Mother Nature was sick of watching the Orioles play baseball too, so she drenched Baltimore yesterday evening, precluding the O’s and Rays from kicking off their three-game set until tonight. It’s now a two-game set, and yesterday’s game will be made up as part of a single-admission doubleheader on May 12.
The Birds have lost 11 of 13 games in a span of 15 days. There was one scheduled off-day in there, plus another rainout in Boston. Those other off days…didn’t help. Perhaps this one will be different.
To the links.
Tim Beckham was injured in Monday night’s game, and looks to be headed to the DL. While Tim has been quite a disappointment this season at the plate (continuing what we saw from him in his second month in Baltimore in 2017, following his blistering first four weeks), the O’s miserable depth is just brought into even more glaring focus with this injury.
Bird’s Eye View Episode 234: Pain is a Flat Circle
It’s a depressing and booze-soaked episode of BEV this week, as Jake & Scott hop in the Delorean and go back to 2011, since that seems to be what the O’s want to do anyway.
The Five Stages of Grief About the 2018 Orioles
Camden Chat’s Mark Brown goes through the five stages of grief as they relate to the 2018 Orioles. At what stage do you find yourself at the moment? I’m still in denial, I think.
At Least Manny Machado is Hitting
We knew it would probably be a good idea to watch every game this year, even if the team wasn’t so good, just for one last chance to watch Manny in orange and black. We didn’t, of course, expect everything around him to be quite THIS awful.
Will Leitch joined Justin McGuire on the Locked on Orioles podcast yesterday to talk about why the O’s need to get to rebuilding. Will is a Cardinals fan, so excuse me if I don’t quite think he understands the position we Birds fans are in – what without a World Series appearance in 35 years, and with a front office that nobody trusts to correctly perform a rebuild.
Maybe Alex Cobb can remember how to pitch when he sees Rays uniforms lined up against him. We’ll find out tonight.
