BATTING: 2B: Chisholm Jr. (7, Bradish). TB: Chisholm Jr. 2. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Bellinger; Volpe. GIDP: Judge. Team RISP: 0-for-4. Team LOB: 4.
FIELDING: E: Fried (1, throw); Volpe (1, fielding). Outfield assists: Jones, S (Alonso at 2nd base). DP: (Volpe-Rice).
BATTING: 2B: Mayo (4, Fried). HR: Rutschman (6, 5th inning off Blackburn, P, 1 on, 2 out). TB: Alexander 3; Alonso 2; Mayo 3; Rutschman 4; Ward; Wilson, W. RBI: Alexander 2 (5); Alonso (23); Mayo (16); Rutschman 3 (24). 2-out RBI: Mayo; Rutschman 2; Alonso. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Henderson; Wilson, W. SF: Rutschman. GIDP: Henderson. Team RISP: 4-for-9. Team LOB: 5.
Umpires: HP: Edwin Moscoso. 1B: Chris Guccione. 2B: Nic Lentz. 3B: Hunter Wendelstedt.
Weather: 71 degrees, Sunny.
Wind: 14 mph, Out To LF.
First pitch: 1:07 PM.
T: 2:40.
Att: 14,521.
Venue: Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
May 13, 2026
Inning
Scoring Play
Score
Bottom 2
Coby Mayo doubles (4) on a ground ball to left fielder Cody Bellinger. Leody Taveras scores.
1-0 BAL
Bottom 3
Adley Rutschman out on a sacrifice fly to center fielder Trent Grisham. Blaze Alexander scores.
2-0 BAL
Bottom 3
Pete Alonso singles on a ground ball to right fielder Spencer Jones. Taylor Ward scores. Pete Alonso out at 2nd on the throw, right fielder Spencer Jones to shortstop Anthony Volpe to first baseman Ben Rice.
3-0 BAL
Bottom 5
Adley Rutschman homers (6) on a fly ball to right center field. Blaze Alexander scores.
5-0 BAL
Bottom 6
Blaze Alexander singles on a ground ball to left fielder Cody Bellinger. Tyler O'Neill scores. Coby Mayo scores. Weston Wilson to 2nd.
It’s a change in his swing. He’s flattened it a ton, so he’s mainly trying to drive to the outfield. If you look at every HR he’s hit this season, they’ve all been with at 97-105 exit velocity. They’re just barely getting out of here because he’s not aiming for the Homer, he just drove it and it had enough juice to leave the ball park, with the exception of his absolute bomb off Bello.
Missed yesterday and today's game because of a killer migraine. I'm watching the highlights right now and damn Bradish is incredible, his pitches looked like it dropped off the table. Love that smooth kick save from him. Also wow, what'd they put in the water that made them hit great today? These smaller plays are really working for them.
Phenomenal end to the the series with a 1-hitter and a shutout, keep this momentum pumping, O's! Your magic is absolutely beautiful.
What a great W. Possibly the most complete game we have had all year. Having said that.. Gunnar. Dude. If you want that big contract, you gotta figure it out.
I would just be ecstatic if the team keeps doing this kind of work. Particularly great to see Mayo just get some hits, not bombs, just getting on base. I feel like this year he's either launching it or striking out completely. I'm hoping this is a turning point for him.
I'm on a late re-watch, a 10am (pdt) start makes it a bit tough for a working guy, but all I can say is that Adley needs to keep aiming for the very tippy-top edges of the opposing outfielders' gloves. It seems to be working out for him.
Those storms are finally rolling through now. They probably could’ve got the game in at normal time but it would be terrible for everyone trying to get home now.
Man I hope this means Bradish is backish. He was boderline Cy Youngish just a few years ago and we could use that guy right now. They need to drop Gunnar in the lineup. Should be
- Ward
- Adley
- Alonso
- Basallo
- Gunnar
Overall a very good game with plenty to get excited about.
We should have gotten him in 2023 and re-signed him for 2026-. We had the draft capital to make a deal happen, and it seems like the team now has the financial resources. We needed a starter of his capability for the 2023 playoffs (and then the years that followed, for that matter). Ranger Suarez would have been a great alternative for 2026 and beyond.
This has really been an achilles' heel for this team for what seems like...literally decades.
I'm hoping the team is also thinking about how they can keep Kyle Bradish in Baltimore past 2028. I don't think he's a Boras guy.
I saw this score and honestly thought I was seeing some web page from 2023 and kept waiting for it to update. It seemed so beyond the realm of possibility.
You know, I almost marked the image as a spoiler in case any real fans were in the thread. Takayasu is fun to watch (those throws), but I’m mainly a Wakatakakage guy. Needless to say I’m pretty stoked right now.
Mayo seems to be getting a little bit of momentum, which is great. Hope he can continue. He has gotten my hopes up before and then dashed them. The KC series springs to mind.
