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Baltimore Series Overview
Series Overview
Result: Orioles sweep 3–0
Scores: 7–3, 18–5, 8–3
Records after series:
White Sox: 19–40
Orioles: 24–35
Baltimore basically used your staff as a get-right series: 33 runs on 45 hits in three games. You actually scored first in two of the three but couldn’t hold anything.
Game 1 – O’s 7, Sox 3 (5/30)
Story: You finally grabbed a late lead, then the pen gave it right back.
Vasil battled (4.0 IP, 2 ER, 6 BB) but kept it 0–0 through three before a 2-run 4th.
You answered with three runs in the 5th & 6th – Vargas and Rosario came up big, Rosario lacing a go-ahead RBI single in the 6th.
Then it unraveled:
Scholtens: 2.0 IP, 4 ER – Mullins and the middle of their order lit him up.
Anderson: allowed an insurance run in the 8th.
Offensively you managed just 5 hits; Rosario (2 RBI) and Vargas (RBI double) were the only real damage.
Theme: Bullpen can’t protect a rare lead; walk traffic (8 BB) caught up to you.
Game 2 – O’s 18, Sox 5 (5/31)
Story: Total pitching catastrophe.
German Márquez: 2.2 IP, 10 ER, two homers, 7-run first inning.
Bryse Wilson (fresh off the IL) got thrown into a buzzsaw: 3.0 IP, 8 ER.
By the end of four it was 16–2 Baltimore, and you were basically in survival mode.
Sox bats:
Benintendi: 2-for-5 with a 2-run homer.
Vargas, Quero, Rosario each had multi-hit or extra-base knocks, but always chasing a giant deficit.
Theme: Rotation depth exposed; when the starter blows up, there’s no long man who can stop the bleeding.
Game 3 – O’s 8, Sox 3 (6/1)
Story: You jump ahead again, but one bad inning buries you.
Top 1st: Rosario, Benintendi, Rojas, Maton ambush Gibson for 2 quick runs.
Tyler Schweitzer then gets tagged for 5 in the third (six straight batters reach at one point) and 6 total in 2.2 IP.
Grant Taylor actually looks like a find: 5.1 IP, 2 ER, 11 K out of the pen, keeping it respectable until the 8th.
Bright spots:
Josh Rojas: 3-for-4 with a double; he was on everything this game.
Eliezer Alfonzo: crushed a solo homer to right in the 6th.
Rosario & Benintendi each reached multiple times again.
Theme: Bottom of the rotation can’t turn lineups over; Taylor might have earned a look for more leverage / bulk work.
Who’s Hot / Not
Hot-ish:
Andrew Benintendi: consistent contact all series, homer and multiple RBIs.
Josh Rojas: 5 hits over the last two games, plus a double and some good baserunning.
Eguy Rosario: quietly stringing together hits, extra-base power and a HBP; looks like your most dangerous bat right now.
Grant Taylor: 5.1 IP, 11 K, no walks in relief in the finale.
Struggling:
Luis Robert Jr.: 1-for-12 in the series with a pile of strikeouts; chased a ton.
Chase Meidroth: a couple of singles but also punched out often and didn’t impact the ball much.
Back-end starters: Márquez, Schweitzer and the Scholtens/Wilson bridge gave up 24 ER in 10.2 IP. Hard to win any series with that.
Pitching Staff Check-In
Rotation issues:
Vasil is serviceable but inefficient (high walks).
Márquez and Schweitzer both look like “4/5 starter if everything goes right” types; against a hot lineup they got demolished.
Bullpen churn:
Anderson’s rough Mets + O’s outings led straight to his option to AAA.
Wilson was activated from the IL and immediately had to wear a blowout; you still don’t know what he looks like at 100% in a normal outing.
You’re lacking a dependable long man and a true leverage arm behind Murfee/Shuster.
Front Office Moves / Prospect Buzz
RP Justin Dunn released – one less depth arm, but also a sign you’re willing to turn the back-end of the staff over.
Justin Anderson optioned to AAA Charlotte – gives him a reset after some ugly lines.
Bryse Wilson activated – he’s going to have to be more than mop-up if the rotation keeps imploding.
The fun part:
Braden Montgomery (LF) and George Wolkow (RF) both promoted to Low-A Kannapolis.
Montgomery: switch-hitter, athletic corner bat with real power and arm strength; shows above-average patience and some whiff.
Wolkow: massive lefty with plus raw power, extreme-pull profile and sneaky OBP skills; defense is playable in all three OF spots.
They’re nowhere near ready to save the big-league club yet, but this is the first little wave of upside outfield help moving up the ladder.
Big Picture
You leave Baltimore on a 0–3 skid, 1–5 on the road trip and sitting at 19–40. The offense has flashes (Rosario, Benintendi, Rojas, Alfonzo) but every game turned on your inability to control the zone on the mound – walks, deep counts, and no one to stop the avalanche once it starts.
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