A night after their best player got picked off twice, yet another Oriole, Weston Wilson, got picked off Tuesday. And closer Ryan Helsey \u2013 who has been wild all season but getting away with it \u2013 was intent on matching Baz in the wild-pitch department and didn\u2019t need a full inning to do it (all of this with Elias\u2019s first pick, first-overall in 2019 Adley Rutschman, back behind the plate). <\/p>\n
\u201cHe just didn\u2019t have a feel for pretty much anything today,\u201d Albernaz said of his closer, which extended of course to fielding his position, because the Orioles don\u2019t do much of that and especially not their pitchers. But, hey, at least he caught the ball when it was thrown back to him.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s bad ball far too much the time and the O\u2019s have gotten away with it a decent amount facing a weak schedule thus far. But it portends a potentially loooong summer.<\/p>\n As for the plus side of that Elias Equation, well, Coby Mayo became the latest young hitter in this lineup to perk up, hitting an early three-run homer a night after rookies Sam Basello and Dylan Beavers had late RBI hits to fuel that win. Rutschman continued to look resurgent after two years in the abyss, smashing a go-ahead two-run homer in the 8th, \u00a0, typical feast or famine stuff.<\/p>\n But Rico Garcia gave up his first runs of the season on Michael Massey\u2019s solo homer and it only got more bizarre from there.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was tough to watch,\u201d Albernaz said of the way this one ended. They might want to start printing that on t-shirts.<\/p>\n Bird Seed<\/p>\n Baz, as usual, had arguably more good moments than bad, but he remains wobbly and erratic enough to not be able to escape trouble as much as required from a true frontline starter. With their injuries and other starters struggling, they\u2019ll likely need Baz to be more than an inning eater, but that\u2019s what he\u2019s been to this point in his career \u2026 Former first-overall pick Jackson Holiday, who has had repeated setbacks trying to come back<\/a> from a broken hand, left a rehab game in Norfolk early and will undergo an MRI in Baltimore, Albernaz said.<\/p>\n
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