{"id":3690,"date":"2025-05-06T00:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/3690\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T00:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:28:02","slug":"cedric-mullins-baltimore-orioles-await-challenge-from-minnesota-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/3690\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedric Mullins, Baltimore Orioles Await Challenge From Minnesota Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a tough start to the 2025 MLB season for the Baltimore Orioles<\/a> and\u00a0Minnesota Twins<\/a>. Both teams already have 20 losses early in May schedule. Baltimore and Minnesota can change their courses when they square off in a three-game series at Target Field starting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Baltimore, which has gone 2-3 in its last five games, sits in last place in the American League East Division at 13-20. As for Minnesota, the Twins are 15-20 and already seven games behind in the AL Central. They would be in last place if not for the hapless Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n

Mullins is catalyst on offense for O’s<\/p>\n

The Orioles hope Cedric Mullins continues to deliver at the plate. Entering Tuesday’s opener, Mullins leads the Orioles with seven home runs and 21 RBI, according to\u00a0StatMuse<\/a>. He hit one of Baltimore’s four homers on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals<\/a> at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.<\/p>\n

He’s hitting at a .255 clip with an OBP of .379. Ryan O’Hearn has the top batting average for Baltimore at .307.<\/p>\n

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Young phenom\u00a0Jackson Holliday<\/a> had himself a day in the Orioles’ 11-7 loss against the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Holliday hit two solo home runs, marking his first multi-homer game in his career. Baltimore would not mind seeing Holliday’s power surge continue against the Twins.<\/p>\n

Minnesota’s offense has been paced by Byron Buxton’s seven homers and Ty France’s 19 RBI. Harrison Bader tops the Twins with a .280 batting average. Just like the Orioles, the Twins have gone 2-3 in their last five games. Bailey Ober, Joe Ryan and Pablo L\u00f3pez pace the Minnesota pitching staff.<\/p>\n

Pitching probables for Tuesday’s series opener are right-hander Dean Kremer (3-4, 5.73 ERA) opposite the Twins’ Ryan (2-2, 2.93 ERA). Baltimore’s pitching staff has been decimated by injuries, so any length that Kremer can give Orioles manager Brandon Hyde probably will be appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s been a tough start to the 2025 MLB season for the Baltimore Orioles and\u00a0Minnesota Twins. Both teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[760,47,5,2223,77,49,913,365,1514,1455,55,822,60,3190,4,1997,3196,1362,148,3197],"class_list":{"0":"post-3690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-bailey-ober","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-byron-buxton","12":"tag-cedric-mullins","13":"tag-chicago-white-sox","14":"tag-dean-kremer","15":"tag-harrison-bader","16":"tag-jackson-holliday","17":"tag-joe-ryan","18":"tag-kansas-city-royals","19":"tag-minnesota","20":"tag-minnesota-twins","21":"tag-minnesotatwins","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-pablo-lopez","24":"tag-ryan-ohearn-2","25":"tag-the-orioles","26":"tag-twins","27":"tag-ty-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","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=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}