Speaker 1: Those fans. Quite a weekend in Houston. The second half
Speaker 1: is off to a rousing start for the Orioles and
Speaker 1: welcome to our first post All Star Break edition of
Speaker 1: Birdland Territory Steve, Tim and Brad. Before the break, we
Speaker 1: talked about how critical this road trip was going to
Speaker 1: be for the Oriols. They could do a lot of
Speaker 1: good against other wild card contenders, and boy did they
Speaker 1: when this series began. Here's a stat off throughout the start.
Speaker 1: Houston going into this series since May twenty first was
Speaker 1: twenty seven and twenty one, the best record in the
Speaker 1: American League for about the last two months. And then
Speaker 1: the Orioles went into their park and swept, allowing two,
Speaker 1: two and two and having a picture on the set.
Speaker 1: He must like that six runs for the weekend, Brad.
Speaker 1: They'd been throwing so well. The tm ERA during their
Speaker 1: seven game winning streak is one eighty.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean they've turned to absolute corner when it comes
Speaker 3: to the pitching side. I feel like the pitching waves
Speaker 3: of the early part of the season have been gone
Speaker 3: out for a while, and I think emphatically gone these
Speaker 3: last seven games, especially when you give up two runs
Speaker 3: each game in Houston, which is a really tough place
Speaker 3: to pitch. It's short the right field, it's short the
Speaker 3: left field. They always seem to hit well there, and
Speaker 3: to go there and give up two runs a game
Speaker 3: is just unbelievable. It takes all the pressure off the offense,
Speaker 3: and the offense was able to come through with just
Speaker 3: enough to to run Homer by word on Friday, today
Speaker 3: some runs to tack on, and then the amazing win
Speaker 3: on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Just great defense.
Speaker 3: It's kind of all kind of coming together here this
Speaker 3: last over the seven game winning streak, and it's exciting baseball.
Speaker 3: If you're a true baseball fan, this is about exciting
Speaker 3: as it gets. It's good pitching, good defense, and timely hitting.
Speaker 3: And to me, like you said, being a former pitcher,
Speaker 3: I love seeing it. The bullpen's been on a huge role.
Speaker 3: Not to mention the starting five have just been phenomenal
Speaker 3: now for I feel over two and a half months
Speaker 3: and they just kind of showed it all this weekend
Speaker 3: and it's a great time to really get rolling into
Speaker 3: a really really big series coming up in Boston.
Speaker 4: When we were doing the show last Sunday and we
Speaker 4: were all happy, excited.
Speaker 5: Look, it was their first four game winning streak.
Speaker 4: But Brad, I think you might have brought it up
Speaker 4: or me, all right, it's the Royals. Let's see what
Speaker 4: this looks like on the other side. And Steve, you
Speaker 4: gave the numbers man and to do that going into Houston,
Speaker 4: and you were trailing this team by half a game
Speaker 4: heading into it. But what has me most excited about
Speaker 4: this series, guys, it's not even so much today, where
Speaker 4: today they felt pretty in control throughout Hunter Brown just
Speaker 4: did not have any type of command at all, hitting
Speaker 4: multiple batters, issuing five walks or so. But Friday and
Speaker 4: Saturday is what has me most excited about this club.
Speaker 5: Especially Saturday.
Speaker 4: That's a game they don't win even a couple of
Speaker 4: weeks ago, and both of those games they were out hit. Friday,
Speaker 4: Dean Kramer has a short outing, he's kind of walking
Speaker 4: the tightrope. Orioles pitchers ended up walking nine guys. The
Speaker 4: offense just isn't doing anything. Then Boom badly with the
Speaker 4: ground roll double, then Taylor Ward the go ahead homer,
Speaker 4: and then Saturday is similar thing that the offense had
Speaker 4: two hits and struck out twelve times through the first
Speaker 4: nine innings, and then you had a basis loaded situation
Speaker 4: against you with nobody out in the eleventh thing, and
Speaker 4: somehow got out of it. You know, Tyler O'Neill with
Speaker 4: a fantastic throw to get the runner at home and
Speaker 4: Samuel Pasilo with a fantastic tag. Unreal stretch and unreal
Speaker 4: series sweep by the Ohs.
