Baltimore Orioles vs New York Yankees | LIVE! Play-by-Play & Commentary | 9/18/25 | Game #153

Baltimore Orioles vs New York Yankees | LIVE! Play-by-Play & Commentary | 9/18/25 | Game #153

see a show. But Miss Tate said no. I’ll tell you what you can do. Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and crackers, Jack. I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root. Root root for the home team. If they don’t win, it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes. are at the old ball game. [Music] Katy Casey saw all the games. Knew the players by their first names. Told the umpire he was wrong all along. Good and strong when the score was just two to two. Casey Casey knew what to do. just to cheer up the boys she knew. She made the gang sing this song. Please take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and crack a jack. I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root root root for the home team. If they don’t win, it’s a shame for it’s one, two, three strikes. You’re out at the old ball game. [Music] Greetings, folks, and welcome to live coverage of Orioles baseball, where tonight the Baltimore Orioles will begin their final home stand of the 2025 season as they play the first game of a four-game series against the New York Yankees here at Oral Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland. How you doing everybody? It’s your old pal, the bird watcher, here. People call me BW for short, and that works for me. The Orioles are coming off a road trip where things started ugly and uh ended uh much more pleasingly, but uh you know, we got swept by a team that’s playoffbound and we went and swept the worst team in the American League. I guess that’s just how it should have gone. I don’t know. But, uh we’ve got some momentum. Three-game win streak. We’re back home and we’re taking on our bitter rivals, the Yankees. 10 games left in this season, folks. Seven against New York. Uh I told people in a community post that I only put out about 45 minutes ago, should have put it out last night. You know, we know this season has been a disappointment, but look, I’m not about to just ignore that over half of the games of a season against the Yankees are still left to play. We play them 13 times a year. We’ve got seven of them coming up here over the next uh 10 or 11 days. So, let’s lock in. We’re spoilers here. We can’t really sit here and uh pump our chest in terms of uh you know uh the postseason around the corner. Uh they’re they’re likely going. We’re like we’re definitely not. Uh but we could make things miserable for them in some way, shape, or form and let’s just try to beat them as much as we can. Uh the Orioles are still within uh some degree of possibility of finishing with a record that is not a losing record. Uh what is our record right now? 70 and 80, right? 71 and 80. What is it? 71 and 80. 72 and 80. 72 and 80, folks. Uh we’re allowed to lose one more game. Uh that’s it. And uh to have a winning record, we’d have to win out. Uh so it’s asking a whole lot, but uh let’s just take it one game at a time, folks. All right, let me uh look at this. Well, here’s some good news. Maybe this will help us. Uh, according to Brian Hul on Twitter, Jake Re oral beatr writer retweeted this uh about two hours about an hour and 5 minutes ago. The Yankees got into Baltimore from Minneapolis around 3:30 a.m. According to Aaron Boone, who said, quote, “We did pretty good timing wise. Late report and no onfield batting practice, though some infielders are taking grounders. So, uh the Yankees might be a little bit jetlagged, folks. They might be a little bit uh you know, sluggish. Uh let’s hope that’s the case. Uh because they’ve got their ace on the mound tonight and uh runs might be at a premium uh for us. Uh this might be a game where we need to scratch a few runs across any which way we can and hope that our pitching uh can uh be there for us as well. Uh now for the news that has me a little bit upset, which is our lineup tonight. Uh I’m just going to skip right to this and address it before going over the matchups and the lineups. But uh Tony, you can’t do this, man. You can’t you can’t do this, dude. Uh the Orioles tonight, uh Sammy Bisayio is going to be behind the plate to catch. And look, I I know that Sammy is going to have to learn a lot of stuff uh at the major league level. uh he was called up uh ready to hit, maybe not necessarily ready to be a major league caliber caliber catcher. And uh we barely barely held on to a large lead against uh the worst team in the American League, the White Socks. And uh unfortunately, Bisayio just unable to block pitches in the dirt anywhere around. uh lots of wild pitches and uh it led to lots of runs for the White Socks yesterday. So, he’s behind the play tonight. Now, if it was just that, I’m not going to be upset. But we’ve got a questionable defender catching and then I’m looking at this outfield tonight and I’m asking myself, can we at least have one like defensively sound outfielder out there tonight, please? just one out of the three, you know, Colton Cowser, Dylan Beavers, Dylan Carlson. I would say those three guys are competent, if not above average, defensive outfielders. None of them are in the lineup tonight. Instead, our outfield defense is the worst outfield defense on paper I’ve seen from this team the two years I’ve been calling this game. Tyler O’Neal will take his spot in left field. Jorge Mateo will be in center field again with Jeremiah Jackson in right field. Now look, Jeremiah Jackson uh he he himself is learning as he goes, but he is an inexperienced outfielder still. Uh only a handful of starts at that position at the minor league level. uh and the and for the Orioles to find a way to get him into this lineup after we had our uh trade purge at the deadline. They stuck him out in right field and said, “Let’s see if this works.” Uh at the very beginning of the experiment, it looked like a disaster. Uh Jackson does look like he’s improving and learning as he goes and you know with where we are in the season. I’m willing to accept that as part of the way things are. But we are playing the New York Yankees tonight. Okay. And we want to win and we’re facing their best pitcher. Okay. So I think defense is extremely important. And look, maybe things will work out for us, but you can’t deny that on paper, an outfield defense of Tyler O’Neal, Jorge Mateo, and Jeremiah Jackson. Look, there’s a reason why Jeremiah gets uh substituted late in ball games for a defensive upgrade. All right, there is a reason we all know Jorge Mateo has no business being in center field. That leaves Tyler O’Neal, which I guess by uh process of elimination is our most competent outfielder out there tonight. He’s played one game in the field since his latest injury spell. This This is just setting up to be a problem. That’s all I’m saying. I hope we can work around it, but I don’t know what Manelino is thinking putting out a defensive outfield like this against the Yankees. Uh it just uh I had I had to address it. I had to address it. Uh so here is the pitching matchup. It is uh the ace this season for the Yankees. Max Freed, left-hander with a record of 17 and5, a 3.03 erra. Uh he’s pitched over 180 innings on the season. He’s been there for every start, I think. Um very solid lefty. Uh Cade Povich is going to be on the mound for us. His record is 3 and seven. His RA slightly over five, a whip of 1.45. Uh we know this could be uh this could go either way. Povich. I remember Povich early early in one of his first couple of starts, I want to say, uh, last season, if memory serves, Povich, one of the first matchups he had where he looked like a guy that could be a major league pitcher, uh, a starter in a rotation was against these Yankees. I want to say he had a really good start. Uh, maybe I’m just making it up in my head, but maybe somebody in the chat remembers. Let’s hope Povich can uh figure out this uh Yankee lineup. And uh let’s take a look at these lineups. Uh for the Yankees, leading off and playing first base is Paul Goldmid. Aaron Judge is in right field batting second. He’s up over 100 RBI on this season with a 329 average and 48 home runs. You just don’t want to pitch to him if you don’t have to, folks. It’s that simple. Cody Bellinger will hit third and play left field. John Carlos Stanton is the DH and cleanup hitter. Ahmed Rosario at second base, batting fifth. Trent Gisham will hit sixth and play in center field. Anthony Vulpi will bat seventh. He’s at shortstop. Jose Cababiierro is at third base hitting eighth. And Austin Wells will do the catching and bat ninth. Folks, I got to be honest with you. You get through that top part of the order, bottom five doesn’t scare me that much. Rosario, Gisham, Vulpi, Cababierro, Wells, uh, doesn’t really bother me. We got to take care of those guys and then try to work around some of those sluggers at the top of the order. Uh, for the Orioles, Ryan Mount Castle. I don’t know how often this has ever happened, but he is there is a fly, I swear. And there it is right there. Last night, you ever have this happen, folks? You open up your door, like a screen door to your porch or something, and like the second you open it, a fly just just darts right into your living space. That happened to me yesterday, or maybe it was two days ago now. And I’m like, damn it. Like, as soon as I open the door, like a fly just darts its way in here. And I’m like, that fly is going to be a pain, isn’t it? Well, guess what? I think that fly spawned other flies cuz that is like the second or third little baby fly I’ve seen this morning. Oh, I’m angry. Great. The house the the the apartment is filled with baby flies apparently. I don’t know if you see one land on me. Uh let me know. I don’t know. Jeez. Uh right now it just said my chat disconnected. We’re going to have one of these nights. Come on, folks. All right, so Ryan Mount Castle, as I was attempting to say, uh, is going to lead off for the first time, uh, to my knowledge, he’s dhing. Jordan Westber will bat second and play at third base. Gunner Henderson is the shorts stop, hitting third. Tyler O’Neal will be in left field, hitting in the cleanup spot. Jeremiah Jackson in right field, batting fifth. Kobe Mayo will hit sixth and play first base. Sammy Basia will do the catching and bat seventh. Jorge Matteo in center field. He’ll hit eighth. And Luis Vasquez will bat ninth and play at third or excuse me, second base. No Jackson Holiday in the lineup. No Colton Cowser. No Dylan Beavers. They’re all lefties. And I I might understand sitting Holiday, but again, are we really worried about lefty bats? at the expense of a sound defensive outfield. I mean, I know cows are struggling, but you know, at least defensively, they’ll give you something. What is going on now? Suddenly, I can’t get the ball game up. First pitch is a minute away. And what is going on with my internet? Great. just getting ready to start. And where is my internet? Okay, I think it’s coming back. I don’t even have it in the chat. The chat right now says unable to connect to chat, but I think I’m still I think I’m still on. Yeah, I can see right here. I got my uh YouTube page open. There I am. Look at that handsome man. So, I’m I’m moving around. I’m streaming. Let me just refresh this and hopefully the chat and everything else is going to pop back up. Okay, there it is. Good grief. All right, we’re already getting started uh in a strange way here. K. Povich is taking his warm-up pitches right now. And I’m hoping we got ourselves a nice crowd here tonight. It’s a Thursday night game. I would expect this to be the lowest attended game of the four. I’m just hoping that the ratio of Orio fan to Yankee fans is uh is a good one. Taking a look at Gold Schmidt and Judge in the on deck circle and the handful of fans in those prime seats sitting right there next to him. It’s about 5050 from that small sample size of Yankee fans and Orio fans. All right, so this uh this is it folks, the final home stand of the season. That’s a sevengame home stand and then we play three games in the Bronx next weekend to wrap up the season. This will be the 110th game with Tony Manscolino in charge. His record is 57 and 52. All right, this game is on Fox tonight. Fox Paul Goldmid, veteran first baseman. He’s uh going to lead it off here, folks. He’s in the batters box right now. Kade Povich is ready to throw the first pitch of the ball game. And here it comes. It’s well inside for ball one. We are underway. The 10 is a strike belt high middle of the plate. Let’s see. Let me check on these scoreboards. Are they not updating already? The 1-1 to Gold Schmidt is a curveball low. Two and one the count. All right. So, the top scoreboard is there. Let’s work on this other one here. Two balls and a strike to the leadoff man in the ball game, Paul Goldmid. The next pitch is lined it over. Oh god. Off the glove of Gunnar Henderson. Gunner leapt off the ground to try to stab it out of the air and the ball just could not stay in the glove. It squirts out into left field and the Yankees have the leadoff man on with Aaron Judge coming up. So important to keep that guy ahead of Judge off the plate or off the bases. But no such luck here. First pitch to Judge is fouled away. Aaron Judge. Uh that that’ll be a hit. George, if you got to jump in the air to try to make a catch, they’re not going to give you an error for that. 0 and one the count on Judge. Pitch is low. One ball, one strike. The 1-1 from Povich. Hit on the ground. Foul. Two strikes on Judge. Judge is one of those hitters where you get ahead in the count, doesn’t really matter. You can’t get any sort of confidence that you’re going to easily put them away. One, two is low and in to even up the count. Two balls, two strikes. Let’s see if the scoreboard is up yet. the uh two two pitch that’s in there. Called strike three. Aaron Judge caught looking. And what’s going on with my uh soundboard tonight? I might have to plug it back in. I need my I need my sounds. Let’s see. Are we working here? All right. Three. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Okay. Judge struck out. Here’s Cody Bellinger. First pitch to him is inside for ball one. Well, I’ve been watching this on MLB.com. They are broadcasting the Fox or they’re uh giving us the Fox broadcast here, but it looks like we’re a little bit behind. The scoreboard is a little bit ahead of us. I just saw a ball too. And as you can see, next pitch is already going to be a strike at the top of the zone, and it has yet to happen for me. Am I Am I definitely live? Yeah, I am. So, the 200 pitch is a strike of the top of the zone. And yeah, we’re we can’t we can’t have this up, folks. It’s a pitch ahead. It’s a pitch ahead. The 2-1 is fouled off to the right. And I need to adjust that as well. There we go. Two balls, two strikes on Bellinger. Runner at first with one out for the Yankees in the top of the first. The 2-2 to Bellinger first. Povich is going to check on the base runner Goldmid. He’s backstanding. Both teams in their traditional uniforms, home and away. Uh the 2-2 here popped up. Playable foul ground on the third base side, I think. Oh, not playable. Boy, it looked like Westber would have a play as he uh made his way slowly over toward the stands, but the ball finally fell onto that screen. Maybe two rows on the other side of that screen. So, the count is two and two. So, no Jazz Chism in the lineup tonight. That sucks. I was looking forward to roasting him all night. This pitch is in the dirt. It’s a full count on Bellinger. Payoff pitch from Povich is coming to Bellinger. Here it is. And it’s fouled back. A fast ball in on the hands. Still a full count with a runner at first. One down. Seven pitch at bats so far. All right, another 3-2 pitch coming. Visio sets up the target and that one bounces in there for ball four. A one out walk to Bellinger. The Yankees have two men on base. And here comes John Carlos Stanton. Still a dangerous hitter, but that power bat has an OPS over 900. 20 home runs on the season, only 51 RBI. He has missed some time. But what he also is is a double play ball candidate. and get this guy to hit a ball on the ground. Odds are you got yourself an easy double play. First pitch is outside for ball one. One and0 on Stanton. There’s a strike. Kovich comes back with a fast ball. The one-1 popped up left field and not that deep, not by judges standards. It’s in front of the track and left. It’ll be caught with a second out. All right, we strike out Judge. We keep Stanton in the yard. We got two down in the inning. And now we get into that part of the lineup that isn’t so scary. Still got to take care of business though. Get this guy here and then have yourself an easy second inning with the bottom of the order. And that’s how you carve your way through this lineup. It’s Ahmed Rosario. He’s hitting 287 and he fouls the first pitch away for strike one. Gold Schmidt at second, Bellinger at first, two down in the top of the first. 22nd pitch of the inning from Povich is in the dirt and Basio does successfully block this pitch and keep it within arms reach. Rosario has a much better average against lefties, hitting about 75 points higher. That’s lined into left field. That ball is going to get down for extra bases and give the Yankees the lead. At least one run will score. Here comes Bellinger. And that is a two-run, two out double for Ahmed Rosario. That was the out you needed to get. couldn’t get it. That stings. Two nothing Yankees in the top of the first. Just like that. The Yankees have two runs before we have a chance to swing a bat. And we’ve also got to go up against a 17game winner in Max Freed. So, we are behind the eightball here. before fans have even sat down. Gisham goes to left. This will be caught out there by Tyler O’Neal for the final out. Just couldn’t get that couldn’t get that first from Rosario or else we would have gotten out of this inning without a score. But uh a big two out two-run base hit from Ahmed Rosario. A double actually and the Yankees take the lead. New York two, Baltimore coming up. Uh, well, you know, made to lose defensively. I think hitting wise it’s I know Vasquez and Matteo at the bottom of the order, but yeah. Uh, but we’re not going to spend the next 2 hours and 45 minutes talking about made to lose. Right, Chilo? I kind of addressed it before the game even started. Now we’re in the game. So, here we are. It’s a bad It’s a bad lineup. I I can deal with a couple of, you know, light hitters at the bottom of the order if it means a defensive upgrade, but that’s not even the case. That’s really not even the case. As bad as Colton Cowser is going, is Matteo an upgrade offensively? Because he is certainly a downgrade defensively, but that’s that’s Manscelino’s idea of a best lineup against the Yankees. I don’t know, folks. All I know is is that Yeah, we’re down after half an inning. We’ve got four games to play in our yard. Let’s Let’s just try and stick with this and and root this team on. Come back. Let’s go. Come on. Do I need to put the hat on now? Are we calling on the hat already? So 30 starts for free to get to that 17 and5 record of his. 14 home runs allowed. That’s less than one every other start. So odds are that’s not the way you’re going to get to freed. Ryan Malcastle hitting in the leadoff spot tonight. Another interesting move by Manelino. He takes strike one from Freed. Mounty hitting 256. Okay, mount up. Curve ball swung on a miss. It’s quickly 0 and2 on Mount Castle. Folks, once again, if you’re just joining us, I apologize for not having the Balls and Strikes up on the screen. Uh, this game is on Fox. I’m watching it via MLB TV, and for whatever reason, they’re a little bit behind, so the scoreboard on the screen, if I showed it, would be spoiling every pitch. Uh, it’s still 0 and2 on Mount Castle after a foul ball. So, not only is Freed doing his job, he’s getting the best run support of any major league starter in baseball. Seven and a quarter runs per start as Mount Castle strikes out on a high change up. And that’s how the Oriole offense starts tonight. Not often you see somebody go after a neck high change up, but uh that’s where we are. Here’s Jordan Westber. Well, West is that way. Westberg takes a called strike. That was borderline. That looked low to me. I mean, if Freed is going to get that call, it’s not going to make it any easier for us. 01 pitch goes back to a similar spot and gets a swing and a miss. It’s 0 and2. Well, we’re six pitches into Max Freed’s night and uh so far he’s looking uh he’s looking sharp. 02 pitch misses with a fast ball outside. All right, Baltimore, you’re going to have to show some moxy tonight. You’re going to have to figure out a way to do this in spite of Manelino’s lineup. I don’t know what the hell he was thinking. I don’t know. Westber hits a ball out to right field. Aaron Judge is waiting on it and he makes the catch. Two down. Still waiting for a big uh panorama shot of the ballpark to get an idea of the attendance here, but out there in the left field bleachers splash zone and beyond. Lots of people there, so that’s a good sign. Here’s Gunnar Henderson. First pitch to him is low and in for ball one. Gunner is at 274 with the batting average. and uh had three stolen bases in yesterday’s ball game. That one’s low. It’s 2 and 0. Two down, nobody on. Bottom of the first, the Yankees with an early two nothing lead. The Orioles uh have Gunner at the plate and he pops up a 20- pitch shallow left near the foul line into foul ground. Rosario goes to make the catch and the Orioles are retired. One, two, three. One inning in the books. We’ve got uh 36 innings to play against this team here over the next four nights. First inning sucked. We got 35 left to go. All right. Uh yeah, by the way, so if you guys have heard uh me bring it up over the last week or so, uh my colleague JJ uh the channel Playbyplay with JJ is doing a charity stream today. He’s been streaming uh since I believe 9:00 this morning. I was asleep. Uh but he’s out there uh streaming all through the day into the night and uh a long time tomorrow to raise awareness and hopefully uh raise some funds for a good cause. And uh Froggy has just dropped the link in the stream right there. Folks, I don’t mind if you want to just jump over there between innings or whatever. drop a like. Uh donate to the cause if you wish, but uh let JJ know that uh we’re behind him and uh what he’s doing over there. Uh it’s a good thing. Uh I’ll read you the pitch here. Pitch sounds bad. I’ll read you the the Where is it? Hold on. I should have had this ready to go. Where are you? Uh, hold on. Hold on. Okay, I got to have I got to have this up. Having problems already tonight, my man. Oh my I wish I could tell you about what I’m looking at right now, but I cannot. Uh, JJ, where are you, buddy? Holy cow, this other guy. What are you doing, dude? What are you doing? Okay. Uh what is it? Posts. So the the uh charity is a fundraising stream uh for the familial dysotenomia foundation. Okay. in honor of JJ’s brother Mitchell who passed away from that disorder 5 years ago. Uh all donations will go directly to the Familial Dysotenomia Foundation which funds medical research, patient care, and support programs for families living with FD. Uh, so JJ is uh over there right now streaming all day, all night uh trying to uh raise money for that uh for that cause. Uh good work JJ. We’re back to the ball game, folks. It’s the top of the second. Anthony Vulpi is leading off and he’s got a count of two balls in a strike. Povich’s next pitch is up and away for ball three. 3-1 to Vulpi. Swinging a miss. What happened to my sound? It went from I can’t hear anything. I think the volume on my second laptop has finally just died. The speaker or whatever. It was muffled for a couple of months. Now I think it’s just dead. I can barely hear anything. And I got it cranked all the way up. Okay, at least I can hear the glove pop. Wow. Strike three called on Vulpi. And that pitch was really low. Man, these umpires suck. Who is this crew? I mean, we’ll take the strike out, don’t get me wrong, but that pitch is low all day. Nice frame there by Basio. [Applause] So, Gisham strikes out. Was that Gisham? No. Who was that? Uh, Vulpi. Sorry. Vulpi strikes out. The volume from the Fox broadcast is really low. Okay. Thanks, man. Hey, look. It’s Ken Rosenthal, everybody. It’s the jerkoff who tripped over and knocked somebody on their butt. didn’t bother to help them up, say sorry or anything. Here’s a bunt attempt. Basio is not going to have a play. Tabiero lays down a bunt. It was directly in front of the plate between pitcher and catcher. So, the location of the bunt wasn’t too good, but it did die right between Povich and Basio. Josiah went to pick it up and Javier just too fast. He is on with one out with an infield hit. Here is Austin Wells. He takes a strike on the outside edge. Wells was the uh runner up behind Cowser and the winner Louie Heel for the rookie of the year last year. apparently having a sophomore season uh with with a bit of a regression kind of like Cowser cuz uh he’s batting ninth in the order with a average of 211. Backto back pickoff moves thrown to first to check on Cababayro. He’s safe both times and now has pl plenty of reason to try and steal now knowing that if Povich doesn’t pick him off successfully with another try, he’ll just get second base for free. Wells fouls an 01 pitch off. It’s 0 and2. Hey there, Don. Runner at first with one out. We’re in the top of the second. 02 count on Austin Wells. The pitch from Cade Povich. Nope. There go. And we picked him off. We did. Povich could not use another pickoff attempt unless it worked. And folks, it worked. The Orioles pick off Cababierro as he took off as Povich threw to first. Cabayro nailed down on the base pads. Besides that, it’s all in the reflexes. All right. I love it. I love it. We didn’t have another disengagement to use. And if we did, it had to work. And by gum, it worked. And aren’t we happy it did because the very next pitch is a ball in the dirt that gets away from Basio. And Cababiro would would have surely advanced on that. Base is empty, two down, and the one two is over the plate, but low to Wells. Two balls, two strikes. All right, so we may be losing, but we’ve already had our first little giggle, haven’t we? We nailed a Yankee on the base paths. Here’s a weak grounder to second. Somebody cover the bag. Mayo is back to his position to receive the soft toss from Luis Vasquez. That will end the inning. A little weak grounder there and the inning is over. So, Povich faces the bottom of the order. He does allow Cababierro to reach base, but guess what? Oh, you’re you’re right about that volume. Now that a commercial is on now my computer just got crazy loud. Why is the volume Fox? You got like 500 cajillion dollars. Can you maybe turn it up to 11 so we can hear the damn game? Uh yeah. Two nothing Yankees, folks. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Hey, what are you going to do? Huh? Hey. All right, I got to check in on something here, folks. There is something going on behind the scenes that I am just too. [Laughter] What a disaster. Oh my god, what a disaster. Rhino, where are you, buddy? Get over here. Oh my god, what a disaster. couldn’t happen to a a more deserving person. I wish I could tell you guys. I wish it’s it’s YouTuber stuff. It’s YouTuber like gossip and stuff. I don’t want to throw names out there, okay? And I I am sorry for teasing you guys about it. It’s the first time. I hope it’s the last time, but something’s going on where I had to check in and see what was going on. And I’m I’m I’m happy I did, even though I’m kind of leaving you guys out in the lurch. Sorry. Trust me, if I explained it, you’d be like, I wish you didn’t explain it. Took you 20 minutes to explain something I could not care less about. So, we’re moving on. All right. Uh, folks, we got a 100 people in the room. Fantastic. 63 have already hit the like button. That’s nice. That’s about twothirds of you. Onethird of you could still uh pitch in if you don’t mind. A friendly reminder, we’ve got a long way to go in the ball game. Bottom of the second inning, just getting started as Tyler O’Neal takes a curveball for strike one. Ahoy there. anybody home? So, yeah, just tap that thumb and uh you’re good to go for the rest of the evening. The 01 to O’Neal is chopped towards second on a couple of bounces. Throw to first is in time. O’Neal retired. One away. By the way, I I think I said Rosario was at third base. I was incorrect. That was Rosario right there at second base. It’s Cababierro at third base. Didn’t they both used to play on the on the Rays, I want to say? Or was Rosario from the Reds? Where was Rosario before this? Jeremiah Jackson is up hitting in the five hole tonight. 289 average. The 10 is outside. See, now I can’t hear a damn thing again. I got to crank the volume all the way up just to hear the crack of the bat. 2 and 0 on Jeremiah. 3-0 as Freed misses low and in. What’s up, Charm City? Long time no see. I saw a stat the other day that said the Orioles are nine games over 500 since their 16 and 32 start. Not sure how I feel about that. Yeah, I think you’re right with that last statement, Charm City. There’s really not much more to read into it other than that, you know, we built a bad opening day roster and it took like a month and a half to concede that this was a disaster. And then we started to try to correct it, but by the time we started it was too late. They just showed Manscolino’s record. I believe he’s 57 and 52 since taking over. So, five games over 500 under Manscolino. Here’s a line drive base hit into left field for Kobe Mayo. Did I mention Jeremiah Jackson got on base? He walked. I’m sorry, folks. Two big things happening and I failed you. [Music] I’m walking here. Okay. So, there’s the walk. Hold on. And uh Mayo is on with a hit. Let’s get it all on there. Just spread it out. Uh I did say this in May. Exactly that about the L. What did I say? Saurin, is this like a gotcha thing? I I’ll I’ll I’ll take the L. What? Explain it a little better cuz I’m not sure what you mean. Uh Sammy Basio is up. Two on with one out. Sammy. Okay. So, Rosario was on Tampa and Cabierro was definitely also from Tampa. Okay. And Rosario was on the Reds. All right. So, I called it about the change. I still not sure the change is needed. Ah, right. Uh, here’s a swing and a miss by Basiah. The count is a ball and two strikes. Sorry, folks. Trust me, I’m today I’m not like in paranoid mode or feeling defensive. I’m just I’m just genuinely trying to understand what you meant there. Uh the one two pitch is outside. It’s two and two on Sammy, folks. Your first bugle of the day. [Music] Come on, Charm City. Let’s show these Yankees what their nightmare for the next decade is going to be. This dude two two pitch. Oh, what are you swinging at, Sammy? He chased a low one and strikes out. Two down. All right. Well, we go from the lethal, dangerous, slugging bat of Sammy Basio to Jorge Mateo. All right. Hey, Matteo hit a double yesterday, didn’t he? Come on, Jorge. Matteo hitting the Mendoza line right now. 200 average. And the first pitch is upstairs, maybe an inch outside for ball one. Rhino, Rhino, don’t go anywhere, dude. I’ve been checking in between innings on a certain stream and my god, what is going on? Pitch is a little bit inside. 2 and 0. Matteo with a hitter’s count. Might Max Freed give him a fat pitch to do something with. If so, a base hit to the outfield could get us a run on the board. The 200 to Matteo Freed starts to lift his leg and then turns around to look Jeremiah Jackson back to second base. Folks, Rising Rhino is here. Say hi to him and uh click on his name if you want to get to his channel. Help him out. Subscribe. Add him to your list of channels. That’s a called strike. And Matteo didn’t like the call. Thought it was a low. Two in one the count. Uh Mr. Hyde, uh I can tell you why Manelino is doing it, but it doesn’t really excuse it because a lefty is pitching. That’s it. That is it. We’re playing matchups and thinking, “Oh yeah, Matteo makes sense in a platoon situation, so we’ll have him play center field. We’ll put Jeremiah and his very limited experience in right field. And then Tyler O’Neal, who’s played one game in the field since his last injury. Here’s a ground ball to short. Vulpi will go to second for the force play. And the inning is over. The Orioles get a couple of men on in this inning, but they leave him stranded. Onto the third inning. It’s two nothing. Yankees. Rhino. Okay, I’m going in there to check in again. I got to check in. What’s going on right now? Okay, so he’s there. Coming through and glorious 144P. Oh, he’s frozen again. He’s frozen again. Oh, he unfroze. Oh, no, he’s frozen again. Uh, got the hot pink shirt on tonight. He looks like Pepto-Bismol with eyes. Uh, and yeah, it’s just another train wreck. Apparently, three people are watching according to his YouTube counter, and I’m one of them. You still there, Rhyno? Rhino, you’re the only person that knows what I’m talking about. He got a reply, dude. This is nuts. Oh, his audience just doubled. Oh my. Damn you, Rhino. You must have left. All right, I got to think about my own audience here. I’ll come back to you there, buddy. All right. All right, let’s see what’s going on around the league tonight, folks. Uh, lots of finals and guess it’s a getaway day Thursday for a lot of teams. The Guardians earlier today beat the Tigers 3 to1. The Mets up into the Padres’s 6 to1. Rays shut out the Blue Jays 4 nothing. So, if we’re trying to keep pace with Tampa and catch them, we need this win tonight. Uh the A’s beat the Red Sox 5 to3. The Mariners shut out the Royals two nothing and the Marlins over the Rockies in a game nobody could possibly care about 9 to7. Coming up at uh 9:10 p.m. it’s the Giants and Dodgers. All right, Kade Povich, first pitch of this inning is low and in for ball one to Paul Goldmid. The Yankees out of the top of their order up here in the third. Back to the curve ball. That one’s a strike count. Even up one and one. Folks, once again, if you’re just tuning in and you’re wondering where is the scoreboard, BW, I want to see the balls and strikes. Uh, I apologize. Can’t do it tonight. Uh, this game being on Fox for whatever reason, even though I’m on MLB TV and I should have as strong of a signal and uh get the broadcast uh, you know, as quickly to me as possible. It’s it’s trailing the scoreboard. The scoreboard is ahead by a full pitch, so going to have to stick with the classic radio style, folks. Two- two pitch is grounded towards second base. Luis Vasquez is there and he will throw out Goldmid for the first out of the inning. One down in the top of the third. Here comes the judge. He looks at one low for ball one. I have zero qualms about walking judge with nobody on and one out. Down two nothing this early. I don’t I I have no problem with it. That’s outside 2 and 0. I mean, when you’re averaging a base per at bat, you might as well just put them on and not risk it being more than one base. Am I right or am I right? I’m right. There’s a swing and a miss. It’s two and one. A change up that might have gotten the bottom of the zone, but Judge was looking for a 20 heater. didn’t get it. That’s a fast ball, but it’s outside. Three balls in a strike to judge. So, Fox not only has issues with their volume, they also have issues with uh just their broadcast link. What the hell are they doing? 3-1 pitch upstairs. There’s ball four. A one out walk to Aaron Judge. And like I said, so what? He must be on dialup. He loves his 90s. Rhino, I have to look back there again. I have to. What? What now? It is so fascinating to watch incompetence at this level. I’ve never seen it before. Bellinger pops up the first pitch. Third base side. Westber is drifting toward the stands. And darn it, that’s three rows beyond the screen. Out of reach. Strike one on Bellinger. All right. Where is this dude? This guy. Rhino. We have to talk after the game, dude. We got to talk after the game. All right. Where’s he at? All right. He’s still four shy. He’s still four shy. So, I’m not going to pull my move yet. All right. Bellinger looks at one low and away. The count even up at a ball and a strike. Judges at first with one down. Ground ball could get us out of the inning here. Next pitch that’s in there. What? What? Blue. Where was that? It’s a strike all day. Oh my god. Two and one the count. And that one’s fouled off to the right. Two and two. Should be one and two. It’s two and two. Why don’t you wake up and smell what you shoveling? Why don’t you wake up and smell what you shoveling? Two balls, two strikes, one out, runner at first. Pitch from P. No, we’re going to throw over to first. Judge is backstanding. Not a large lead at all. 51 pitches from Povich at the moment with just one out in the third inning. That’s a little tapper. Back to second. Gunner steps on the bag, throws to first in time. Double play, folks. [Music] All right, that’s what I’m talking about. Outfield defense tonight might be a little suspect, but infield defense looking okay. Double play ball to get out of the inning. We’re going to the bottom of the third. Two nothing Yankees. All right, so uh Rhino, are you there? I got to go back in. Gotta go back in. We’re going in. I feel like Bill Paxton and Twister. We’re going in. We’ve got sisters. Yeah. He’s in it for the money, not for the science. That’s Jonas. Hey, he stole Dorothy from us. Is there an F5? What would an F5 be like? It’s the finger of God. Yeah, an F4. Yeah, that’ll that’ll tear apart your house pretty good. Is there an F5? Clink clink. Utensils drop on plates. Clink clink. What would that be like? Where’s the finger of God? Come on, folks. Somebody in here is a fan of that awful mid90s movie Twister. Probably the worst dialogue ever put into a movie. I love it. I’m telling you, that movie is so cheesy. You’re not allowed to watch it if you’re lactose intolerant. I don’t know how you remember so much dialogue. We’ve got cows. How do you forget a line, Mr. Hyde? Like, we’ve got cows. I I’m sorry. I got to go. We’ve got cows. How do you forget that? How do you forget a line that dumb? There. Phantom’s got it right there. I I gotta go. We got cows. We’re going in. It’s coming straight for us. It’s already here. [Laughter] Just the worst. The worst movie. Oh god. I’ll never forget seeing that in the theater. Yeah, Phantom did too. I was working in the theater at the time and we had a screening the night before. You know, Thursday night being a projectionist, part of the job is to screen every movie. yet. This is back when it was still film and not a CD you put into a tray. So, you know, you get to invite your friends to those Thursday night screenings. We had a packed house for Twister in our biggest auditorium, THX, Surround, Dolby Digital, the whole nine. And it was like an hour and 45 minutes of about 300 people just laughing their butts off at how stupid that movie was. And uh I never had a better time watching a movie with that unintended reaction like that. Uh Luis Vasquez is up leading off the bottom of the third. He’s got a count of a ball and two strikes. Next pitch for Max Freed is way high. It’s two and two on Vasquez. Top of the order do up next. Yeah, I’m not a I’m not a remake person. I just skipped the remakes. What’s the point? Swing and a miss. Down goes Vasquez. One away. Folks, if they ever make a remake or redo or re-imagining or retelling or reboot or re whatever the hell if it’s worth checking out, I’ll know and then maybe I’ll check it out. But just because there’s an intellectual property out there that I remember and have some amount of fondness for doesn’t automatically mean, oh yeah, here’s my money. Let me watch a crappier version cash grab of what was good 35 years ago. No, that’s not my style. Ryan Mount Castle, first pitch is a strike and a swing and a miss makes it 0 and two. Mount Castle’s 0 for one. One out, nobody on in the bottom of the third. Okay, mount up. Okay, not up. Oh yeah, ru the day. He’s going to ru the day. He missed with the extreme. Mount Castle strikes out. Two down. Oh boy. [Music] Stop it all. Extreme. The fact that Philip Seymour Hoffman is in that movie acting the way that he acts really lets you know that uh anything’s possible. Anything’s possible, folks. You can do something horrible and bounce back and be something fantastic. It’s It’s possible. Philip Seymour Hoffman proved it. Uh the 10 to Jordan Westber is upstairs. Two balls, no strikes. Yeah, I know. They’re Yeah, they came out with Twisters. They just added an S. And if there’s one movie that makes no sense to watch on a streaming platform, it’s a movie about tornadoes. The that was the one selling point about seeing in the theater. The the sound and the you know larger than life tornadoes on screen. 