{"id":679942,"date":"2026-04-20T19:31:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:31:55","slug":"series-preview-baltimore-orioles-in-kansas-city-for-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679942\/","title":{"rendered":"Series Preview: Baltimore Orioles in Kansas City for three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/baltimore-orioles.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"baltimore orioles\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/baltimore-orioles.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Photo: \u00a9 Andreas Prott\/stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>The Baltimore Orioles, a preseason AL playoff favorite, has limped out to a 10-12 start, with the offense scoring 4.14 runs per game, ranking 19th in MLB, the pitching staff posting a 4.00 ERA, ranking 14th.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s up with the O\u2019s?<\/p>\n<p>The stats and the won-loss record match up, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Alonso, the big free-agent acquisition in the offseason, has two homers, a .207 batting average and a .664 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>Gunnar Henderson is tied for sixth in MLB in homers (7), but he\u2019s hitting .204 with a .763 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>The team MVP right now would probably be second baseman Jeremiah Jackson (.303 BA\/.879 OPS, 5 HRs, 17 RBIs), a 26-year-old in his second MLB season, who was never among the star-studded O\u2019s farm system\u2019s Top 30 prospects, and is only in the lineup because of the preseason injury to former top overall draft pick Jackson Holliday.<\/p>\n<p>The O\u2019s are in Kansas City (7-15) for three this week before returning home, with the Boston Red Sox in town for a weekend set starting on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>KC superstar Bobby Witt Jr. is also off to a slow start \u2013 a .280 batting average and .715 OPS, no homers and eight RBIs through 93 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Witt averaged 26.3 homers and 93.3 RBIs in his first four MLB seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Game 1: Monday, 7:40 p.m. (MASN)<\/p>\n<p>BAL: Kyle Bradish (1-2, 5.49 ERA, 1.63 WHIP)<br \/>\nKC: Seth Lugo (1-1, 1.48 ERA, 0.99 WHIP)<\/p>\n<p>Game 2: Tuesday, 7:40 p.m. (MASN)<\/p>\n<p>BAL: Shane Baz (0-2, 4.91 ERA, 1.55 WHIP)<br \/>\nKC: Kris Bubic (2-1, 3.97 ERA, 1.06 WHIP)<\/p>\n<p>Game 3: Wednesday, 2:10 p.m. (MASN)<\/p>\n<p>BAL: Chris Bassitt (0-2, 6.19 ERA, 2.13 WHIP)<br \/>\nKC: Michael Wacha (2-0, 1.00 ERA, 0.78 WHIP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: \u00a9 Andreas Prott\/stock.adobe.com The Baltimore Orioles, a preseason AL playoff favorite, has limped out to a 10-12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-679942","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-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116438703031676957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679942","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=679942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}