{"id":658586,"date":"2026-04-02T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:08:17","slug":"orioles-news-suarez-returns-basallo-makes-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658586\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles news: Su\u00e1rez returns, Basallo makes history"},"content":{"rendered":"

It only felt for a couple of days there like the Orioles were going to lose every game they ever play again. Thanks to Trevor Rogers and a breakout day from the offense, they were able to avoid a sweep by the Rangers with an 8-3 victory yesterday. Check out my recap of the game for more of the lovely totals.<\/a><\/p>\n

After yesterday\u2019s win, the Orioles are 3-3 through their first six games. That\u2019s the same record that they had through six games a year ago. Only 3.7% of the season has been played. Lots of baseball remains. Coming up next for the Orioles is a three-game set against the Pirates, but that doesn\u2019t start until Friday. Both they and the Pirates have the day off today.<\/p>\n

Wednesday brought a couple of roster developments that may well have an impact on the whole rest of the season. The Orioles placed Zach Eflin on the 15-day injured list. That was no surprise. There\u2019s still no diagnosis for his injury. I don\u2019t think the MRI will bring good news. The other thing was that, in order to get Albert Su\u00e1rez onto the roster, they transferred Jordan Westburg to the 60-day injured list. That means that the earliest that Westburg can play is the end of May.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been thinking that if we don\u2019t see Westburg by May 1, that means we\u2019re not going to see him at all this year. If I\u2019m right in my guess, then this means we won\u2019t see him. At some point, the Orioles will announce he needs the surgery and he\u2019ll get it and he\u2019ll be done for the year. I could be wrong. I often am when it comes to predicting the Orioles. My reasoning is that, if Westburg\u2019s recovery was on pace that the platelet-rich plasma was working, then we\u2019d be hearing by now about when he\u2019ll start a rehab assignment. Instead, he\u2019s heading the other direction.<\/p>\n

Another open question is who will replace Eflin in the rotation. My assumption here – again, this could be wrong – is that it\u2019s going to be Dean Kremer. The challenge with that is that the Orioles can\u2019t recall Kremer until April 9 unless someone goes on the injured list at the same time. I think they\u2019ll need someone to start on Monday or Tuesday, and there\u2019s no guarantee that there will be an injured pitcher by then. That\u2019s a problem for Monday or Tuesday, though. Yesterday, Elias solved his \u201cwe need long relief to save the rest of the bullpen\u201d problem and it paid off with Su\u00e1rez pitching three innings.<\/p>\n

Orioles stuff you might have missed<\/p>\n

We can say with certainty, no MLB game has ever ended like this before<\/a> (Orioles.com)
The Orioles made a little fun history yesterday by having their win end from an ABS challenge turning a pitch into a third strike for the third out.<\/p>\n

An early, nerdy look at the challenge system<\/a> (FanGraphs)
And speaking of ABS challenges, the folks at FG are on top of figuring out how players seem to be using the challenges early on. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how usage evolves over time, since after all it\u2019s only been less than a week now.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s barely April, and it already feels like the Orioles are in the grind<\/a> (The Baltimore Banner)
The Orioles, thankfully, dispelled a little bit of this with yesterday\u2019s victory. It is, however, going to take sustained effort to avoid recurrences of some of their early problems.<\/p>\n

Albernaz on Su\u00e1rez joining Orioles<\/a> (School of Roch)
The manager has a connection to Su\u00e1rez from back when they were both minor leaguers in the Rays organization.<\/p>\n

For Anthony Nunez, the best part of his MLB debut was sharing it with his mom<\/a> (Steve on Baseball)
I am an absolute sucker for all \u201cplayer\u2019s family members there for the MLB debut\u201d stories. This one on Nunez does not disappoint.<\/p>\n

Birthdays and Orioles anniversaries<\/p>\n

Today in 1976, the Orioles and Athletics made a six-player trade that brought future Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson to Baltimore for one season.<\/p>\n

There are a few former Orioles who were born on this day. They are: 1996-97 outfielder Pete Incaviglia, 1957 pitcher Art Ceccarelli, 1960-61 pitcher Gordon Jones, and 1959 infielder Bobby \u00c1vila.<\/p>\n

Is today your birthday? Happy birthday to you! Your birthday buddies for today include: Frankish king Charlemagne (747), fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805), playwright \u00c9mile Zola (1840), and baseball Hall of Famers Hughie Jennings (1869), Luke Appling (1907), and Don Sutton (1945).<\/p>\n

On this day in history\u2026<\/p>\n

In 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Le\u00f3n landed on the mainland of what are now the United States for the first time. The first landing took place between the mouth of the St. John\u2019s River and modern-day St. Augustine, Florida.<\/p>\n

In 1800, composer Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019s First Symphony had its premiere in Vienna, conducted by the man himself.<\/p>\n

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany, which brought the country into the conflict that today we call World War I.<\/p>\n

A random Orioles trivia question<\/p>\n

I received a random book of Orioles trivia questions for Christmas. I\u2019ll ask one of the questions each time it\u2019s my turn in this space until I run out of questions. Since I\u2019ve been skipping stupid questions (I suspect this book was churned out by AI with minimal human oversight,) today is the penultimate question for this exercise. Here\u2019s today\u2019s question:<\/p>\n

Who was the first Orioles pitcher to lead the American League in strikeouts for a season?<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the way it is in Birdland on April 2. Have a safe Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It only felt for a couple of days there like the Orioles were going to lose every game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,7936,2538,5,38570,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-658586","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-baltimore-orioles-news","11":"tag-baltimoreorioles","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-bird-droppings","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116334801970255344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658586","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=658586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}