Baltimore Orioles @ Los Angeles Angels | LIVE! Play-by-Play & Commentary | 5/10/25 | Game #38–BW200

Baltimore Orioles @ Los Angeles Angels | LIVE! Play-by-Play & Commentary | 5/10/25 | Game #38–BW200

[Music] day her young wo called to see if she’d like to go to see a show, but Miss Kate 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. You’re out at the old ball [Music] game. Ky saw the game, 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. 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 be taking on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the second game of a three-game series at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. How you doing folks? It’s Saturday Night Live with Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutman, Sad Mullins, Jackson Holiday, Ryan O’Harn. That’s right, folks. Saturday Night Live in California. How you doing? I’m the bird watcher. People call me BW for short. And uh tonight I’m calling my 200th consecutive Orioles game. Yay. We got any buttons for this. Baltimore, you are seeing history being made today. I guess so. A little bit of history. I don’t think there’s another YouTuber that has reached this milestone. Not for the Orioles anyway. Uh the hope that this is just the beginning. Uh just a little recognition for uh the work put in, the commitment, the loyalty. Uh good times, bad times, anything in between. I plan to be here and uh I hope uh I can get a streak as about as long as that subcount number up there. Got about a decade to go or so, but uh you know, we’ll see. If I can get to Ripken streak, I don’t think I’ll have any hair left. If it is, it won’t be black. It’ll be uh gray, probably. But anyway, we got a game tonight. Uh I do have a uh donation site set up for tonight. It’s always been around. It’s always been in my description. I don’t really advertise it much. I feel weird about uh coming out and asking for people to financially support the channel, but uh this stream is sort of a teleathon, streamathon, whatever you want to call it. And uh this website that I have posted in the chat and in the uh description on the scrolling text at the bottom of your screen, it’s set up in such a way where you can donate uh publicly. You can leave your name and you can leave a message or you can donate anonymously. And the reason why I like that is it allows for everybody that’s here to watch games uh to not feel any sort of shame or guilt if they have no ability to donate or just don’t feel like donating. That’s all perfectly fine. There’s no obligation or expectation. Uh I don’t feel entitled. Um, but just so you know, uh, we’ve got it set up in such a way where nobody should be feeling strange or weird, uh, about whether or not they’re going to support the channel. But I would ask that if you do send support tonight that you do go to that website because uh, the kofi.com/birdwatcher, there it is. uh they take just a tiny little fraction of your donation as a payment for them. Uh much less than what YouTube takes when you guys send uh your super chats and stickers uh here in YouTube. It’s all very helpful. I would would never discourage you from doing it, but just so you know, if you want to actually help me a little bit more and have your donation go a little bit farther to where more of it goes to me and not to YouTube, then that’s the way to do it, folks. It’s a it’s a website that you can trust. I’ve been on it now for a while, and uh a lot of other YouTubers use something similar. Buy your uh YouTube content person a cup of coffee kind of a thing. five bucks, whatever it is you want it to be. Uh but listen, folks, baseball’s the number one priority. I’m going to call the game tonight. I’m not going to uh, you know, put that on the back burner. We’re going to get to some baseball tonight. Starting pitching matchup, folks. Uh Kyle Gibson is going to make his third start since joining the team. Uh his first start was a disaster. His second start showed some signs of improvement. We’re hoping he can put it all together today. Uh record of 0 and1 and an erra of 14.09. That RA is going to come down today. I’m going to go ahead and guarantee it. He will be facing a right-hander for the Angels who I am not familiar with. Jack Kachanowitz. uh if he was on this team last season, I have no memory, but uh he has been a regular starter in the rotation. He’s already had six decisions, a record of 1 and five, and an erra of 5.79. So to me that says if our offense can show just a little bit of uh you know little bit of something, little bit of passion, a little bit of drive, a little bit of desire, I think we can get to this guy. So Gibson versus Kachanowitz and hopefully uh the bats are going to be ready tonight because this looks like it’s not going to be a pitching duel uh by any means. This is this is not right. They’ve got the wrong person hitting lead off. We do have a major change in the lineup tonight, folks. And if you’ve been following your boy, the bird watcher here on the channel, you know, for about the past week, 10 days, I’ve been calling on Brandon Hyde to make one significant change in this lineup, and that is to move Jackson Holiday to the top of the order and move said Mullins down toward the bottom part. Basically, flip-flop these guys in the lineup. Uh Jackson’s been doing very well drawing walks and getting hits. And Mullins, he has been our savior in April, but so far in the month of May, it’s been a disaster for him. And tonight, Brandon Hyde has finally made the move. Now, are you going to be 100% happy with this lineup? Probably not, because by the time I get to the number nine hitter, uh you may be rolling your eyes. But here is the lineup. Jackson Holiday is going to lead off for the first time in his major league career and play second base. Adley Rutman will do the catching and bat second. Gunner Henderson is going to DH tonight. He’s hitting third. Ryan Mount Castle’s at first base, uh the cleanup hitter. Ryan O’Harn is in the outfield tonight. Right field batting fifth. Sad Melons moves down to the sixth spot and center field where you would expect Hston Kerstad will bat seventh and be in left field. Emanuel Rivera, who been a blessing since his call up, eight for his first 19, hitting 421. He’s at third base, batting eighth. And finally, Jorge Matteo is in the lineup, folks. I know. I know. Just uh All right. All right. Get it out of the way. I know. I know. I know. Matteo’s in the lineup uh playing shorts stop and batting ninth. Now folks, you’re asking yourself, why is Jorge Matteo in the lineup? Why? Well, I do think there is a reason. Uh Gunner Henderson is dhing tonight. I don’t know why that is. I’ve looked around uh for a potential explanation. Maybe Gunner has got some sort of minor injury where they think uh he can still hit, but maybe don’t want to risk him playing in the field. And if that’s the case, then you have to play Matteo if you’re going to start Holiday uh like you need to. Uh Matteo is really the only other middle infielder option on the team right now. So, yes, uh he hasn’t helped the team. Uh he’s going up against a right-handed starter. Uh it doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense. But again, if Gunner Henderson, if we’re in a situation where we can use his bat, but we can’t use him in the field, then that would explain things. Uh otherwise, we got a very lefty heavy lineup. First seven batters in the lineup, just one right-handed pitcher. Um yeah, and we’ll get to the Angels lineup here in just a moment, but I want to go ahead and get the ball game up because I keep forgetting this is not a 15minute intro. It’s closer to 12 or 13. It’s a weird start time out here on the West Coast. Something like 8:38 or 9:38 p.m. Eastern. So, that should just be in a couple of minutes. All right, we got some guys out there surfing. We’re in We’re in California. All right. For the uh Angels leading off and playing shortstop, Zack Neto. Nolan Shawnwell is batting second and playing at first base. Yoan Manata, who had a triple last night, he’ll be a third base and batting third. Taylor Ward is the DH and cleanup hitter. Logan Oppoy will do the catching and bat fifth. Luis Reneo will hit sixth and play second base. Joe Adele out in right field batting seventh. Kairen Paris, who looked a little bit shaky out there in center field last night, is playing there again uh and hitting eighth. And Matthew Lugo, who came on as a defensive replacement for Paris in center field and then uh made a really bad read on a ball. Um didn’t go as an error, but definitely uh a mistake by Lugo. He is starting tonight and first start for Lugo. He does not have an at bat on the season. He is playing in left field batting ninth. All right, there you go folks. Your starting pitchers, your lineups. Uh any news or notes to go over before we get started? Not really a whole lot. Matt Bowman cleared waivers and has been outrighted back to AAA. So Bowman survives a round of waiverss. Nobody claimed him, so we’re able to send him back down to Triple A without losing him. Meanwhile, Zack Efflin is set to make his return for tomorrow afternoon’s finale here in Anaheim. Welcome to the Rock. That giant rock formation out there in left center field here in Anaheim. the uh signature piece of this ballpark that’s been around a long time now since the 60s I believe. This is an old ballpark. All right, Jake Kachanowitz, I hope he stinks. He is taking his final warm-up pitches here. In fact, I think he’s taking his last one because Jackson Holiday is in the batters box. Folks, we’re ready for baseball. [Music] And before the first pitch, the catcher and home plate umpire are coming out to talk to Kachanowitz. Let me guess, the earpiece. Yep. Same old, same old. All right. Well, what an exciting way to begin the ball game. Boy, I’m looking extra pink. Holy cow, folks. The support has begun. Garrett Family Aquatics. Again, folks, going to the Kofi website, Kofi kofi/birdwatcher, is the best way to donate. But I’m not going to complain if you donate in any way you you see fit. Garrett Family Aquatics with a $10 super chat. Thank you so much, sir. Message for you, son. Message for you, son. Happy 200th game, BW. Let’s get the party started early on the field, too, hopefully. Yes, I hope so as well. Thank you, Garrett. And I want to thank you very much for that. I really do. All that before the first pitch. And here it comes. That’s a fast ball at 97 on the outside corner for strike one. 01 pitch hit on the ground. Second base through the hole. Jackson Holiday has got a knack for finding the hole with balls hit on the ground. He’s done it again. Another hard hit worm burner into right center field. A leadoff single from the leadoff man. Jackson Holiday. I like it. I like it a lot. Adley Rutman coming up. Let the clutch out gently. Okay. And he takes a called strike right on the outside edge. Richmond’s hitting 202. Still waiting for that scoreboard to get ready. Still wondering why I’m so pink looking. That’s a little bit better. 0 and one on Rutchman. Pitch out. Oh, called strike. That is outside blue. Two pitches. All right. Well, we have to adjust. This umpire is going to give the outside corner an extra inch inch or two. You got to cover the outside. 