BALTIMORE \u2013 Friday night\u2019s series opener here at Camden Yards was one of the strangest games you\u2019ll ever see. And it appears the Nationals\u2019 4-3 victory came at a very high cost for the Orioles, who just a few minutes ago announced they\u2019ve fired manager Brandon Hyde. Maybe that move was inevitable at some point, given the team\u2019s disappointment to date this season. But you have to think Hyde\u2019s decision to pitch to James Wood with first base open in the eighth inning Friday night \u2013 Wood proceeded to hit the game-tying homer \u2013 was the final straw.<\/p>\n
Davey Martinez, meanwhile, is very close with Hyde, the two of them having previously served together on Joe Maddon\u2019s staff in Chicago. This will not be easy for Martinez, who now has to continue to manage the rest of the weekend knowing his friend is out of work. So, there\u2019s the context as both clubs prepare for game two of the series.<\/p>\n
The Nationals won the opener despite once again doing very little offensively until late in the game. That\u2019s now eight straight games in which they\u2019ve failed to score more than two runs against an opposing starter. They\u2019ll try to finally break that streak today against veteran Kyle Gibson, who enters with a 13.11 ERA in three starts.<\/p>\n
Jake Irvin gets the ball for the Nats, and while Irvin has mostly found a way to be effective this season, he strangely isn\u2019t striking anybody out recently. He\u2019s got three total strikeouts in his last three starts, encompassing 17 1\/3 innings. We\u2019ll see if he can get back on track in that regard today.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON NATIONALS at BALTIMORE ORIOLES
Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Gametime: 4:05 p.m. EDT
TV: MASN2, MLB.tv
Radio: 106.7 FM, 87.7 FM (Spanish), MLB.com
Weather: Mostly sunny, 88 degrees, wind 13 mph out to right field<\/p>\n
NATIONALS
SS CJ Abrams
LF James Wood
1B Nathaniel Lowe
C Keibert Ruiz
2B Luis Garc\u00eda Jr.
DH Josh Bell
RF Dylan Crews
3B Jos\u00e9 Tena
CF Jacob Young<\/p>\n
RHP Jake Irvin<\/p>\n
ORIOLES
2B Jackson Holliday
1B Ryan O’Hearn
SS Gunnar Henderson
DH Adley Rutschman
CF Cedric Mullins
3B Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas
RF Heston Kjerstad
LF Ram\u00f3n Laureano
C Maverick Handley<\/p>\n
RHP Kyle Gibson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2013 Friday night\u2019s series opener here at Camden Yards was one of the strangest games you\u2019ll ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,496,1360,908,907,4,415,568,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-34793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-jake-irvin","13":"tag-lineups","14":"tag-mark-zuckerman","15":"tag-masn","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-nationals","18":"tag-nationals-featured","19":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114525402863303213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34793","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=34793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}