Dylan Bundy is alone in infamy after Tuesday’s start. He has surpassed every major league pitcher in history in one dubious stat. And he has bested Kurt Birkins and Russ Ortiz in another. Yes, it has gotten that bad in Birdland. You’ve been warned. Read carefully. Bundy faced seven Kansas City Royals...
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS HERE iTunes / Google Play For my WOYK radio show in York, Pa., on Monday night, I wasn’t sure who to have on as a guest. There’s just so much swirling around the Orioles right now, how bad they are and what consequences may occur from that futility....
The next 36 hours in Birdland should be fascinating. Because this snapshot of time should provide us a significant glimpse as to what direction this Orioles’ franchise is heading and who is steering it. If most organizations were in this predicament, today would be the perfect time – an offday after a...
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS HERE iTunes / Google Play There were times last year and during this offseason when fans were clamoring for the Orioles to dump Mark Trumbo. Given what has occurred in the first month of this season, those people should be thrilled management didn’t listen. (Full disclosure: I suggested...
Pedro Alvarez wasn’t supposed to be in Sunday’s starting lineup; he was forced into it when Danny Valencia’s hamstring tightened up on him minutes before first pitch. That also meant Alvarez, known for his bat and not his glove, would have to start at third base for the first time since May...
Chris Davis wasn’t in the lineup for a second consecutive game Sunday, and that, obviously, was the primary topic of conversation in manager Buck Showalter’s pre-game press conference. Showalter didn’t sidestep the issue, but he chose his words carefully, more carefully even than usual. It was out of respect to Davis, but...
This is what every Orioles fan had hoped for, what everyone had optimistically envisioned when Chris Tillman, former No. 1 starter of the Orioles, re-signed in February on a one-year, $3 million, make-good contract after a disastrous and injury-marred 2017. That suddenly Tillman would transport back to, say, the middle of 2016...
With the Orioles flailing at a near-franchise-worst pace this month, Orioles manager Buck Showalter did something Wednesday night that he only does a couple times a season, if at all. He closed the clubhouse doors after an 8-4 loss, and held a brief team meeting, sternly rebuking his players for falling into...
I have absolutely no problem giving Orioles right-hander Dylan Bundy a great, big, fat mulligan for his rough performance Thursday in a 9-5 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. He allowed a career-worst 11 hits and eight runs (seven earned) in only 4 ⅔ innings pitched. Bundy had allowed eight runs (five...
How bad are these 2018 Orioles? Let me count the ways. Or, better, let me give you some stats after Thursday night’s 9-5 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays: The Orioles’ 6-19 record is the second-worst, 25-game start in club history, better than only the 2-23 disaster by the 1988 Orioles squad...