just keep letting it ride, and Steve,
Speaker 3: you're right. The Tyler O'Neil signing, it just has not
Speaker 3: played out how they would have been visioned. At this point,
Speaker 3: he is really, really struggle struggling against left handed pitching,
Speaker 3: to the point where you look at Colton Cowser's numbers
Speaker 3: being a left handed bat, He's got better numbers than
Speaker 3: Tyler o'meal hitting left handed pitching. So I don't even
Speaker 3: think it's that huge of a decision at this point.
Speaker 3: You got a ride with the hot hand.
Speaker 1: Colton Cowser man two special swings. He hit one four forty,
Speaker 1: he hit one four twenty five, and they both produce
Speaker 1: walk off wins for the Orioles, two in two days.
Speaker 1: You've never had a walk off hitting his pro career,
Speaker 1: or at least his major league career, and now he's got
Speaker 1: two in a row. We'll talk about some more O's
Speaker 1: topics coming up here in a moment on Birdland Territory.
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Speaker 1: Brad, you made an interesting point about Cowser so well
Speaker 1: liked in there is clear the reaction of his teammates.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that does tell us a little something. Not that
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have a great reaction for any walk off wind. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but these guys looked like it was, you know, Game
Speaker 1: seven of the Alcs or something. So it's okay, it's
Speaker 1: okay are your fans when you have a win like that,
Speaker 1: It's okay to have fun for a few minutes. But
Speaker 1: a bigger picture of Cawser is kind of the loose
Speaker 1: guy in there a lot, and when he struggled the
Speaker 1: last year or two, there's we've seen less of that
Speaker 1: now the media we're not there for We're only there
Speaker 1: fifty minutes, you know, before the game. There's hours. It's
Speaker 1: stuff going on in there we don't see, And I
Speaker 1: think he's probably still that same loose guy. It gets
Speaker 1: harder to do that, I think when you're struggling. When
Speaker 1: he was drafted, the area was drafted, they brought the
Speaker 1: draft picks to del Marva from Florida and a bunch
Speaker 1: of us drove all the way to Salisbury to interview him.
Speaker 1: Never met Colton Kwser within the first thirty seconds of
Speaker 1: He's like six or eight is cam mass and cameras
Speaker 1: are all there. Maybe this kid will be nervous. He
Speaker 1: looks into the camera and he goes, Hey, how's my
Speaker 1: hair look? Do I look good today? And I was like,
Speaker 1: this kid is loose man, he's just having fun. And
Speaker 1: that was Colton Cawser. That is really who he is.
Speaker 1: And so that can I hope for the Orioles means something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I think you're having guys like that in
Speaker 2: the clubhouse. It's like you said, when you're struggling, it's
Speaker 2: tough to be that guy all the time. But I
Speaker 2: guarantee when the media is not in there, and these
Speaker 2: guys have come up together, they've spent so much time together,
Speaker 2: They've had success, they've had failure together, And I just
Speaker 2: think he's just one of those guys that everybody pulls
Speaker 2: for that you just can't help but like want to
Speaker 2: be around him, want to see him do well, because
Speaker 2: when he's doing well, everybody's more loose, and it's it's
Speaker 2: a personality a Saulid Just like I said those couple
Speaker 2: of times doing the series in twenty four to twenty five,
Speaker 2: twenty three, it was just he was one of those
Speaker 2: guys that everybody gravitates to that they want to joke
Speaker 2: with they want to have a good time with and
Speaker 2: that kind of personality is huge in a clubhouse. And
Speaker 2: it would be great to see him get back to
Speaker 2: having success and just get back to being that loose
Speaker 2: guy that everybody saw a few years ago, because, like
Speaker 2: I said, it is tougher to be that guy because
Speaker 2: you have more eyes on you when you're not having
Speaker 2: as much success. So to get him back to being
Speaker 2: just that loose go out there, just have fun, hit
Speaker 2: the ball and hit it hard whenever you get a chance.