Speaker 1: I'll remember the Cam Sanders weekend. Yeah, and he didn't
Speaker 1: even make it through the weekend getting sent back for
Speaker 1: Sam Huff. I sure hope we see him again. I
Speaker 1: know MLB numbers are poor overall, but you can see
Speaker 1: what the Orioles like about this guy ninety six with
Speaker 1: a whiteout slider. That was maybe the craziest move of
Speaker 1: the year. A pitcher with a high walk rate in
Speaker 1: with the bases loaded and he doesn't walk. He's three
Speaker 1: and four hitters. Now you're not walk theme he got
Speaker 1: them out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's those are That's the kind of storylines that
Speaker 3: really just kind of boost you as a team overall.
Speaker 3: I just know being part of bullpins like that. Like
Speaker 3: right now, they're on a roll. I think if my
Speaker 3: numbers are right about twenty two innings, one ear and run,
Speaker 3: I think they'd have a stretch of right now, and
Speaker 3: it's they're just on a complete roll and it's everybody
Speaker 3: getting their hands in. It's not the same guys every
Speaker 3: single outing. You saw today. Grant wolfemer out there in
Speaker 3: the ninth inning, so it's it's passing the baton to
Speaker 3: each other and guys just really stepping up when they
Speaker 3: need to and getting out of that with no runs
Speaker 3: and keeping the game where it was. Might be the
Speaker 3: inning of the weekend. Really, when you look at the
Speaker 3: series as a.
Speaker 4: Whole, this way guys three wins in this sweep. You
Speaker 4: had three saves by all different guys, and Andrew Kiddridch
Speaker 4: didn't even record one of those saves. And you know,
Speaker 4: you have the phenomenal inning on Friday by camp Smith
Speaker 4: where it's bases loaded, one out and then he ended.
Speaker 5: Up getting the saves the very next day.
Speaker 4: And unfortunately they're in a roster crunch right now with
Speaker 4: injuries which we'll get into, but you know, such as
Speaker 4: life in the bullpen, man, it's crazy. That was not
Speaker 4: a poor performance to motion by any means.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So during the seven straight wins, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: at the Orioles, we put up the stat their longest
Speaker 1: win streak since September of twenty twenty three, the division champs,
Speaker 1: who one hundred and one games spent a minute, and
Speaker 1: the Oils are now ten and three in July, and
Speaker 1: suddenly they're winning on the road for the first time
Speaker 1: all year. They have back to back road series wins
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and Houston. They are five and one in those
Speaker 1: two series, eight and three. They're last eleven on the road,
Speaker 1: twelve and nine in the last twenty one that seven
Speaker 1: road series in which they won for and lost three.
Speaker 1: So now they're starting to do that. And look at
Speaker 1: all the contributions we mentioned, Cam Sanders, Tyler O'Neill, wards,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Homer Leodi Taveres today a huge two run single.
Speaker 1: Even Gunner struggling got an RBI hit today. But oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, Brandon Young, who always seems to do it,
Speaker 1: did it again today and they switched him for bradish
Speaker 1: who gets pushed back after the contract agreement. And Brandon
Speaker 1: Young has made sixteen starts in the Orioles are thirteen
Speaker 1: and three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy, and I think the last I think
Speaker 3: that stretch probably started against the game against Houston back
Speaker 3: in I think it was April at the beginning of
Speaker 3: May against the Astros. So you look at that stretch
Speaker 3: he's had now, it's been phenomenal. I mean, we talked
Speaker 3: about it right before the break, but he's definitely one
Speaker 3: of the standout performers for this team overall. And I
Speaker 3: just love the fact that it's not one guy doing it.
Speaker 3: It's We've mentioned how many names just in today's episode
Speaker 3: of guys stepping up and doing it, and I think
Speaker 3: that's what's really going to make this team kind of
Speaker 3: come to the top. We're still waiting for Gunner to
Speaker 3: get going, We're still waiting for Adli to be healthy.
Speaker 3: All the time he was out of there today. Hopefully
Speaker 3: his injury is not too bad. But Syle gets hurt
Speaker 3: a little bit too. But it's just guys contributing throughout
Speaker 3: the lineup. Jeremiah Jackson back doing that sacrifice but for
Speaker 3: a run yesterday, Like, it's just it's guys doing all
Speaker 3: the little things which we hadn't seen to this point
Speaker 3: in the year. And guys are getting going at the
Speaker 3: perfect time, and it's it's what you love to see.
Speaker 3: And I think if you're an Orioles fan, you kind
Speaker 3: of look at this team. Maybe it's not gonna be
Speaker 3: the stars that lifted. It's gonna be more of a
Speaker 3: story of this overall team and what they were able
Speaker 3: to do this year despite the injuries, which I think
Speaker 3: is going to be in a huge storyline for this
Speaker 3: team for the year. But when you look at this
Speaker 3: team that you're having contributions up and down the lineup,
Speaker 3: up and down the roster, bullpen, starting pitchers, it's just
Speaker 3: a fun team to watch at this point and it's
Speaker 3: been It's been great seeing everybody kind of have their
Speaker 3: hand in all these wins.