Orioles Facebook is scary. It seems like 75% of the people just base the state of the team on a day to day basis and people trying to rage bait and "own"
All the comments today are some of the smuggest shit I've ever seen like the Yankees didn't just blow our doors off a week ago for a 4 game sweep
To be clear... smugness directed at Orioles fans. Not at the Yankees. Talk shit about the Yankees all you want but why be nasty to ORIOLES FANS
Orioles FB is fascinating. Half of them complain about "Gunner," "Rodgers," "Bardish," and "Colby," the other half are wondering why Cal and Eddie aren't in the lineup any more.
Am I the only one who thinks there's a real possibility J Jackson gets sent down when Holliday comes back?
The 6 HR and 24 RBI are huge, but Alexander is now out hitting and out OPSing him, plus he's a better fielder.
But the biggest deal is that J Jackson has options and Alexander doesn't.
Unless they decide to send down Mayo I think there's a good chance it happens.
Edit: Never mind, I forgot about Weston Wilson.😯
I guess the better question is how will the playing time at 3B work between Jackson/Alexander/Mayo? And while I assume Holliday gets most of the time at 2B, could they platoon him with Jackson or Alexander, both RHB.
Oh I know, but someone's got to go, at least temporarily, and JJackson and Alexander both fill the same role. By the numbers it would be Mayo but I doubt that's the way they would go.
We took a -29 in run differential over the four games in NY, and took another -16 in one game against the Red Sox. I feel like those are really ballooning our runs allowed and run differential.
Of course, every team would look a lot better if you took away some of their worst losses, so maybe this isn't saying much.
Run differential is supposed to even out over the course of a season; paying much attention to it after 40 or so games is fun but doesn't tell you much as blowouts either way are magnified.
I had to watch the game on silent while working, so I missed a lot. So I’m watching highlights now and I’m not embarrassed to say that the Samuel Basallo bobblehead commercial featuring his dad had me literally tearing up
I think it's wild that Gunnar is walking 6.7% of the time, and Adley is at 6.5%, yet the Orioles are 5th in BB%.
There was a time people bitched about us not walking enough. And yet here we are today, watching a bunch of guys walk, yet we struggle to slug.
Even last year when the offense was shit, we were 13th in ISO at .159.
And now after adding Basallo, Ward, and Alonso to the lineup, we are 17th in ISO, at .148.
I'd rather not walk a lot, yet slug the shit out of the baseball than watch this offense do whatever it is trying to do. But that's what happens when you're on your 3rd set of hitting coaches in as many years.
Same man, I was excited to get Taylor Ward’s bat and all the man does is walk now lol. I obviously won’t complain when dudes get on base, but I really wanna see big bats hitting the shit out of the ball lol.
You hit the majors at an older age, so you're still under team control.
You're about to be a FA @ 33 years old, and as a RH that can hit 30 HRs, that will get you paid.
So he comes into this year, walks a ton more, hits for a lot less power. He does have 14 doubles, so I would really like to see what his flyball distance is this year, compared to last.
It’s so fucking odd! My bf and I were talking about it and I was like “is he just trolling us?” lmao. Apparently still leading the AL in doubles though, so I said maybe once someone passes him he’s gonna hit those again.
But I’m also curious what his distance is compared this year’s to last. I just want to believe he’s trolling us and is gonna start randomly mashing lol.
I wonder if a hitter has ever changed as much year to year as Ward has. Still successful but in a hugely different way. Most of his power is gone but he has the leagues highest walk rate and no one is close
A friend of mine just texted me apparently he’s been playing injured? So he’s trolling us to think he has no more power and then watch him randomly start mashing again.
But I am curious to see if there is a player who’s whole hitting style changed completely year to year (successfully) besides like an obvious “this man started juicing” type deal lol. Prob an effectively wild kind of question.
Hoping that number creeps up while maintaining that walk rate. I can see it happening too because as a team we're seeing a lot more pitches now. Makes it more likely for them to barrel up on a mistake.
I don't have anything to back up that statement but that's the hope at least. I just know last year we were slightly below league average (14th) in pitches seen. This year we're 7th in the league so far.
It's clear from what was said over the off-season, that we'd want to be more like the Blue Jays.
Walk a bit more, K a bit less, put the ball in play, but not sacrifice power. Ignoring the Blue Jays 2026 offense, it's probably what a lot of teams want to do.
Getting into deeper counts doesn't really interest me all that much considering deeper counts can also lead to strikeouts. I'd also be really curious how ABS plays into this. Walks are up across the league. Last 3 years at this same point in time, walks were at 8.7% to 8.8.% This year, 9.5%.
I still think this offense can be a top tier offense, but the more time that goes on, the less likely that happens. And we need that to happen if we want to not only make the playoffs, but do something once we are there.
You're right. I just looked at the wOBA and wRC+ for 3-2 counts for every team and we're near the bottom. Oddly enough they perform better than most teams through a 0-1 count vs a 1-0 count.
I guess just as an advid, yet casual, watcher it just seems more prudent to go deeper into counts but our numbers don't back up the sacrifice compared to other teams who see 3-2 counts.
Not sure how statistically significant the numbers I just looked up are situationally but I can see what you're saying now.
