Camden Chat 10 hours ago
In a surprising twist, the Orioles are poised to have the AL’s best postseason rotation
Photo by Ron Schwane/ If Dean Kremer or Kyle Gibson can join in on the excellence shown by Bradish, Rodriguez and Means, this O’s rotation is more than good enough to carry them to an AL pennant. The Orioles starting rotation has undergone a bit of a metamorphosis since the beginning of September. When the O’s began the month out in Arizona, they featured a six-man rotation and the likes of Cole Irvin and Jack Flaherty were key contributors of that six-starter collective. However, since the beginning of the month there’s been quite the shakeup. After getting the...
Camden Chat Sep 23, 2023
Saturday Bird Droppings: The Orioles bullpen is going through it right now
David Richard-USA TODAY Sports An ugly loss, Wells returns, and contenders for MVO. Good morning, Birdland! It feels like there is some panic setting in among the Orioles’ faithful, and it’s not entirely unwarranted. The O’s lost to the Guardians 9-8 on Friday night, a brutal defeat in which the O’s pitching staff coughed up three different leads. And it wasn’t just the bullpen. Dean Kremer was poor, Danny Coulombe had a bad showing, and Yennier Cano was a disaster. Some ugly defense along the way didn’t help. The Orioles’ play over the last ~two weeks has...
Camden Chat Sep 22, 2023
Orioles waste eight runs of offense in walkoff loss, but at least the Rays lost too
Photo by Ron Schwane/ Dean Kremer’s short start set in motion the tired bullpen chain reaction. Shoddy defense didn’t help either. After a back-and-forth game that was at times exhilarating and about as often agonizing, the Orioles entered the bottom of the ninth needing just three outs to beat the Guardians. They got one out before it all went wrong and they ended up losing in walkoff fashion in Cleveland, a 9-8 defeat that wasted the two-run rally the Orioles mustered in the top of the ninth, to say nothing of all of the other offense. Let’s get one important...
MASN: School of Roch Sep 22, 2023
Orioles reduce magic number to six while losing to Guardians (updated)
CLEVELAND – Dean Kremer struck out Kole Calhoun tonight to leave the bases loaded in the second inning and shouted as he began his walk to the visiting dugout. Maybe frustrated with himself for allowing 13 batters to reach base and surrendering an early lead. Maybe reacting to the importance of the pitch and how it kept the game from getting away from him.Maybe right on both counts.The Orioles responded by scoring three runs against Shane Bieber in the top of the third inning, but two errors in the fourth led to three unearned runs and another Guardians advantage. Kremer didn’t scream at...
Camden Chat Sep 22, 2023
Orioles Game #164 Game Thread: at Guardians, 7:10
The Orioles need at least six innings from Dean Kremer tonight. | Photo by Patrick Smith/ The Orioles seem pretty tired but they’ve got three more games to play before they get a day off. We have been here before in the 2023 Orioles season. A couple of dumb losses stack up next to one another and it starts to feel like things are on the verge of falling apart entirely. Only a week ago it was four straight losses, with nearly a week’s worth of bad offense. And that was in the midst of the Rays series, which the O’s rallied to split. They have been good at warding...
Camden Chat Sep 17, 2023
Sunday afternoon Orioles game thread: vs Rays, 1:35
Ray Acevedo-USA TODAY Sports Dean Kremer starts yet another big game on a day in which the Orioles can punch their postseason ticket. Last night was huge. The Orioles secured the tiebreaker over the Rays and regained sole possession of first place in the AL East. Today, they can go back up two games in the standings—just as they had entered the weekend series—and they can clinch a playoff spot. There is still work to do. Let’s be honest, the Orioles won’t be satisfied with just any old playoff spot at this point. They have played well enough to win just about...
Camden Chat Sep 11, 2023
Monday night Orioles game thread: vs. Cardinals, 6:35
Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports The Orioles return home for the first of three games against the Cardinals. The Orioles will play the most crucial series of the regular season later this week against Tampa Bay. Baltimore must resist the temptation to look ahead during a three-game set against the Cardinals. This team has done nothing to suggest they are anything but focused on the present, but they will have an opportunity to prove that tonight against St. Louis. Dean Kremer gets the ball as the Birds look to kickoff the homestead on a high note. Kremer failed to...
Camden Chat Sep 5, 2023
Tuesday night Orioles game thread: at Angels, 9:38 ET
Photo by Orlando Ramirez/ Dean Kremer takes the mound as the Orioles go for their sixth consecutive series win. Last night, the O’s took care of business against a team they’re supposed to beat. Now, let’s do it twice more. The already dismantled Angels suffered another blow last night when their lone remaining star, Shohei Ohtani, was scratched from the lineup following an apparent batting practice injury. He remains out tonight and possibly for the rest of the year. That’s bad news for baseball, but good news for the Orioles pitching staff in this series as...
Camden Chat Aug 29, 2023
Late offense pushes O’s to 9-3 win over White Sox
Photo by Rob Carr/ The Orioles scored eight runs in the seventh and eighth innings to clinch a series win and set up a chance at a sweep. A late offensive surge lifted the Orioles to a 9-3 win over the White Sox on Tuesday night at Camden Yards. This marks their 83rd win of the year, the same number of victories they had in all of 2022. There is still more than a month of regular season baseball left this year. The first half of this game was an unlikely pitching duel between Dean Kremer and Jesse Scholtens, two hurlers that entered the day with ERAs above...
Baltimore Sun Aug 29, 2023
Orioles explode late to top White Sox, 9-3, match 2022 win total with 30 games remaining
Dean Kremer pitched six innings of one-run ball, Anthony Santander delivered a go-ahead, three-run double in the seventh and the Orioles added five runs in the eighth to secure a 9-3 victory over the White Sox. With 83 wins, the Orioles have matched their 2022 total with 30 games to go.
MASN: School of Roch Aug 29, 2023
Orioles score eight runs in last two innings in 9-3 victory, match last year's win total (updated)
Dean Kremer did his job. One sinker that hung in the middle of the plate was his only real sin. Easily forgivable under any circumstances, and especially if he had more than a modicum of offensive support.Kremer worked into the seventh inning, registered his fourth quality start in a row, and waited to find out whether the Orioles would be stuck on one run.Danny Coulombe replaced Kremer with two runners on base and no outs, and he stranded them. Little did he know that he’d become the pitcher of record. Or that the Orioles would torch the White Sox’s bullpen and turn a tie into a...
Camden Chat Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday night Orioles game thread: vs White Sox, 7:05
Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports Dean Kremer is back on the bump looking to secure a series win for the Birds. The 2022 Orioles won 83 games. The 2023 Orioles have won 82 games...and they still have 31 left on the calendar. If they continue to win at their current clip then they might just flirt with 100 wins on the season. That’s pretty neat! Sure, 100 itself is a somewhat random and insignificant threshold, but it would still be fun to see it in the Orioles’ win column. But we still have some time before that becomes part of the conversation. For now, it’s about...
MASN: School of Roch Aug 26, 2023
Closer look at Orioles rotation and lineup numbers
Kyle Bradish is named the starter for tonight’s game against the Rockies, the line moving again while the Orioles wait on Jack Flaherty.No one who is new to the rotation is anticipated at this point. The same crew, one of the distinct differences from the past.The Orioles have used only eight starting pitchers this season, the third-lowest total in the majors. And that includes Keegan Akin, who worked one inning as an opener on May 31 against the Guardians. He’s on the 60-day injured list.The other starters are more memorable: Bradish, Flaherty, Kyle Gibson, Tyler Wells, Dean Kremer,...