Speaker 4: I still think it goes back to where we started, though,
Speaker 4: and we've asked this question at various points, like what
Speaker 4: is this team's identity? Yeah, guys, it's one of the
Speaker 4: best starting rotations since May twenty second.
Speaker 5: You can go back to that point.
Speaker 4: It was the sixth best starter era heading into this series.
Speaker 5: It only got better.
Speaker 4: Trevor Rodgers really picking up where he left off, Brandon
Speaker 4: Young really picking up where he left off, and you know,
Speaker 4: he got Kyle bradd as, Shane bose Is in a
Speaker 4: nice role. Dean Kramer was a little bit of a
Speaker 4: so so start for him on Friday, but you know
Speaker 4: what you're getting at a dean this starting rotation, and
Speaker 4: it was not the offense being the story of this
Speaker 4: series sweep.
Speaker 5: It was the pitching.
Speaker 4: The bullpen was spectacular, but it started with the starting rotation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot happened in three days. In addition to
Speaker 1: three wins, the Oriols signed their first round draft pick,
Speaker 1: Eric Booth, junior, the Mississippi high school outfielder, on Saturday,
Speaker 1: seven point three ish million. He's doing okay coming out
Speaker 1: of high school and they got both junior. So he
Speaker 1: goes to Sarasota Orientation and oh yes, Kyle Bradish five years,
Speaker 1: ninety million, that extension announced in game. It's crazy. I
Speaker 1: thought it's the first inning and here's news about cay Brett.
Speaker 1: What the first inning of the game. What a strange time,
Speaker 1: But it was good news, so we'll take it. Later
Speaker 1: in the show. We're going to get into the catching situation.
Speaker 1: Craig Albert has said after Sunday's five two win at Houston,
Speaker 1: Adlie Rutchman is dealing with left wrist discomfort. Basioh left
Speaker 1: the game in the second inning with right shoulder discomfort
Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, great job by Sam Huff
Speaker 1: catching today and catching a game that wee Orioles had
Speaker 1: great pitching, so he was doing his part. We told
Speaker 1: you wasn't going to be dull and it certainly has
Speaker 1: it and now it's exciting to see the Orioles win
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Speaker 1: Well, we can't say the new Oriel ownership group led
Speaker 1: by David Rubinstein, is not spending money on the team.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not going to look like the Mets, the Yankees,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I doubt it ever will, but it's getting
Speaker 1: bigger and better. The latest development over the weekend, Cole
Speaker 1: bradishould extended five years ninety million that will take him
Speaker 1: from through twenty thirty one. Suddenly the Oriols are locking
Speaker 1: up some talent. Bradish will make ten million in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Per Ryan Ripkin reported this and twenty twenty eight, thirteen,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine to seventeen, then twenty two twenty eight.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty as good as he is and knocking
Speaker 1: on wood for health here's that's important word in any player.
Speaker 1: I think the Oriol's got a bargain here, and maybe
Speaker 1: Bradish said, with my injury history, I have a chance
Speaker 1: now to set up my family and myself for life.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take it. And at the end of
Speaker 1: twenty thirty one, if he's healthy and throwing like we
Speaker 1: believe he can, he might get another whopper deal. Who knows,
Speaker 1: But for now the Orioles are locked up with Kyle
Speaker 1: Brad is what exciting news.
Speaker 3: It is exciting, and I think it goes to show
Speaker 3: that the organization is ready to make this team a
Speaker 3: winner and to put the money into the players they
Speaker 3: have now. And I think it just goes to show
Speaker 3: what they've seen from him so far this year. They're
Speaker 3: confident what he's going to have. And I think on
Speaker 3: his end, like you said, Steve, with his injury history,
Speaker 3: it's a perfect opportunity to take a deal and he's
Speaker 3: set for life. Is it's an unbelievable amount of money.
