on July 4, 2022
The Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers are reviewing what's gone right and what's gone wrong in the first half of the season as the two meet to open a three-game series on Monday afternoon in Baltimore.
This game will mark the season's midway mark for the Orioles. After 80 games in 2021, they were 26-54. This season, the Orioles stand 36-44 entering Monday's game.
"I have mixed emotions about the first half," Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said, noting the team's improvement from this stage of the season a year ago. "I'm happy, but I'd also like to win some of these games."
So would the Rangers, who are 1-3 in their past four games after falling by a 4-1 score on the road to the New York Mets on Sunday. They had only one three-game winning streak in June.
"It's pretty frustrating. We're winning a couple of game we should win and then it comes down to a couple of things we need to be better at," Rangers first baseman Nate Lowe said. "That just part of what it takes to grow as a team."
The Orioles likely are happy to return home from a 10-game road trip that started with four wins in five games, then saw four straight losses and ended with a 3-1 win on Sunday at Minnesota.
Four Baltimore pitchers combined on a four-hitter in the Minnesota finale, and that could bode well with the team's most effective pitcher of late up next.
"We've had a couple of tough ninth innings, but we have pitched so well this road trip," Hyde said. "Our starting pitching has been unbelievable."
Right-hander Dean Kremer (2-1, 1.29 ERA), who has thrown 18 2/3 scoreless innings over his past three starts, gets the ball on Monday
This game will mark the season's midway mark for the Orioles. After 80 games in 2021, they were 26-54. This season, the Orioles stand 36-44 entering Monday's game.
"I have mixed emotions about the first half," Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said, noting the team's improvement from this stage of the season a year ago. "I'm happy, but I'd also like to win some of these games."
So would the Rangers, who are 1-3 in their past four games after falling by a 4-1 score on the road to the New York Mets on Sunday. They had only one three-game winning streak in June.
"It's pretty frustrating. We're winning a couple of game we should win and then it comes down to a couple of things we need to be better at," Rangers first baseman Nate Lowe said. "That just part of what it takes to grow as a team."
The Orioles likely are happy to return home from a 10-game road trip that started with four wins in five games, then saw four straight losses and ended with a 3-1 win on Sunday at Minnesota.
Four Baltimore pitchers combined on a four-hitter in the Minnesota finale, and that could bode well with the team's most effective pitcher of late up next.
"We've had a couple of tough ninth innings, but we have pitched so well this road trip," Hyde said. "Our starting pitching has been unbelievable."
Right-hander Dean Kremer (2-1, 1.29 ERA), who has thrown 18 2/3 scoreless innings over his past three starts, gets the ball on Monday