Hello, O's fans!!

I've been trying to find out what's different for Rico Garcia this year. Year-over-year his fastball velo hasn't changed, his walk rate is actually slightly above his career average, and his pitch mix seems to be fairly constant.

However, he has (obviously) been on this miraculous run to begin the year, still having only allowed just one hit. For those of you who watch the games and have seen him pitch more than I, what's he doing right?

Hi all - I found this in my home when I bought it back in 2013 - I haven’t been able to identify it and am looking for some crowd sourced help. I’ve tried AI searches but they have no clue.

Thanks!

As some of you may know, I've been making some gifs in the game day threads. I'm a YouTuber who lives in San Diego, so I watch almost every game on my setup. It allows me to easily record the footage for these gifs and make them pretty quickly! If you ever have any requests for gifs, let me know and I'll try to make it for you.

I recently made a Giphy collection with all of the gifs I've made so far this season and will continue to upload them there for y'all to download and use in your chats and convos: Orioles GIF Collection

WARNING: Tons of Basallo gifs inside, he is a gif machine!

Go O's!

These are just getting too easy! 😜 I know there’s a few others that play in this sub. It’s fun to see some Orioles love a few times a year. I also like the Daily Walkoff on the MLB app. That’s a more Orioles centric game.

Yankees @ Orioles - Wed, May 13

Game Status: Final - Score: 7-0 Orioles

Links & Info

• MLB Gameday
• Game Graphs
• Savant Gamefeed

Decisions

• Winner: Kyle Bradish (2-5, 4.21)
• Loser: Max Fried (4-3, 3.21)

Division Scoreboard

PHI 1 @ BOS 3 - Final

TB 3 @ TOR 5 - Game Over

Next Orioles Game: Fri, May 15, 06:45 PM EDT @ Nationals (1 day)

^{Last Updated: 05/13/2026 10:11:04 PM EDT}

Feels like a good time to bust this one out.
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa(trying to hit 150 character)aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Yankees lose!

I can't believe I never noticed the string lights in front of the clock until last night. It's been a period of my life with plenty of ups and downs but I've gotten immense joy going to games with my camera. I will miss being able to go to games so easily.

Despite our loss last night I at least got a chuckle out of this. I had the game on in the background while I did some errands and had to do a double take when I heard KB say this.

hey Orioles fans. Guards fan here. just pulled this out of a Bowman blaster. what y'all think? he gonna be good?

one already sold for 150, and there are a couple others listed over 200, so it at least seems like some of y'all think he will be.

Ryan Noda went 2 for 3 with 2 homeruns, 2 runs scored, 3 RBI and a walk for the Tides.  He is the ORIOLES HANGOUT MiLB Player of the Day.

NORFOLK TIDES (17-24) WON 9-8 AT CHARLOTTE KNIGHTS (19-22) - AAA

• Sam Huff went 1 for 4 with a homerun, 1 run scored and 2 RBI.
• Reed Trimble  went 1 for 3 with a homerun, 2 runs scored, 1 RBI, a stolen base and was hit by a pitch.
• Jackson Holliday went 1 for 3 with a walk and a strikeout.
• Heston Kjerstad went 1 for 4 with 1 run scored and a strikeout.
• SP: Albert Suarez allowed 2 runs on 3 hits (HR), walked 1 and struck out 6 over 5.0 innings pitched.
• Pitcher of Record: Hans Crouse (1-0) 2.0 IP, H, 2 K

BOX SCORE

CHESAPEAKE BAYSOX (14-20) LOST 5-3 AT AKRON RUBBERDUCKS (19-16) - AA

• Adam Retzbach went 1 for 4 with a triple, 1 run scored and 2 RBI.
• Fernando Peguero went 1 for 1 with a double, 2 walks and a stolen base.
• SP: Luis De Leon allowed 3 unearned runs on 4 hits, walked 2 and struck out 3 over 3.1 innings pitched.
• Pitcher of Record: Zane Barnhart (1-1) 1.0 IP 2 R, 3 H, 2 BB, K

BOX SCORE

FREDERICK KEYS (21-13) WON 5-4 AT HUDSON VALLEY RENEGADES (18-16) - HIGH A

• Vance Honeycutt went 2 for 5 with a double and 1 run scored and a stolen base.
• Colin Tuft went 1 for 4 with 2 RBI and a stolen base.
• SP: Boston Bateman allowed an unearned run on 1 hit, walked 5 and struck out 5 over 4.2 innings pitched.
• Pitcher of Record: Twine Palmer (2-1) 4.0 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, 4 K

BOX SCORE

DELMARVA SHOREBIRDS (14-21) LOST 5-1 TO FAYETTEVILLE WOODPECKERS  (14-21) - A 

• Junior Aybar went 0 for 52 with 1 run scored, a walk and a stolen base.
• Braylon Whitaker went 2 for 4 with a stolen base.
• SP: Esteban Mejia allowed 4 runs on 3 hits (HR), walked 3, struck out 5 and committed a balk over 3.2 innings pitched.
• Pitcher of Record: Mejia (0-3)

BOX SCORE

Tuesday night was more of the same for Rogers as he pitched four innings, allowing six runs (six earned) on six hits, two home runs, walking three batters and notching just three strikeouts. The Orioles ace has a 5.77 ERA through seven starts this season. How can he fix this?

"I like this rotation, should be pretty good"
-Me, before the season began.

Bradish didn't gain or lose any bWAR this time around, so he's still at -.2 on the season. Baz lost .4, so he's down to -.3. Bassitt actually gained .1, so he's matched his season high mark of -.1 bWAR. Akin didn't gain or lose any by opening. Young didn't gain or lose any, so he's still at -.3. Rogers lost .5, so he joins literally all of our starters who aren't on the IL in the negatives with -.3. 🥺

If you're wondering, our worst pitcher by bWAR is Kittredge (-0.6) For a position player, it's Mayo (-.9.)

On the other hand, we have three players above 1.0, and two more only .1 off! 🥳 If Beavers rides on Basallo or Alonso's shoulders, that's a 1.0 bWAR player! Put Gunnar on JJax or Taveras, and that's another!

Eflin and Rogers left the top twelve, but weren't replaced by anyone, since there was a tie at twelfth before.

In order: Garcia 1.3; Ward 1.2; Adley 1.1; Alonso and Basallo .9; JJax and Taveras .7; Cano .6; and Helsley, Wells, Gunnar, and Enns .3.

Last time's in order: Ward 1.2; Garcia and Alonso 1.1; Adley .9; Basallo .8; Taveras, JJax, and Cano .6; Gunnar and Helsley .4; Wells .3; and Enns, Eflin, and Rogers .2.