Speaker 3: And I think it just I think it's a great
Speaker 3: deal on both sides, is basically what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 3: And I think it's a great job by the ownership,
Speaker 3: the lockdown the guy that they like, and I think
Speaker 3: he's just really comfortable in Baltimore, and there's a lot
Speaker 3: to be said for that. As a player, when you
Speaker 3: get somewhere you're comfortable, the team shows they're you know,
Speaker 3: their confidence in you, and you just kind of want
Speaker 3: to stay there. And I think he knows this team
Speaker 3: can be a winner and he's gonna be a big
Speaker 3: part of that. And given this monetary value that they
Speaker 3: gave to him, he's gonna be a big part of
Speaker 3: this for the future and moving forward. So it's it's
Speaker 3: exciting for the for the Orioles fans, and they should
Speaker 3: be excited because I can't remember the last time they've
Speaker 3: locked down a picture of their own on the team
Speaker 3: now for this amount of money in this amount of time,
Speaker 3: So it's it's definitely exciting news to hear that the
Speaker 3: ownership is all in for this group of guys.
Speaker 4: I think it's awesome. I think it's awesome on so
Speaker 4: many levels. And Steve, I'm with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: I'm watching the game yesterday and I'm shocked when you
Speaker 4: get the alert, and then I'm shocked again when I
Speaker 4: saw the price tag, because you know how good of
Speaker 4: a pitcher Kyle Bradish can be and has he ran
Speaker 4: into some bumps this year in his first full season
Speaker 4: off Tommy John. Absolutely, but he has a sub three
Speaker 4: ERA over his last twelve starts, and his season long
Speaker 4: numbers are still strong as well. But you know what
Speaker 4: he is when he's at his and that's twenty twenty
Speaker 4: three when he finished fourth in the cy Young Award voting.
Speaker 4: He had a two eight three ERA that season, which
Speaker 4: was the lowest bin Oriole starter over a full season
Speaker 4: like that since Mike Mussina back in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4: So pretty good company with the Hall of Famer. And
Speaker 4: I think it's also a great message to send to
Speaker 4: your fan base and a great message to send to
Speaker 4: the clubhouse because that was kind of a knock on
Speaker 4: Mike Elias in the front office for a while. Oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, is this going to be a feeder system?
Speaker 4: When are we going to see a multi year deal
Speaker 4: or well, you have to give Michaelias a lot of
Speaker 4: credit for the extensions that he's gotten done over the
Speaker 4: past year, and it starts with Samuel Bissio.
Speaker 5: We're coming up on a close to a year.
Speaker 4: It was the end of August when he signed that
Speaker 4: eight year deal that's going to end up being a
Speaker 4: steal Shane Boz the contract they gave him prior to
Speaker 4: opening day.
Speaker 5: Or prior to his first start in an Order uniform.
Speaker 4: At that point, it was the highest contract they've given
Speaker 4: out to a starting pitcher in team history, and they
Speaker 4: just one upped it with Kyle Bradish. So I think
Speaker 4: it's a great message to send to the fan base.
Speaker 4: I think it's a great message to send inside the clubhouse,
Speaker 4: and you've heard some of the guy's comments about it
Speaker 4: over the past day.
Speaker 1: Go back a calendar year as we're approaching August twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. In August twenty twenty five, that's when Bessio
Speaker 1: signed the deal, eight year, sixty seven million, which can
Speaker 1: go further than that. He's locked up through twenty thirty
Speaker 1: three with a team option for thirty four. Then go
Speaker 1: to December five years on hundred and fifty five for Pete,
Speaker 1: then go to March. Boz before his first Orial game
Speaker 1: five year, sixty eight million, and then go to this
Speaker 1: deal and oh, by the way, within all that, they
Speaker 1: added Hellsley, they traded for Boz, they added Ward, they
Speaker 1: did some things to try to make this team better.
Speaker 1: So it's funny how a week or two has changed
Speaker 1: the outlook in Birdland and it's been a meteoric rise.
Speaker 1: And we're all keeping our fingers crossed because you guys
Speaker 1: deserve a great baseball team, deserve the excitement that maybe, guys,
Speaker 1: we're about to have. This was game one hundred. This
Speaker 1: is why baseball is a marathon and you can never
Speaker 1: write it off. And up until now we were saying
Speaker 1: the Oriols are in it because of the league is bad.
Speaker 1: But maybe now they're going to be in it because
Speaker 1: the Orioles are good. Wouldn't that be refreshing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think it's I think it's perfect time.
Speaker 3: I think this deal kind of just coincides with the
Speaker 3: team on this uprise and they're they're right there back
Speaker 3: in the wildcard mix. As much as you can say
Speaker 3: whatever you want about the records, the American League is
Speaker 3: what it is right now. But I think locking Kyle
Speaker 3: bradishelt for this amount of time shows that Michael Oas
Speaker 3: is trying to get a winner and whether, like we've
Speaker 3: talked about, they might still make a few deals at
Speaker 3: the deadline or whatever, but you know, at going into
Speaker 3: the end of this season, into next year and forward,
Speaker 3: this team is trying to win and the ownership is
Speaker 3: doing everything they have to and Michael Yas will continue
Speaker 3: to do everything they have to to put a winning
Speaker 3: team on the field.
