Cedric Mullins is out of the Orioles\u2019 lineup today, with Dylan Carlson getting the start in center field.<\/p>\n
Interim manager Tony Mansolino kept Mullins and Jackson Holliday on the bench Saturday in Game 2 and said, \u201cJust over the course of the season, there\u2019s little nick-nack things that kind of happen. We were doing the best we could to stay away from them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mullins started Sunday.<\/p>\n
Holliday is leading off today, followed by Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas as the designated hitter. Gunnar Henderson is third.<\/p>\n
Ryan Mountcastle is batting cleanup, Ryan O\u2019Hearn is in right field and batting fifth, and Heston Kjerstad is in left field and batting seventh.<\/p>\n
Maverick Handley is catching after pinch-hitting yesterday for Adley Rutschman.<\/p>\n
The Orioles say that they\u2019re \u201cgoing through the process\u201d with Rutschman, which could lead to his first stint on the injured list or keep him day-to-day after Rafael Devers\u2019 foul ball yesterday slammed into his mask.<\/p>\n
Rutschman slumped to his left momentarily while on one knee. He reached for his mask, gathered himself, and caught the rest of the third inning and the entire fourth before Handley replaced him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I could do it over again, I would have went out there myself, but it didn\u2019t look like much, initially\u201d Mansolino said. \u201cAnd we still feel like it might not be much, so there\u2019s no assumptions that it\u2019s anything more than a foul tip at the moment. But it\u2019s hard to tell sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Head athletic trainer Scott Barringer, hired by the Orioles in December, checked on Rutschman in the dugout and made the decision to remove him from the game. New bench coach Robinson Chirinos offered his input as a voice of experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery medical staff in baseball, and especially ours, they\u2019re on top of it,\u201d Mansolino said. \u201cThey\u2019re very aware of what those are and what it is, and we happen to have Chirinos, who had a history of it himself as a catcher in the big leagues. So we are hypersensitive to it. Scott was all over it. So we\u2019re aware.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sit there, we look at it, we use our professional judgement, and we kind of go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Utility player Cooper Hummel opted out of his Yankees contract, signed with the Orioles yesterday and can serve as a third catcher.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s part of the conversation right now,\u201d Mansolino said. \u201cI mean, he\u2019s caught in the big leagues. \u2026 That\u2019s part of him being here is almost an emergency third catcher type, so it\u2019s part of the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Catcher Chadwick Tromp is on the medical taxi squad after batting .254\/.338\/.413 in 20 games with Triple-A Norfolk. He appeared in two games with the Braves this season before signing with the Orioles on April 13.<\/p>\n
Catcher David Ba\u00f1uelos was on the taxi squad on the road trip and remained with the club this morning.<\/p>\n
The Orioles are trying to win back-to-back Memorial Day games for the first time since claiming three in a row from 2013-15.<\/p>\n
For the Orioles<\/p>\n
Jackson Holliday 2B
Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas DH
Gunnar Henderson SS
Ryan Mountcastle 1B
Ryan O\u2019Hearn RF
Emmanuel Rivera 3B
Heston Kjerstad LF
Dylan Carlson CF
Maverick Handley C<\/p>\n
Charlie Morton RHP<\/p>\n
Update: The Orioles selected Tromp’s contract. He’s wearing No. 41. Utility player Cooper Hummel was designated for assignment one day after he signed.<\/p>\n
Rutschman remains on the active roster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cedric Mullins is out of the Orioles\u2019 lineup today, with Dylan Carlson getting the start in center field.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[1079,143,47,2538,5,1994,4,125,579,578],"class_list":{"0":"post-57494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-adley-rutschman","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-orioles","11":"tag-baltimoreorioles","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-lineup","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-orioles","16":"tag-orioles-featured","17":"tag-roch-kubatko"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114577551235448330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57494","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=57494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}