Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman appears to have avoided the seven-day concussion injured list.<\/p>\n
Rutschman was scheduled to take batting practice outdoors if the rain stopped. The tarp is on the field but some players threw in the outfield before returning to the clubhouse.<\/p>\n
Rutschman is out of the lineup again after taking a foul ball off his mask during Sunday\u2019s game in Boston and leaving in the top of the fifth inning.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll see him on the field,\u201d said interim manager Tony Mansolino, \u201cand if all goes well, I think there\u2019s a good chance we see him here pretty soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cedric Mullins is out of the lineup for the third time in four days and the reasoning isn\u2019t as clear. The Orioles appear to be sitting him as a precaution and to freshen him after he went on the injured list twice last season with an adductor groin strain.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust trying to give him a couple days,\u201d Mansolino said. \u201cThe day games, the doubleheader, it beat him up. In the past, as he\u2019s gotten worn down in previous seasons, it hasn\u2019t gone well for him, so we\u2019re just trying to protect against that.<\/p>\n
\u201cLikely be available tonight if we need him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jorge Mateo makes his third start in center field tonight. He played center and left over the weekend at Fenway Park.<\/p>\n
Mateo flipped over the fence and landed in the Red Sox\u2019s bullpen while chasing a home run ball in the ninth inning of Game 2 of a doubleheader. He made a sliding catch of a line drive for the last out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need him to do it,\u201d Mansolino said of Mateo moving from the infield to outfield. \u201cThat\u2019s a big part with this. With kind of the way the bench is right now and where the roster\u2019s at, we need him to do it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of energy to the game when he\u2019s out there and he\u2019s feeling it and he\u2019s feeling good about it. I\u2019ve got a lot of confidence in where he is mentally right now and his understanding of kind of what his role is on the team. You throw him out there the other night in Boston and running into the wall the way he did, you don\u2019t ask any of your players to do it, but when you see a guy play the game that way, it gives you really good feelings and makes you want to get him out there again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Catcher Chadwick Tromp makes his first start with the Orioles tonight after signing as a free agent on April 13 and having his contract selected yesterday. He spent small parts of the last four seasons with the Braves. He caught against the Orioles this spring in the final exhibition game in North Port.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen him from afar over the years, and actually, I had his cousin in the minor leagues at one point, too, so I\u2019ve always kind of followed him knowing that I managed his cousin years ago,\u201d Mansolino said. \u201cHe\u2019s a guy that Frenchy (Drew French) really likes. Frenchy had experience with him in Atlanta and has a lot of good things to say about him, so excited to see him back there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tomoyuki Sugano has posted a 3.07 ERA, the fourth-lowest for an Orioles pitcher in his first 10 career starts after Zack Britton\u2019s 2.35, Josh Towers\u2019 2.56 and John Means\u2019 2.89. He\u2019s allowed two walks or fewer in each of those starts, the fourth-lowest stretch by an Orioles starter to begin his career after Towers (23 games), Tyler Wells (13) and Mark Williamson (11).<\/p>\n
The Orioles are batting .283 (30-for-106) with runners in scoring position in their last 11 games after posting a .188 (56-for-298) average through 42 games that ranked as the lowest in the majors.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re hitting .177 (34-for-192) with RISP and two outs this season, the second-lowest average in the majors after the Rangers\u2019 .173.<\/p>\n
Outfielder Colton Cowser and infielder Jordan Westburg joined Triple-A Norfolk on injury rehab assignments. Cowser appeared in four games with High-A Aberdeen.<\/p>\n
Update: Norfolk’s game was rained out, so they’ll have to wait until Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Double-A Chesapeake placed infielder Max Wagner and pitcher Juan Nunez on the seven-day injured list. Outfielder Reed Trimble was activated from the IL.<\/p>\n
For the Cardinals<\/p>\n
Lars Nootbaar LF
Masyn Winn SS
Brendan Donovan 2B
Willson Contreras 1B
Iv\u00e1n Herrera C
Nolan Arenado 3B
Alec Burleson RF
Nolan Gorman DH
Victor Scott II CF<\/p>\n
Andre Pallante RHP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman appears to have avoided the seven-day concussion injured list. Rutschman was scheduled to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[1079,143,47,2538,5,77,915,4,125,579,578,12642],"class_list":{"0":"post-59995","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-cedric-mullins","14":"tag-jorge-mateo","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-orioles","17":"tag-orioles-featured","18":"tag-roch-kubatko","19":"tag-tony-mansolino"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114583272701274022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59995","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=59995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}