0 and2 on Adley. Holiday at first. Nobody out. Just getting started. Pitch low. A sinker at 98. So upper 90s stuff from Kachanowitz one two pitch that’s hit on the ground off the off the pitching mound gets to the shorts stop. They go to second for one over to first and it’s a double play. When are we moving oddly down in the [Music] lineup? Gunnar Henderson base is empty, two down. takes outside for ball one. That’s at 99 miles an hour. So, Kachanowitz clearly can throw hard. I’m guessing maybe uh he’s got some command issues. That’s on the outside edge. Called a strike one and one. the pitch. That ball’s drilled down the right field line, but it’s foul. Looking well foul, actually. Gunner’s hitting 258 at the moment. Swing and a miss. He chased a fast ball half a foot outside and the inning is over. Well, it started promising. A leadoff hit by Holiday, but he is wiped out on a double play and Kachanowitz winds up facing the minimum. At the end of half an inning, it’s the Orioles nothing and the Angels coming up. I tell you what. So folks, here’s what it looks like. Just so maybe you can get a little bit of familiarity so you don’t freak out. Uh page looks like this. There you go. kofi.com/birdwatcher. You know you’re in the right place if you got Brooks Robinson shirts. If you got my crazy looking ass right here and then uh there you go. You can see me when I was 10 years younger. That’s an old photo, but uh head on over here, please. Uh I really need it. That’s That’s the truth. Uh, let’s see. Let me go on a rock kabatco right up here. Oh, I’m sorry. That is that is Brian Roberts. So, said Mullins is one for his last 30 and we finally moved him down in the order. Even though Kachanowitz throws upper 90s, he’s not a strikeout pitcher. He’s only averaging 3.4 Ks per nine last year, 4.8 this season. Left-handers are hitting .305 off of him. The only guy in the lineup with any experience is uh Ramon Lauraniano. He’s not in the lineup though. He’s one for three with a home run. All right, Zack Neto at the plate for the Angels. And the first pitch from Gibson is a strike. We’re in the bottom of the first. Next offering is low and away on a sweeper count. Even up at one and one. The Orioles, by the way, wearing again their black road jersey tops with the gray pants. The Angels wearing their all-whites with the red trim. This pitch is fouled off to the left. One and two. Zack Neto came into last night’s ball game hitting 300. Did not get a hit, knocking his average down to 284. Oh, wait. I’m still over here. Sorry. Let me get you back over to the screen. I forgot. One, two, pitch. That one’s lifted into left and going to get down for a base hit. A leadoff single by Neto. The Orioles defensively left to right. Kirstad, Mullins, and O’Harn. Rivera at third, Matteo at short, Holiday at second, Mount Castle at first, and Rutman behind the plate. We’ll probably get Maverick Hanley behind the plate for the day game tomorrow. Here’s a called strike to Nolan Shawn. Well, he is hitting .248. Just two home runs, nine driven in in 36 games. That ball’s hit hard on the ground and through a base hit. And going first to third is Neto. The Angels have runners at the corners and nobody out to begin the bottom of the first. Gibson’s in big trouble immediately. Here is Yan Manata. Had a triple in last night’s ball game. Came in to score. The only run for the Angels. Hit on the ground and that’s a base hit in the right. Three straight hits to begin the ball game and the Angels lead at one to nothing. Runners at first and third. Still nobody out. Seven pitches in. Three hits. That ball left up middle of the plate. One- nothing Angels. Taylor Ward. First pitch to him is popped up. Going to score another run. Mullins with the catch. Runner tagging from third. He will score. It’s two nothing Angels with one out. Runner at first base. Sack fly for Taylor Ward. Well, great start. Logan O’Hap, right-handed hitting catcher, takes a pitch that looked like it kissed the outside edge, but Gibson doesn’t get the call. It’s 1 and0. That one’s low away. Two and 0. Next pitch from Gibson. That’s hit hard. Just foul. Third base side. Two and one on. here comes the next pitch. It’s fouled back. Two and two. Ground ball here would help. 22 pitch. That’s outside. Oh, did not offer at it. It’s a full count. Payoff pitch first to throw over to the bag at first. Monata’s back in. He could be running with a full count. One out. Payoff pitch. Nope. Another throw. That was just a lob over the first. No more free checks. Not in this at bat. Payoff pitch. Manata doesn’t go. Swing and a miss. And oh chased ball four. We’ll take it. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? First strike out of the day for Cal Gibson. Two down in the inning. Luis Reneo switch hitting second baseman batting from the left side. Takes inside for ball one on a cutter from Gibson. Reneo batting 213, a single home run, nine driven in. Made a nice defensive play last night. That pitch is inside again. 2 and 0. Two runs in for the Angels. We’re here in the bottom of the first. Two down, runner at first base. The two- pitch is fouled at the plate. Two and one. They had over 30,000 people in attendance here last night for a game between a couple of teams struggling and an Angels team that doesn’t really have any star players on it right now. Mike Trout down with another injury. That two-1 pitch is fouled straight back. It’s two and two. This crowd doesn’t appear to be quite as large, but not too not too shabby. Here comes the 22. Up and in. Full count. Next pitch from Gibson will be the 20th of the inning with the runner at first and a full count two down. He will take off Manata. Here comes the payoff pitch and it’s ball four low and inside. When Gibson’s missing, it’s not even close. They’re pitches that the batters aren’t even offering at. They’re just staring at pitches that they know are out of the zone. You got to You got to be around the zone, Kyle. Two on, two out for Joe Adele. pitch. That’s a sinker in there for a strike. Adele hitting 198 once played alongside Kyle Farmer. That’s when you had Farmer and Adele. Get it? Hey, it’s 0 and two. Two strikes, two out, two on, two runs in. 02 pitch, swing, and a foul tip. We’ll do it again because see, one guy’s name is farmer and the other guy’s name Adele. H, forget it. the O2 way outside. 24 pitches in the inning. And I’d have to say about at least 10 of them have been pitches so far off the plate that the they’ve been useless, pointless pitches. One, two. There’s another one. Two and two after a pitch in the dirt. Uh let’s remember that uh Hyde is 0 and5 again. We had a best of three, we lost two, we had a best of five, we lost three. We’re 0 and5 in the last two October. Not saying it’s a whole lot better than 0 and6, but uh why make it worse than it truthfully is? Two and two on Adele. Lifted in the air and out of play. We’ll do it again. Gibson’s about to throw his 28th pitch of the inning. And I am sweating now. Hot coffee. Chile’s sent a donation. Thank you, Chile. Here’s a check swing on a pitch inside and he went around. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Well, Gibson got off to a terrible start. Three straight hits and then a sack fly as well. puts two runs on the board for the Angels in the first. We go to the second inning. Baltimore nothing. The Angels two. And what just happened to my scoreboard here? Scoreboard’s freaking out. Well, let me go in here and see if you did it publicly or not. There, Chilo. I’m checking it out. Boom. Chilo says, “Congrats.” Daniel as well gave support. Daniel says, “Keep up the great work, BW.” Chilo says, “Congrats on 200 straight games, BW. Let’s go.” O, fantastic. Thank you, folks. I don’t even know what the amount is. I guess on this page they don’t show it. I’d have to go into the profile area. But whatever it is, it doesn’t matter. It’s anything. any any amount of support is uh not only appreciated but extremely necessary. Uh I got to go grab a roll of paper towels or something to wipe the film of sweat that is gathering on my face right now. It just got crazy hot in here. I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe the weather’s heating up outside. We had a lot of rain last night and sometimes a big rain followed by a hot morning. the the it’s like a sauna out there. All the steam coming up from the water on the ground. Why am I explaining it? I don’t know. But I’ll be back here in just a sec. Okay. Whoops. There we go. One sec. Oh wow. Okay, first pitch to Mount Castle is ball one. Okay, mount up. Let’s go. We need to get on the board here. Called strike on the outside edge. 101 on Mounty’s hitting 208. Thank you, Dan. Pitch grounded foul off to the right. What is going on with the scoreboard tonight? It’s doing weird things. There we go. One and two on Mounty. Bow back. 98 mph heater from Coachitz. Blood, sweat, and tears. Chilo. Blood, sweat, and tears. That one’s in on the hands and fouled away again. One and two. Still the count on Mount Castle. About threearters of the pitches thrown by Kachanowitz is some version of the fast ball. The four seamer or the sinker. That one’s hit on the ground. Foul again. Mounty hanging tough. Come on, buddy. Mount up. Okay, mount up. Need that leadoff man on. Hey, thank you, Bruce. Thank you so much. That pitch is low and end. Two balls and two strikes. Nobody throws more fast balls than this guy. That ball’s hit on the ground but right to short. Neto with a lob throw to first in time. One away. Mount Castle is retired six-3 on the put out. Blue Jays and Mariners are scoreless in the bottom of the second. The Yankees lost earlier today to Oakland despite a couple of Aaron Judge home runs. Excuse me, not Oakland, the Athletics. Forgive me. Ryan O’Harn takes a called strike. Lights on. It’s turn and burn. The Padres’s are on top of the Rockies 20 to nothing. Man, folks, you think you got a bat, imagine being a Rockies fan. Here’s a swing and a foul ball by O’Harn. The count is 0 and2. What do the Rockies have like five wins on the season, maybe six? It is bad out there in Colorado. Something like 6 and 30 is their record and now they’re losing 20 to nothing. Ryan O’Harn fouls one back. 6 and 33. So this will be their 40th game which is the quarter mark of the season. They are on pace to win uh 24 games. There’s a called strike three to O’Harn. Down he goes. Two away. 24 wins. And that would be what? 140 38 losses. That is insane. Yeah, they’re well on pace. They’re well on pace. Here’s said Mullins called strike on the outside edge. Mullins hitting sixth tonight. Just one hit in his last I don’t know week. I’d say that ball’s hit hard and foul off to the right. That count is 0 and two. Two down, nobody on. An 02 to Mullins. That’s hit hard. Get back. That ball is going to stay up and be caught on the edge of the warning track in right field to win the inning. Decent swing by Mullins. Sounded good off the bat. just didn’t quite square it up. The Orioles go quietly onto the bottom of the second. Two nothing Angels. That’s right, 200. I guess I should have looked up to see if there is any appropriate sound bites for the number 200. I could look real quick. Let’s see. If I just type in 200, what does it get me? That doesn’t seem to work. Maybe I have to type it out. 200. Uh, let’s see. 200 200. That’s from Fantasy Island. 200. That’s Gilligan’s Island. 200. That’s from Taken. This is from Gremlins. Uh two 200 South Park. 200 200. That might be the one. City of Angels. Is that that Nick Cage romantic comedy or whatever? 200 200 200 [ __ ] you, [ __ ] Whoa. Sorry. 200. Sorry. Whoa. 200. Jeez. [Music] All right. I don’t know what that is. All right. Here we go. Bottom of the second inning. This ball is fouled off by Kairen Paris. 0 and1 on him. He’s hitting 214. Number eight hitter Paris. So, we’re going South Park. 200. 200. Okay. the 01 to Paris. That one’s chopped into two. Hey Patrick, thank you. Well, to be perfectly honest, the milestone isn’t official until this game is official. So, we got to get to the bottom of the fifth inning before it’s officially 200 games in the books. It’s just like Cal’s streak, remember? Except not nearly as important or nearly as uh impressive or nearly as anything other than that. It’s very similar. Here’s the one two to Paris. Low two and two. Let’s see. Where do I want to put this? The 22 on the outside edge at the knees. Called strike three. Well, y’all come back now, you hear? Well, y’all come back now, you hear? Another strike out for Gibson. All right. Where do I want to put this? Uh, maybe in here [Music] somewhere. Uh, Matthew Lugo takes a sweeper for a called strike. 