As I wrote earlier this morning<\/a>, as far as 2025 season hopes for the Orioles, I think that\u2019s over. There\u2019s not going to be any ascending from this. The team has dug itself into too much of a hole. It\u2019s not so much about wanting them to win so that they can go places, as wanting them to show enough life so that next year doesn\u2019t start to seem like it\u2019s a hopeless cause as well.<\/p>\nThat means players doing better than they have been, or for those who are already performing acceptably, at least continuing on that path. One part of that for me is in today\u2019s leadoff man, Jackson Holliday. If he\u2019s able to thrive in that spot, that\u2019s one possible avenue for hope. <\/p>\n
The biggest revival in terms of importance has got to be Adley Rutschman, today\u2019s cleanup hitter. He\u2019s back below the Mendoza line, so it\u2019s not great to see him at #4, but it\u2019s not like there\u2019s any other great choices. Like, who else is going to go there? Tyler O\u2019Neill? He\u2019s another one who I\u2019d like to see some life from – maybe a hot streak that gets him to opt out, or at least enough of a hot streak that him being here for two more years doesn\u2019t seem bad.<\/p>\n
Orioles lineup<\/p>\n
Jackson Holliday – 2B
\nRyan Mountcastle – 1B
\nGunnar Henderson – SS
\nAdley Rutschman – C
\nRyan O\u2019Hearn – DH
\nTyler O\u2019Neill – RF
\nCedric Mullins – CF
\nEmmanuel Rivera – 3B
\nHeston Kjerstad – LF<\/p>\n
Tomoyuki Sugano is pitching. If he follows the pattern he\u2019s had over his first big league starts, that should be a good thing. He continues to have a big gap between his ERA and his Fielding Independent Pitching number, which is because he doesn\u2019t strike many batters out. That\u2019s a tricky act to continue for a whole season.<\/p>\n
Twins lineup<\/p>\n
Byron Buxton – CF
\nTrevor Larnach – DH
\nRyan Jeffers – C
\nBrooks Lee – 2B
\nCarlos Correa – SS
\nWilli Castro – RF
\nRoyce Lewis – 3B
\nKody Clemens – 1B
\nDaShawn Keirsey Jr. – LF<\/p>\n
Pitching for the Twins is Chris Paddack. He has a 4.76 ERA. The Orioles should be able to get to him. Maybe they even will, and then it will be up to the pitchers to hold on. They proved incapable of that in yesterday\u2019s doubleheader and will probably fail many times more before the season\u2019s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counting today\u2019s game, there are 121 games remaining on the 2025 Orioles schedule. The prospect of spending a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5927,4669,5,968,969,181,14,822,60,3190,4,125,2412,6272,148,2411],"class_list":{"0":"post-29214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-afternoon","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles-game-chat","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-camden","12":"tag-chat","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-game","15":"tag-minnesota","16":"tag-minnesota-twins","17":"tag-minnesotatwins","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-orioles","20":"tag-thread","21":"tag-thursday","22":"tag-twins","23":"tag-vs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114512753519614854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214","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=29214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}