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<\/p>\nThe Orioles gave up 15 runs, 18 hits, and made three errors in one inning. So glad we stayed up for this!<\/p>\n
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I mean, technically this isn\u2019t the worst Orioles team ever (who can forget the back-to-back-to-back 108+ loss seasons of a few years ago?), but it may well be the most disappointing. Think about the hopes and expectations that the Orioles had when the 2025 season began. They were supposed to be legitimate World Series contenders. And just look at what it\u2019s turned into.<\/p>\n
As I sat and watched at 1 o\u2019clock in the morning while the Orioles clown-showed their way through a three-error inning, bungling and fumbling and making fools of themselves on one play after another, I began to question everything in my life that\u2019s led up to this point. Why do I do this to myself? Why couldn\u2019t I have taken up a more pleasurable hobby than Baltimore Orioles baseball? What did any of us do to deserve this?<\/p>\n
Anyway, the Orioles lost to the Giants in San Francisco, 15-8. It was their fifth straight loss and they certainly earned it.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to start with that catastrophe of a seventh inning, where Grant Wolfram was torched for four runs but was hardly the only person to blame. The Orioles were already four runs behind at 10-6 but were determined to turn it into a Giants laugher. The rally started innocently enough with a one-out single. Drew Gilbert then hit a grounder up the middle that could have been a double play ball, or at least a force\u2026but Jackson Holliday let the ball kick off his glove, getting nobody out. Error #1. There\u2019s more where that came from.<\/p>\n
Wolfram got the second out but then allowed an RBI single to Willy Adames. With two runners still on, Rafael Devers followed with a single to left. Dylan Beavers uncorked a horrible throw home that pulled Alex Jackson into the on-deck circle. Jackson, for some reason, tried to throw to second base, where there wasn\u2019t a play, and the trail runner, Adames, steamed for the plate. Neither Jackson nor Wolfram covered home and the run scored. Embarrassing. Beavers was charged with an error, but everyone looked terrible on that play.<\/p>\n
Next, Wolfram induced a grounder to third that should have been the final out\u2026but Emmanuel Rivera short-hopped the routine throw to first and Ryan Mountcastle couldn\u2019t pick it. Error #3. Brutal. The Giants again took full advantage of an extra out as Dominic Smith singled home Devers. If you\u2019re keeping score, that\u2019s four unearned runs and a master class by the Orioles in how not to play baseball. If you were asleep for all of this tomfoolery, consider yourself lucky.<\/p>\n
Of course, the game was lost long before that travesty of an inning. Dean Kremer, guys\u2026yikes. At times this season we\u2019ve seen the very best of Kremer, including two starts ago against the Astros, when he threw seven shutout innings. But as Orioles fans are all too aware, Good Dean never sticks around for very long, and Bad Dean is always lurking in the shadows, ready to re-emerge. And tonight, Bad Dean was out in full force.<\/p>\n
It all went haywire from the jump. In the first, Kremer immediately loaded the bases on two walks and a single. Matt Chapman grounded an infield single into the hole at short that brought in one run, and Smith lofted a sac fly to plate another. That was the only out that Kremer recorded in his first seven batters. Casey Schmitt\u2019s single re-loaded the bases and Luis Matos \u2014 not that one \u2014 followed with a two-run single to increase the Giants\u2019 run total to four. Kremer was fooling nobody. He finally recorded the final two outs, but not before he\u2019d thrown 39 pitches, tying his career high for a single inning. Woof.<\/p>\n
Things didn\u2019t get much better from there. Kremer coughed up three consecutive singles to start the second inning, capped by a Devers RBI knock, and a Chapman sac fly made it 6-1. In the third, Gilbert\u2019s RBI double increased the Giants\u2019 tally to seven. After that inning, Tony Mansolino had seen enough, pulling Kremer after a brutal line of three innings, seven earned runs, and nine hits. It was Kremer\u2019s shortest outing of the season by far. Even in his other Bad Dean games this year, he always managed to at least pitch into the fifth inning. Not tonight.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s too bad Kremer was such a disaster, because the Orioles\u2019 offense finally made some noise for the first time in almost a week. Veteran Giants lefty Robbie Ray had troubles of his own. Ray, during his warmup tosses in the top of the first, looked visibly bothered by a blister on his left hand, summoning the training staff to the mound. After a brief chat, he stayed in to make a go of it, but seemed off his game all night. He issued a leadoff walk to Holliday and an RBI double to Mountcastle, who had a big game in store.<\/p>\n
In the third, Ray walked two more batters and both eventually came in to score. Mountcastle delivered another RBI double and Rivera followed with a two-run single as the O\u2019s continued to chip away at the Giants\u2019 early lead. Mountcastle struck again in the fifth with a two-RBI hit up the middle, this one knocking Ray out of the game. The former Cy Young winner had a lousy night, giving up six runs in 4.1 innings. Maybe the blister was affecting him. Maybe Bad Dean accidentally inhabited his body for a while. Who\u2019s to say?<\/p>\n
Both bullpens were called into early duty. This will shock you, but the Orioles\u2019 crew wasn\u2019t up to the task of keeping the game close. Corbin Martin worked two innings and gave up a pair of prodigious home runs: a two-run blast by Smith into McCovey Cove in the fourth, and a solo shot by Matos in the fifth that pushed the Giants\u2019 run total into double digits. Tell me again why I stayed up late for this? That was all the appetizer, of course, for the entree of suckitude that was the Giants\u2019 four-run seventh inning. Poor Wolfram also gave up a Gilbert RBI double in the eighth for the Giants\u2019 15th and final run.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re looking for silver linings, Mountcastle\u2019s four RBIs tonight were his most in a game this season. Coby Mayo launched a solo homer in the eighth. And uh, I don\u2019t know, Yennier Cano had a scoreless outing? I\u2019m grasping at straws here. The sad fact is that the Orioles stink and are getting worse by the day. Good night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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