2-1 pitch to Westber is swung on a miss. It’s two and two. Two down, nobody on. So yeah, I don’t get a why they want to make a remake of a 30-year-old movie that was basically just a popcorn throwaway movie when it came out. But then why stream it? Swing and a miss. Max Freed blows away the Orioles in this inning. Nothing doing. How much is that two-run first inning going to hurt us? Is that all the Yankees are going to need tonight? I hope not. We’ve had one hit through the first three innings. Onto the fourth. It’s two nothing Yankees. Andrea’s back, folks. Andrea, we need some magic tonight. Message for you, son. And I want to thank you very much for that. I really do. Andrea, thanks once again for your uh generosity in handing out yet another free magic membership as a gift to a fellow bird watcher, Travis, the recipient this time. I know Travis. Travis will be pleased with that. You’ve never seen a tornado hit this house and then hit that house and then come after you. In scene, give me my Oscar. Give me my Oscar. Got that awful Van Halen soundtrack. Shine on. Shine on. No thanks. I really I really enjoy not enjoying that movie. Uh, it’s the War of the World’s Ice Cube movie that came out a couple of months ago. It It is It is in the running. That one is my latest and greatest movie. I love to watch to just sit there and shake my head at how bad it is. I love bad movies. Is there such a thing as an F5? Hold on. Do I have a utensil I can use? Yeah, let’s try this. Hey folks, I’m a Foley artist. I used to be a Hollywood Foley artist. Is there such thing as an F5? Why is everybody dropping forks on their plates? I’m just asking, is there an F5? Okay, I guess that means there is. Sorry I brought it up. Uh, we’re in the top of the fourth. John Carlos standing at the plate and he is quickly behind 0 and2. Did Did you hear any of that? I hope you heard some of it because I just made a mess. Pitch to Stanton is in the dirt. One ball, two strikes. The Yankees have a two nothing lead on a two out, two-run double by Ahmed Rosario in the first inning. We’re now in the fourth. Humans Being was my favorite Van Halen track. I like real human being from the soundtrack for Drive. Real human being and a real hero. Real human being and a real hero. All right. Two and two on Stanton. The pitch. Hey, called strike three. Sit down. [Applause] Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Well, y’all come back now. You here? The human league. Don’t Don’t you want me? You know I can’t believe it when you say that you won’t see me. Don’t Don’t you want me? You know I can’t believe it when you say that you don’t need me. That was them, right? I hope so. Uh Ahmed Rosario is up for the second time. 01 pitch is fouled straight back. It’s 0 and2. They had more than one song though, right? Give me another one of theirs. Let me see if I can remember. Please. Don’t you want me, baby? The O2 is a cold. Strike three. [Applause] Well, y’all come back now. You hear Rosario down on strikes. Two batters, two strikeouts here for Povich in the fourth. Four strikeouts in total. Trent Gisham up next. He goes after a pitch in the dirt. He went around. Why are you appealing? Homeplayed umpire says he went. Gisham 0 for one. He flew out in the first. 239 average at the moment, but he has 71 RBI. That’s more than Gunner. H folks, if we were to have a master list of RBI leaders top to bottom around the league, to see some of the names that are above Gunner Henderson’s, knowing that that’s our number one guy, it’s going to make you pull your hair out. how anemic this offense has been this season for us. Uh Trent Gisham has a count of two balls, one strike. Wait, Gisham is No, that can’t be right. How many How many home runs does he have? What? That can’t be right. The 2-1 to Gisham. That’s a Where’s that blue? That had the outside corner. Povich doesn’t get the call. He has 33 home runs this season. All right. Well, that will explain the RBI count. Well, there you go, folks. Trent Gisham, arguably better offensive season than Gunnar Henderson. Only the average is lower. More homers, more RBI, and a better OPS. Trent freaking Gisham. I mean, he wasn’t even a starter last year. He was like a an option off the bench, maybe making one or two starts a week. Uh, the inning is over. How did it end? I don’t know because I’m sitting here trying to figure out why our offense is as bad as it is when a guy like Trent Gisham Gisham struck out. Did we strike out the side? Rosario struck out. Gisham struck out. Stanton struck out, folks. K. Povich just struck out the side. [Applause] Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Well, y’all come back now, you hear? I can’t believe Gisham has 33 home runs. That’s nuts. My Oh my. Uh, coming up for us, it’s going to be Gunner, Tyler O’Neal, and Jeremiah Jackson. I need a lucky, I think. I also need to check in on my friend here. Oh my god, what is going on now? Oh, wait a minute. The sub count has not moved. The sub count has not moved. If he doesn’t get there tonight. Oh, that is Oh my. That is Oh, wow. Wowee zoey. Woweez. Hey folks, hit that like button, subscribe. Thanks. Where’d you fall from? Baltimore. What? Baltimore. Baltimore. What’s that? It doesn’t really matter. All right. One pitch. Gunner with a weak grounder to second and he’s out. One pitch out from the best batter in the lineup to start the inning. Not not good. Hi everybody. Tyler O’Neal at the plate. He looks at a strike. Ahoy there. Anybody home? All right, Chileo. Chileo, come on, man. O’Neal with a fly ball to center field and deep. Back on the track, Gisham makes the catch on the warning track. About a 385 foot out for Tyler O’Neal. Chilo, I’m just I’m only saying this for your own benefit. I promise. Let’s talk about something cheerful. Okay, this is the first couple of innings of a 4game series and we got seven total games against this team. If we wound up getting our asses handed to us, I can’t take seven nights of this. Okay, let’s talk about something fun. Chillo, give me a fun topic. Let’s talk. I’ll I’ll announce the game. Give me a fun topic. Jeremiah Jackson is at the plate. The count is 0 and one on him. Two down, base is empty. That’s a swing and a miss. It’s 0 and2. I mean, haven’t we suffered enough as fans with this season? I want to have some fun for these last few games. You know, I I ranted about the Manelino lineup. You’re absolutely right about it. Okay. You’re absolutely right. I’m not trying to say you don’t have a point. You do. Jackson strikes out. The inning is over. We head to the fifth. Two nothing Yankees. Let’s have some freaking fun, folks. What’s on your mind? You want You want me to give you some more dialogue from Twister or is there another movie you got? Come on. Um, my spirits aren’t going to get down in game one of a seven game Yankee set for the next 10 game next 10 days or whatever. I just I can’t I can’t start this soon. I I can get mad at a lineup before the first pitch after first pitch. Too late to do anything else, right? Again, God, can you see the glare from this artificial light on my forehead? It’s awful. I’m not sweaty. That is how bright it is. You can actually see the ring. You can actually see the ring on my giant forehead. Look at that. That can’t be good for me. [Laughter] That can’t be good for me. Godzilla movies, you know, I never really got into those Kaiju and all that stuff. I mean, I get the appeal of them, but they seem a little bit uh repetitive. Is that safe to say? That Godzilla that came out like in what was it like 99? The one with uh Matthew Brick. That one really stunk, didn’t it? I didn’t see it, but everybody said it sucked. Hey, Rob’s here. How you doing, Rob? Show game highlights. Yeah, maybe if I point my my forehead in the direction of the monitor I’m looking at, you can pick up the game. I’ve always I’ve always been told I have the forehead of a drive-in movie screen like you can just project a movie onto this forehead. Anthony Vulpi to lead off the top of the fifth. Bottom of the order doo up for the Yankees. Vulpi struck out his first time. Takes outside for ball one. Two nothing Yankees here in the top of the fifth. swinging a miss on a fast ball. One and one the count. Folks, once again, I apologize if you got here not too long ago. Uh I can’t really show the balls and strikes scoreboard with this Fox broadcast. Uh the scoreboard is ahead by a full pitch, so too many spoilers. That pitch is inside the Vulpi. Swinging a miss here. Two and two. Now, as bad as the volume is on this broadcast tonight, Ken Rosenthal’s voice is coming through loud and clear. Further evidence that he’s that annoying. Two two pitch fouled off to the right. We’ll do it again. Greatest bad movie ever. Killer Clowns from Outer Space. I I would argue that it’s not a bad movie. Like it knows exactly what it is, right? For me, a good a good bad movie is a movie that is earnestly trying to be good and just fails miserably. Killer Clowns is, you know, it’s it knows what it’s doing. It’s tongue firmly and cheek and it is great. It’s a great fun time. Here is a ball lifted over Gunner into left center field for a base hit. And Vulpi’s thinking too. The throw to second is late and offline. And you know what that is right there, folks? That is the Yankees knowing that our outfield defense is one to try and exploit and take an extra base anytime you think you can. Matteo, I got to watch it all together here, but this should never be a double. This should never have been a double, but it is. And now Vulpi is trying to steal third. Basio throws down. The throw is not in time. So now the Yankees are running on Basio. Here we see what the Yankees have in I mean I can’t fault the Yankees. They probably looked at this defense and made the same conclusion I did. Runner at third with nobody out. A one count on José Cabierro. This pitch is fouled off one and one. Chilo’s fun topic is he’s thinking of polishing his yachts skills in the off season so that next season when there is a rain delay and there will be a rain delay. Chilo can beat me. Chilo, you’ve beaten me at Yatsi. Come on now. Head-to-head. What am I up by? A couple of games like six to four or something. I don’t know. I’m just guessing. But it ain’t that big of a it’s it’s it’s not that uh it’s pretty close. Swing and a miss. Okay, two and two the count. We need a strike out here badly. Attack of the killer tomatoes. Manos the hands of fate. That is a classic check swing on a pitch in the dirt. Cabierro does not go. The count is full. Povich is already up to 78 pitches with nobody out in the fifth. This could be his last inning here. Fair enough, Gary. Fair enough. I still feel like the combination of the outfield defense plus basio catching is just asking way too much. That’s too many defensive liabilities out here on the field tonight. That is a walk to Cabierro. First and third, nobody out. Bradish ain’t pitching tonight, Rob. But he has been good when he has pitched. All right. You guys looking forward to some yatsi next year? Oh boy. Yeah. Yeah. Bradish has definitely looked good. So is Tyler Wells. Tyler Wells has looked I’m I’m even more surprised by how good Wells looks. Speaking of Wells, here’s Austin Wells. First and third, nobody out. Yeah, it’s been a welcome return for both of those guys. Here comes the first pitch to Austin Wells. outside ball one. Povich is in a lot of trouble here. He has to get Wells out. If we got to trade a run to do it, so be it. But the top of the order is next. Judge will come up to hit in this inning unless we get it out on the base pads. So, we got to get to Wells right now. Well, the count is 1 and0. Povich just checked on Cababiierro at first. Oh, wait. It’s Cababiier. I’m sorry. Cabiro is at third. That pitch is low. It’s 2 and 0. Man, we’re in trouble. No, Cabierro, sorry, is the runner at first. I was right the first time. Pitch fouled back. Two balls, one strike on Wells. Two balls, one strike pitch. That one’s lined into right center for a base hit. Vulpi can walk home from third. The runner at first moves up one base. Cabayro. It’s now three nothing Yankees. Still nobody out in the top of the fifth. Uh other topics. Of course, nothing to do with politics. Of course. All right. I got a question for you. as uh Drew French is out to talk to Povich. Have I have I brought this question up before? I want to hear from you guys. What? Maybe I brought it up with a band, but how about for a movie? Name me your most guilty pleasure movie. a movie that you are going to be courageous enough to admit that you really like it even though you know that it’s a crappy movie and the vast majority of the public thinks it’s awful but for whatever reason you like it anyway you got a movie like that I’d love to hear about it I don’t know you is Drop Dead Fred your favorite movie of all time for some weird reason I want to Oh. All right. Two-1. Nobody out. Back to the top of the order for Paul Goldmid. Curve ball in the dirt for ball one. See, Cabin Boy is really, really funny. That’s a great first answer, Turtle Dub. I think that movie is hilarious. Happy Time Murders. Is that the one with the puppets and Melissa McCarthy? I have not seen that. I heard it was terrible. I might check it out now. One and one to count on Gold Schmidt. And on the ground right to third. They go to second for one. Over to first. Two. A double play. Just what we needed. Whoops, wrong button. [Music] Yeah, Gary, you’re going to have to do better than Forest Gump. Forest Gump, you might know somebody who doesn’t like it, but it’s w it’s widely, you know, adored. You’re going to have to You’re going to have to dig deeper than that, Gary. Come on. The Garbage Pail Kids movie, something like that. The Orioles are going to put Judge on for free with a runner at third and two down. And uh I don’t have an issue with this move at all. Going to go after the lefty Cody Bellinger. Three nothing Yankees. Runners at the corners with two down. One run in in the inning. Pitch. Swing and a miss by Bellinger. What? I know what you’re thinking. Turtle Dove. Hey, Turtle Dove. I know what you’re thinking. What could be stranger than a big fat ass floating cupcake? How about one that spits tobacco? [Laughter] Ah man, Cabin Boy has got so many memorable lines and moments. I mean, it is a mess of a movie, but the humor still shines through the mess that the movie is. Uh the 1-1 to Bellinger popped up this should end the inning. Gunner saying, “Nobody get near me. I got it.” He makes the catch on the outfield grass to end the inning. Povich gives up a run, but it could have been worse. A double play ball and a popup to get out of it as the Yankees lead this one three to nothing. Bla again, Gary, you’re not understanding this. Blazing Saddled. Blazing Saddles is probably if you pulled like anybody over the age of 40 what their favorite comedy of all time is a large chunk of people are going to name that movie like in their top five. It’s way too adored and popular of a movie. