Jackson Holliday moves up to sixth in the order for tonight\u2019s series opener against the Royals at Camden Yards.<\/p>\n
Heston Kjerstad is in right field and Ram\u00f3n Laureano is in left. They occupy the last two spots in the lineup.<\/p>\n
Dean Kremer is trying to lower a 7.04 ERA and 1.565 WHIP over six starts. He\u2019s surrendered 40 hits in 30 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Kremer faced the Royals on April 4 and allowed two earned runs (three total) and eight hits in 4 1\/3 innings. He owns a 3.98 ERA in four career starts against them.<\/p>\n
Bobby Witt Jr. is 4-for-11 with a home run. Salvador Perez is 3-for-11 with a double and homer.<\/p>\n
Witt is bringing a 22-game hitting streak to Camden Yards.<\/p>\n
The Orioles are 33-21 in May since 2023. They went 17-9 last season.<\/p>\n
The Orioles haven\u2019t lost a home series to the Royals in their last nine sets.<\/p>\n
Per STATS: The Orioles have 11 different players with multiple home runs this season, most in the majors and their most ever before May.<\/p>\n
Kansas City right-hander Michael Wacha has a 3.38 ERA in six starts and he\u2019s surrendered only one home run in 32 innings. He faced the Orioles on April 5 and allowed four runs and six hits in 5 2\/3 innings. He shut out the Astros over six innings in his last start.<\/p>\n
Wacha has a 4.34 ERA in six career starts against the Orioles. Ryan Mountcastle is 10-for-22 with a triple and three home runs. Cedric Mullins is 9-for-23 with two doubles, a triple and two home runs. Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas is 5-for-16 with a double, triple and home run.<\/p>\n
Gunnar Henderson is 1-for-14 with five strikeouts.<\/p>\n
The Royals won two of three games against the Orioles last month in Kansas City. Left-hander Kris Bubic and right-hander Michael Lorenzen also will start this weekend.<\/p>\n
The Royals are back in Baltimore for the first time since sweeping the Wild Card Series. They\u2019ve won nine of their last 10 games after losing eight of nine.<\/p>\n
Kansas City\u2019s 15 home runs this season are the fewest in the majors.<\/p>\n
For the Orioles<\/p>\n
Cedric Mullins CF
Gunnar Henderson SS
Adley Rutschman C
Ryan O\u2019Hearn DH
Ryan Mountcastle 1B
Jackson Holliday 2B
Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas 3B
Heston Kjerstad RF
Ram\u00f3n Laureano LF<\/p>\n
Dean Kremer RHP<\/p>\n
Former Orioles minor league pitcher Trey McGough (Mount St. Mary’s) has retired. The Orioles traded McGough to White Sox last year at the deadline for Eloy Jim\u00e9nez and he posted a 1.98 ERA in 14 games at Triple-A Charlotte but didn’t get to the majors.<\/p>\n
McGough allowed 15 runs and walked 15 batters in 15 innings with Charlotte this season. The Orioles acquired him in the Triple-A phase of the 2022 Rule 5 Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson Holliday moves up to sixth in the order for tonight\u2019s series opener against the Royals at Camden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,913,1514,55,1994,4,125,579,578,1993],"class_list":{"0":"post-2732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dean-kremer","10":"tag-jackson-holliday","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-lineup","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-orioles","15":"tag-orioles-featured","16":"tag-roch-kubatko","17":"tag-trey-mcgough"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114443189200901354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","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=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}