Friday, August 26: Orioles begin 6 game road trip vs division leaders in Houston

[SteveA]

Gametime:  8:10 pm EDT

Forecast:  84 degrees, slight chance of rain

Matchup:  Kyle Bradish (R) vs Lance McCullers Jr (R)

Lineups

1. Cedric Mullins (L) CF

2. Adley Rutschman (S) C

3. Anthony Santander (S) DH

4. Ryan Mountcastle (R) 1B

5. Austin Hays (R) RF

6. Kyle Stowers (L) LF

7. Ramon Urias (R) 3B

8. Rougned Odor (L) 2B

9. Jorge Mateo (R) SS

 

1. Jose Altuve (R) 2B

2. Yuli Gurriel (R) 1B

3. Yordan Alvarez (L) LF

4. Alex Bregman (R) 3B

5. Kyle Tucker (L) RF

6. Trey Mancini (R) DH

7. Jeremy Pena (R) SS

8. Jake Meyers (R) CF

9. Martin Maldonado (R) C

Orioles Bench
Robinson Chirinos (R)
Ryan McKenna (R)
Tyler Nevin (R)
Terrin Vavra (L)

 

Bullpen Availability

Available
Keegan Akin (L)  0.2 IP, 18p Wednesday
Bryan Baker  0.2 IP, 26p Wednesday;  0.1 IP, 6p Tuesday
Rico Garcia  2.1 IP, 32p Sunday for Norfolk
Cionel Perez (L) 0.1 IP, 15p Tuesday 
Nick Vespi (L) 0.1 IP, 3p Wednesday

Probably Available
Joey Krehbiel 1.0 IP, 8p yesterday;  0.1 IP, 15p Tuesday

Maybe Available
Felix Bautista 2.0 IP, 18p yestrday;  1.2 IP, 27p Tuesday  
Dillon Tate 1.0 IP, 20p last night;  0.2 IP, 11p Tuesday  
 

[Fiver6565]

I didn’t realize the Mountain only threw 18 pitches yesterday. Makes that performance even more impressive. I thought for sure he was out for tonight but I guess perhaps not.  He probably used more energy running to celebrate with Santander after the walk off LOL. 
 

hopefully we have a huge lead and it won’t matter anyway. 

[SteveA]

7 minutes ago, Fiver6565 said:

I didn’t realize the Mountain only threw 18 pitches yesterday. Makes that performance even more impressive. I thought for sure he was out for tonight but I guess perhaps not.  He probably used more energy running to celebrate with Santander after the walk off LOL. 
 

hopefully we have a huge lead and it won’t matter anyway. 

He's come back after 18+ before with no rest.   I put him at maybe because he has had 2 >1 inning outings in the past 3 days.   Going out for the second inning entails the 8 additional warmup pitches, plus sitting for a while as your team bats and then restarting.   If he had the same pitch counts but had 1 inning outings on Tue and Thu... I would have put him as "Probably Available".

Half the time I'm just guessing with those designations...

[Just Regular]

Looked up Trey on the Astros and seems he is making friends with the Crawford Boxes to the SLG-tilted tune of a 223/254/567 line and an 18/2 K/BB ratio.

Can't blame him for chasing hard hit drives to a friendlier LF, but imagine the Club hoping he'll settle down a little.

[dtk9119]

Late arriving crowd. MMP not as full as I thought it would be.

Heard good amounts of "Ohhh" during the anthem. 

Let's go O's!!!

[SteveA]

Jim Palmer back in the booth

[PHRESH]

Noice! Mullins starts the night off right 

[mrbig1]

We're going to get bomb tonight and the rest of the series.

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, mrbig1 said:

We're going to get bomb tonight and the rest of the series.

Don't you get bombed pretty much every game?

[Yossarian]

Pitchers pitch, hitters b*itch,   is the phrase Palmer was looking for

[mrbig1]

4 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Don't you get bombed pretty much every game?

Somebody has to do it.

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, mrbig1 said:

Somebody has to do it.

Thank you for your sacrifice. 

[Tony-OH]

Watching the regression of Mountastle's swing decisions is something that I think will be addressed this offseason. I think Mountcastle is moved either this offseason or next. 

[RVAOsFan]

4 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Watching the regression of Mountastle's swing decisions is something that I think will be addressed this offseason. I think Mountcastle is moved either this offseason or next. 

Then he makes a great defensive play, haha 

[spiritof66]

That was a pretty efficient first.