Speaker 3: Bred how important is that clubhouse dynamic? Because obviously you
Speaker 3: don't want twenty a six Colden Cows. There's all these
Speaker 3: guys crazy outgoing, but I just think of you know,
Speaker 3: the Orioles twenty twelve through sixteen, Like you have a
Speaker 3: serious guy like a nick Mark Cakis or a more
Speaker 3: low key guy like JJ Hardy, but then Adam Jones
Speaker 3: is pieing people and Chris Davis is a really funny guy.
Speaker 4: Like, how important is that clubhouse dynamic?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's huge, And I think it's one of those
Speaker 2: things that has kind of been lost the last few
Speaker 2: years is they try to look at everything as a
Speaker 2: number and as a how do we slot this guy
Speaker 2: and how we sought that guy in and the club
Speaker 2: the clubhouse, just personalities and the atmosphere is such a
Speaker 2: big X factor that when you look at these teams winning,
Speaker 2: you can tell the teammates that love being around each
Speaker 2: other and love going to the field every day and
Speaker 2: having guys like Cold in there and like Adam Jones
Speaker 2: and Chris Davis, these guys that could just make it
Speaker 2: easier over one sixty two game season, regardless of how
Speaker 2: good or bad you're doing, it just makes it easier
Speaker 2: to go to the ballpark. You have more fun and
Speaker 2: you just you. It helps you to remind you that
Speaker 2: we're here playing a kids game and at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, just go out there, have fun, do
Speaker 2: what you do best, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: nobody will ever say anything bad about you because you're
Speaker 2: just out there doing the best you can and you
Speaker 2: enjoyed doing it.
Speaker 1: Let's start starting pitching, and this stat snuck up on
Speaker 1: me a little bit. But the last six games, the
Speaker 1: rotation ERI is two seven to three. Now that includes
Speaker 1: an opener, but I have three quality starts in six games,
Speaker 1: which is really five. You can't count it opener. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna get the quality start. So that's a start
Speaker 1: of something here. You need much more than that. But
Speaker 1: boz is starting to go bradish to twenty two era,
Speaker 1: last four, really good, yesterday, young all year. Now, who's
Speaker 1: going to be the fourth or fifth to really get
Speaker 1: this thing? Humming?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's kind of the key. I've
Speaker 2: kind of mentioned before that when the starting rotation, you
Speaker 2: want to see one time through the rotation everybody put up,
Speaker 2: even if it's not a quality start, just a good
Speaker 2: start to get the team off to a good start.
Speaker 2: And they've kind of done that here the last six starts,
Speaker 2: I think six six seven starts, it's been good getting
Speaker 2: zero's up on the board, giving the offensive chance to
Speaker 2: get into the game. And that's kind of what we
Speaker 2: haven't seen over a stretch of six games so far
Speaker 2: to this point in the season. And Kyle Bradis is
Speaker 2: kind of turning into that ace that we thought and
Speaker 2: he's been really really impressive his last four. He's kind
Speaker 2: of giving you that stopper if they lose two or
Speaker 2: three in a row with him starting, you feel like
Speaker 2: he can jump start the starting rotation and get this
Speaker 2: team back on track. It's been really impressive to watch,
Speaker 2: and I think they're they're kind of getting into a
Speaker 2: little bit of a group here, and I'd love to
Speaker 2: see you continue another time through the rotation and then
Speaker 2: from there you just never know. They can go on
Speaker 2: a three week stretch of really really good starts.
Speaker 3: Yeh, Steve, you got the stat up right there. Kyle Bradish,
Speaker 3: over his last four starts, he's been unbelievable. And even
Speaker 3: when you look at it from a season perspective, prior
Speaker 3: to this four game stretch getting ERA over five, now
Speaker 3: his ERA is in the threes, which is really really
Speaker 3: great to see. And like you were saying, Brad Bradish
Speaker 3: when he's going well like he is now, he is
Speaker 3: one of those guys you expect the Orioles to win
Speaker 3: every time he goes out. And yesterday was a pitchers
Speaker 3: duel early on in that game, and look, when Bradish
Speaker 3: gave up the home run, you're thinking, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: one to nothing against McClanahan, and the offense is really scuffling,
Speaker 3: like they might be done at this point, but the
Speaker 3: Orioles were able to continue to battle. Bradish was able
Speaker 3: to give them length, giving them his third quality start
Speaker 3: in his last four outings. Like you said, Shane Bose,
Speaker 3: he is definitely trending in a positive direction. Brandon Young
Speaker 3: has been rock steady. Now it's just about getting Trevor Rodgers, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, that's got to be the big thing. And look,
Speaker 3: we haven't had an update on Dean Kramer in a while,
Speaker 3: but maybe we see him come back in the month
Speaker 3: of June. I know, the last time Michael IIAs talked
Speaker 3: about that that was the end of April set several
Speaker 3: weeks at that point.
