{"id":661389,"date":"2026-04-03T19:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661389\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:45:22","slug":"friday-afternoon-game-thread-at-pirates-412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661389\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday afternoon game thread: at Pirates, 4:12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the first time in 2026, the Orioles head out on the road, but they don\u2019t have to go too far. They will begin the six-game trip with a weekend in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And let\u2019s not forget about old friend Ryan O\u2019Hearn. The O\u2019s dealt him to the Padres at last year\u2019s deadline, and then he inked a two-year deal with the Pirates in January. So far it looks like a good bit of business. He owns a .421\/.522\/.737 slash line through five games, and has already gone deep twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kyle Bradish is on the bump for the Birds. His first start of the year was OK. He threw 83 pitches over 4.2 innings, struggling with his control quite a bit. His fastball velocity also seemed to be down. The sinker was averaging 93.5 mph against the Twins. He\u2019s usually closer to 95 (94.7 mph in 2025). Hopefully that is just some early-season rust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">RHP Kyle Bradish (0-1, 3.86 ERA, 4.2 IP, 4 K)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">RHP Mitch Keller (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 6 IP, 3 K)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in 2026, the Orioles head out on the road, but they don\u2019t have to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,72999,2538,5,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-661389","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-discussion","11":"tag-baltimoreorioles","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661389","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=661389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}