{"id":632861,"date":"2026-03-20T03:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/632861\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:02:29","slug":"samuel-basallo-shines-for-the-os-in-a-high-flying-clash-with-the-pirates-on-thursday-night-in-sarasota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/632861\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Basallo shines for the O\u2019s in a high-flying clash with the Pirates on Thursday night in Sarasota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; If you\u2019re not familiar with Baltimore Orioles catcher Samuel Basallo, perhaps it\u2019s time you pay attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Basallo was on fire on Thursday night at Ed Smith Stadium. He crushed a first inning pitch from Cam Sanders on a 2-2 count to give the Orioles a 1-0 lead after the first inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the third inning, Basallo was right back at it against right-hander Mike Clevinger, this time with a man on base. The Orioles led 5-0 after three innings, thanks also to a two-run home run from Jhonkensey Noel in the second inning off of former Oriole Gregory Soto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Baltimore would go on to win 5-2. The Orioles are next at the Yankees on Friday evening, while the Pirates turn their attention to the Braves on Friday evening as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; If you\u2019re not familiar with Baltimore Orioles catcher Samuel Basallo, perhaps it\u2019s time you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,4634,4,125,64,7326],"class_list":["post-632861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-ed-smith-stadium","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-samuel-basallo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116259281026629369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632861","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=632861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}