Baltimore Gave Rutschman a Standing Ovation. He Punished Them for It
Adley Rutschman got a standing ovation in his first game back at Camden Yards, then hit two home runs off his old team to power a Red Sox win.
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Adley Rutschman got a standing ovation in his first game back at Camden Yards, then hit two home runs off his old team to power a Red Sox win.
Colton Cowser robbed a walk-off two-run homer in the ninth, and now Baltimore is a half-game from a wild card spot they had no business chasing.
MLB has a ball-tracking system precise to a quarter inch. It still couldn't tell fair from foul on Pete Alonso's blast, and the Orioles paid for it.
Seven American League teams are fighting for the last Wild Card spot, and not one of them has a winning record. Here's what the format actually rewards.
The Orioles were 2.5 games from a wild-card spot when they traded Rutschman, Ward, and Wells away in one afternoon. That is not a rebuild. That is surrender.
Boston walked into the rebuild Baltimore built around Adley Rutschman and took the catcher himself, and the Orioles still have zero playoff wins to show for it.
The Orioles are certainly listening on Adley Rutschman, per Passan – but a 30% trade probability and a catcher locked through 2033 tell two different stories.
The Dodgers are chasing two pitchers at once, the Mets already sold, and the Red Sox got burned before Curtis Mead ever played a game this season.
Six days out, Detroit and Baltimore are both betting a rival blinks first. That indecision, not any single rumor, is the real deadline story.