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Your choices are Hays, Stowers, Urias, and McCann. There's not much there. The game was lost when Cowser choked and gave Toronto the opportunity to pitch around Westburg.

Hyde is going to respect the lefty/righty matchup every time. We know this. So, it was never going to be Hays. If there were one out, maybe you would see Stowers to try to hit a fly ball. But needing a hit, I don't like Stowers's chances coming in cold any better than Mullins.

It's hard to complain about what Burnes has done and it's certainly not his fault the O's are 0-4 in his last four starts, but he came with a hype that's hard to live up to. So many analysts were saying "the Orioles finally have a real Game 1 starter for October!" but right now it's hard to imagine him mowing down the Phillies or whoever.

I miss when Daulton Varsho was an automatic out last year.

What is that, four straight losses in Corbin Burnes starts?

Lotta people looking for the receipts on their cow costumes.

Why Cowser is hitting ahead of Westburg in the lineup I can't imagine.

Another loss where Gunnar is hitless.

This is the same situation where Cowser choked on Saturday. Redemption?

Opportunity for Hays if they go with a lefty.

Wish we had more strikeout stuff in the pen.

Light Tower Stowers's time to shine

Weather looks bad on Tuesday. That might be a good thing as the bullpen has had a lot of work this past week.

It's the opposite of when a couple of years ago ESPN, as I recall, showed a graphic about the Yankees' amazing record in games where Brett Gardner hit a home run. They were trying to make it sound like Gardner was a magic sparkplug for the team, and I couldn't believe how dumb it was even for ESPN. Come on, if the pitching is bad enough that Brett Gardner is taking them deep, then of course the rest of the team would be teeing off as well! The stat is showing how NOT important Gardner is!