Where one win streak ends another can begin. The Orioles dropped the opener to this series on Friday, but this still feels like games that they should be winning. Let\u2019s hope that happens tonight in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
Charlie Morton is back on the bump for the Birds. The 41-year-old has won two consecutive starts, allowing two earned runs over 12.2 innings. It\u2019s just the latest in what has been a solid turnaround for the veteran. His season ERA has lowered from 9.38 on May 10 to 6.20 entering this game. With each outing that passes, he looks more like the rotation rock they thought they had signed.<\/p>\n
Luis Severino will be on the other side. He is coming off his worst start of the season. Over 5.2 innings against the Twins he allowed eight runs on nine hits, one walk, and one strikeout. That ballooned his season ERA my more than half a run. The A\u2019s have not won a Severino start since May 5, and Severino himself has just one win on the year (April 19). Although that is a result of how bad the A\u2019s have been rather than Severino himself.<\/p>\n
Gunnar Henderson is back in the lineup tonight, hopefully providing a needed jolt to an offense that failed to cash in on several opportunities in Game 1. <\/p>\n
Heston Kjerstad will take a seat yet again. The returns of Colton Cowser and Ram\u00f3n Laureano, plus the continued superb work from Dylan Carlson has pushed Kjerstad into a reserve role. Can he even stay on the roster once Cedric Mullins gets back? That\u2019s something to consider once the Orioles are back on east coast.<\/p>\n
Orioles lineup<\/p>\n
Jackson Holliday, 2B
\nAdley Rutschman, DH
\nGunnar Henderson, SS
\nRyan O\u2019Hearn, 1B
\nRam\u00f3n Laureano, RF
\nColton Cowser, CF
\nRam\u00f3n Ur\u00edas, 3B
\nDylan Carlson, LF
\nMaverick Handley, C<\/p>\n
RHP Charlie Morton (2-7. 6.20 ERA)<\/p>\n
Athletics lineup<\/p>\n
Lawrence Butler, RF
\nJacob Wilson, SS
\nBrent Rooker, DH
\nTyler Soderstrom, 1B
\nSeth Brown, CF
\nWillie MacIver, C
\nJJ Bleday, LF
\nLogan Davidson, 3B
\nMax Schuemann, 2B<\/p>\n
RHP Luis Serverino (1-5, 4.54 ERA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where one win streak ends another can begin. The Orioles dropped the opener to this series on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[422,537,143,47,4669,2538,5,968,969,181,14,4,4668,125,670,2412],"class_list":{"0":"post-87405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-at","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-baltimore-orioles","12":"tag-baltimore-orioles-game-chat","13":"tag-baltimoreorioles","14":"tag-baseball","15":"tag-camden","16":"tag-chat","17":"tag-front-page","18":"tag-game","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-night","21":"tag-orioles","22":"tag-saturday","23":"tag-thread"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114645278821441149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87405","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=87405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}