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 I think is great. Okay. Toby Hooper, director of the original, one of the best alltime horror movie classics. It is uh it is chef’s kiss when it comes to atmosphere and just an unsettling feeling. The whole the the the the art direction of that movie, everything about that movie. Love it. He he decided to go weird with two. He wanted to go kind of a horror comedy and I I really appreciated it. He didn’t just want to kind of remake the same thing. But yeah, a lot of people did not like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. I love it. I love the character of uh what’s his face with the metal plate in his head? Uh Chop Top. Hey, Leace. Get her. Get her. Come on, Le Face. Uh what else we got in here? 18 movie. Never saw it. I’m sure it’s terrible. The Quick and the Dead. That was like Sharon Stone trying to do a western. I never saw it, but just the concept sounds terrible, but Mr. Hyde apparently likes it. Uh, Howard the Duck. Yeah, I remember I I was probably 10 or 11 years old when that movie came out, and I was begging begging my mom to take me to see the movie. I guess she knew that it was a pile of garbage. I think it was in the theaters two weeks max, but I did see Howard the Duck in the theater. And even I, as an 11-year-old or whatever, had to sit there and go, “Wow, this movie sucks.” But I still watched it when it came on cable. Dumb and Dumber is a masterpiece. I I I can’t argue it. It is a solid comedy, but that’s not really the topic here. We’re trying to talk about movies that suck and but we’re willing to admit we like it. Kobe Mayo is up leading off the bottom of the fifth. The Yankees have a three nothing lead. First pitch to Mayo is a strike. Mayo has a single in the game. 01 from Max Freed is low and away. One ball and one strike. Oh, that’s right. Leo DiCaprio is in that, too. I I’ve never seen it. 1-1 on the outside corner. Try to back door Mayo with a curveball, but three does not get the call. Two balls, one strike. Yeah, that’s not going to qualify Bobo. The original Evil Dead Sam Ramy is considered by anybody who’s a horror fan to be one of the all-time classics. Uh, that’s that’s not a so bad it’s good movie. That’s just a plain good movie. It’s a very not only is it good, it’s it’s a very influential movie. Wasn’t it Eight Heads in a Duffel bag? Mac, I’m going to put you to the test. Joe Peshy, right? I believe it was Eight Heads in that duffel bag. And yeah, that was a that was a weird movie. It’s almost like they just came up with a title and then tried to make a movie around it. That’s a called strike three on Mayo. One out in the bottom of the fifth. Seven strikeouts already for Max Freed. Yeah, Tusk. Never saw it. That’s a Kevin Smith movie. Kevin Smith obviously more known for his comedies. Uh, but that one I heard I’ve heard some interesting feedback about it. Never seen it though. Sammy Basio is up. First pitch to him is a strike. Yeah, Gene Hackman was in Quick in the Dead. Yeah, I do remember the cast. I just don’t I just I never saw it. Never did see it. I think that came out at a time where westerns were kind of making a comeback, but it was getting a little bit oversaturated, you know, like what was that movie like Bad Girls or whatever, where it was like a western with like four badass chicks shooting guns. It was like Young Guns but for chicks. It was like Drew Barrymore and I can’t remember who was in it, but I’m like, “All right.” By the time that came out, I’m like, “All right, I’m done with westerns for now.” And then little did I know I would be in store for 25 years of comic book movies as a replacement. Here’s a ground ball up the middle played by Vulpi behind the second base bag. He’ll go to first in time to retire Basio. Two down in the fifth, folks. We got to keep talking because right now this game is a dud. This game right now uh is worse than any of the movies you’ve named. Uh here is Jorge Matteo. First pitch is outside for ball one. Yeah, I mean Bobo to be fair at the time of the release, Evil Dead was like a cult movie, drive-in movie, midnight movie, not a wide release Hollywood film, right? But it just it picked up a lot of buzz over time. Enough so that uh Remy basically remade the same movie with Evil Dead 2. Now, here I am talking about I don’t like remakes, but there are there are exceptions. Evil Dead 2 is one of them. Remy got himself a bigger budget, said, “Let me make this movie again and show off what I can do with a little bit of money.” And uh Evil Dead 2 for my money. One of the most entertaining movies out there ever. Just pure entertainment. One of the best. I mean, that movie is a laugh riot. Swing and a miss. Matteo strikes out. This game has been one uh to really not set a good tone. This has not been a good tone setter, but I was afraid of this folks. Getting Max Freed in game one of this series so far. One hit. He struck out eight of us and we are getting dominated right now through five innings. Three nothing Yankees. Yeah, second Evil Dead. The the jokes, the editing, everything, the practical effects. Obviously, it’s a masterpiece. Low-key underappreciated western open range. That sounds familiar. Who was in that? Phantom. Hey folks, if uh you’re annoyed by movie talk, I I do apologize. I’m just I’m making a judgment call here. I’m doing my best to maintain the sanity of my fellow Orio fans out there who are currently watching a game that isn’t really fun to watch. If it starts to get fun, we’ll put the emphasis where it belongs. Okay. Left Behind with Nicholas Cage. Not good. Now, Gary, remind me if Now, are you saying you like it or you’re just saying it’s bad? because I think that’s one of those like weird and nothing against uh Christianity as a religion, but if you know, you know. Uh there’s like Christian movies that are made like Kirk Cameron movies and stuff that where it’s all about the messaging, you know, and uh you know, if you got a message you want to get out in some art form, I got nothing against it, but those movies are always bad. Those movies are always bad. I’m still waiting for a good one. Masters of the Universe. That was one of Canon’s last movies. They Live. Everybody loves They Live on Point. Supergirl was just You can’t tell me you like Supergirl. You’re lying if you told me you liked it. It’s awful. There’s nothing redeeming going on there. Superman 3 is bad. Superman 4 is worse. At least we had Richard Prior for three. Blair Witch was garbage. Bobo, did you see it in the theater when it came out? Because that’s really the only way you had a chance to enjoy it. You might not have if you did, but it was just a vibe. That Blair Witch, it was a vibe. You had to be there in a pack theater when it came out before people even understood whether or not it was like a true story and all that stuff. There was a vibe going on, but yeah, it’s it doesn’t hold up for sure. Carnosur, that was another uh Roger Corman movie. Roger Corman was the master of taking a popular movie franchise and trying to leech off of it. Carnosur I think came out right after Jurassic Park. Uh John Carlos Stanton is at the plate leading off the top of the sixth. Yinier Canó is on the mound to replace Cade Povich and he’s got a one-two count on Stanton. Yeah, folks. If you remember Blair Witch, late 90s, the internet was still kind of a new thing. Swing and a miss. Stanton strikes out. You know, I think Yinier Canó is a pitcher we can go to when we’re losing. Just don’t want to see him on the mound when we have a lead. Matt Ch Matt’s chiming in. Logan’s run. You know, I I’ve never sat down to watch Logan’s Run. That was like late 70s, right? That’s one of those sort of postapocalyptic uh kind of scenario movies, right? Hey, Jazz Chisum is up, folks. Jazz Chisum is at the plate. First pitch is inside. Ball one to Jazz Chisum. Folks, don’t mind me. Jazz is uh pinch hitting here for Ahmed Rosario. Swinging a miss. The count is one ball and one strike. Jazz is hitting 241. Swing and a miss. One ball and two strikes. the one two to Jazz. Oh, breaking the action here. Stand by. Oh, we got a couple of Shark NATO V votes again though. Jazz hits one out to right. That ball is going to get down for extra bases. Jazz will pull in the second with a one out double. Next time, buddy. Next time. Uh, Leprechaun one through 100. Yeah, I love the horror series that just go off the rails where they cannot figure out a concept. Whenever your horror movie starts to wind up in space, it’s time to just, you know, call it a day. Leprechaun in space. Folks, don’t become an astronaut for the small chance you might run into a murderous rampaging leprechaun in outer space. Uh Trent Gisham is up with one down. Jazz is at second base. The count is 0 and one on Gisham. Next pitch had the plate but a little bit low. One ball, one strike. No such thing as a bad horror movie. That’s That’s very very much not true. Come on. Come on, man. Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey. I can I I can name something that’s not even a year old that’s a bad horror movie. There there are plenty of bad What are you nuts? No such thing as a bad horror movie. All right, I I gota I’m going to have to think about that. 2-1 pitch swung on a missed. It’s two and two. Like really like Paranormal Activity Part 27 wasn’t bad. Hey, let’s just set up a camcorder in a bedroom, wait 57 minutes for a bed sheet to move and call it a movie. Terrible. Two and two. The count on Gisham. Fouled away. We’ll do it again. Again, we’re getting people naming movies that they like. The whole idea is to name a movie that you are going to admit you enjoy even though you know it’s bad. I don’t know if we’re understanding the the assignment here, folks. Two two to Gisham. Bowed away. We’ll do it again. Now, there is one. Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park. Now, was that a made for TV? It had to be made for TV. I’ve seen that. It’s awful. It is so bad, George. But that is nice and obscure. I like it. Two two pitch to Gisham outside full count. Spielberg said Jaws was basically duel again with a shark. Yeah, folks. As you know, prominent and deservedly so as a director Spielberg is, the more you look at the kind of stuff he’s done, it’s all homage to filmmakers from the past. Uh, and there is a director out there right now who just made his second featurelength film. Uh, both in the horror genre, but they’re ve high style, high concept, very entertaining, and most importantly, like general audiences can all vibe with this guy. You know, there’s a lot of horror out there where, you know, you know, it’s it’s polarizing. Some people like him, some people don’t. But Zack Kger Canó picks off the base runner. Well, we we did. We got him at third base. We nailed Jazz Chisum on the base paths. [Music] Jazz throwing out going to third base. Yeah, Jazz. Yeah, it sucks to be you, doesn’t it? as the one two hit right back to Louie goes the second one on the first Jazz throws it. What the [ __ ] was that? Jazz the 32 pitch. Hit in the air to right field and deep and the Mets have taken the lead. [ __ ] this team. Stick a fork in the Yankees. They’re done, baby. Stick a fork in them. That was What happened there, Jazz? What was that? [Music] Two down, runner at first. 