Orioles' clown show continues with a terrible 4: 3 defeat against nationals

(Cue Circus Music) Ladies and gentlemen, their 2025 Orioles.

The OS played a game this evening, in which their offensive 15 runners defeated on the base in nine innings. A game in which their defense had several NATs runners taken additional bases because they either did not orientate or were not attentive, including the playing run in ninth place. This 4: 3 defeat against the nationals was a game in which the Orioles dask the hope of maintaining healing this season and doing everything that literally waved a white flag.

How this franchise fell so quickly so quickly, from the elite group from 2023 to the clown show, which we saw this evening and the whole season, is really stunning. This is not a baseball, that's satire.

There is simply no way that a team from a distance loses such a game. Even for the Orioles, this was a really amazing defeat. If it had been just a loss of the garden variant against a dominant pitcher in Mackenzie Gore, that would be one thing. But the Orioles had about 10 million chances to run this game away and declined each of them flat.

Let's talk about Gore. Before I describe how he was doing this evening, you can see if you can only determine it on the box points:

IP: 3.2
H: 10
He: 2
BB: 2
K: 9

Take a good look at this pitching line. It makes no sense. He must have been terrible, you think and look at the 3.2 innings. But wait, he must have been great, you think and looked at the nine strikeouts. But no, he was terrible, you think again and looked at the 10 hits. But wait, only scored two runs, so … was he great?

It is complicated. Against Gore, Orioles Hitter also had great bats depth counts that made hard contact on hard parking spaces and ugly, who too often missed the ball with runners with runners with runners in the goal position. At the end of the fourth inner, the O's had 10 goals, 10 strike outs and 10 runners on the base. I mean what is that anyway?

The first inning of the Orioles gave the tone for this night the madness. With an exit, three consecutive rackers hit Gore and loaded the bases. As usual with the OS, they wasted the golden opportunity when Gore Ryan O'Hearn and Ramón Urías failed. The next inning recorded another 0 to 3 performance with RISP when Jackson Hollidays Leadoff double from three consecutive KS followed.

In the third, the O broke through for two runs, but missed a great chance of stacking even more. Back-to-back double of Adley Rutschman and Ramón Laurano, who are a ridiculous 9-against-11 value in his career against Gore, brought the Orioles to the board. An O'Hearn single and Urías Walk invited the bases for Holliday, which impressively put a hard 3-2 slider into play and hopped it over the head of the first Baseman head for a goal and scored Laaurano. After the bases were still loaded and one equipped, the OS were prepared for a large inning. But Gore was released again and excluded an overvalued Cedric Mullins and Jorge Mateo.

The fourth floor had a similarly rough finish. The O loaded the bases with two outs that were covered by a fantastic 10-pitch-o'Hearn-AT-Bat, ended with a controversial check swing, which is called Ball Four. That was the end of the night for Gore, who was pulled out of the game after working on 102 parking spaces in 3.2 Innerings. The O's did an excellent job to increase the Pitch Count for the left, which had worked five or more inners in each of his first nine starts this year.

But reliever Cole Henry escaped from the chaos loaded by bases, when Urías had risen in a 3-2 place that was clearly outside. I assume these were the baseball gods who balance the scale for the O'Hearn path that should have been a strike.

Despite 10 goals in four inner, the Orioles only had two runs to support their starting jug Cade Povich. The youngster almost got up … but not quite. In the first five innings, the only run he revealed was on a Homer by Nathaniel Lowe. Povich, who dominated the Nationals in DC last month, looked like dirty tonight and collected nine strikes at season height. This was the version of Povich The Os had hoped that they would see more often this season. Keep it up, child!

Unfortunately, things for Povich – not quite his own do – when he came back to the sixth. He began the Cardinal Sin to run the first dough, which was also the #9 -Schlagmann in the line -up, Nasim Nuñez. Later Nuñez started second place and took third place when Povich's pitch sailed past Rutschman's glove. Adley was not particularly difficult to access the ball from the backstop, and Holliday could not deceive the runner on the second basis.

With Nuñez at third and two outs, Brandon Hyde Povich, who has the chance to end the inning with 96 playgrounds. That was … a mistake. James Wood laced a single in the middle to tie the score by two and end Povich's night. Cade deserves a much better fate, and if the OS had not stranded a small army of Baserunners, he would have been able to win.

The Orioles brought the lead right at the bottom of the sixth against the helper Jackson Rutledge. They were in a familiar position by loading the bases with an out, and Urías, who had stranded twice the bags in the game, came to the right with a first sack flying and put the birds 3: 2. However, the other two runners were finally stranded and brought the praise of the Orioles to 13 in six innings.

The Os survived the top of the seventh despite some Gregory Soto Shenanigans, in which he threw a potential double game of large game in second place to bring two men into the points with one out. Bryan Baker pulled a Houdini act to escape, strike out two batteries and to leave out a triumphal scream. But Keegan Akin ruined Baker's heroic deeds, just an inning by coughing a Homer with two, play -zoped hood on wood. And here we go again.

Of course, the birds continued to waste every chance aggressively and took two runners in eighth place against the former Oriole Jorge López. Let us not forget that the bullpen of the nationals entered the night with an MLB-word 6,75-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-, the OS scored in 5.1 innings against them. As I said: clown show.

Then came the brutal tip of the ninth. Hyde summarized Félix Bautista to keep the tie, but the control of the Big Righty gave him up. He gave a Leadoff walk to Dylan crews, but started a break when the crews tried to steal the second, to be overturned and marked the bag. Doesn't matter. Bautista immediately went José Tena, who rose second place with a groundout.

Bautista was preceded by Nuñez 1: 2 in the count, but could not put the #9-grille away, which first crashed into a helicopter to Ryan Mountcastle. Mountcastle did not get enough momentum on his praise to a covering Bautista, and the fast Nuñez broke him on the line to take the throw to take a step. A dazed Bautista who believed that he had come out, frozen. It was ultimately too late (and wild).

And so, my friends, the Nationals scored the winning run. On a routine bouncer to the first basis, which achieved a runner from the second place because the defense of the O is terrible and no one has the head in the game.

Don't worry, there was one last chance that the Orioles of Orioles will fail in vain again. Holliday performed the ninth with a single, but on a 3-2 field, Cedric Mullins stared extensively on a fast ball in the middle, while Holliday was thrown out to steal. Pinch-Hitter Emmanuel Rivera's Flyout finally turned the Os out of their misery and ended more than three hours of the most tingly, which a baseball fan could ever have.

Only 119 games left!