Speaker 4: But Kramer this point, and you know.
Speaker 3: It's high highs and low lows, but you know, as
Speaker 3: Era is always going to be around four at the
Speaker 3: end of the season, and I think that that would
Speaker 3: be a welcome addition at this point to the staff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we hadn't mentioned Chris Bassett, who obviously can
Speaker 1: be pitching a little better and was expected to. So
Speaker 1: the rotation looked like it was potential plus here an
Speaker 1: opening day and so we haven't seen that, but maybe
Speaker 1: in the last week we had and so Trevor Rodgers
Speaker 1: getting it goen would be big. There were some things
Speaker 1: to like from that last start and not like so
Speaker 1: we were saying on the show the other day. Hard
Speaker 1: to read into what exactly is going to happen here,
Speaker 1: but maybe he turned the corner. And so I do
Speaker 1: give the Orioles points for resiliency, and no one is
Speaker 1: selling three and one as they turned the season around.
Speaker 1: Not close to that. But if you're going to turn
Speaker 1: the season around, it has to start with something like
Speaker 1: three and one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, Steve two. Watching the game initially,
Speaker 2: Jim Palmer made a great point that I had to
Speaker 2: know this. He talked about Ali Rutchman holding his target
Speaker 2: a little bit longer, and after hearing him bringing up
Speaker 2: that point, I'm thinking of the starters. Kind of the
Speaker 2: struggle was pitched strike one and Kyle Braddish especially was
Speaker 2: really struggling with strike one. Ali Rushman is really holding
Speaker 2: his target longer, which was kind of what guys did
Speaker 2: when I was playing, and I love that. When they
Speaker 2: started going to the sweep up motion, it got really
Speaker 2: hard for me to kind of know where my target
Speaker 2: is and what I'm trying to aim at. But these guys,
Speaker 2: he's been really holding target just it's it's a very
Speaker 2: it's a short period longer, but it's noticeably longer. And
Speaker 2: I've been noticing Kyle braddis being able to get in
Speaker 2: the zone, especially with his fastball super early in the counts,
Speaker 2: and I really think that's been his turnarounds, just being
Speaker 2: more aggressive of strike one, using his fastball to get ahead,
Speaker 2: and then getting to his off speed pitches and yes
Speaker 2: should I also noticed he kind of flipped his slider
Speaker 2: and curveball usage from his last two stars, and I
Speaker 2: think that's always so interesting as a player watching how
Speaker 2: a guy is going to go and faces a team
Speaker 2: two starts in a row, and what he does with
Speaker 2: the stuff that's seen you within a week. There's no surprises,
Speaker 2: there's not going to be anything that's thrown your way
Speaker 2: that you haven't seen. But he flipped his curveball in
Speaker 2: slider usage, and I thought that was really really amazing
Speaker 2: yesterday to watch he kind of didn't abandon the slider,
Speaker 2: but he didn't throw his first slider, I think until
Speaker 2: the third or fourth inning, and then he used it
Speaker 2: from there. But he threw almost double the amount of
Speaker 2: curveballs he threw from the last start to yesterday's start,
Speaker 2: and it really had them off balance. They were kind
Speaker 2: of looking for the sweeper coming at him as a
Speaker 2: left ear away and he was just throwing a lot
Speaker 2: more twelve to six and it really kept them off
Speaker 2: balanced that entire start.
Speaker 3: In those type of situations, Brad, do you see that
Speaker 3: as more advantage batter advantage pitcher?