0 and2 the count on Anthony Vulpi. Pitch up and away. One ball and two strikes. Oh my. That was that was a little bit of satisfaction on an otherwise not very fun night at the ballpark so far. Two down, top of the six. The one two is low. Two balls, two strikes. Oh, is that right? Huh? That’s interesting. It’s not as uh uh it doesn’t have the same. Here’s a ground ball to short. Gunner over to first in time and the inning is over. Canó let a couple of men on base but one of them was nailed trying to take a base. Jazz Chisum throwing out trying to go to third. So one man left. We go now to the bottom of the sixth inning. How many pitches? Oh, wait a minute. I need to check on I need to check in on something here. Stand by. Please don’t be there yet. Please don’t be there yet. Oh my god. He hasn’t gotten a single one. And now he’s trying to raid other channels in order to get them. Oh god, the links this guy goes to. Just the worst. Okay, where were we folks? Uh, yeah. So, yeah, using the truck sound effect for the shark. That reminds me of the famous Wilhelm scream. Folks, it feels like 20 years ago or so, nobody knew what you were talking about when he brought up the Wilhelm scream, but now I think it’s kind of become part of pop culture, right? We all know about the Wilhelm scream or will Yeah. Uh, it sounds something like this. Oh, wait a minute. Here you go. That’s That’s it right there. That sound effect has been used in Hollywood movies going all the way back to I believe the 1940s. Uh you hear it in movies like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, you name it. The Wilhelm Scream. [Laughter] Yes, sir. I don’t know who I guess his name was Wilhelm. Whenever he recorded that yell if he only knew the staying power of that uh of that little scream right there. Tarantino Tarantino uses it too as a joke. You’ll hear you’ll hear this yell like in Kill Bill. when uh Uma Thurman’s like slicing up that band of uh Japanese mafia folks in that uh restaurant or whatever. I mean, she only slaughters like 88 people, but one of them makes this noise. [Laughter] Oh yeah, that’s the sound of jazz chism getting thrown out of third base. There it is. All right. Uh, Vasquez will lead it off for the Orioles in the bottom of the sixth. Yeah, Phantom. It’s in so many movies. If you look into it, there’s probably a master list out there of all the movies it’s in. But for me, it’s fun to just watch a movie and and recognize it when it pops up because once you know it, you can’t not hear it when you hear it. Uh, it’s one and two on Vasquez. Max Freed is only on 62 pitches. Jesus Christ. And here’s a swing and a miss on a curveball. We have I mean, we can’t. This dude’s going to go eight innings at least. And we can’t get to him. We are. What are we going to do here? Yes, the Willilhelm scream. I love how Phantom is typing that in. I’ve said what it is now. I don’t know, nine times. I’m just teasing you, buddy. I’m teasing. Mounty with a line drive. Mounty with a base hit to left. Okay. A one out single. Ryan Mount Castle, turn on the freaking faucet. We got something going on. Something’s going on. Yeah, I’ve been sitting here explaining what the Wilhelm scream is for about six minutes and then Phantom’s like, “Oh yeah, that’s the Wilhelm scream.” Folks, if you step away and come back in the middle of something, assume that whatever the topic is has already been announced. I’m I’m joking, Phantom. I’m joking. I can’t help but tease. I’m a teaser. I’m a geyser. I’m a lover. And I’m a sinner. Westber at the plate. First pitch was ball one. A swing and a miss on a change up off the plate. It’s one ball and one strike. Oh, you deserve a little ribbing, but that’s all. Just a little ribbing. The one-1 Westber curve ball swung on a missed. He is now raiding yet another channel. How many raids is this now, dude? One, two, three, four. Four raids to try to take people from other people’s live streams to bring it to his own. Westberg strikes out. Two down. 10 strikeouts for Freed. Good grief. Oh yeah, we’re we’re up to 90 plus likes, folks. Let’s get it to 100. This game has been uh yeah, it’s not fun to watch the Yankees shut us down like this, but that’s what’s been going on here tonight. Max Freed is on his agame. Sweeper outside to Gunner for ball one. Freed has not had to throw more than 17 pitches in an inning. He’s had a 10 pitch inning, a six pitch inning, an 11 pitch inning, a 12 pitch inning. A strike right in there to Gunner the count even up at one and one. Six more likes to 100 folks. Let’s accomplish something tonight. One one to Gunner low. All right, I’m going to try to think for me. What is a guilty pleasure movie? Uh, Space Camp. But I mean, I get a I mean, if I’m going to name a movie that I liked a lot as a kid and watched a bunch, but I know it’s corny. Gunner base hit up the middle. And going first to third is Ryan Mount Castle. Two out rally trying to get on the board here. Runners at first and third. Tying run is coming to the plate. Come on baseball gods, make this a ball game. [Music] Come on, make this a ball game. [Music] First and third, two down in the bat of Tyler O’Neal. Buddy, you want to make up for some lost time? Hit the crap out of this. How are you calling that a strike? How are you calling that a strike? How are you calling that a strike? How You got to be kidding me, Blue. That pitch started outside and finished up. It was nowhere in the zone, you schmuck. Why don’t you wake up and smell what you shoveling? Get the beag. Not the bees. Not the bees. My eyes. Oh, wait. Hold on. I’m gonna go to the board here. Let me look at the actual thing here. Show me where that pitch is. That is not a strike. That is not a strike. Definitely not for a first pitch on a breaking ball. That I mean, come on. Gh. All right. One and two on O’Neal. Come on. Outside. Two and two. I heard a bugle in the stadium. I’m going to play it myself. We’re going to work around it. We’re going to work around it. We’re going to do it anyway. F it. We’ll do it live. Two and two to O’Neal. Pitch, swing, and a miss. He strikes out and the inning is over. Season high 11 strikeouts through six innings for Max Freed. And I don’t see any reason why he’s not going to pitch the seventh. He’s on 77 pitches. Three nothing Yankees as we go to the seventh seventh inning. Take it easy, man. Take it easy. Oh boy. I just there’s certain times where a bad call really gets me fired up. First pitch of an atbat when you’re trying to get a rally going against a tough pitcher and then you give me that call. I’m going to get upset. Same pitch, same location in a different situation, I’m not so upset. But hot damn, it’s our first chance at a rally here. That’s what got me. Uh, that was a remake of the Wicker Man turtle dub. The Wicker Man, the original Wicker Man. Great cult classic uh with Christopher Lee among others. But uh yeah, the remake by Neil Leoot, which is so strange because if you know the director of that movie, Neil Leoot, the Nick Cage Wicker Man, his early movies were really interesting, funny, and pretty politically incorrect. His first movie was called In the Company of Men, uh which starred Aaron Eckhart, who you might know. That was his first role in anything. kind of made Aaron Eckhart’s career, but that movie is hilarious. It’s about a couple of office workers being a couple of misogynistic a-holes. Uh, it’s funny. And then he made a movie called uh, Your Friends and Neighbors that had Ben Stiller in it, I think. No, no, no. The one with Ben. Yeah, I think Ben Stiller, Katherine Keenir. Nice cast. But again, everybody in that movie, everybody’s a bad person. And it’s just it’s a good watch. And then he made another one with uh Rachel Vice, who by the way is gorgeous. Rachel Vice for me. Last 30 years in Hollywood or whatever. One of the most beautiful women out there. Somebody somebody debate me. Criminally underrated Rachel Vice. Uh Chase McDermott is on the pitch and if this goes anything like his debut out of the bullpen a couple of days ago, I’m not sure I want to watch. But here we go. A 10 pitch to Cababayro is low. 2-0 to Jos Cabierro, the number eight batter. He’s been on base both times tonight with a single and a walk. Up and in. And it’s three and 0. McDermott yet to throw a strike. Good grief. Yeah. Well, again, Phantom, I will say this. If you’re going to use Canó and you have to use all of your bullpin arms somewhere, then I would rather him come out in a situation like he did versus having a a lead. You know what I mean? Uh that pitch is high. McDermott walks the first batter he faces. The number eight hitting right-handed hitting. No power hitting but all speed. So walking him really is the worst thing he can do. Jose Cababiierro. Lead off walk to a guy that’s going to probably try to steal second base here in the next couple of pitches. Austin Wells at the plate. Throw down to first by Basio to check on Cababiro. Good throw there, but uh Cababiro gets back safely. Oh, folks, another guilty pleasure for me. 1980s Xanadoo. Xanadoo is utter trash. It’s almost unwatchable. plot. You say you want a plot? I’m sorry. None to be found with Xanadoo. But I can’t help but watch it. The soundtrack is fantastic. I love it. I love the ELO stuff. And uh you know, I saw that movie when I was a little boy. And uh the opening of that movie where like these little sirens come out of the wall like this uh graffiti painting of these these uh you know these beautiful young ladies uh you know and they come out of the wall and start dancing around. I remember like being five years old watching that going these girls are pretty. BW felt something in his nether regions for the very first time in his life watching Xanadoo. So it holds a special place. Maybe not necessarily in my heart, but somewhere uh Chase McDer has just issued two straight walks. Are you kidding me? I was really excited to see what McDermott could do as a relief pitcher and so far it has been an unmitigated disaster, a disaster. Nine pitches, eight out of the zone, two walks to begin the inning to the eight and nine batters in the lineup. This game is about to get out of hand. This game is about to get out of hand. I need a lucky. The hat is like, “Don’t look at me. Don’t look at me.” The hat’s like, “Look, I can’t give you magic if Selena is going to pull this voodoo [ __ ] Folks, we’re in trouble. Three nothing Yankees in the top of the seventh. They’ve got two on and nobody out. And now the top of the order. Paul Goldmid with Aaron Judge on deck. Chase McDermott has thrown one strike since coming into the ball game. First pitch to Gold Schmidt. Ball one. Didn’t even have to wait for it to get to the plate. I just knew it right out of the hand. Ball one. 10 pitch. There’s a strike. That’s now nine balls to two strikes for McDermott since coming in the 1-1. Tries to get the outside corner and the ump says, “Okay, I’ll I’ll mercifully give you a strike. It’s one and two.” That looked pretty borderline to me, but uh we need it. One and two on Goldmid pitch. What is that? Terrible pitch. It bounced two feet to the right of Bio. Excuse me. He was able to backhand it with his glove and not let it get by him. The count is two and two. Full count as that pitch is an inch outside. Line foul down the left field line. Still full count. payoff pitch hit on the ground and down the right field line. Fair. One run will score. Here comes another. No, it’s just the one. Okay. Burst and third, a run is in on an RBI single down the right field line by Paul Goldmid. McDermott is not recorded and out and it’s just Aaron Judge up next. What’s to worry about here? Four nothing Yankees. First pitch is crushed, but right to O’Neal and left, he makes the catch. Still, we’re going to get We’re going to get the Yankees are going to get a run out of the play. Austin Wells tags and scores from third base on a sack fly by Judge. It’s five to nothing. Still only one out in the inning with a runner at first base. Cody Bellinger takes outside for ball one. Pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. McDermad has gotten one out and it’s Aaron Judge. That’s baseball for you folks. That pitch is nowhere close. Two and0 on Bellinger. 20. That’s neck high. 3 and 0. Folks, we might need to get back to that bad movie topic we were having so much fun with. There’s a strike. Top of the zone. Three and one on Bellinger. Pitch. That’s ball four. Third walk by McDermott. It’s too bad. It’s too bad. I don’t get it. I don’t get it, Chase. I get it. Uh I mean, I do get it that, you know, AAA and the bigs uh is a is a big leap. You can’t just translate minor league numbers to the bigs. It doesn’t work that way. But how do you go from a 157 RA to whatever this is? I mean, you can’t even throw a strike. One and0 on Stanton. I mean, it’s not like the strike zone is different up here. Throw some freaking strikes. One to Stanton. Lined. Bear ball down the left field line. One run is in. Another one will score as O’Neal has trouble digging it out of the corner. It’s a two-run double for Stanton. And the Yankees are up by a touchdown. This game is over. barring a miracle. The Orioles are set to lose their 81st game of the season here tonight. And Manelino takes Mcder out of the game. As if a move now somehow helps. As if a move now somehow helps. Top of the seventh, one down. Call the bullpen. BW needs a break. [Music] [Music] [Music] He met a strange friend in the Chesapeake Bay when the Well, we at least have the benefit of being a nationally televised ball game. Jose Castillo, who was scraped off the waiverwh heap from the Mariners. He’s been with four teams now this season. And the left-hander is on the pitch for us first time. Castillo is facing Jazz Chisum. First pitch is a strike. First pitch is a strike. Jazz doubled his first time up and then got picked off trying to go to third. Caught in a rundown. Jason Dominguez is pinch running uh for who? Uh for Stanton at second base. So Stanton out of the ball game. Jazz just fouled one off his upper thigh area, I think, and he is down on one knee, feeling some pain. Uh, look, I might be a petty person, but I’m not a complete pile of dung. I’m not sitting here hoping Jazz is in pain, but that ball bounced up and got him right in the nuts. Baseball gods, I know you exist. Look, he’s going to be okay. I’m sorry, Jazz. I’m sorry uh that you just hit a ball into your balls, but I guess karma is a real thing, isn’t it? Oh, yeah. You know, it hit him in the balls cuz he’s holding his stomach, fellas. You know how it is when you get one to the nuts. You get that stomach pain. Oh, Jazz, I’m sorry. I’m sorry about that. You know who’s really sorry about this? Maverick Hanley. I’m sure Maverick right now is hoping you’re okay. All right. Well, I’ll give you this, Jazz. I guess you do have a pair of balls. That is a swing and a miss. Chisum strikes out on three pitches and hits himself in the nut sack. [Applause] Yes. Yes. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? We may lose this game. We may get our asses handed to us, but I had my moment of the night. I had my comeuppance moment. And it came up right into Jazz Chisum’s groin. Two down in the inning, runner at second base. Here’s Trent Gisham. He’s 0 for two. Oh, Basket Case. Yeah, that’s a classic. That 1980 lowbudget horror movie shot on the dirty streets of Manhattan back in the day. I love movies shot in Manhattan before uh you know they cleaned it up. You get that grimy lowbudget feel. In every movie they shoot uh this pitch is in the dirt. It’s a ball and two strikes. I don’t know if it’s one good thing bam or two good things. It depends exactly how that ball hit him in the nuts. Did it hit one nut or did it hit both? It might have been two good things. Strike three. All right, Castillo strikes out. Trent Gisham looking to end the inning. The Yankees have blown it wide open here with a fourrun seventh inning. They now lead it seven to nothing. But Jazz Chisum took a shot to the nuts himself. That’s the beauty of it. We’re not a team that’s going to throw at your guy, but uh if you’re going to get the job done yourself, then feel free. Uh we uh we’ve reached the seventh inning stretch, folks. That’s two balls with one strike on Jazz, folks. It’s seventh inning stretch time here in the Charm City chat. I know this game has been uh brutal so far, but uh you’re here. Let’s uh do the old tradition. Let’s throw some cakes on the griddle. Get those cakes up in the chat, folks. Thank God I’m a country boy. Thank god I’m a country boy. Thank god I’m a country boy. Thank god I’m a boy. His sub count has not moved. He raided Rhino. So that’s another raid. How many raids now? One, two, three, four, five, six raids. Zero. I got to refresh this. Am I looking at this right? Rebounding to the floor. Sorry. [Music] Uh folks, I’ll be right back. [Music] [Music] [Music] Good Morning. [Applause] [Music] Max Freed is out to start the seventh inning. And the first pitch is a big old curve ball in there for strike one to Jeremiah Jackson. Freed has been dealing all night long and we don’t have an answer. Jeremiah fouls off the next pitch. It’s 0 and2. Jackson did get a walk in this game back in the second inning. Didn’t lead to anything obviously. 02 pitch swinging a miss. Jeremiah down on three pitches, strikes out. Max Freed now has a season high on strikeouts against us. Oh, folks. Kobe Mayo blowing in for ball one. A dozen strikeouts for Freed. Three hits in a walk through six and a third. That curve missed. 2 and 0 on Mayo. Reed’s pitch count now at 82. Probably will be his final inning. I mean, unless he gets two quick outs and he asks Aaron Boen, “Hey man, I want to pitch a shut out.” Might be up to him. Mayo launches one deep but foul off to the left. All right, the 2-1 pitch popped up out of play. Two and two. Somebody got to that foul ball way up there in the crowd. I say crowd. And not too many people sitting in the upper deck down the left field line. If I had to guess, I’d say there’s maybe 25,000 people here. Swing and a miss. Mayo strikes out. That’s a baker’s dozen now for Max Freed. Absolute dominance. And we are the victims. Folks, tonight is an example of why a starting pitcher has more influence on a baseball game than anybody else. And it’s it’s not even close. Uh Sammy Basiah with a swing and a miss. It’s 0 and one. I was hoping that the schedule would line up such where we could have had a showdown between Trevor Rogers and Max Freed. Rogers will be pitching tomorrow night against the right-hander Will Warren. Same start time as tonight. That little tapper in front of home plate along the first base line. Wells does a nice job to get to that ball and throw out Bio. The inning is over. Seven shutout innings for Freed. If he wants to pitch the eighth, I’m sure he could. He’s on 87 pitches. Purple Rain was horrible. I gotta admit, uh, I probably haven’t seen that movie in 35 years or more. I think I remember watching part of it and I was just like, eh, I was too. I mean, if there was something redeeming about a movie like that from a drama perspective, I guess I was too young to care. So really was the music the only thing and again I haven’t seen it since way back in the day. Uh but the uh the record is good. Prince Princess Purple Rain what top 10 record of the 80s probably in terms of sales and all that. Big big record. M Morris Day in the Time is in that movie, right? That’s where you get the uh Jungle Love song from, right? Isn’t Morris Day like sort of the the villain of that movie? I don’t know. Let me see. Movies that are bad, bad, bad. Let me think. All right. Uh, here’s a classic. Mac and Me. Mac and Me again. More derivative garbage. An attempted ET ripoff about six years too late. A 90minute McDonald’s commercial. Folks, you got to you got to appreciate an alien race that is only able to survive off of sipping CocaCola out of a straw. That’s their sustenance. That’s how they get on. Who knew that Coca-Cola was just randomly found in the ground on their home planet? You just stick a straw in the ground and you’re good. Fly to the Navigator. I thought that was a good fun movie for kids. Anthony Vulpi. We missed the first pitch. It was called a strike. The next one from Castillo is outside. Is one and one on Vulpi. Bottom of the order do up for the Yankees. Vulpi’s one for three. fouled it away. It’s a ball and two strikes. Oh god, that Indiana Jones Crystal Skull movie. Trash. Trash. And uh whatever that latest one was, I’m never going to see it. Why would I? Uh Vulpi with a check swing. He didn’t go. It’s two and two. Oh, on points. Got one. Yeah. Fly of the Navigator is a little kid. He finds a spaceship. There’s like a talking I want to say Paul Rubin’s aka Pee-Wee Herman was the voice of the uh the little robot buddy on the uh spaceship there. Strike three. Castillo rings up Vulpi looking on a pitch at the bottom of the zone. [Applause] Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Yeah. The new Yeah. We don’t even have to talk about anything that’s a remake or anything from the past 15, 20 years. That’s all I’m talk We We You We got to go back. Here’s a ground ball to third. Big bounce for Jackson. No, wait. Is Jeremiah third now? That’s Westber. Sorry. Westber with the play. Two down. My apologies. Base is empty. Two down. Yankees ahead. Seven to nothing in the top of the eighth. Austin Wells singled, walked, scored a run, and driven in a run tonight. The Running Man was terrible. Are are you talking about the original Arnold movie with Richard Dawson as the villain? Oh, I mean it’s cheese, but it’s it is peak 80s Arnold action cheese. I love the running man. Subzero now just plain zero. I mean, I swear of all the oneliners from Arnold for like killing off somebody in a movie, I think the best ones are in The Running Man. He had a great line for all of them. Where’s Buzzaw? He had to split. Get it? Because he split him in half with a chainsaw. Swing and a miss by Wells. It’s a ball in two strikes. Yeah, Richard Dawson. I mean, the casting of Richard Dawson was an an inspired choice. He was perfect. Not exactly known as a, you know, a movie star. We basically know him as the Family Feud guy and if you know a little bit more, a regular on match game. Uh, two and two on Austin Wells. Two down, nobody on. In the top of the eighth, the pitch from Castillo is fouled away. Have I seen his TV show Fubar? He who? Richard Dawson. Hey, Throw Mama from the Train is a good one. Owen. Owen, get me my soda. Line drive base in to right field by Austin Wells. A two out single which will bring the top of the order up again. You clumsy poop. Owen. Ah, the late Anne Ramsay. Boy was she a looker. Folks, I told you my first love was seeing Olivia Newton John and Xanadoo. But a close second, Annne Ramsay. Mama Fatelli. All those great Anne Ramsay rolls. She was a a homeless lady and Scrooed had about two lines. Here’s a ball hit to right. That ball will hang up there for Jeremiah Jackson. He makes the catch and the inning is over. Goldmid lines out to right field to end the inning. We go to the bottom of the eighth. The Oils are down a touchdown and an extra point. And Ramsay was Oh, no. Richard Dawson. Yeah, Richard Dawson was on Hogan’s Heroes. I was about to say Ramsay was on Hogan’s Heroes. Street Fighter movie with JeanClaude. Yeah, that was bad. It was It was really bad. I think that was Raul Julia’s last role before he died tragically way too soon. Not the best last role to have, but uh yeah, Raul Julia as uh what’s the main uh villain? I forget. It’s been a long time since I played Street Fighter. Carol Kane is in Scrooge. I love Carol Kane. He’s been in a lot of stuff. She was the the wench next to Billy Crystal and Princess Bride. Uh what else has she done? She was on Taxi, right? A sort of a a reoccurring guest, I want to say. Wasn’t she like the girlfriend of a character or something? Carol Kane. Oh, MB Bison. Thank you. On point. God, I haven’t heard that name in forever. Yeah, Adam’s Family obviously Raul Julia’s biggest like most notable film role. You know, a movie I really liked with him and uh Richard Drifus, a movie that at the time didn’t get a whole lot of buzz. It wasn’t panned, just didn’t really make an impact, but it’s a movie I feel like everybody has forgotten about. called Moon Over Paridor. Anybody ever seen a movie called Moon Over Paridor? It’s a good movie. I mean, I haven’t seen it in forever, so maybe a rewatch. I’ll I won’t be as uh, you know, positive about it, but I remember liking that movie a lot when I saw it way back in the day. Hey, Scotty boy is in with a super chat. How you doing, Scotty? Sorry about this game we’re watching. Message for you, son. Scotty says he’s visiting the chat and bringing a small gift, folks. That’s, you know, I appreciate it. No size is too small. That’s how you know I’m a guy. No woman would ever say that, right? Just kidding. Thank you, Scotty boy. Thank you very much. Jorge Matteo leading off. Here’s a ground ball to third. Tabiero will throw out Matteo. One down in the eighth. Paul Blackburn is on the pitch. Max Freed’s day is done. 87 pitches, seven innings, three hits, one walk, 13 strikeouts without giving up a run. His erra is down to 2.92. Tango and Cash for me is probably the most 80s of any 80s movie out there. When somebody asks me, name a movie that really sums up the 80s, I I I honestly think it’s Tango and Cash. It’s got all the elements. Everything about it says this is this is the 80s. Ah, and Kurt Russell’s mullet in that movie is probably at its peak. Peak mullet time for Kurt Russell. Two down in the bottom of the eighth. Ryan Malcastle got a base hit as last time up one for three. Big trouble in Little China. Curve ball fouled off. One and one on Mounty. It is 7 nothing Yankees. They scored two in the first inning. And I said it then, boy, I hope that isn’t going to be all that they need to win this game. But it is looking more and more like that two-run first is all that was needed tonight. Cuffs now. Are you talking about Wow, George, that is a pull. Is that that Christian Slater cop movie? And I believe they had the audacity to spell it with a K. K U FFS cuffs. That movie called strike three on Mount Castle. He can’t believe it. The inning is over. We go to the ninth. Let’s just end this. Aaron Judge is due up next. That was probably early 90s if I had to guess. George, I think for Slater the 80s ended with like Heathers and maybe pump up the volume. By the time you get to Cuffs, I think it’s probably like 90 91. But before True Romance, before True Romance, which was like 92, 93, right? Anyway, what a movie to bring up. Cuffs. I never thought that movie would ever get brought up again in my lifetime. In fact, I don’t think it was ever brought up when it was a movie like in its own time. It just took 35 years for somebody to mention it. Idle Hands, that’s like a maybe about 97 horror comedy that came out uh when I was working in a movie theater. I don’t think I sat down to watch it. It seemed a little too heavy on the comedy and not enough on the horror. And at that time, I think I was more into wanting uh to feel the horror than the comedy. Again, I I don’t want to sound like a hypocrite. Evil Dead 2 is a horror comedy to be sure, and I love it. But it’s no idle hands. Yeah. Cuffs with a K because why not, right, George? Makes it sound cooler. Cuffs. It’s awful. You know, they tried to do a crossover movie called Cuffs and Hooch, starring Christian Slater and a dog in a Buddy Cop movie. But that never quite panned out. Cuffs and hooch. Yeah, Scotty. Well, you know, uh, you