0 and1 Lugo. This is his first atbat of the season. He came in as a defensive replacement last night. 01 is in the dirt. One ball, one strike. All right, I’m going to get rid of this one. And what was the name of Already forgot the name of what I downloaded. 200. [Music] Okay, one-1 pitch to Lugo is high two and one. Swing and a miss on the sweeper. Two balls, two strikes. Next pitch is swung on and missed. Another strike out for Gibby, folks. He’s starting to settle in. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Starting to settle in a little bit. Little bit. Little bit. All right, let’s see how this works. 200 200 200 200 All right, it’s in the board. Here’s the one to Netto on the outside edge. Gibson finding the corners here in the second inning. One ball, one strike. We’ve got four four uh what do you call it? notifications on the Kofi site. One-1 pitch blowing away, two balls and one strike. Uh uh Coconut Gun is supporting me as well. Thank you to Coconut Gun. Coffee all the way from gorgeous Prince George’s. Thanks so much, Coconut Gun. This ball’s grounded in the hole at short. Matteo with a long throw in time and the inning is over. Gibson, after a rocky first inning, looks much better in the second. Angels retired in order. We go to the third. The Orioles need to get on the board. It’s two nothing LA. Hurstad, Rivera, and Matteo. Bottom of the order. Do up. Uh, so Coconut Gun, I don’t know if you have a name in the Charm City chat. if you want to be uh identified or not. If you do, just let me know in the chat that that’s you and I’ll thank you here in the chat. Otherwise, uh if you like your anonymity, which is perfectly understandable, just want to say thanks either way. Appreciate it, folks. Once again, folks, if you’re just tuning in tonight, uh again, I I’m the only person on the channel. I wish I had like a a co-host that could sit here and talk about, you know, tonight’s celebration stream. Uh, as I call my consecutive game number 200, it may not sound like a lot, folks, but believe me, it is. And it’s particularly impressive. How the hell did I get the way the hell over here? Why am I over here? There. Huh? What is this? How did I get over there? You belong over here. There. Put you over there. So now I’m over here. Okay, that’s better. Hey everybody. Uh, I forgot what I was going to say. Uh, yeah. Fix my hair. I got like one random hair. That’s that. That’s how you know it’s sweaty in here. You got one hair. Oh boy, I completely lost my train of thought, folks. I’ll get back to it. And what happened over here to the scoreboard? What in the hell’s going on, Bobby? Okay, I think we’re okay. Here we go. H Kirstad. Top of the third. Pitch is up and away for ball one. Kirstan is due. Yeah, I think I need a co-host to talk about all the donation stuff for tonight cuz me doing it just makes it sound kind of scuzzy. I don’t know. I don’t like it, but I have to do it. The channel needs needs a bit of a bump to get through a a rough stretch here. One-1 pitch is outside the Kursad. Two and one the count. That one’s hit right back to Kachano. It’s over to first in time. Kirstad retired on a comebacker. One away. We got to get to this dude. He’s not good. Come on, offense. Are the caps on tonight? They’re on every night. When do they ever get a night off? Rivera looks at a called strike even though he got out of the way of a pitch he thought was coming up and in on [Music] him. The 01 is off the plate one and one. The Rays won earlier today beating the Brewers 3-2. 1-1 Rivera smacked foul off to the right. Miss Janet has entered the building. Please throw flower petals at her feet. This pitch is fouled away. One and two. How you doing, Janet? What was that noise? I just heard a weird beep that I guess came from my phone. It was an It was a beep I’ve never heard of in my life. It sounded like a heart monitor. Pitch off the plate to Rivera. Count even up at two and two. One out, nobody on top of the third. The Orioles trying to do something. Jackson Holiday let off the game with a hit. Got wiped out by a double play and it’s been nothing since. Chopper third base. That is a fair ball. Throwing off balance in time is Monata to get the out. Two away. Rex Ryan has entered the chat. All right. Well, I know how to get Rex Ryan to send a donation for the channel. BW’s just got to show one of his feet. Let me see if I can get it up here on the screen. Hold on. That’s my foot. Check swing by Matteo. Ball one. Base is empty. Two down. Matteo. No homers, no RBI. Couple of hits on the season. Takes a low 2 and 0. Take another pitch. Jorge. He does. It’s 3 and 0. Take another pitch, Jorge. And if it’s a strike, then take another pitch. That’s a strike. Take another pitch. Jorge. 3-1. Ball four. Hey, Matteo, you listened. I’m walking here. I’m walking here. Folks, when people listen to BW, good things happen. Why don’t more people just listen to me? Why? I’m tired of being marginalized. Fast runner at first, base, two down, Holiday at the plate. First pitch is outside for ball one. Let’s get a bugle going. Holiday with a base hit tonight. The only hit for the Orioles. Matteo needs to run and he will be able to get to second base as the ball is thrown away. It doesn’t get far, but far enough for Matteo. That’ll be an error on the pitcher. Kachanowitz with the errant throw on the check on Matteo at first. The runner at second base now. And now a hit from Holiday gets a run back. 10 count outside 2 and 0. Little two out magic. The Angels seem to be gifting us a chance. I say we take them up on their offer. Here comes Ron Washington. One of the few managers left out there that’ll go out and talk to a pitcher without yanking him. Has Brandon Hyde ever come out to talk to a pitcher without coming out to remove that picture? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it. Two and 0. The count on holiday, folks. [Music] Here comes the 20 from Kachanowitz outside. Not even close. It’s 3 and 0. Whoops. That was too early. Come on. [ __ ] takes ball four. Get on first. First and second. Two down. I’m walking here. I’m walking here. All right, Adley. Come on, dude. Come [Music] on, Adley. We have anointed you the captain of this team since the day you got called up what three seasons back now. These are the moments we need you. First pitch inside ball one. A change up. Adley just three for 23 on the season with runners in scoring position. This one’s popped straight up on the infield. Short stop with the catch. Inning over. Two men left on. Jesus. Hadley. Folks, here’s a hot take. Adley Rutman is putting up backup catcher numbers. And then we went out and signed a backup catcher for 8.5 million. He was putting up worse numbers and is hurt. I thought catching was supposed to be our strong suit. This was where we’re supposed to have a an advantage over most teams. Wow, look at us. We got catchers that can hit. Oh boy. Bottom of the third coming up. [Music] Uh, what’s this? George. George uh came in with a uh support. Thank you, George. George Melissa, I hope I didn’t butcher your name. Thanks so much for the support there, George. And I want to thank you very much for that. I really do. Guys, I’m going to send you guys a message back on uh the Kofi site after the ball game. I’ll be sure for everybody that messaged me or did anything. Uh I’ll be get you I’ll be getting you back. I promise. Just let me do it after the ball game. Kyle Gibson on for his third inning of work. He’s got four strikeouts in the first two innings, but he’s also given up a pair of runs, three hits, and a walk. You’ll have the two, three, four hitters up for the Angels. Sean Well at the plate, and first pitch is outside for ball one. Folks, no matter what happens tonight, you better get back here for a late afternoon game tomorrow. Worst case scenario, we’ll still be uh going for the series win. Best case scenario, going for a sweep. But either way, it’s the return of Zack Efflin on the mound. And that should make you pretty darn happy. 20 to Shawn Well. That one’s drilled deep to center. Mullins is going back and makes the catch up against the wall. Oh my. Sean Well nearly got it out of here. Hit it to the wrong part of the yard though. Mullins covering all the ground as he often does for a loud first out. Yoan Monata takes low. I want to know. Monata has a hit already tonight. That pitch is on the outside edge. One ball, one strike against Gibson. Manata’s had plenty of success. 9 for 23. That’s good for a 391 average. And that’s a pretty big sample size. That ball’s hit on the ground. First base side. Fair ball. Mount Castle will take it to the bag unassisted for out number two. Two down in the third. Gibson has settled down. And that’ll bring up Taylor Ward. hit a sack fly his first time up. So, no atbat official yet tonight. Yeah. Honestly, if you take Adley Rutman, if you take the numbers or the names off the players stats and he just threw them all onto a piece of paper and he mixed Adley’s offensive numbers in there with everybody else in the league, you would look at that and go, “Okay, that guy is kind of a average to below average catcher.” And that’s just offensively. 01 pitch is outside. One ball, one strike. And for most teams, they have a below average hitting catcher. You know where they hit in the lineup? Eighth, ninth, maybe seventh on a weak team. And we just continue to hit our guy second or third. which look when he’s running good uh that’s where he belongs but he’s not been running good for about a year. That ball’s hit hard and a nice stop at third base by Rivera across the diamond in time and the inning is over. Good defense here in the inning from the Orioles. Rivera has been very sharp over there at the hot corner. We move on now to the fourth. Still two nothing Los Angeles. Hey folks, I know tonight’s all about helping out the channel with the fundraiser, but uh we still have some other uh goals we’d like to hit. We’ve got about a hundred people watching the game right now, but only half of you have hit the like button. We need that utter half utter. We need that other half to uh join in. So, folks, if you’re watching along right now, we got to break in the action. Uh all you got to do is tap that thumb at the bottom of your screen. Uh it’s just a little gesture and it really does help out the channel. It’s how channels like this survive. We just, and I mean just cleared 100 likes last night. It took a postgame run in order to get there. But for a night like tonight with the celebration, celebration, celebrate good times. Come on. And look folks, if you send a donation and you want to put in some sort of special request from BW, you want me to put out a special message, you want me to do one of my stupid impressions, you want me to sing a few bars from your favorite 80s one hit wonder new wave band, whatever it might be. Whatever you know I’m capable of, throw that in there and I’ll meet your request as well. This monkey is ready to dance tonight. We’ve got the three, four, and five hitters coming up. We’ve got a new magic member, Ozman. The Ozman cometh. Message for you, sir. Thank you for joining, Ozman. I offer you the opportunity to join me in glorious battle. All right. Gunnar Henderson at the plate. First pitch, his name’s Gunnar and he’s dating my mom. Up and away for ball one. Kachanowitz. Three shutout innings. And uh I’m sick of it. This guy’s not this good. That one’s high. 2 and 0. Hard to say, Jacob. We need a couple of variables to change in order for it to happen. I feel it’s not too late, but uh we can’t afford any more losing streaks like the one we