Zach Eflin begins his injury rehab assignment Sunday at Double-A Chesapeake, as he works to return from lower back discomfort. Eflin will face hitters in Florida next Friday and \u201cshould be ready to go,\u201d according to interim manager Tony Mansolino.<\/p>\n
Cade Povich, recovered from left hip inflammation, starts Sunday at High-A Aberdeen and will pitch again next Saturday before the Orioles consider reinstating him.<\/p>\n
First baseman Ryan Mountcastle will accompany the team to Tampa after the break and report to Norfolk on July 22, as he recovers from a Grade 2 right hamstring strain. He\u2019s eligible to be reinstated from the 60-day injured list on July 30.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s starting to look pretty good,\u201d Mansolino said. \u201cWe\u2019re getting excited about him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adley Rutschman took batting practice today from both sides of the plate to test his left oblique strain and will catch Kyle Bradish for two innings next Saturday in Florida.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe looked great,\u201d Mansolino said of Rutschman. \u201cSwinging the bat hard from both sides, so checked all the boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keegan Akin, sidelined with left shoulder inflammation, travels to Florida on Monday and then begins his rehab assignment with Norfolk.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Orioles will try to stay hot.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t have much choice.<\/p>\n
Last night\u2019s 5-2 victory over the Marlins moved them seven games below .500 and only six back for the last Wild Card. They\u2019ve won six of their last seven and are 27-16 since lugging a 16-34 record on May 24.<\/p>\n
Beating the Marlins this afternoon would move the Orioles six games under .500 for the first time since May 3. And there\u2019s the revenge factor, with left-hander Trevor Rogers facing his former team for the first time since last summer\u2019s deadline trade.<\/p>\n
Rogers has a 1.57 ERA and 0.872 WHIP in five starts to cement his place in the rotation. He tossed eight scoreless innings against the Rangers in his only appearance at Camden Yards.<\/p>\n
Jordan Westburg is at third base again today. Tyler O\u2019Neill is serving as designated hitter and Jacob Stallings is catching.<\/p>\n
Jackson Holliday has increased his OPS against right-handed pitchers from .523 in June to 1.010 in July. He\u2019s the leadoff hitter again today.<\/p>\n
The Marlins are sending right-hander Janson Junk to the mound. The Yankees selected Junk in the 22nd round of the 2017 draft out of Seattle University, and he\u2019s been traded twice and selected on waivers twice before Miami signed him as a free agent in February.<\/p>\n
Junk has a 3.12 ERA and 1.038 WHIP in nine games this season, including four starts. He\u2019s walked only four batters and surrendered one home run in 43 1\/3 innings. The Marlins inserted him into the rotation after his 5 2\/3 scoreless relief innings against the Nationals on June 14, and he\u2019s allowed only two earned runs this month in 12 innings.<\/p>\n
Most recently, Junk held the Reds to an unearned run and one hit in six frames.<\/p>\n
Right-handers are batting .227 with a .492 OPS against Junk, and left-handers are batting .284 with a .709.<\/p>\n
The Orioles have never faced him. Ryan O\u2019Hearn and Ram\u00f3n Laureano are each 1-for-2.<\/p>\n
For the Orioles<\/p>\n
Jackson Holliday 2B
Jordan Westburg 3B
Gunnar Henderson SS
Ryan O\u2019Hearn 1B
Ram\u00f3n Laureano RF
Colton Cowser LF
Tyler O\u2019Neill DH
Cedric Mullins CF
Jacob Stallings C<\/p>\n
Trevor Rogers LHP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Eflin begins his injury rehab assignment Sunday at Double-A Chesapeake, as he works to return from lower…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,600,1816,778,58,4171,4,125,579,578,9009,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-172025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cade-povich","10":"tag-marlins","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-marlins","13":"tag-miamimarlins","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-orioles","16":"tag-orioles-featured","17":"tag-roch-kubatko","18":"tag-trevor-rogers","19":"tag-zach-eflin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114843424253537029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}