make a a series of bad offseason moves and the players you bring in perform terribly. I mean, I I don’t think you can come up with an example to sum up how this season got destroyed before we hit the month of May. than to point out the first six or seven starts made by Charlie Morton. All of them losses, all of them blowouts, and then he has the audacity to finally start pitching well just so we can trade him away. At least we got something back. Uh Aaron Judge leading off the top of the ninth. Cage Strad is on the pitch. I don’t know why. Why are we wasting one of our decent arms in an in a situation like this? I don’t get this at all. Yet another questionable move here by Mancelino. Go to uh go to like Grant Wolfram or something. Go to Jerem Heraldo. Go to Don’t go to this guy. This guy’s actually decent. This game’s already over. What are we doing? Want to win the count on Aaron Judge. What the hell was Manelino thinking? I mean, the score line. Honestly, folks, when I when I saw the lineup tonight, this is pretty much what I saw coming. Now, obviously, I’m not going to come on the air and say that because, you know, that’s not what a fan should be doing. Yeah, Scott, I just realized Wolfrren was optioned back to Triple A like a couple of days ago to make room for the guy that just pitched Castillo. One lefty sent down replaced by another. But we did we do have Haraldo out there. That that that’s somebody. It’s a full count on Aaron Judge. Weird lineup. Bad defensive lineup. Uh we brought in McDermott when we’ve only seen him once and he was terrible. There’s a swing in the miss. Straoud strikes out Aaron Judge, which is nice. The problem is it’s in a situation where it doesn’t really matter. That’s why I want to save him for a closer game perhaps tomorrow. Cage Strad strikes out Aaron Judge. One away in the ninth. Here’s Bellinger swinging a miss. I mean, there aren’t even Orio fans left around a watch stra pitch. Like, who is benefiting from this? The 01 grounded foul. It’s 0 and2. I mean, if you had it in mind to go to Stout at any point tonight, bring him in when it’s a game. When he went to McDermott, you could have gone to Straoud, right? Whatever. Swing and a miss. Look at this. Cage Straoud just struck out Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger backto back again. You would love to see that in a close game where we’re trying to hold a lead and those heavy hitters are coming up and we got somebody in the pin that can uh handle it. But no, we use them in the ninth inning of a seven nothing ball game. It’s just so stupid, Tony. It’s just so dumb. And you you cannot explain this. We’re going to have to stick around for a postgame press conference. I got to hear I got to hear his excuses again. This time one to Jason Dominguez. Ground ball to third. Charging it as Westber. Throws on the run and Dominguez is retired in the inning. We go to the bottom of the ninth. The Orioles have h not even half as many hits as the Yankees have runs. Seven nothing Yanks. going to the bottom of the ninth. Hi, Sabrina. Hi, folks. Once again, uh apologies for not having the scoreboard uh presentation tonight with the balls and strikes. Uh it’s a Fox game and uh it’s spoiling uh because the timing is bad. But guess what? If there was going to be a night without looking at a pitchby pitch sequence, this was the night. You don’t want to see this. You don’t want to see any of this. So, just don’t worry about it. All right. Hey, uh sub count. Uh there it is. Has a move today. We could work on that. Maybe we could work on that. Is he still without one? Wow. And it’s the end of the game. It’s the end of the game. There’s one second left and that number has not moved the entire night. Wow. Wow. Folks, no offense, but I can’t wait to end my stream tonight and talk to a couple of friends about a little something going on behind the scenes because this is this is get your popcorn ready kind of stuff right here. All right. Uh yeah, I don’t know. Tony’s just Tony’s Tony. I think we know what we have in Tony Manscolino. Look, it’s not like I’m sitting here thinking he’s just this terrible human being. He’s just not manage manager material. That’s no offense. No offense. Obviously, the Orioles didn’t have a better uh idea. I feel like Buck Britain probably would have made more sense if we’re going to promote somebody internally, but maybe they’re trying to groom Britain to take over the team in a more like, you know, start from scratch kind of a way rather than just come in and try to manicure a mess that has been left behind like Manelino’s been asked to do. I don’t know. All I know is come opening day 2026, I need to see somebody else called the shots. Uh 01 to Westber swung on a miss. That’s 0 and2. Jordan Westber is 0 for three and correct me if I’m wrong, he’s still looking for his first hit since coming back from injury. He has gotten on base with a couple of walks and Westber just chased one off the plate low and away to strike out. Second strike out for Paul Blackburn who’s in his second inning of work looking to close it out here. So that’s the other thing. The Yankees tomorrow will have a full compliment. I mean, I know their bullpin isn’t exactly lights out, but all they’re using is Blackburn, who’s basically a starter long man who’s coming into a game that’s already decided to mop it up on the winning side. They’re going to have all their, you know, specialists, lefty, righty relievers. They’re they’re all going to be ready tomorrow. It’s two and0 on Gunnar Henderson. He’s got one of the three oral hits. That ball is a check swing foul and it’ll fall near the third base coach, Buck Britain. Foul ground strike one. Hey Froggy, thanks. I should have brought this up more often. Folks, please do me a favor and I will redirect uh the stream over to JJ tonight, but if you haven’t been there already, Froggy has posted a link. Uh it’s a charity event as he’s calling ball games. Gunner with a feeble swing here on a pitch low. The count is two and two. Hey, thank you world tour. It’s okay. You know, just consider yourself uh you know, a rare breed in a good way. You’re a Yankee fan that can come over to the opposition team’s channel. Admit who you are, enjoy the content. Gunner with a ground ball to Vulpi crossing over to the second base side of the bag to field it. Gunner will be retired. The Orioles Orioles are down to their final out. The Orioles are down to their final out. Game one of a four game series has been an absolute dud. A dud. And honestly, I think I have to retract my I don’t know if I promised it or what, but no, I’m not sticking around for Tony’s postgame press conference. I’m going to send you over to JJ. We’re going to make it quick. Tonight’s just been terrible. I even shaved for this. I even cleaned up my beard to look a little nicer today. And I regret that decision. 1-1 pitch is tapped. Foul on the first base side. We are down to our final strike. Tyler O’Neal is 0 for three. I want to thank everybody here in the Charm City chat for sticking this one out with me. Very little to be happy about. I mean, we all know what the best moment of the night was. It happened to Jazz Chisum’s nuts. Pitch is off the plate. The count is two and two. Yes, Scott. I think tonight was just a case of Tony thinking, “Well, lefty on the mound. Let me sit all my lefties.” In what world is Jorge Matteo facing a lefty better than any lefty we have facing a lefty payoff pitch to O’Neal. That is ball four. Okay. Home play dump could have ended the ball game right there if he wanted to. It was close enough. But apparently uh he doesn’t have dinner reservations. He he wants to hang out a little bit longer. We have a base runner with two down in the ninth. Jeremiah Jackson coming up next. First pitch is a foot outside. Ball one. Hearing me quote the cupcake from Cabin Boy. Hey, you want to know my favorite bit from Cabin Boy Turtle Dove? It’s uh it’s the part where Chris Elliot’s character that’s a strike. It’s oneonone on Jeremiah. It’s when he realizes that he’s on this ship going the wrong place. He wants to go to Hawaii, right? So he goes to the deck of the ship and finds Andy Richtor, a young Andy Richtor standing alone next to the what do you call it? The steering wheel or whatever of the the the ship and Chris Elliot like says, “You know, your your captain says we should plan a course for Hawaii.” Did he say that? Really? Yeah. Yeah, you should plan a course for Hawaii. And Andy Richtor proceeds to just take this giant shipw wheel and just give it a huge spin and it just makes about 2,000 revolutions and then he just grabs it, stops, just sort of taps it over a little bit and goes, “Okay, we’re going to Hawaii.” Uh, I guess I can’t tell it the way it is shot. But here’s a comebacker to the pitcher. Underhand flip to first. Jeremiah’s retired and this ball game is mercifully over. The Orioles didn’t have a chance. The Yankees put up two runs in the top of the first. Before we had a chance to swing a bat, they had already scored more runs than they needed to win this ball game. Final score, 7 nothing. Seven runs, nine hits, no errors for New York. No runs on just three hits, no errors for Baltimore. Uh Max Freed clearly the winner. That is his 18th win of the season. Cade Povich the loss. He falls to three and eight. Uh the Yankees left six men on base. We left five. Uh we did pick off a couple of base runners tonight. That was nice. Uh but otherwise this was one to forget. Chase McDermott, it has to be said. Uh whatever he was building off of as a reliever in the miners, he needs to go back and uh and uh regain something. Like it’s been two appearances. He’s looked absolutely awful. Like like he doesn’t know what he’s even doing out there. He’s not comfortable out there. I don’t know what it is, but he’s not ready for this. Uh, I don’t want to see him back out here again this season. Honestly, go work on some stuff, Chase. I’m not going to give up on you, like career-wise, but for the remainder of this season, you’re not ready. Okay. Uh to no surprise, the bottom of the order, Jorge Mateo, Luis Vasquez, Ofers. Uh just an ugly game. Just an ugly game. And I’m ready to get the hell out of here, folks. Time of the game, just 2 hours and 38 minutes. That’s not even uh 1000 p.m. local time in Baltimore. Attendance, I think I guessed about 24,000. 25,253. Uh, the Orioles have now lost their 81st game of the season. So that’s it. We have to win out in order to not have a losing season. Still possible, but not in any way, shape, or form probable. Hey, there’s Ken Rosenthal interviewing yet another person 3 feet taller than him. And I’m ready to turn off this Fox broadcast. You know what? Screw Fox. Screw them. Screw them. Screw them. They had a terrible broadcast tonight. The audio quality was bad. Uh and uh yeah, everything sucked here. This really sucked. So, I’m going to get out of here tomorrow. Folks, look, you got to do your part as a fan. Uh, put this one behind you. No need to dwell on a game like this because it was bad. Okay, but uh we’re not going to sit here and just roll over all weekend. Okay, I refuse. Maybe maybe if we’re sitting on a hundred losses and we are the worst team in baseball and we’re playing a team like I don’t know the Brewers, maybe I would be like, eh, whatever. But this is the Yankees. All right. And I’m not going to roll over uh for these remaining six games head-to-head. Let’s do better. All right. Uh, so our three-game winning streak is over. We’re back to being three games behind the Rays. Still have three games head-to-head with them, but uh yeah, this was an ugly one and it’s time to go. Please return tomorrow. Uh, the stream will start at 7 o’clock sharp Eastern time. Uh, I did not switch the matchups scrolling at the bottom of the screen. I believe it is Trevor Rogers against Will Warren. So, let me just type that in here real quick. Trevor Rodgers, folks, you don’t want to miss a Trevor Rogers start, right? Rogers versus Will Warren tomorrow night. I think we’ve got a pretty good chance to level up this series with that pitching matchup. So, come on back and let’s try to respond after this awful, awful result. Uh, I’m gonna set you up to go to JJ now. Once again, I’m going to go in there and say hi to him. Uh, how long I hang out, I can’t say because I probably want to go grab a bite to eat, but I’m definitely going to go in there and check in and all that good stuff. So, that’s where we’re going now. Okay, folks. Folks, I want to say thanks to everybody in the Charm City chat, the mods for the bangup job they’re doing, keeping the chat nice and charming. Uh, we had a super chat come in. We had a magic membership gifted once again, and we got the likes over a hundred on an otherwise forgettable night. So, I do appreciate all the help that goes into keeping this channel growing and going. All right, we’re a grower, but tonight we were not a shower. You feel me? All right. Until tomorrow night, folks. I think tomorrow night I’m going to have to wear the hat right from the jump. I mean, be here for when we go on the air. The hat will already be on. I might put it on now and sleep tonight with it on. I don’t know. But uh yeah, we need some help from the hat. All right, folks. Have a good rest of your night and until tomorrow night. This has been the bird watcher and I will chirp at you later. Sending it now over to playbyplay with JJ. Oh, wait. Oh, yeah. All right. I thought I saw something. Take it easy, folks. Have a good

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