Speaker 2: And the part of it too. I think with Kyle
Speaker 2: bradsh the deal, sorry to him, I.
Speaker 3: Think it's I think it has to do with they
Speaker 3: are going to make sure that he's healthy, and I
Speaker 3: think this deal really is going to give him the
Speaker 3: security of, hey, we're not going to try to blow
Speaker 3: you out. We just signed you to a five to
Speaker 3: six year deal, so we're going to take our time
Speaker 3: with you on your innings this year, your innings next year.
Speaker 2: And I think that's kind of a good sign.
Speaker 3: It makes a healthy organization look, it makes I'm trying
Speaker 3: to it makes them look great when they you know,
Speaker 3: they're trying to protect their guys, and I think with
Speaker 3: doing this deal, they're going to try to protect Kyle
Speaker 3: Bradish and they're not going to try to blow him
Speaker 3: out this year next year to get the most value
Speaker 3: out of them. They're going to try to get the
Speaker 3: most value out of him for the length of this contract.
Speaker 3: So I think it's a really good sign for the
Speaker 3: rest of the season to moving forward.
Speaker 4: And I think something that's abundantly clear, and we've been
Speaker 4: stressing this even throughout when we've done trade deadline previews
Speaker 4: on this show. This was never going to be another
Speaker 4: teardown if things weren't going this well, you know, if
Speaker 4: they lost seven straight games heading up into this point
Speaker 4: vice versa.
Speaker 5: They're committing.
Speaker 4: Look, now you have cast certainty on Shame Base and
Speaker 4: Kyle Bradish and really your whole rotations under contract at
Speaker 4: least through the next couple of years. Dean Kramer's still
Speaker 4: under club control, Brandon Young has plenty of club control
Speaker 4: as well. They're in a nice spot right now, and
Speaker 4: I think it's really encouraging that when David Rubinstein was
Speaker 4: introduced as the next owner of the Orioles on opening
Speaker 4: day twenty twenty four, they phrased it as the next chapter.
Speaker 4: And this has been a serious departure, especially you know,
Speaker 4: towards the end when it was the rebuild and they
Speaker 4: really weren't spending any money. This organization the past offseason
Speaker 4: spent I believe the second or third most amount of
Speaker 4: money in the entire offseason. So it tells you this
Speaker 4: is the next chapter. This is completely different than the
Speaker 4: prior regime.
Speaker 1: Now they're locking up some of their own end. They've
Speaker 1: signed the big fish in free agency, Alonzo, so they're
Speaker 1: doing things we didn't think the Orioles would do or
Speaker 1: maybe even could do. And Tim, based on what you
Speaker 1: just said, why this was never going to be a teardown.
Speaker 1: Let's graphically show you control through twenty This is not
Speaker 1: every player, this is some key guys. Team control through
Speaker 1: twenty seven. You got Adlie Bautista, Toddler Wells, Dean Kramer
Speaker 1: through twenty eight, you got Gunner and you got you
Speaker 1: near Cano through twenty nine, Jordan Westberg and Colton Towser
Speaker 1: through twenty thirty, Pete Alonzo, Shane Boz Blaize, Alexander Jackson,
Speaker 1: holiday Rico Garcia through thirty one is bradish Young and
Speaker 1: Beaver's and oh, by the way, Visaio is through twenty
Speaker 1: thirty three not pictured here through twenty thirty four team option.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty impressive what they're putting together, and that
Speaker 1: still has no extension for Adli or Gunner. Will that happen?
Speaker 1: We'll see it still could. It's not impossible, and maybe
Speaker 1: all they've done here helps them get one or two
Speaker 1: of the other big guys on the team.
Speaker 3: I just think when you look at all those names,
Speaker 3: I just think of that as I mean, who wouldn't
Speaker 3: take that core group of guys as their core group
Speaker 3: of guys in any organization? And I think you start
Speaker 3: adding sprinkling in a few guys from the minor leagues,
Speaker 3: you start sprinkling a few guys from draft picks that
Speaker 3: you have, and now you look at a team that
Speaker 3: could win from year for years to come. And I
Speaker 3: think that's why this deal is kind of just a
Speaker 3: representation of that, that there is a chance that this
Speaker 3: isn't just a small window where everyone was so concerned
Speaker 3: about when Gunners contractors up. When at of these contracts
Speaker 3: are up, you have these guys that they've extended now
Speaker 3: through the twenty thirties, So you're talking five, six, seven
Speaker 3: years from now to where you're going to still have
Speaker 3: this core group of guys. Then, like I said, you
Speaker 3: hope you hit on a few draft picks, you sign
Speaker 3: a free agent here there, and next thing you know,
Speaker 3: you have a team that can win for duration of
Speaker 3: five to ten years. And I think that is what
Speaker 3: is exciting if you're a Baltimoreial fan seeing this extension.