Speaker 4: Seeing someone that quick within a week.
Speaker 2: I gotta think it's advantage batter. I think just like
Speaker 2: I said, you see the shape. There's no the last start,
Speaker 2: you kind of get in your second and third at bat,
Speaker 2: you've seen it all, and now it's like within a
Speaker 2: week you maybe face three pitches I think five pitchers
Speaker 2: in between his start, so you haven't seen a ton,
Speaker 2: but you've seen everything. He threw a hunt over a
Speaker 2: hundred pitches the last start, and he threw ninety something there,
Speaker 2: and it just goes to show how good Kyle Bradish
Speaker 2: can be with his stuff. It doesn't matter if you
Speaker 2: face him back to back starts, it doesn't matter if
Speaker 2: you've seen him three or four times that outing. He
Speaker 2: just has. He has elite stuff, and his fastballs to me,
Speaker 2: have just been the difference maker. His two seamen is
Speaker 2: cutter cutter, four seamer as he calls it. The h
Speaker 2: is really the difference maker to me because then he
Speaker 2: gets his breaking ball and there's just you're not going
Speaker 2: to do much damage.
Speaker 1: With that, you know. I love a good pitcher's duel
Speaker 1: McClanahan and Bradish. That is fun to watch, and of
Speaker 1: course the craziness at the end was a different kind
Speaker 1: of fun to watch. We almost got two games in
Speaker 1: one day as the Orioles got an important victory on
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Speaker 1: the box nomination to hit one Taylor Ward. He's only
Speaker 1: hit two all year, we know, But the pitcher he's
Speaker 1: facing Tuesday night. Oh, by the way, Griffin Jacks. He
Speaker 1: homered against at the Trap and if you remember, it
Speaker 1: was a leadoff homer. It seemed to be a pitch
Speaker 1: he was hunting because he was way out in front
Speaker 1: of ninety six. It seemed that in his mind it
Speaker 1: was like, if I get one here, I'm getting that
Speaker 1: bad head out and I'm gonna drive one for a change.
Speaker 1: And he did. And if he can do it, then
Speaker 1: maybe he can do it more. We know his track
Speaker 1: record says he can do it more. But it's just
Speaker 1: strange to see a guy with thirty six homers have
Speaker 1: just two. He's got one hundred games to go, so
Speaker 1: I don't think he's getting thirty six this year. But
Speaker 1: I don't think he's only going to hit six or
Speaker 1: eight either.
Speaker 2: How about you guys, Yeah, I think at this point
Speaker 2: with that many games left, I mean there, I can't
Speaker 2: imagine twenty twenty five. You know, It's it's just hitters.
Speaker 2: They get so hot and they get they go through stretches,
Speaker 2: and I really think the wristhand when he got hit,
Speaker 2: I think that ended up being really what has sat
Speaker 2: this power to there's at this power to this point,
Speaker 2: and I think he's being more aggressive, which tells me
Speaker 2: that he's starting to get more of an idea of
Speaker 2: what he's he's trying to drive. When you're seeing more pitches,
Speaker 2: to me, it kind of you're trying to get more
Speaker 2: into the count, trying to get pitches to maybe hit
Speaker 2: the other way, just trying to get something that you
Speaker 2: can get the offense kind of rolling. But when you're
Speaker 2: going and hunting swing earlier in the count, that tells
Speaker 2: me you have a better idea of what you're trying
Speaker 2: to do to hit for more power. I think that
Speaker 2: was when I was pitching, when I see guys swinging
Speaker 2: early in the count, they're they're trying to go deep in.
Speaker 2: When you're you get later in the count, they're more
Speaker 2: willing to kind of take to hit the other way
Speaker 2: or kind of hits what is pitched to them. But
Speaker 2: when you're out there hunting earlier, that just goes to
Speaker 2: tell me he's feeling better and he's really trying to
Speaker 2: get out in front of pitches and kind of put
Speaker 2: a good swing and a home run swing on pitches.
Speaker 3: Yeah, We've talked a lot about Taylor Ward's season and
Speaker 3: just how it's so bizarre.
Speaker 4: Right even with him.
