It\u2019s here: the final series of the Orioles\u2019 2025 season. I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m not going to be upset when this season is over. At least not until it\u2019s mid-November and I\u2019m bored without baseball.<\/p>\n
Tonight also marks the final start of an incredible season for Most Valuable Oriole Trevor Rogers, who carries an unfathomable 1.35 ERA through 17 starts. Typing that out just now, I still can\u2019t believe it. Rogers is probably one of the only Orioles who is sad to see the season end. It\u2019s hard to remember now that he began this year injured, in Triple-A, and seemingly not a part of the Orioles\u2019 rotation plans at all after his disastrous team debut in 2024. And now look at him: a guy who would get serious Cy Young consideration if only he\u2019d made about 7-8 more starts.<\/p>\n
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This is the guy you want pitching for the Orioles against a Yankees team that\u2019s hungry for a division title. The Yanks have already clinched at least the first wild card, but they\u2019re angling to overtake the Blue Jays atop the AL East. The two teams are currently tied at 91-68, but Toronto holds the tiebreaker by virtue of winning the season series against New York. So to overtake them, the Yankees will need to win at least one more game than the Jays do for the next three days. The Blue Jays will be hosting the Rays.<\/p>\n
Whichever team does a better job of beating up on a division doormat this weekend will likely win the AL East. The Orioles hope they\u2019ve got some fight left in them to play spoiler. Jackson Holliday and Samuel Basallo are both back after brief injuries, giving the Orioles nearly their best possible lineup (though I would prefer Jeremiah Jackson to Tyler O\u2019Neill). And they\u2019ve certainly got the right guy on the mound to steal a win in the opener.<\/p>\n
Orioles lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n 2B Jackson Holliday Advertisement<\/p>\n LHP Trevor Rogers<\/p>\n Yankees lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1B Paul Goldschmidt RHP Will Warren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s here: the final series of the Orioles\u2019 2025 season. I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m not…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3090,47226,63145,5243,53296,62560,22896,127589,10624,9149,89620,10626,108929,22898,117228,5917,61866,1266,26092,9141,20416,117230,62,69198,8790,20392,135282,67,132,68,8475,2386],"class_list":{"0":"post-257204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-adley-rutschman","10":"tag-amed-rosario","11":"tag-anthony-volpe","12":"tag-austin-slater","13":"tag-austin-wells","14":"tag-blue-jays","15":"tag-coby-mayo","16":"tag-cody-bellinger","17":"tag-colton-cowser","18":"tag-dylan-beavers","19":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","20":"tag-gunnar-henderson","21":"tag-jackson-holliday","22":"tag-jeremiah-jackson","23":"tag-jordan-westburg","24":"tag-jose-caballero","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-orioles","27":"tag-paul-goldschmidt","28":"tag-rays","29":"tag-samuel-basallo","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-the-orioles","32":"tag-toronto","33":"tag-trevor-rogers","34":"tag-tyler-oneill","35":"tag-united-states","36":"tag-unitedstates","37":"tag-us","38":"tag-will-warren","39":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115273059819643078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
3B Jordan Westburg
SS Gunnar Henderson
RF Tyler O\u2019Neill
LF Dylan Beavers
C Adley Rutschman
CF Colton Cowser
DH Samuel Basallo
1B Coby Mayo<\/p>\n
RF Aaron Judge
CF Cody Bellinger
DH Giancarlo Stanton
3B Amed Rosario
LF Austin Slater
SS Anthony Volpe
C Austin Wells
2B Jos\u00e9 Caballero<\/p>\n