just snapped last night. We got to start winning series one at a time. Try to get back to 500 by the All-Star break. Gunner hits one down the left field corner and just foul of the pole there. Nearly snuck a cheap home run out. The count is two and two. 50 pitches on the night for Kachanowitz. Yeah, Malik, you’re not the only one that thought that swing and a miss. And Henderson chases a sinker in the dirt. Strikes out. One down. Yeah, Miss Janet Hill had posted that uh transaction in the Discord, the Charm City Discord. Just the announcement from the Orioles Twitter feed that said the Orioles have made a roster move. we have added from the Seattle Mariners Luis F. Castillo for cash considerations. And I was like, “Oh my god, we got Castillo and all we had to do is pay him some cash. What? Pay some of his contract off. We didn’t even have to give up anybody. I’m so happy I got to go live. I got to go on the air right now and talk about it.” And then I dig a little bit deeper as Mount Castle swings and misses. One the count on Mounty. Okay, mount up. And then I realized what the F means and Luis F. Castillo. The F means we got effed. It’s the wrong guy. Here’s a ground ball. Base hit into the left field. Mount Castle finds the hole on the left side. A one out single. Turn on the faucet and send the tying run up to the plate. All right, we got some lefties coming up. Let’s go. Ryan O’Harn. First pitch to him is in the dirt. want to know again. Kachanowitz not much command. It would be wise to allow him to fall behind and then look for a fat pitch or take a walk. The 10 inside 2 and 0, folks. Lights on. It’s turning burn. Two and0 on O’Harn. The pitch inside ball three. The Chanowitz can’t find the zone. Runner at first, one out. The Orioles down two. A three 0 low and in ball four. Take your base. I’m walking here. I’m walking here. The tying runs are on. The tying runs are on. A single by Mounty. A walk to O’Harn. And here comes Sed. said, “Come on, Said.” He looks at a pitch low and here comes the catcher to talk to Kachanowitz. Come on, folks. I smell a rally. What happened to the scoreboard again at the top of the screen? What’s with all the shenanigans, folks? I don’t know. Oh, there it goes. Oh, now it’s back. What do you want to do? All right. Are you going to stay there? Okay. All right. Said Melons mound meeting is over. Said with the runners in scoring position with a 308 average. Pitch on the outside edge for a strike. One and one. Come on said. We need a big hit. 1-1 outside. Two and one. Not close. Not close. Another lefty H Kirstad is on deck. The 2-1 Mullins. Low and in check swing. He did not go. Three and one. Come on, folks. Hiters count. The pitch. That one’s fouled away. A fast ball low part of the zone. It was a strike. That’s a full count. The channel it’s up to 63 pitches. The 32 to Mullins hit on the ground. And this could be two. It won’t. It will be two. Replay that. Replay that. Mullins is safe. They say the inning is over on a double play. I want a replay. I want a replay. [ __ ] He’s out. He’s out. Double play. [Music] Stop it all. [Music] Folks, once again, tonight uh we celebrate our 200th game, which will be official now in about one inning, uh as the game becomes official. Uh we’ve had a few people already uh support the channel. Uh we’re hopefully not done. Again, this is a very important night and I promise I’ll not bring up a night like this again for another 100 games. All right, you’re good to go all summer long into probably September until the next milestone, but um I wouldn’t be harping on it unless it was uh extremely necessary. Uh so please if you do have the ability to support tonight is the night. Tonight is your night bro. As BW rolls a special 200th lucky. A 200th special lucky on a Saturday night in LA. This is not my best improv song. Doesn’t really have any rhyme or meter or anything. All right. Melanie Newman is holding up a giant plastic tub. What’s in there, Melanie? Lube. Is that your hair gel? What’s in there? Uh Logan Oppoy at the plate. First pitch is a called strike from Kyle Gibson. More cookies. Great. There they are. Special delivery. It’s cook. Thank you, Chilo. Thank you for giving me the accurate answer when clearly I was going for a joke. Here’s a ground ball to third. Rivera over to first in time. Went away. No, I didn’t actually think it was a tub full of [Laughter] lube. Boy, Palmer’s going to town quickly. Boy, for a guy he’s never had hot wings, he’s certainly had his share of cookies. Where’s the milk? Luis Reneo hits a ball in the center. Mullins is going to stride in a few steps, make the catch. Two down quickly in the fourth. What is going on with my scoreboard tonight? I don’t know. Uh, Trout is not currently healthy, Doug. Not in the lineup, not with the team. Adele gets into one deep to left center. And that ball is going to go into the rock pile for a solo home run. It’s three nothing Angels. Two down in the fourth. Joe Adele. Home run ball given up by Gibby. too many home run balls. Here’s Kairen Paris. He takes a called strike. Three nothing Angels in the bottom of the fourth. Base is empty. Two down. Paris is 0 for one. 01 pitch hit hard on the ground. Backhanded by Matteo and deep in the hole. A bounce throw is offline gets away from Mount Castle. The runner will not advance. It should be an infield hit, but Matteo with another wild throw. Runner at first. Two down. Matthew Lugo at the plate. 0 for one. And he goes after the first pitch. Hits it to center field and deep. And that ball is off the center field wall and rolls far away from Mullins. A run will score. And Lugo is going to make it all the way to third. That’s his first hit of the season, maybe in his career. I don’t know. But he did not have an at bat coming into tonight’s game. And it looks like that may very well be his first major league hit. A triple with two out. to score a run on a pitch, a breaking ball. Started high, had the outside corner, but middle of the plate, middle of the zone. I I guess I should say it’s 4 nothing. Back to the top of the order. Zack Neto takes low and away for ball one. I don’t know what happened to the scoreboard. Needto hits one to right. Long run for Ryan O’Harn. He makes the catch along the edge of the warning track and the inning is over. But the Angels uh have doubled up their lead. They had two runs in the first, two more here in the fourth, one on a 453 foot home run by Joe Adell. We go to the fifth inning. The Angels lead it four to nothing. I don’t think Gibson’s as much of a mistake, Chilo, because we signed Gibson in the middle of spring training because of all the injuries. Grayson Rodriguez had just gone down. You know, the free agent market at that point had pretty much dried up. We were probably looking for a guy to not necessarily take over a spot in the rotation, but just be more of a stop gap solution until the guys we want in there get healthy. And I think they looked at Gibson as the guy that kind of fit all that criteria plus his familiarity with the team. Uh yeah, I’m sure they also had it in the back of their minds that maybe Gibson is uh you know, not going to be as effective as he once was getting up there in age and what have you. But I don’t think it’s as big of a bust as the Morton signing. I don’t think it’s close. First of all, he’s only getting paid onethird of the money. Uh secondly, he’s already had one game where he’s at least kind of kept us in the game, which is something Morton hasn’t done once. Uh now, is it going to wind up being a helpful addition, Cal Gibson? Uh so far, it’s not looking like it. It’s not looking like a helpful addition, but was it a giant swing and a miss? I don’t think so. I think based on what our needs were, when it happened, what was available. Again, the familiarity there with Gibson and him willing to take on a role where he knows that, you know, when everybody’s healthy, he’s probably not in this rotation. I I don’t think it was a terrible signing. It’s just bad results. Uh here’s H Kirstad. Morton was a terrible signing. One to Kirstad hit on the ground at second. Reno double clutches still able to throw to first in time. Went away. Yeah. And and Gibson’s also gotten uh positive feedback about his Clubhouse presence. So, you got that as well. Although, right now, I don’t know how much that’s helping. So all that for five million, you know, it may not wind up being worth the money that’s spent, but it’s not the worst $5 million bust if it winds up being a bust. One and0 to Rivera. That pitch is low and away. 2 and 0. And Axeminster is absolutely right. Kachanowitz tonight. If we just sat there and took pitches, we’d be doing a whole lot better than we have so far. There’s a call strike. Two and one on Rivera. That’s a called strike at the bottom of the zone. Count even up at two and two. Pitch. Oh my god. They rang him up. Rivera rung up on a bad call. Why don’t you wake up and smell what you shoveling? Pitch was outside. Why don’t you wake up and smell what you shoveling? Why don’t you wake up and smell what you shoveling? Why don’t you wake up and smell what you shoveling? Rivera muttering to himself. Back to the dugout. Two down here in the fifth for Matteo. Well, at least Matteo’s bat gets out of the way and we’ll have the leadoff man up for the next inning. Silver linings, folks. Silver linings. Fouled off of Matteo at the plate. one and one. So once again folks, we got a day game coming up tonight. Uh but it’s super late. That’s right. So I think for me it starts like 3:00 in the morning. So I guess I will be wearing something else. I guess I need to go to bed tonight. What? By about 9:00. Wake up about 2. Here’s a ground ball to short. Neto over to first in time. Inning over. The Orioles bats are still asleep. We can’t do anything against Coachitz. Kachanowitz. Why do we make every nobody pitcher look like an ace? How many pitchers this season facing us have put up their best like pitching line of the season? I’m telling you right now, opponents, they look at their schedule and they see us coming up, they’re licking their chops. Got to do better. Torpedo bats. Shoot. We need a a Thanos bat. All right. Well, at least this Jay’s coming together. Hey folks, this game brought to you by uh Bacon Strips. Bacon. Bacon. Where’s the bacon? I smell bacon. Bacon. Bacon. Got to be bacon. Only one thing smells like bacon. That’s bacon. Bacon. Bacon. Bacon. Bacon. There. From that bag. What’s it say? I can’t read. Please. Please give me what’s in the bag. Chewy, yummy, smoky bacon. Here you go. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. No. It’s bacon. No, it’s bacon strips. Brand dog snack from Pyina. Bacon strips. Dogs don’t know it’s not bacon. It’s bacon. You know that ad would be so funny if he just replaced the word bacon with crystal meth. Bacon. Bacon. Where’s the bacon? I smell bacon. Bacon. Bacon. Got to be bacon. Only one thing smells like bacon. That’s bacon. Bacon. Bacon. Bacon. Bacon. There from that bag. What’s it say? I can’t read. Please. Please give me what’s in the bag. Chewy, yummy, smoky bacon. There you go. Oh boy. Oh boy. It’s bacon. Uh, one and0 on Nolan Shawnwell beginning the bottom of the fifth. Gibson out here just through his 62nd pitch of the night. And the next pitch is outside. Two and0 on Shawn Well. He’s one for two. Sean Well, a big supporter of the Shamwow. That one’s low. 3 and 0. Come on, Gibby. Lead off man falling behind. Three and 0. [ __ ] There’s a strike bottom of the zone, folks. I used to be a professional moy. Did you know that? Professional mo. Don’t believe me? Look at this. See that? Cut that tip right off. All right. Full count on John Well. Pitch number 67 on the night from Gibson. The payoff to Shawn Well. Here it comes. Hit in the air to left and down for a base hit. Lead off single for the Angels. How much longer are we going to go with Gibson if we’re going to allow ourselves any hope to get back into this ball game? It’s not like we can use our highest leverage guys tonight anyway. Bautista pitched last night. Canó threw a lot of pitches last night. So, they’re both unavailable. So, if we’re down four runs and you want to go to some new arms, we got some low leverage guys available here. One Oda Monata is fouled back. One ball, one strike. Spark that thing. You want me to spark up the 200th special lucky of the channel? I mean, you know, I’m a lucky strike man from way back. So, looks like Yan Monata is being tended to by the trainer about something. Not sure what, but whatever it is appears to be in the lower half of his body. A look on this last swing. Might be an oblique issue, a lat issue, something there in that midsection. Lancata will resume the atbat with a 1-1 count. Runner at first, nobody out. Pitch number 70 on the night from Gibson. Low for ball two. Zack Efflin coming back tomorrow afternoon for game three. 