Speaker 3: Slumping a little bit of late, he still hasn't on
Speaker 3: base of over four hundred, which is fantastic. But this
Speaker 3: is someone even if you throw out last year the
Speaker 3: career best season with the thirty six homers, three of
Speaker 3: his prior four seasons he had twenty three homers or more. So,
Speaker 3: he has that in him and you're just waiting to
Speaker 3: see it. But you're right, Brad, I feel like he
Speaker 3: has been much more aggressive of laid and with him
Speaker 3: changing that bandage er if you will, casing around his hand,
Speaker 3: maybe that's kind of given him a little bit more
Speaker 3: confidence as well. But those type of hand injuries, man,
Speaker 3: they're just so serious and gosh, Jackson Holiday kind of
Speaker 3: a perfect example. Obviously it's not a handmade injury with
Speaker 3: Taylor Ward, but anytime a hitter takes a pitch off
Speaker 3: his hand, man, I just can't even imagine, you know,
Speaker 3: going back the next day continuing, you're taking four appats
Speaker 3: a day swinging at a pitch that's ninety six ninety seven, Like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I can't even imagine that pain.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So he hits one against Griffin Jacks last time.
Speaker 1: We'll see what he does here the rest of this series.
Speaker 1: Here's an interesting note on Ward. He does not show
Speaker 1: good batspeed, and he never has. Some peoples have said
Speaker 1: to me, Steve, look at his bat speed this year.
Speaker 1: It's in the lower four percent of major leagues. Last
Speaker 1: year was in the lower fifteen percent. You get thirty
Speaker 1: six homers with eighty five percent of major league hitters
Speaker 1: possessing more bat speed last year. So that is not
Speaker 1: his game. The record shows as that. So he can
Speaker 1: hit homers without prolific batspeed. He's done it before. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if Taylor Ward can get one for the
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Speaker 1: Tim, we were talking before the show. You noted the
Speaker 1: renovation for cedric moments. This is my mind a great
Speaker 1: Oriole thirty thirty, the only oriol to ever do that,
Speaker 1: by the way, with all the great stave ad and
Speaker 1: a guy was demoted at one time to double A
Speaker 1: and I went and interviewed him that year in Bowie
Speaker 1: and he looked me in the eye and said, I'm
Speaker 1: going to be back. I promise you I'm straightening some
Speaker 1: things out. And he came back to be thirty thirty.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a special guy.
Speaker 3: Just an unbelievable story. When you think about that, Steve.
Speaker 3: This is someone that came up at the end of
Speaker 3: the twenty eighteen season. It was so cool seeing that
Speaker 3: tribute video that the Orioles did for him, and remember
Speaker 3: Adam Jones letting him lead the team out of the
Speaker 3: dugout and obviously him taking over center field from Adam
Speaker 3: and Adam of course ack of an Oriole himself, but said,
Speaker 3: you's think of the just the defensive plays.
Speaker 4: That he made.
Speaker 8: I know the game in Seattle, Brad, you're on the
Speaker 8: call of that one where he's robing the holme and
Speaker 8: then he's hitting the go ahead home run, you know,
Speaker 8: at the bottom half through the top half of the
Speaker 8: next inning.
Speaker 4: This was someone that.
Speaker 3: Was there throughout the entire rebuild, right like right at
Speaker 3: the end of the teardown of eighteen and then having
Speaker 3: the thirty thirty season in twenty one, and then part
Speaker 3: of the rebirth where the team winning one hundred and
Speaker 3: one games in twenty twenty three. Cedric Mullins was a
Speaker 3: humongous part of all of that and absolutely deserve that
Speaker 3: standing ill yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great to see anytime a guy comes
Speaker 2: back that spent that much time and I mean his
Speaker 2: story with you know, talking about him getting sent down
Speaker 2: was almost the trajectory that that whole thing went on.