Speaker 3: This could be the start of what's to come. And
Speaker 3: I just think it's a really cool spot to be in.
Speaker 3: It's an exciting seven game win streak, but now looked
Speaker 3: in that, you can look even further than that, and
Speaker 3: it just makes exciting.
Speaker 4: Brett, what is it like, you know, being in that
Speaker 4: clubhouse as a player, And I was thinking of guys
Speaker 4: that you were on the team that got extensions, like
Speaker 4: JJ Hardy and Darren O'Day and obviously Chris Davis got
Speaker 4: the Mega contract. Like, what is it like being in
Speaker 4: the clubhouse seeing your teammates get rewarded.
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like it gives me chills think about
Speaker 3: because I still think back to JJ Hardy. He got
Speaker 3: announced right before the ALCS in twenty fourteen, and every
Speaker 3: time he came to the play, the whole crowd is changing.
Speaker 2: JJ Hardy and it was one of the coolest things ever.
Speaker 3: And you love seeing guys that put in the work
Speaker 3: and have put in great careers get rewarded for the
Speaker 3: teams that they've done really well with. And I just
Speaker 3: think when you mentioned those three guys, JJ Hardy, Darren O'Day,
Speaker 3: Chris Davis, those are the three that stand out to me.
Speaker 3: And those guys deserve those contracts, whether they played out
Speaker 3: how they played out, they deserve the contract when they
Speaker 3: got it. And it's awesome to see guys to have
Speaker 3: that happen and let them get to stay in a
Speaker 3: spot where they feel comfortable and they want to win
Speaker 3: at and that's what those three guys got to do.
Speaker 3: And when you're in that clubhouse, it gives you hope.
Speaker 3: It hops It makes you think, man if I perform,
Speaker 3: maybe I can get the contract, maybe I can be
Speaker 3: the next guy.
Speaker 2: And maybe it doesn't work out that way.
Speaker 3: It sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, but we're here
Speaker 3: in that clubhouse. It gives you hope and lets you
Speaker 3: know that the ownership is there and they're going to
Speaker 3: do everything they can to put a winning team on
Speaker 3: the field. And I mean when being on those teams
Speaker 3: with those guys getting extensions, there was no doubt in
Speaker 3: my mind that I thought we were gonna win a
Speaker 3: World Series at one point, and that's the hope for everybody,
Speaker 3: and that's all you can ever hope for. Obviously it
Speaker 3: didn't play out that way, but when you start a
Speaker 3: season or where you're heading into an offseason and those guys
Speaker 3: get the extensions, that's the hope. You put a team
Speaker 3: on the field, do you think is going to win
Speaker 3: a World Series? And we went into every season thinking
Speaker 3: we had a chance at that, and that's all you
Speaker 3: can ask for.
Speaker 1: Oh I had one PostScript on Bradish for me, He's
Speaker 1: a homegrown Oriole develop pitcher. Here's why. Trey Gibson and
Speaker 1: Brandon Young were not drafted by the Orioles, but they
Speaker 1: were signed after the draft. They are original Orioles cop.
Speaker 1: Bradish was drafted by the Angels, traded him before he
Speaker 1: had thrown a handful of innings on their farm. His
Speaker 1: development happened in the Baltimore farm. They took this kid
Speaker 1: from fourth round draft pick in the Dylan Bundy trade
Speaker 1: when they acquired several players for Bundy, including Bradish, and
Speaker 1: turned him into a cy Young contender. Kyle Bradish, you
Speaker 1: deserve the most credit for that, but Kyle Bradish Wold
Speaker 1: tip his hat to numerous people in the oil organization,
Speaker 1: majors and miners that helped him get to the point
Speaker 1: where the fourth round draft pick, unheralded among top pitchers
Speaker 1: in the game, got a big contract. So I think
Speaker 1: it's a success story that a lot of people should
Speaker 1: get some credit for. And end of my sermon here
Speaker 1: briefly Onky Bradish. Was really exciting for this guy, Tim
Speaker 1: because that clubhouse loves that guy, and you see when
Speaker 1: he's out there, he keeps it in. He's not fiery
Speaker 1: like Gunner, but man, it burns inside of him, you
Speaker 1: know it.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's a total bulldog.