2-1 had the plate and gets the call. It looked a little bit low, but we get the call. Two balls, two strikes. Colin Selby, talk about low leverage, guys. There you go. He’s up. CN Perez appears to be stretching behind him. So, there’s your lefty low leverage option. Pitch inside full count. I think that’s how Hyde is going to approach this. He used uh his best bullpen guys to get the win last night. He wants to keep him ready for tomorrow and try to get the series win with Efflin pitching with Gibson tonight down four. It’s a little bit of a concession, but it’s also thinking big picture. He wants to win two out of three, but it’s got to work. Tomorrow, we have to win. If we don’t win tomorrow, then this plan uh has not bared any fruit for us. Payoff pitch is outside. We got to get Gibson out of the game. Another walk. Two on, nobody out. Brandon Hyde is just stroking his chin hairs. Not moving yet. Here comes Drew French. Stall tactic. Come on. BW is about to light up his 200th consecutive. By the way, we’re in the bottom of the fifth. This is an official game. So, guess what? 200. Baltimore, you are seeing history being made today. Come on, folks. When I started this channel up, people said I was nuts. You’re nuts, BW. You’ll never keep it up. Oh, you’ll be like everybody else. You’ll start something and then you’ll just kind of fizzle out. You’re not going to want to get up at 2 in the morning, 3 in the morning, 4 in the morning every single day. turn your life upside down and you’re definitely going to give up once the Orioles start playing badly playing in last place. Half the team injured. Fans are going nuts. None of it matters, folks. 200 on the road to 2,000. I don’t give a damn as long as I’ve got internet connection, a chair to sit in, and a mic to talk in, a lucky to smoke. Let’s go. Two and0 on Taylor Ward after that pitch is outside. Gibson is still in the ball game, falling behind another batter. There’s a called strike one. Well, Janet, I would love to get something like that, but can can we name it anything other than Tushy Cushion? That sounds horrible. That pitch is low. But we got a three in one count on ward. Nobody out. Two men on already on base already. Already. Happy birthday to me. Happy birthday to me. And that’s ball four. Get him out of the game. Get him. Thank you, Brandon. What made you think uh he was suddenly gonna turn things around with that last batter? Now you’ve made it. Bases loaded. Nobody out. Call to the bullpen. Too late. Jeez Louise. Well, you know, I thought Gibby looked pretty good out there. um unfortunately gave up the long ball and uh I just want to give him a chance to work out of it and you know the veteran that he is and I know he really wants to help this team and uh okay any reason uh Yeah, time to kick out the jams. Hey folks, I don’t mean to uh sound uh what do you call it? uh ungrateful. But tonight’s uh Streamathon uh to help the stream uh keep the lights on after a difficult beginning of the season. And I was projected to get to 5,000 subs this season, folks. If we get to 4,000, I think it’s going to be a miracle. Uh a lot of the projections have taken a massive hit. Whether or not it has anything to do with the success of the team or something I screwed up with the algorithm, I don’t know. Maybe just my personality stinks. But for whatever the reason, uh unfortunately, uh trying to map out when this channel is going to get to the level where things are comfortable is going to take longer than originally thought at the end of last season. So that’s why we’re doing this. And uh again, I hope you guys don’t think I’m a bit of a scumbag for doing it. Uh Colin Selby is on with the bases loaded, nobody out. What a I’m sure he’s really happy to get a chance to pitch in this spot. Logan Hoppy 0 and1 the count on him. Shawnwell at third, Monata at second, and Ward at first. There’s a ball hit back to second and going to the plate with it is Holiday to get the force. Holiday could have turned two. Two, but I think he understood we could not afford to give up another run if we can afford to not do it. So, one out. It’s still 4 nothing. We still need a double play. Let’s hope this was the right play by Holiday. Algorithm has buried me. You’re subscribed and you still have to search. I don’t know what I did wrong. I don’t know what I did wrong. Luis Reno has a strike. He’s up there. Base is loaded. One out. That ball’s hit on the ground and off the glove and a diving play by Mount Castle to get to the bag at first in time for the second out, but a run does come in to score. RBI ground out. Monata crosses the plate. It is 5 nothing Angels. Two down in the fifth. runners at second and third. So Janet, you’re saying that you have to like work harder to find my stuff on YouTube than last year. That’s pretty rough. pretty pretty rough. Ron Washington is out to talk about something with the umpire. That sucks, man. Why? What did I do? I mean, other than taking the time off, what did I do? All I did was upgrade the channel to look better. Now it’s in HD. It wasn’t in HD before. Now there’s information. There’s scrolling text. There’s there’s news. There’s out of town scores. There’s information galore. And the algorithm said no because what? Baseball isn’t on 12 months a year. Algorithm hates smoking. Well, I’ve been doing that the whole time. So, I don’t know. Now, Brandon Hyde has something he wants to talk about. Maybe he’s asking the Empire, “Why didn’t I take Gibson out a batter earlier than I did?” I do have hashtags in a description and I know that the top three hashtags uh have extra importance and I made sure to go back and look at the hashtags I was using last year to make sure that they’re the same. They are #Baltimore Orioles livebyplay. Those are the top three. And then number four is like MLB. after that, you know, whatever. We’ll see. Joe Adell at the plate, two on, two out. He’s got a 1-1 count. He had a home run his last time up. Needless to say, uh, anything here, and this game is going to be out of reach if it isn’t already. That pitch is low away. Two and one the count. Okay, good. What if I smoke a ham live on the live on air? Will that help? Ground ball. Third base. Rivera over to first in time. Inning over, but the Angels keep adding on. The lead continues to grow. We still haven’t scored a run and we haven’t even really come close. So, say what you want about a less than impressive outing from Kyle Gibson. The fact of the matter is five innings through the team has yet to score. Uh Derek, that hasn’t changed since last season either. really really the only variables that have changed one is the fact that I started a channel that was streaming basically every day calling the games. The channel started to grow only about a week in. It started to grow at a nice rate. It went from hundreds of people to thousands of people quickly and uh maybe averaged in the 2 to 3,000 range up until about the all-star break. The channel then became monetized once we hit 1,000 subscribers and the numbers just continued to go up. By the time we got into August, September, even though the team wasn’t doing all that well, our average views are up to 4,000 5,000. And uh that all gets added into the ad revenue that this channel makes and those are the only ways this channel earns. One is through ad revenue and the other is through donations from you guys. Uh, so if I’m relying heavily on ad revenue only and right now the turnouts are about 35% the size of an average turnout last year, then you’re only getting about 35% of what was already, you know, a pretty humble amount of ad revenue. Basically, you’re talking about a guy that went from making about 20 bucks a game who’s now down to making about eight bucks a game, seven bucks a game. It’s not easy to get by on that, folks. That’s just uh that’s just the truth. You know as much as I do about the uh the health of the channel. Here is Jackson Holiday. Top of the six. First pitch is fouled back. So, I do have one potential solution, but it’s going to take time and I have no idea if it’s going to help at all. But, uh, I’ll talk to you about that in a sec. I did plan on making this announcement for the 200th game call. By the way, Kachanowitz is still out there in the sixth inning. I’m sure it’s the deepest he’s ever gone as a starter. seems to be the case for a lot of pitchers against us. There’s a called strike to Holiday, one and two. Holiday had that hit back in the first inning to begin the ball game. He’s also drawn a walk. He’s been on base both times. And here he is leading off again in the sixth. Fouls this pitch back. Still one and two. So folks, my thinking is, well, I’m going to have to somehow provide content on this same channel during the off season because if YouTube is going to punish me for taking time off, I can’t afford to go through that again for another season. So I need offseason content. Here is a ground ball by Holiday to first. a flip to the pitcher covering and Jackson’s retired for the first time tonight. So, after doing a little bit of uh reflection about what is it I could talk about because, you know, if I get on here and just do a podcast style thing about Orioles baseball on a nearly everyday basis during the winter months, nobody’s going to tune in for that. There’s only so much you can talk about and most of that would be speculation. And honestly folks, I need the off season to you know get mentally uh you know recovered from doing a full season and going through all the what should we do and all that. I need a break from that. I can’t spend my winter talking about it. So the other idea was like Michael just mentioned uh well there’s always football. Here’s an 01 pitch in the dirt to Rutman. One ball, one strike, one out in the top of the six. base is empty. Five nothing Angels. So, yeah, I did call a couple of football games on here just for a, you know, just to see how it would go. Uh, but there’s a couple of reasons why I’m not going to do that. This pitch is off the plate two and one. First of all, uh again, I feel like if you’re going to do what I’m doing here on YouTube and cover a team, you should dedicate it all to one team, one sport, because if you’re doing something beyond that, then you’re not 100% invested in something. Two and two on. And once again, my scoreboard’s acting up. It’s five nothing Angels. Uh the other thing is with football, you know, you got that bleed over in September. There’s going to be days on Sundays where the Orioles and the Ravens or Orioles and Commanders are both playing at the same time. And once again, baseball for me, top priority. So, can’t really do the NFL. Want to keep it Orioles themed. I want to do something uh maybe a little bit offbeat and a chance to maybe a more of a comedy style show like I used to do on my