Speaker 2: It's you had you know eighteen happened and the struggles
Speaker 2: that just kind of happened of the whole organization for
Speaker 2: that five six year period. But then he's back there
Speaker 2: being one of the key parts of the team that
Speaker 2: wins the division one hundred games. It's just it's a
Speaker 2: great story. And that that call in Seattle, that was
Speaker 2: one of the coolest things I've seen. I know, I
Speaker 2: had known said just he was a guy that came
Speaker 2: up all the time and got defensive innings when Buck
Speaker 2: was the manager and I was on the team, and
Speaker 2: we had always heard about him. This kid could play
Speaker 2: great defense. They were just wondering when the offense was
Speaker 2: going to come around. But just being there on that
Speaker 2: call and having him come lit in that game late,
Speaker 2: makes an unbelievable catch to save the game, then goes
Speaker 2: out hits a home run. He had a home run
Speaker 2: foul in that at bat, and then hit a home
Speaker 2: run fair in the same pat I was like, I
Speaker 2: was at shock and I felt bad. I kind of
Speaker 2: jumped over Kevin when I was like yelling in the mic.
Speaker 2: It was just it was just cool. It was it
Speaker 2: was such a as a baseball fan my whole life
Speaker 2: watching something like that happen and getting to be on
Speaker 2: that call in a big series out there in Seattle
Speaker 2: against a team that was really good. We saw unbelievable
Speaker 2: starting pitching from Seattle, and for said to go out
Speaker 2: there and just do that, it was just kind of
Speaker 2: like it was just a cool full circle thing watching
Speaker 2: him in the minor leagues and then getting to be
Speaker 2: on the call when he's one of the bigger names
Speaker 2: on the team, and just it was a great story.
Speaker 2: And it was great to see him get his due
Speaker 2: yesterday at Camdon Yards and get a great standing ovation because,
Speaker 2: like you said, he was really really good Oriol And
Speaker 2: to hear the fact that he was the only thirty
Speaker 2: to thirty player in Oriel's history, it's just kind of
Speaker 2: mind blown, like you said, with I mean multiple Hall
Speaker 2: of Famers and just unbelievable players that have come through
Speaker 2: Baltimore that he's the only one with that stat. It's
Speaker 2: just it was great to see him out the Yeshay
Speaker 2: and get that ovation like he did, because he really
Speaker 2: did deserve something like that.
Speaker 1: Man, I think of a character integrity class. That's what
Speaker 1: I think I want to think of Cedric. He as
Speaker 1: a fan of a team. You hope your team is good,
Speaker 1: and he won a lot of games, obviously. I think secondarily,
Speaker 1: you hope you have a bunch of good guys who
Speaker 1: represent your team in town. Well, Cedric Mullins did it
Speaker 1: beautifully for many years, so said, welcome back to Baltimore
Speaker 1: with the Raids. We got a few more things to
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Speaker 1: Brad shang Bos goes Tuesday night for the Orioles. It
Speaker 1: looks like knocking on wood here for him. He's turned
Speaker 1: the corner a bit. Are you seeing signs of that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, I think he's looking more like the pitcher
Speaker 2: they hope they signed, and that they signed to an
Speaker 2: extension here these last few starts, just giving them length
Speaker 2: and giving them just unbelievable outings. He's been He's been
Speaker 2: really good and it's been fun. To watch. It's been
Speaker 2: kind of impressive to watch him kind of just flip
Speaker 2: the script on his season these last few starts. Hopefully,
Speaker 2: obviously you hope he can continue this stretch he's on,
Speaker 2: but it's a picture that they hoped and I hope
Speaker 2: to see him go out there again tonight. It's not
Speaker 2: easy task. Like we talked about, Braddis did a great
Speaker 2: job facing the same team twice. He has the added
Speaker 2: pressure of facing former teammates and his former team now
Speaker 2: two starts in a row. So it's definitely a tough
Speaker 2: challenge tonight against a team that didn't score a lot
Speaker 2: of runs against the starter last night, a team that
Speaker 2: puts up runs and puts up good at bats. So
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a really fun challenge. And I always
Speaker 2: love seeing guys get a challenge like this really step
Speaker 2: up to the occasion. It would be great to see
Speaker 2: that as go out there tonight and just do what
Speaker 2: he did last week. And at the TRUP he.