Speaker 4: But Steve, I was just to you know, put the
Speaker 4: final exclamation point on it.
Speaker 5: Look, Michael Oyas takes a lot of heat.
Speaker 4: That was an absolute home run of a trade, and
Speaker 4: Mike deserves some credit for that as well.
Speaker 1: No doubt. So, Kyle Bradish, congrats from Berdland Territory on
Speaker 1: your contract. The latest oriole to sign a contract extension
Speaker 1: on to Boston. Man, that's gonna be big. We're talking
Speaker 1: about it in just seconds.
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Speaker 1: The Boston Red Sox the hottest team in baseball, thirteen
Speaker 1: straight wins. The Orioles at one seventh straight. Something's got
Speaker 1: to give. Monday Night, Boston swept Tampa thirteen straight time
Speaker 1: for the second longest win streak in Red Sox history.
Speaker 1: You got to go back to nineteen forty eight. The
Speaker 1: only longer was a Red Sox team won fifteen straight
Speaker 1: in nineteen forty six. That's what they're chasing, and oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, chasing against Birdland on Monday Night. And
Speaker 1: while we mentioned the Orio pitching, here's what the Red
Speaker 1: Sox have done in thirteen straight wins. They've allowed twenty
Speaker 1: four runs. That's less than two a game. By the way,
Speaker 1: they're fourth in the Major League Baseball on temra. It's
Speaker 1: not offense over the years we've seen carry the Red
Speaker 1: Sox right now, it's pitching.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that even brings up this weekend
Speaker 3: even more because, like Tim, like you said, winning those
Speaker 3: two games Friday and Saturday, those are the kind of
Speaker 3: games you're gonna have to expect to win in Boston
Speaker 3: and that they have great pitching, and you don't want
Speaker 3: it to let it get to the eighth and ninth
Speaker 3: inning because we know they have chapping in the ninth
Speaker 3: and it's just one of those daunting tasks where you
Speaker 3: know you got to get the lead and you got
Speaker 3: to hold it.
Speaker 2: And runs are going to be at a premium.
Speaker 3: So I think this past weekend, playing those close games
Speaker 3: like they did is really gonna show its head here
Speaker 3: in Boston.
Speaker 2: These these three games coming up.
Speaker 4: They just accomplished so many things that they've really struggled
Speaker 4: with throughout the year, winning on the road, winning a
Speaker 4: back to back road series for the first time all year.
Speaker 4: Like you pointed out, Steve, one run games, they had
Speaker 4: the worst record in one run games. They won that
Speaker 4: on Friday. They had a sub five hundred record in
Speaker 4: extra inning games. They won that on Saturdays. So it's
Speaker 4: huge and guys, just how crazy is it? Even going
Speaker 4: back a couple of weeks ago, This series that starts
Speaker 4: tomorrow night at Famway Park features the two hottest clubs.
Speaker 5: In all of baseball.
Speaker 8: You know, the Red Sox were dead and buried, the
Speaker 8: Red Sox fired their manager back in April in Baltimore,
Speaker 8: coincidentally enough, at Camden Yards and the Orioles obviously we
Speaker 8: follow them every single day.
Speaker 4: So you have the two hottest teams in all of baseball.
Speaker 4: But something that the Oriols are going to have to
Speaker 4: do they have struggled with throughout this year. It's win
Speaker 4: against left handed pitching. Because Peyton totally, he gets the
Speaker 4: start tomorrow for Boston, and then Jake Bennett he's projected
Speaker 4: to start on Wednesday.
Speaker 5: They're started for Tuesday's TBD.
Speaker 4: So Orioles have had their fair share of struggles against
Speaker 4: left handed pitching and they're facing two really strong ones
Speaker 4: Monday and Wednesday.
Speaker 1: So twenty four runs allowed by Boston and thirteen straight wins.
Speaker 1: They gave up just ten in sweeping four from Tampa.