other channel. This pitch is low. Full count on Rutman. Here’s a bugle. Full count on Adley. One out. Payoff pitch. swung on and popped up. Out of play though, still three and two. So, the solution, folks, uh I play MLB the show on my PlayStation 4 and uh it’s one of only two games I ever really play anymore at my age. I play FIFA, the soccer game, and I play MLB, the show. That’s it. I play my football slash soccer and I play my baseball. Payoff pitch is grounded up the middle. Backhanded by the shortstop Neto over to first in time. Rutman’s 0 for three. Another quiet night at the plate for Adley. Two down, bases empty in the sixth. So, knowing that one popular uh category of content out there on the internets is uh live uh gameplay. The the idea is that BW is going to become the GM of the Orioles. There’s a ground ball base hit by Gunner into left. Gunner has been going opposite field a lot, taking advantage of that wide open space with the shift on a two out single for Gunner. So yeah, people do live gameplay on Twitch and other platforms, but you can do it on YouTube as well. All you got to do is hook it up. So the plan for me is to start a season and go through an entire oral season, 162 games. And the way I’m going to do it is to play two games a night. These games normally take 40 to 45 minutes. Uh so you’re talking about an hour and a half, give or take, uh on a stream. And it’ll be a double header every game. That’ll be 81 streams over the course of the off seasonason, which fits in just about right to where I’m on probably five nights a week and giving myself Christmas and whatever off. Here’s a line drive down the left field corner. That is a fair ball. And hitting third, coming home is Gunner. We’ve got a two out RBI double. And the Orioles are finally on the board. Is that O’Harn turning in? No, it’s Ryan Mount Castle Mounty. It’s five to one. [Music] All right, five to one. And what is going on with this scoreboard? I don’t know. Gunner running hard all the way. Uh so, right. Uh that’s the plan, folks. I uh I start up a franchise with the Orioles on the video game and I I get to be the GM. I will get the latest roster, whatever the Orioles roster is at the end of the season. I get to make whatever trades I want. I get to move players up and down how I want, set lineups the way I would, tell Charlie Morton to take a hike when it’s my decision, and we’re going to go through a whole season. And, you know, I won’t it won’t be a playby-play kind of thing where I’m sitting there playing the game and actually calling it. It’ll be more of a casual hangout. The chat will be up here next to me while I’m looking at the game. When I get a chance to look over, we can interact. Swing and a miss by Ryan O’Harn. It is 0 and2 on him. Two down, runner at second base, the Orioles with a run in. Flights on. It’s turn and burn. And uh folks, you know my personality. You know I’m a little bit of a that pitch is low. One ball, two strikes. You know, I’m a a little bit of an oddball. I like to crack jokes and just, you know, talk off the cuff about whatever. Uh, so I’ll get to do that while playing the game. You get it all, folks. You get some Orioles content. Uh, you get to see an Orioles team run the way I would do it. And you get some of that BW personality that you’ve all come to love. all throughout the winter. Does it sound like a good idea, folks? If it does, give me a thumbs up. Let me know. Two two pitch is lowing in on O’Harn. We got a full count. All I got to do is uh go back to my friend who helped me set up uh the look for this channel and figure out how to do all the setups. for streaming video games. That’s ball four to O’Harn, folks. A two out walk. [Music] I’m walking here. I’m walking here. Here comes Ron Washington. That should do it for Kachanowitz. Washington points to the pin. Kachanowitz on 95 pitches. Comes out one out short of a quality start. They’re two out in the sixth. They’re bringing in a right-hander. Okay, Angels are bringing in a righty. All right, go ahead. Mullins is do up. said, “Now you know what to do.” [Music] Now, in terms of uh you know uh channel uh revenue that would be generated from doing this offseason content, I’m not expecting much revenue at all. Okay. If I got 20 people watching that kind of stuff, 30 people, uh, that’s probably somewhere in the realm of realistic. Although, there is always a chance that with that kind of content, a whole new audience might show up. But let’s be honest, uh, gaming, at least as far as content goes online, is typically reserved for the younger crowd. But I’m going to put my own little spin on it as the middle-aged uh schmuck that I am. So, if you’re a middle-aged schmuck like me, I think uh you’re going to enjoy it. Even if you don’t particularly uh check out video gaming content, this particular one I’m going to do, I think for you guys, it’s going to be right up your alley. Just so you know though, I’m playing MLB The Show 24, which is one year behind. The latest version of the game is only available on a PS5, which I do not have and cannot afford. But uh with the way rosters can be downloaded and uh customized, all I got to do is go in and download the latest roster and uh the teams will be as accurate as they are in real life. Am I boring you guys? Hector Nice is on in relief and I’m happy to see him because he has not been good so far this season. Began the season on the Braves. They cut him. The Angels have picked him up and uh he’s got a very large erra. Two on and two out for Mullins. Folks, cross your fingers. know what to do. We need a big hit pitch in there on a breaking a splitter for strike one. I can’t afford a PS5 right now, Ozman. Plus, I’d have to buy the game. I’ve already got this game and I’ve already got this console. Swing and a miss. Another splitter from Narice. 0 and2 on Mullins. Narice means knows in Spanish. Hector knows. Hopefully Hector knows how to blow a four-run lead. 02 pitch. Hit on the ground. Foul. I’ll do it again. All right. I guess the scoreboard isn’t going to fix itself. I was waiting that for maybe it to just fix itself, but it’s not. So, I’m going to have to go in here and do some surgery. Stand by. Why you always messing with me? The O2 to Mullins outside and high. One ball, two strikes. All right, so we got that one in there. Boom. Now we got to work on this one. Another pitch up and away. Two and two. Now the count on Mullins, folks. Scoreboard’s running. Come on, folks. Thanks, Janet. I will do that right after this AB. Thanks for the reminder. A splitter that started shoulder high and drops into the top of the zone for a called strike three. Mullins goes down looking with runners on base. His woes continue. The Orioles get a run, but uh we’re going to have to average more than one per inning uh to get back into this one. Onto the bottom of the six. Five to one Angels. And yeah, time for a refresh. Refresh. It’s refresh. Exciting. It’s so exciting to me. Yeah. Refresh. I refresh. Exciting. All right. Refreshed, folks. Can you find it in your heart? Can you find it in your heart? We’ve had some support tonight through the Kofi website. Uh things have dried up now for about an hour or so. I hope we’re not done. We really do need a little bit of more help over here at Bird Watcher headquarters. If you can find it in your heart, please uh visit this website right here, kohfi.comirdwatcher, right there in the chat. Oh, Janet’s got it. Again, folks, it’s not an obligation. It’s just a request. Uh, and I would not be doing this unless I felt like it needed to be done because I’m now re-calibrating the projections for this channel. It’s going to take one additional season to get into that safety zone. I thought maybe by the end of year two going into year three, I would be at that point, but now it’s going to be the end of three years. It would seem a three-year commitment and I will eat ramen noodles for three years if that’s what it takes. I just got to be able to afford the ramen noodles. Kairen Paris swinging a miss and his helmet falls off. Colin Selby still out here on the mound for Baltimore. And the Angels hitters. Not the first time one has had a helmet come falling off after a swing and a miss. Swing and a miss. It is strike two. Something about bees. [Music] Two balls, two strikes on Paris. Fer mean a right-hander getting loose for the Angels. Pitch off the plate. Full count. There’s really no reason to go to a full count on a batter like this. No good reason. This pitch has popped up into center field right at Mullins. One away. It’s Saturday Night Live, folks. It’s 11:30. I think Saturday Night Live is coming on the air right now. Starring Doug Noble, Michael Mertig, Janet Hill, Baxter Ray, Alberto Kasamayor, musical guest, Fish, and your host BW Lady. Ladies and gentlemen, [Music] BW. Hey everybody. All right. How you doing tonight? Oh, I am so happy and honored to be hosting Saturday Night Live, folks. Glad to be here. One, two, pitch called strike three. Lugo strikes out. [Music] Well, y’all come back now. You hear musical guest, the Divinyl? Here’s Zach Neto. That pitch is low. One and0 on Neto. Two down, bases empty. Bottom of the six. Five to one Angels. I hear you, Spurer. I used to have a roommate who was a Fish fan. Drove me crazy. Here’s a strike 101. One one from Selby. Low and away. I need a lucky. Maybe I’ll just have a special lucky. Up and in. And the count is now three in one. three and one the count on Neto and that’s ball four a two out walk. Oh, those two out walks. Hey, you guys ever see that clip of uh not uh is it Ash uh yeah, Ashley Simpson? Remember Ashley Simpson? Jessica, first of all, I don’t know why we should be remembering Jessica Simpson, but whatever. He had a sister that through nepatism and what have you gets like a major music contract and career just dropped in her lap with zero talent or hard work ever put in. And then she goes on Saturday Night Live and uh the band starts playing some song. It’s not the right song. They start playing the wrong vocal tracks because she’s not there to actually sing because she can’t actually sing. She also got roasted like within a week. I think she sang uh she performed a halftime show at at a college bowl game. I think it was the Orange Bowl. And man, that entire stadium of like 70,000 people booed the hell out. You’ve never seen a career hit the crapper as quickly and as deservingly as uh Ashley Simpson. Yeah. after the uh you know at the end of SNL when everybody’s on the stage and the host is like hey I want to thank everybody it was Jude Law hosting that show and Ashley standing next to him and he’s like Ashley you want to say something and Ashley’s like yeah I just want to explain earlier you know the band they started playing the wrong song and I didn’t really know what to do so I just started doing a little jig and danced around a bit she basically threw her band under the bus when really the whole thing was she was there to lip sync and she couldn’t even just like adjust. Not even talented enough to adjust to the situation and just sing something. Man, she stunk. Here is Nolan Shawnwell. Two down with CNL Perez on the mound. Runner at first base. Next pitch just missed the outside corner at the knees. One and one the count. Perez has just given up one earned run in his last four appearances. Three innings of work. That pitch is low and away. Two and one the count. There was another Simpson. Oh yeah. Heroin. Frank. Heroin. Oh, that’s a pretty tall order there, Nordberg. You’re probably going to have to give me about a week on that. No heroin. Frank three and one on Nolan Shawnwell pitch check swing foul three and two uh raccoon video that went viral maybe I’ve seen my share of raccoon videos, but if it just went viral this week, maybe not. What’s the gist? Or is telling me the gist make it worth not