The Place Where Ray Fosse and Pete Rose Collide: Marion, Illinois

Kevin Gregg

Man. Who else is on your O’s banished Mount Rushmore? I count Cal, Mussina, excuse me, Mu$$ina and Guthrie. Who else?

I still wear around my 2014 ALDS hat (Division Champs). It's my preferred O's hat. But it's sweaty, well-worn, and it wants a rest. It wants to be carefully cleaned and preserved, and hung up on a nail in the wall in the basement den. I'll be able to hang it up if we win the ALDS this year. I'm hoping for more, but I'll update it to a 2024 ALDS Champs hat as soon as they're available. So come on, beat KC, and beat the MFYs.

They are going to run on Burnes. A lot.

Ah, the picture that made Jeremy Guthrie dead to Orioles fans.

2014 rematch is here. Game 1 is Burnes vs Ragans. Burnes has faced the current Royals lineup quite a bit. They have 122 at bats vs him and they have a collective 598 OPS against him. Witt is 2-9 and Perez is 6-12.    Orioles scored 7 runs in less than 2 innings off of Ragans in April. It was easily his worst start of the year. Royals, like the Os, have a clear weakness in the pen although Erceg is probably the best reliever either team has.  Former top 50ish prospect Daniel Lynch is in the pen and has dominated lefties this year as well.  KC has plenty of LH pitching. KC has a better run differential than the Os this year but they were 12-1 vs the WS with a +43 run differential.  So they were a game under 500 vs the rest of the league with a +48 run differential.