The Orioles are 14-7 in the month of August and they have actually gotten exactly fifty percent of one video game in the standings over the second area Tampa Bay Rays. One factor for this is that the Rays invested the last three games playing these woeful Colorado Rockies. In each of the three games, the Mountain ranges led the game or had at least a tie heading into the 8th inning, and they shed all 3. The Rays beat them each time. Thanks for nothing. It is mosting likely to be up to the Orioles to capitalize on the chance of playing this team Harold Ramirez Jersey. The Rockies are a mess. They strike out the a lot of. They have the most awful on-base percent. They have the worst age. This is not entirely as a result of home games at Coors Area, since even when traveling they're balancing simply over 5 runs enabled per video game. However, there are no free wins in MLB. These 48-79 Rockies have actually won series against challengers like the Red Sox, Marlins, and Makers. Ryan McMahon has 21 homers. Young outfielder Nolan Jones already has 13 homers in 71 video games. And you never know, any kind of random gamer can constantly go off against the O's - so probably it's an alleviation that previous nemesis Randal Grichuk was traded to the Angels and is not around to harm them, a minimum of in this series. The O's will be playing the Angels next week. Game 1: Friday, 7:05 ET, MASNProbable pitchers: Cole Irvin vs. Kyle FreelandFor me, I was dissatisfied by Irvin's very early results and simply assumed he would certainly never add. He's been trying to win me back over with his performance thus far in the second fifty percent of the season and specifically in August, having actually held batters to a. 512 OPS against. That will certainly play, and goes to least enough of an indicator that he may have a place in the rotation that gets the Orioles into the most effective playoff area that they possibly can. The 30-year-old lefty Freeland is headed the contrary direction. He has a 1-9 document when traveling this period, with a 5. 40 PERIOD. He is worse in the 2nd half so much, having actually enabled a 6. 23 period and. 944 OPS versus in 5 starts since the break. He does not strike any person out - just a 5. 8 K9 for the period. It is a style for this collection: A serious challenger has actually obtained to knock these people aside as the Rays simply did. Game 2: Saturday, 7:05 ET, MASNProbable pitchers: TBD vs. Chris FlexenAs of this writing, the Orioles starting turning remains in a little a state of change that comes from Jack Flaherty being damaged from his Wednesday beginning. The Orioles were able to move everyone up on their routine rest as a result of Monday's off day, yet they haven't revealed anyone for Saturday and Sunday yet. Maybe Flaherty will slot back in this weekend. It does not appear to have been ruled out. Flexen has actually gotten on a bad trip this year. His previous group, the Mariners, traded him simply to get him to go away; the group that obtained him, the Mets, instantly released him since they didn't also want him. He located his way to the Rockies and has actually continued his struggle Kevin Kelly Jersey. A lot like with Freeland in the Friday night video game, the Orioles should ruin him. They can't have any one of these video games be "inexplicably draw versus a poor bottle" kind of video games. While the Orioles are playing the Mountain ranges, the Rays face the last place Yankees. The righty Flexen, listed at 6'3" and 219 lbs. , has surrendered 19 homers in 67. 2 innings this year. The O's lefties and switch-hitters need to strike some flag court or perhaps Eutaw Road dingers. Game 3: Sunday, 1:35 ET, MASNProbable pitchers: TBD vs. Ty BlachTruly undesirable Orioles sickos could remember several of the five games that Blach started for the 2019 team. He provided up 26 runs in 20. 2 innings during that time, which is very, extremely 2019 Orioles. Blach, now 32, found his back to the majors in the Mountain ranges bullpen in 2014, and has actually been pressed into the rotation this period. It hasn't gone badly for him up to this point, particularly by Mountain ranges requirements. His ERA, when adjusted for park and organization, can be found in at a 115 PERIOD+ - that's far better than Tyler Wells's ERA+ for the O's this year. Ty Blach! Who would have guessed?It is not out of the world of opportunity for the Orioles to equal their 2022 win overall by the end of the month of August. They are actually mosting likely to have to play well to do this, and go on taking treatment of service against the poor teams they are dealing with. Still: 4-2 gets them to 83 victories. That would certainly be something. It's not guaranteed! Nothing is ensured. Yet if they do what they should, that's where they'll be. Me being me, I fidget as opposed to confident about this series. The letdown possibility is high. I've believed this regarding a whole lot of collection up until now this year and the O's have mostly avoided the disappointments, mainly kept winning. That's why they are where they are Jeff Belge Jersey. Yet seriously: It's the Rockies, so they truly, actually can't allow us down on this one.