watching? Do I need to watch? Is there a big surprise? That is ball four. CNL Perez comes in to face a lefty with two down and walks him. That is a tasty joint. Crackpipe raccoon. All right. First of all, great name for an album. Didn’t uh Spinal Tap put out an album like that? Yoan Manata at the plate. First pitch is way outside for ball one. The 10 low 2 and 0 crackpipe raccoon. Make it three and 0. What? No. No. Ball four. Back-to- back walks from Perez. He came into the ball game with two out already. to face a lefty. And now he’s walked backto back batters. The bases are loaded. All right. Uh we got a mound meeting. It’s time to look up raccoon on crack. Holy cow. We’ve got videos. Raccoon holding meth pipe. This is what she’s smoking methan. Oh, there’s no one. Put your paws where I can see them. That raccoon named Chewy turned off with a meth pipe in his mouth during a routine traffic stop. Is this for real? The animal wasn’t driving. His owner was stopped for allegedly driving with a suspended license. Officers then happened to find more used pipes as well as bulk amounts of meth and cocaine in the car. Boy. Yeah. Ohio law does let people keep raccoons as pets. There’s the still. There’s no word on whether Chewy. There is the still. The raccoon has got this pipe like like he’s playing uh a freaking uh trumpet like in that uh band uh at the bar in Star Wars. Will be returned to his owner. Dang. Hopefully not. Well, you know, we were talking about this in commercial to count on Ward. It’s actually super sad that that animal is just was exposed to that kind of stuff. Oh, don’t don’t go there. Actually, it’s you know, it’s super sad. It’s super sad, you know, because stop it. You are exploiting something that people are finding funny for your news ratings, but then you’re going to drop the Oh, but pump the brakes, folks. It’s still kind of sad. That’s an animal. Well, which is it? If you really felt that way, don’t show the video. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. I can’t stand phony like giving a [ __ ] I can’t stand that. Here’s a called strike. It looks like Perez got an extra inch on the outside. The count is two and two. Bases loaded, two down. Taylor Ward at the plate. And obviously if he comes through with anything here, uh we’re we’re done inside full count. So this has gone as far as it can go. As far as it can go. Two down, bases loaded. Three and two. The count, the pitch called. Strike three. Sit down. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? You lazy bum. You wanted an easy RBI ball four. Well, you didn’t get it. You should have swung. Now go grab some pine. We go to the seventh. Five to one. Bad guys. But remember the movie Cocaine Bear? I never saw it. There’s gonna be Remember the movie Cocaine [Laughter] Bear? Is there anything worse than local news anchors? Unless of course you’re talking about legends like Don Scott and Marty Bass. You got some legends. But in general, especially when you’re like fussing around on YouTube watching compilations of epic newscast fails and what have you. Just so many. You’ve seen cocaine bear, right? This is like cocaine raccoon. [Laughter] raccoon caught. I love how it says caught. Like what? The raccoon’s going to jail. First of all, if there is reincarnation, may I come back as a raccoon? Because apparently uh you can befriend a meth addict and travel around doing meth and crack and coke and uh guess what? Even if you get caught, there’s no uh no punishment. Hey there, Rhino. How you doing? I got to clear my throat. The algorithm will not like the drug talk. Oh well. Hey algorithm. Blow me. Late night with the devil. Vermine on the pitch. Kirstad up the hit. The Orioles trail by four. Check swing foul by Kirstad. He barely moved the bat and somehow fouled it off. Kirstad finding new ways to fall behind in the count. That one’s low. A one-on-one. Rhino, you got any uh games going on tonight? Another check swing foul by Kirstad. And I think he wants to say that got him on the hand. And here comes Brandon Hyde. Urstad’s like, “That got me.” And the Empires are able to review this. Apparently, Brandon says, “I want to review.” And they’re going to take a look at this. So, a question of whether or not Kirstad was hit by the pitch or if the ball got the bat first. Oh, you know what it is? It’s catcher’s interference. Oh, it’s absolutely catcher’s interference. The bat is stuck in the catcher’s glove. The glove is actually gripping the bat. Absolutely. Give him first base. Let’s go. How is this? This is the most egregious catcher’s interference. Like catcher reached out with his glove and and and chomped down on the back. How the hell is that not getting in the way? Uh I’ll be right back while they figure this out. Crazy stuff in Anaheim. All right, we just lost a challenge because the umpire explains the ball made contact with the bat before the bat made contact with the glove. Therefore, that contact was meaningless. Unfortable. two and two on Kirstad. That ball’s fouled away. Another foul ball. Still two and two on Kirstad. Leading off the top of the seventh. King BW back with you. Low full count. Come on. We need base [Music] runners. Payoff pitch popped up. Shallow center. Paris with the catch. One away. The Orioles have been out hit tonight 7 to4 so far. And it’s even worse in the runs department. Five to one the score here. Swing and a miss by Emanuel Rivera. Release the Kraken. One out, nobody on in the top of the seventh. Rivera 0 for two tonight. Pitch is high. One and one. fouled away. One ball, two strikes. So, tomorrow folks, game number 2011 for me, game number 39 on the season for Baltimore. It’ll be a late afternoon start. That ball’s line. Base hit into left field. Rivera. That average continues to be impressive. Another hit tonight. One for three. One out single. So, tomorrow’s game will start uh the stream will start at uh what will that be about 4? What is that? 3:55. Is that what I got it set up for? 3:55 p.m. Here’s Jorge Matteo. First pitch is ball one. He walked tonight. 0 for one otherwise. Swing and a miss. One and one the count. That ball is lifted. Foul and out of play. Two strikes on Matteo. Charlie Morton is up in the bullpen for some reason. Outside two and two pitch check swing. Did he go? He did. Matteo strikes out on a pitch low and outside, two down. Sir Anthony Dominguez is up as well. Here is Jackson Holiday back to the top of the order. One for two of the walk takes outside for ball one. [Music] That ball’s lifted out of play. One and one the count. So yeah, I think I left it out of the info info screen to make room. So yeah, tomorrow folks be back here tomorrow at uh swing and a foul. One ball, two strikes on holiday. First pitch is at 4:07 p.m. Eastern. I’ll be on the air at 3:55 p.m. Okay, 3:55 p.m. back here tomorrow. which for me will be uh 2:55 in the morning. Should be fun. Two two pitch swing and a miss. Holiday down on strikes and this inning is over. It is stretch time in Anaheim. The Orioles are once again struggling to put runs on the board. Kyle Gibson didn’t have a good start, but uh once again, it’s the bats that are telling the story, and it’s not a good one. There’s still time left. Got to hold on to hope, folks. Sometimes hope is all you got. They got Andy Durrain through about 25 years of Shaw Shank. They can get us through this. In the meantime, folks, how about you throw some cakes on the griddle? Get them cakes up in the chat, folks. Thank God I’m a country boy. Thank God I’m a country boy. Thanks again to those who have uh supported channel tonight. Uh we’ve had uh four four supporters Charlie Morton is on the pitch. Oh boy. That’s right. We can’t have anyone freak out out there. Okay. We’ve got to keep our composure. We’ve come too far. There’s too much to lose. Keep our composure. First pitch is a strike. One and one the count. Two and one the count. Folks, what better night to celebrate than a night where Kyle Gibson starts, Charlie Morton in relief, and Jorge Matteo in the lineup. Well, as I say that, Matteo catches a line drive right at him for out number one. Matteo left his feet to make that catch. Luis Renifo coming up next. Takes a called strike on the outside edge. He is right at him. He still had to time the jump. Swinging a miss on a curveball from Morton. I wish I was able to say that sentence more often this season. Pitch swing and a miss. Morton What a strike out. [Music] Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Oh, you guys don’t want me on the screen, do you? So far, with me not on the screen, Morton’s gotten two outs. Pitch outside to Adele. a 10 pitch low and away two and 0. My dimples are doing just fine. Thank you very much. 20 is fou back. I’m going to have to go to a cos cosmetic surgeon and get my dimples filled in. This has gone too far. Two and one on Adele. fouled off Adele’s foot. Two and two. No, I felt the Darth Vader in that response. They still got a bucket of cookies in the mass broadcast booth. Pitch inside. Full count. Payoff pitch. Swing and a miss. A swing and a miss on a curveball. What’s going on? [Music] Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Is this real life? Hi everybody. We go to the eighth inning down four. Down four. Oh wow. Okay. Yeah, tonight’s going to be pretty interesting, folks. I’m not going to lie. We got an off day on Monday, right? off day Monday before starting a home stand against the Twins. So, I will have some time to recover, but I’m going to be very excited to have Zack Efflin pitching tomorrow. Other than that, there is a chance that my body is going to be in pretty rough shape. I’m going to try to get some sleep in, but uh this could be a rough one. After that though, we’re going to be good for the for a week, a solid week. No problem. For some reason, next Sunday, home game against the Nationals. We’re once again playing at 4:00. I don’t get it. Why 4:00? Why not 1:00? All right, it’s going to be Rutchman, Henderson, and Mount Castle here in the top of the eighth inning. Rutman is 0 for three and he hits this one to center field and pretty deep. Going to stay in the yard though. Caught out there on the track by Paris for out number one. Got a new pitcher out here for the Angels. A lefty or no, he’s a righty fellow by the name of [Music] Zephran, which sounds like something I should consult my doctor about. What are these what are the side effects of Zephran? Folks, if Zephran persists for more than 36 hours, consult your doctor immediately. Swing and a miss. Oneonone on Gunner. Wow. Zephr John has struck out 47% of batters faced and has walked 4%. That is ridiculous ratio. I just heard Kevin Brown say it. That ball’s hit on the right side to Reno. Gunners retired four to three on the ground out. Two away in the eighth. The Orioles are running out of time. Four outs left to play with. Down four runs. Ryan Mel Castle has got two hits tonight. A rare bright spot in the lineup tonight. RBI. He’s driven in the only run. One pitch grounded a third and that’ll do it. Three very quick outs. Not a whole lot of life in these oral hitters. Bottom of the eighth coming up. Still five to one LA. Oh boy. Folks, sometimes you just got to What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Five pitch inning. Five pitches. Does that sound Oh, no. Six is fine. No need to apologize. Six is still ridiculous. Two per batter. You’re down four runs. You got Adley. You got Gunner. You got the heart of the order up. And uh it’s just it’s like they’re like, “Let me just swing at everything and hopefully it’ll make contact and then maybe the ball will go somewhere good.” I don’t know. Nobody’s locked in. Lock in. This is how baseball works. These This is the big leagues. Takes maximum effort and focus. You can’t halfass it when you go up there to hit. You can’t got to have a plan. You got to adjust if the plan needs to be adjusted. Eight, nine, and one hitters coming up for the Angels. Oh wow, there is a report coming in on Orio owner David Rubenstein called strike to Paris with Charlie Morton out here to pitch one more inning of work curve ball that’s called a strike that was five in low. Wow, that’s about as low of a called strike as you’re going to find. Umpire completely missed that one. 02 just I mean that one was a strike. How was that last pitch a ball? But that’s not whatever. I guess things have evened up. It’s a ball and two strikes. Fouled back. $15 million mop-up man. Charlie Morton. He is the highest paid mop-up man in baseball. That’s right, folks. The Orioles decided to splurge. We wanted the best mop-up man out there. Two and two the count pitch popped up right field make I’m sorry Ryan O’Harn out there in right field makes the catch. One away for Lugo. Called a strike on a curve ball from Morton. 