Speaker 3: Was fantastic, and that started against the Trump. I believe
Speaker 3: he only gave up two hits there. But that's kind
Speaker 3: of an added layer with it, Brad. When you think
Speaker 3: of former teammates and like they kind of know the
Speaker 3: ins and outs with you as a pitcher as well.
Speaker 3: Like it's kind of an interesting dynamic there too, going
Speaker 3: up against your former team as a pitcher even more so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. I think Ben McDonald talked about that last
Speaker 2: week on the broadcast. He just said, it's not easy
Speaker 2: your first time, so it'll be interesting if like the
Speaker 2: emotions are kind of gone and like he got that
Speaker 2: first one out of the way, if he goes out
Speaker 2: and who knows, he could be even more dominant this time.
Speaker 2: It's just it's definitely tough facing your former team and
Speaker 2: those guys know everything about you. The pitching coaches are
Speaker 2: still there. All the analytics and the data is all there.
Speaker 2: They've seen this guy multiple times. He was a minor
Speaker 2: league guy with the Race too, I believe, so it's
Speaker 2: they He was there his entire career. So it's going
Speaker 2: to be a challenge tonight for sure. And the Race
Speaker 2: team has been hot. They beat him yesterday and hopefully
Speaker 2: can go out and they can take the series and
Speaker 2: look for sweep tomorrow. And it's just one of those
Speaker 2: huge opportunities I feel like, to finally carry the momentum
Speaker 2: of a big win into today and kind of just
Speaker 2: grasp the season and kind of turn it around here.
Speaker 2: You know, you just never know what can happen if
Speaker 2: they can win tonight.
Speaker 1: Yes, is this finally the time for Birdland to make
Speaker 1: the run you've been waiting on for weeks? You know,
Speaker 1: you think about the Oriols and the Rays. It should
Speaker 1: be too too. The O's let a game get away.
Speaker 1: They got blown out in that first game at the
Speaker 1: trop but then they were down a run at the
Speaker 1: very end of the game, lost by three Tuesday night. Wednesday,
Speaker 1: should have won up by two in the athletic get
Speaker 1: away and did win on Monday. So they've really been
Speaker 1: good games here since the first few innings of the
Speaker 1: first game. Os and Rays and Tim. That would be
Speaker 1: an uplifting series win.
Speaker 4: That's all you're looking for.
Speaker 3: It's what we were saying Sunday, Like, it was far
Speaker 3: from a pretty series against the Tigers, but you took
Speaker 3: two of three. Now you got to find a way
Speaker 3: to split today tomorrow that way win another series and
Speaker 3: then the Blue Jays come to town for four, find
Speaker 3: a way to at least split that series. Like they
Speaker 3: just got to start stacking series wins that they've only
Speaker 3: won back to back series just once all year.
Speaker 4: They have a chance to make it too tonight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, real, go ahead, Brad.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, at this point, it's like,
Speaker 2: throw pretty wins out the win as a win at
Speaker 2: this point, and like, I mean that win, the runs
Speaker 2: they scored early in that game. That kind of looked
Speaker 2: like those defense a little bit there early in this season,
Speaker 2: throwing balls in the dugout, making errors, given extra bases,
Speaker 2: and the orders took advantage of it. So it's kind of,
Speaker 2: who knows, maybe that kind of is shifting their luck
Speaker 2: a little bit. And at this point, it's pretty wins
Speaker 2: don't matter. It's all about getting w's and just like
Speaker 2: you said, stacking series wins series wins.
Speaker 1: It's a good point. Rays haven't had a four ERA
Speaker 1: games since twenty twenty one. That was also against the Orioles.
Speaker 1: Oh by the way, and again knock on wood here,
Speaker 1: there haven't been a lot of defensive meltdowns or missed
Speaker 1: There have been a few. The p Alonzo played the
Speaker 1: other day comes to mind, but the Orioles are starting
Speaker 1: to slowly clean it up on the D. So let's
Speaker 1: see how the series plays out. Hope you enjoy it
Speaker 1: oriole fans at the yard, Ozen raised, and then Toronto
Speaker 1: in for the rest of the homestead. We will be
Speaker 1: back soon with another edition of Birdland Territory.