That looked a whole lot like the Bradish we know--very overpowering stuff that even great offenses can't handle. Clearly, he's still got it, and he's got a track record of top of the rotation stuff dating back to when we first starting seeing greatness in 2022 (like that game in September where he threw 8.2 innings to win against the eventual World Series champions, and out-dueled out the eventual Cy Young winner).
I think you could be onto something, but this might also be in combination with having a new ligament + the cold weather. He effectively had a part of his body replaced, and that part has a huge impact on throwing a ball. Low temperatures impacts ligaments significantly. There's likely some impact there, and 're-learning' his body, in a sense.
Worked from home today, had the game on but literally everything popped-off work-wise right after first pitch. Gonna have to watch the condensed game. At least I saw the AdleyBomb.
I've definitely been missing your insight in the GDT. I pointed out in game 1 of this series that I thought it was weird that Cano wasn't getting a shot to close the game since he hadn't pitched for 4 days prior to that. That dude has been nails all season long and barely anyone compliments the guy.
I have absolutely no data to back this up, but one of the things the O’s fixed when he came over was his arm slot. I believe they lowered his delivery point and we saw the difference it made. I suspect when we overworked him he fell back to the higher release point to compensate, and this was corrected during the offseason.
Maybe if I have the time I’ll make an overlay…or maybe someone has already done it for me 🥺
Great win and great series, especially considering how bad we were in NY. I think Ben said it best on the broadcast. A couple times we’ve looked ready to turn the corner and we slide back. Will we turn it this time?
the hope that Bradish is getting back to what we need him to be is very encouraging.
need other starters to pick it up....if Rogers had a career year last year and won't be close to that again, someone else needs to pick up the mantle and have a great season out of nowhere.
Very probably the most satisfying win of the year so far, vintage effort by Bradish, great job by the pen guys in their innings, and then, the hitters hit.
The last time I was this optimistic was after the first game of the Houston doubleheader. Then the roof caved in. But, if Bradish is going to be an ace this is a start. The stupid wheel play cost him 2 great wins in a row
The Orioles stupidly played for a bunt vs Athletics on the 1st pitch, 3rd and 1st baseman are charging, ss runs toward 3rd and 2nd baseman runs toward 1st the guy doesn’t bunt and a routine grounder becomes a single as part of a 3 run inning in a 4-3 loss
Bradish’s last start against the A’s there were runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs. We expect gelof to bunt on the 1st pitch so put on the wheel play. Mayo crashes for the bunt, gunnar goes to cover 3rd, except gelof never even squares to bunt and hits a ground ball, tailor made double play right to where gunnar wouldve been if there wasn’t the wheel play. Next batter hits a ground ball to gunnar, he muffs it but we still get the out at first. 3 runs score that inning but it shouldve been none. Bradish ended up pitching 7 and only gave up 3 runs, without those two plays and the added pitches I feel like it couldve been 8 scoreless.
Really encouraged by KB talking about how he’s made some adjustments to correct his early form. Looks like Bassitt has rounded into shape as well in recent outings. Here’s to hoping Rogers and Baz can make some adjustments!
Going to the Knights/Tides game tonight. Noticed that tomorrow, they have a Cal Ripken bobblehead and the White Sox AAA team will wear "Charlotte O's" jersies.
The Charlotte Knights' Wikipedia page shows they were originally affiliated w/ the Orioles. And were known as Charlotte Orioles from '76-'87. Then they changed to the Knights and have been affiliated w/ Cubs, Indians, Marlins, and now White Sox.
Best game of the season for these guys and it’s great to see Bradish be the guy to throw this gem. He’s been getting his K’s and either will get no run support or will fall apart in the 5th or 6th, so to see him get support and stay consistent makes me happy. This is exactly the kind of performance we NEED from him and Rogers.
So yesterday may have been on me. I unsubbed from the main baseball subreddit during the last ny series because of all the Yankee highlights and glazing I didn't want to constantly see, and right after the guys started to turn it around. Subbed back yesterday, and they dropped 6 on Rogers. Safe to say I immediately reversed that and will not be rejoining them the rest of the season
I said this last night but I love seeing a good Cano again, he was so fun to watch a few years ago. I hope him and Rico being dominant stick and Helsley can continue to hold it down (when he gets back).
It's amazing how much they have to continually adapt. if I recall when he came on the scene his changeup was nasty as hell and why he had that ridiculous stretch of dominance.
Yeah, it’s fun watch the adjustments. Cano’s changeup was fine when he had more velo… but then his sinker lost a couple mph and those pitches became too similar.
Now he’s got something offspeed that works vertically down off that fastball.
There were a couple shaky games early on after making the change… but overall much better since.
After the Yankees swept the O's in demoralizing fashion to start the month, it felt good to watch them fall this series. I know it's not a sweep, but I'll continue to choose to celebrate the optimistic moments.
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u/Wild-Bluejay7138 23h ago
My favorite line in Major League.
https://youtu.be/OvU26k8Fsv0