01 pitch foul back. Lugo had that triple back in the fourth inning. One for three. 02 And on the ground, Holiday at second, over to first in time, two away. Zach Neto will come up fifth time through the order now. One for three with a walk is Neto. He takes low and away for ball one. Morton’s erra is under nine, folks. Baltimore, you are seeing history being made today. That’s a cold strike. That is so low. Blue, what are you doing? One of them won the count outside. Two-1 pitch. swung on and fouled off. All right, one more strike takes us to the ninth. We’re down four runs. It’s looking like we’re going for a rubber game tomorrow with Zack Efflin on the mound. We have to win that game. We have to win this series. It would have been nice to clinch it tonight, but we got to win it tomorrow. I will not tolerate a loss tomorrow. Just off the plate. Full count. Two down. Base is empty. Payoff pitch to Neto. That ball is inside out. Swung down the right field. Corner foul. Another payoff pitch. That one’s hit in the air to right. O’Harn is there. The inning is over and we are on to the ninth inning, folks. We are down by a salami. Here we go. So, tonight’s 200th consecutive call celebration is drawing to a close, folks. It’s one last opportunity for BW to plead with the bird watchers out there. If you have it in you, do think about uh supporting the channel tonight. I promise you this is something that I won’t pester you about for another hundred games. Okay. Uh just trying to just trying to make up for some lost uh lost time. For those who have supported tonight, thank you very much. And if you want to show support simply by hitting the like button or subscribing if you haven’t done that already, that’s fine, too. If you want to help out by just telling somebody you know about the channel, that’s all well and good. Doesn’t have to be monetary, folks. But, uh, this is a SOS, a cry for help for the bird watcher channel. We’re going to survive. We’re going to get through this, okay? It’s just uh stormy weather right now. Ain’t nothing I can’t handle. We’re going to get through this. Just like the team. It don’t look good right now. But uh you know uh it’s going to get better. I think I got a button for that. [Music] Today will be remembered by me as the day a bird defecated on Kevin Brown. So on this date in Orioles history, Kevin Brown had a bird crap on him apparently. Left-hander Brock Burke is on to finish things for the Angels. Ramon Lauraniano is going to come up to pinch hit for Ryan O’Harn and he takes ball one. Next pitch is a strike on the outside edge. Swing and a miss. One ball, two strikes. I want to thank Garrett Family Aquatics, George, Melissa, Chile, Chidon, Daniel, and Coconut Gun for their support tonight. This ball’s hit to right center field. That ball is going to hit off the wall. It’s a home run. It’s over the yellow line. Bye-bye, Birdie. Folks, it’s one of those weird yellow line home runs that makes it a bad call sometimes, but Ramon Lauraniano broke the scoreboard with a ball that landed just above the yellow line and right. It’s five to2. Baltimore, you are seeing history being made today. What is that hat? What is that three cornered hat? Is this a new thing in the celebration? [Music] Pocket watch. KPK. Whoa. Boom. Boom. A couple of booms. popped up by Mullins. Message for you, son. Message for you, son. Pocket watch says, “Happy anniversary, BW.” Thank you so much, Pocket. I enjoy calling these games and building up this community, and I’m glad you’re a part of it. Thanks so much. KPK33X says if they could score this many runs per game. And do you mean five as in the $5 super chat? Yep. Five would at least tie it up tonight. Thanks so much KPK33X. And I want to thank you very much for that. I really do. And to pocket watch. Thanks guys. And I want to thank you very much for that. Here is a ground ball back to the pitcher Mullins. will be retired for the first out in the ninth on a ball head about 4 feet. So, a three cornered hat uh like a leather three cornered Ryan Lust. Hold on, folks. Message for you, son. They’re flooding in. Message for you, son. message for you, son. A reminder once again, folks, the website Kofi uh/birdwatcher, these super chats, if they went over there, uh a less percentage of the money taken away, uh like YouTube likes to do. But I can sit here and tell you guys, however way you want to do it, it’s up to you. But uh I do appreciate it. Another super chat from Ryan. Thank you so much. This 1-1 pitch to Tyler O’Neal is fouled off to the left. One and two on O’Neal. Aoy there. Anybody home? Thanks so much, guys. That really makes up for a lot of the nights in the late. Uh they take more than that, Janet. They take more than that. At least from what I can see. Maybe it’s different between memberships versus super chats versus stickers versus whatever, but uh it’s only 10% over there on the Kofi website. O’Neal with a high-fly ball to right. O Adele’s got room and makes the catch. Two down in the ninth. The Orioles trail it by three. Hey folks, I know uh a lot of focus put on the uh donation thing, but uh the like button, if you haven’t hit that yet, please do. We’re only on 77 likes. That’s very small for this sort of occasion. This pitch is low and away to Rivera. I guess he can’t have it all, right? One pitch is fouled away. One ball, one strike. So, in case it hasn’t been uh made clear, folks, again, I’m very uh thankful for the support that has been shown tonight, and I promise I’ll uh, you know, I’ll lay off for a few months. Number one thing is I want to run this channel the right way. I want it to, you know, do it ethically. I want uh everybody to have a chance to have access to all the content I can provide for free cuz I understand what it’s like to not be in a position to be able to, you know, throw a couple of bucks at somebody. I know what that’s like right now. Two and two on Rivera. Two down, nobody on in the ninth. Crowd making noise here in Anaheim. That ball is hit out to right center field. Oh, right field straight away. Right to Adele and the in uh ball game is over. The Orioles grab the opener here in Anaheim, but now they have work to do tomorrow after dropping this one tonight. Things started off ominously as Kyle Gibson gave up hits to the first three batters he faced. The Angels put a two spot on the board in the first inning and never relinquished the lead from that point on. They made it five to nothing before the Orioles would eventually get a run in the sixth and one more here in the ninth on a home run by Ramon Lauraniano. Five runs, seven hits, an error for the Angels. two runs on six hits, no errors for the Orioles, who now drop back to 10 games below 500 at 14 and 24. Again, folks, it’s a long road back to respectability and all he can do is take it one series at a time. This series is still up for grabs uh against a team that I feel like if we have any chance of turning things around, we have to beat a team like the Angels in a series. Plain and simple. If you can’t beat these guys, uh yeah, we just have to be pretty realistic. Even with the injuries, even with all the other things considered, tomorrow is a must-win. And thankfully, Zack Efflin will be on the mound. Uh, and hopefully he will provide not just a quality performance on the mound, but a bit of inspiration for the team as well as we get a little bit healthier. Uh he’ll be going up against uh I already forget. Uh Anderson and we got to go up against another lefty, folks. That’s the bad news. You want bad news? I have to break it to you. The Orioles are going up against another lefty starter tomorrow. We have been terrible against lefty starters. The veteran Tyler Anderson has a record of 2-0, a 2.68 68 RA and a whip of just 1.04. So EA needs to be on his game and these bats have got to provide him some run support. There’s no other way to win. It’s what you have to do and we’re going to have to do it tomorrow. I hope we can do it. I think we can do it and we have to do it. But for tonight, that is going to wrap things up. Uh, let me see if there’s another game I can send you to, although I doubt it. It’s quite late. Hell, it’s coming up on 12:30. 12:30 at night. I think we were the last game on. Everything is over. It’s all over, folks. It’s all over now. Thank you, Chapoke. Yes, folks. 200 games called in the books. I will I will just be perfectly honest with you. Just like last season, there was a a chance uh when I had to leave the country, do my visa run, process a new visa for another year, that takes travel time, and you never know what’s going to happen with uh you know, immigration uh procedures, you know. Uh, I’m going to try to pick a date that makes sense, similar to last year. But you can, you only have so much of a window uh from when your visa ends and when to squeeze in that travel day. Hopefully, it’ll be during an off day for the Orioles and I can pull off what I did last year and not miss a game. But there’s there’s a chance. So, I looked ahead at this August and when my visa runs out and it’s going to be tough, but uh if I can do it, then uh we’ll celebrate 300 somewhere around September, I think. And you know what? after I get that visa. This awful chair, this awful torture chair that I sat through for the first five months plus in season 1 and have begun the first month and a half in season two. Uh once I get this visa and know that I have another year back here in my what I like to call home, I will invest in another I’m going to give it another try. I have to because this chair is killing my back. Uh so I’m going to give another another go at uh finding a chair fit for BW to sit in. Nice and comfy and won’t break. And uh I hope so because I can’t really drop much more weight than this. I can’t shrink. I’m a large dude. But anyway, there’s your update, folks. Thanks for hanging out tonight. It’s been a late late night. Go watch the last two Saturday Night Live sketches. I’m going to go get some breakfast even though it’s really lunchtime. And I’ll be back on in the middle of tonight, the middle of the night tonight, uh, tomorrow afternoon for you guys. Come on back. Zack Affin is pitching uh, just around 400 pm Eastern. Okay, until then, folks. Uh, where’s my buddy? This has been the bird watcher and the hat. And you’ll probably see the shirt later, too. Same day game. I got to do laundry tomorrow on my off day. So, I want to get some mileage out of this shirt. Hey, Melanie and Jim are together. Oh boy. Melanie and Jim. Hey, thank you Janet. Thank you everybody. Thank you so so much. All right. The first 200 games of the channel were a rousing success. Look at what we’ve done. Look how far we’ve come. Uh let’s do another 200 and let’s start it tomorrow. Until then, folks, this has been the bird watcher in the hat, and we’ll chirp at you later. Good night, everybody.

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