Speaker 1: They've gone from thirty seven and forty eight to fifty
Speaker 1: and forty eight, and you mentioned Monday night. Let's start
Speaker 1: this series this way. Shane Boz for the Orioles four nineteen,
Speaker 1: Peyton totally for the Red Sox. Now, Boz has been
Speaker 1: really good in his career against the Red Sox two
Speaker 1: sixty three eight six starts. Peyton Toley faced the Oriols
Speaker 1: once this year, six scoreless against Baltimore June third at
Speaker 1: Fenway might be low scoring like the Houston series. I
Speaker 1: think Shane Bozz has a big one in them. I
Speaker 1: think he is a gamer like Bradish. You mentioned Tim,
Speaker 1: and I see him throwing a big game Monday night.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's I'm wearing orange car glasses when I say that,
Speaker 1: but he seems like a guy that would relish the
Speaker 1: big game an October game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, I think being in the Al East,
Speaker 3: he's not going to be intimidated.
Speaker 2: He's pitched him family before.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's facing the Red Sox a bunch, so
Speaker 3: it's not like you have that factor in there at all.
Speaker 3: And also Shane pass too, like I feel like his
Speaker 3: last it's been like ten starts.
Speaker 2: You kind of watch the start and you're like that's
Speaker 2: it's okay.
Speaker 3: But you look at his box score and the guy
Speaker 3: somehow always gets to the sixth inning three runs are
Speaker 3: less and he's given them a chance to win.
Speaker 2: And I agree with you, Steve.
Speaker 3: I think he goes up to Fenway and gives them
Speaker 3: a chance to win like he does every other start,
Speaker 3: and he's due for that big one.
Speaker 2: I think it's one of.
Speaker 3: Those five games a year where you go out and
Speaker 3: you have absolute dominant stuff, and it would just be
Speaker 3: a perfect time for you get that first win on
Speaker 3: Monday Night, and from there, you just never know.
Speaker 2: You'd be one game.
Speaker 3: Back of the Red Sox in the wildcard standings, eight
Speaker 3: in a row, and you just don't know where it
Speaker 3: can go from there.
Speaker 2: And I like that prediction, Steve. I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I think I think he's due for having a big one.
Speaker 3: He's been right, He's been so close to pitching unbelievable.
Speaker 3: He's been very good, but I think he's due for
Speaker 3: a big one here too coming up.
Speaker 4: He's been on a really long stretch of really strong pitching.
Speaker 4: And the night where his season really turned around for me, guy,
Speaker 4: he was at NAT's Park where at that point he
Speaker 4: threw a seas I in pitchman innings. He kept him
Speaker 4: in the ball game throughout, gave up just three earned runs.
Speaker 4: But he's really been so rock solid for them, not
Speaker 4: super overwhelming or dominant, but Blake, you said, Brad, he
Speaker 4: keeps him in the ball game every single time, and
Speaker 4: he eats innings.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. Also, he's okay, put on an
Speaker 1: orange colored glasses when I say this. They haven't hit
Speaker 1: left as well. There's gonna be a night or a
Speaker 1: series where suddenly Ward and Alonso hit lefties like they
Speaker 1: expect them to. O'Neill's now hitting better. Maybe he joins
Speaker 1: the fun Mayo. We know what he can do homered
Speaker 1: off a lefty Sunday. So maybe one of these nights
Speaker 1: they're due to get a lefty and Peyton Tully's had
Speaker 1: a really great year for the Red Sox, but the
Speaker 1: Ools are two back. The Red Sox hold a playoff spot.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not. The Oriols tied the Twins today,
Speaker 1: who lost as we tape this, and the Mariners were
Speaker 1: losing as the time we tape this, So it could
Speaker 1: be that the Orioles are chasing just one team when
Speaker 1: they get to Boston. I mean crazy, crazy how it is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in a few days.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. I think last a couple weeks ago, forty.
Speaker 1: Nine fifty one guys.
Speaker 2: So crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Two weeks ago we were, you know, talk about who
Speaker 3: they're going to get rid of and all this thing.
Speaker 2: Now you just never know.
Speaker 3: That's that's why baseball is awesome, and I think that's
Speaker 3: why fans love it so much, and that's why Oriols
Speaker 3: fans should be excited right now, because, like I said,
Speaker 3: it's not about the records.
Speaker 2: It's a marathon.
Speaker 3: It's one hundred and sixty two games for a reason,
Speaker 3: and you just never know you could be ten games
Speaker 3: out and next thing you know, you're looking at your
Speaker 3: games out. It's just it can happen fast. And they're
Speaker 3: on our role right now and they're playing how we
Speaker 3: kind of expect them to play all year, and they've
Speaker 3: done it at a perfect time, and you just never
Speaker 3: know what can happen from here.
Speaker 1: Wow, gonna be fun to watch three games see which
Speaker 1: hot team loses to somebody. Yeah, because one of them
Speaker 1: is gonna lose to somebody tomorrow night for the first
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