Wednesday, July 5: Colton Cowser makes major league debut as O's try to right the ship in NY

[SteveA]

Gametime:  7:05 pm

Forecast:   86 degrees, partly cloudy, no precipitation

Roster Moves:   Here's two days worth of roster moves if you are trying to keep track of who is on the team...

• Yesterday, the Orioles placed Cionel Perez on the 15 day IL (left forearm soreness), and recalled Bruce Zimmermann from Norfolk (he had not been down the required amount of time but the DL move negates that rule)
• Yesterday, the Orioles activated James McCann from the IL and optioned Chris Vallimont to Norfolk.
• Today, the Orioles added two players to the 40 man roster:   outfielder Colton Cowser and reliever Eduard Bazardo.  Both guys had to be added to both the 40 man and 26 man roster.
• Today, The Orioles DFA'd Anthony Bemboom, opening a spot on both the 40 and the 26.   Ryan McKenna was optioned to Norfolk, opening up a spot on the 26 man roster.  And Chris Vallimont (who was optioned to Norfolk yesterday) was DFA'd, to open up a spot on the 40 man roster.

Matchup:  Dean Kremer (R) vs Randy Vasquez (R)

Lineups

1. Gunnar Henderson (L) SS

2. Adley Rutschman (S) C

3. Anthony Santander (S) RF

4. Ryan O'Hearn (L) 1B

5. Cedric Mullins (L) CF

6. Aaron Hicks (S) DH

7. Colton Cowser (L) LF

8. Jordan Westburg (R) 3B

9. Adam Frazier (L) 2B

 

1. Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B

2. Gleyber Torres (R) DH

3. Giancarlo Stanton (R) RF

4. Jake Bauers (L) LF

5. Josh Donaldson (R) 3B

6. DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B

7. Isiah Kiner-Falefa (R) CF

8. Anthony Volpe (R) SS

9. Kyle Higashioka (R) C

Orioles Bench
Austin Hays (R) -- availability unknown due to injury
Jorge Mateo (R)
James McCann (R)
Ramon Urias (R)

Bullpen Availability

Available
Mike Baumann  0.1 IP, 10p Monday;  1.0 IP, 15p Saturday 
Felix Bautista  1.0 IP, 14p Sunday
Eduard Bazardo  1.0 IP, 14p Saturday for Norfolk
Yennier Cano  0.2 IP, 14p Monday;  1.0 IP, 10p Saturday
Danny Coulombe  (L)  0.1 IP, 8p Monday;  1.0 IP, 12p Saturday

Maybe Available
Bryan Baker  0.1 IP, 15p yesterday;  2.0 IP, 27p Sunday
Nick Vespi (L)  0.2 IP, 14p yesterday

Probably Not Available
Bruce Zimmermann (L)  1.0 IP, 19p yesterday

[Yossarian]

I'm interested to see Cowser play.  If nothing else, that alone will make the game interesting for me. 

[justD]

44 minutes ago, Yossarian said:

I'm interested to see Cowser play.  If nothing else, that alone will make the game interesting for me. 

Exactly.  I have little to no faith in Kremer at this point, and Vasquez seems to be another that will shut us down, the way we're going.  

[dtk9119]

49 minutes ago, Yossarian said:

I'm interested to see Cowser play.  If nothing else, that alone will make the game interesting for me. 

Same here. Really looking forward to this debut. 

Quick Henderson out.

[FlaO'sFan]

Lets take these next two games and no damage done.

[Ripken]

Gunnar with a bad swing there. 

[justD]

OMG it's 86 degrees?

We're currently experiencing a cold front that y'all may get in a couple days - today it's 65 degrees. 65!

[mrbig1]

4 minutes ago, justD said:

Exactly.  I have little to no faith in Kremer at this point, and Vasquez seems to be another that will shut us down, the way we're going.  

Sad but true.

[justD]

Ha!  Good luck gets a man on base.  Let's keep that going. 

[justD]

Atta boy Ced.  Let O'Hearn move over, now bring him around!

[ChosenOne21]

Ryan "Wheelz" O'Hearn

[NCRaven]

Argh…

[dtk9119]

Another wasted inning 

Mullins really struggling. He might be the one to sit now that Cowser is up here.

[justD]

Did no good.  Cedric is getting closer, good AB, but still not his old self prior to the injury.  Damnit. 

[Roy Firestone]

Sorry tio say, Mullins is just killing us...cant get it going...