Dean Kremer worked six scoreless innings and it was only the third most impressive starting pitching performance of the series. | Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Orioles starting pitchers were flawless as the Birds rolled to their third sweep of the year. Good morning, Camden Chatters. So, the Orioles: great starting rotation, or the greatest starting rotation? Over the past week, the Birds’ starting staff has been practically unhittable. After taking three of four from the Yankees — in which O’s starters gave up only five runs between them — the Birds hurlers upped their game even more in Cincinnati with three flawless performances. Cole Irvin (6.1 IP), John Means (7 IP), and Dean Kremer (6 IP) combined for 19.1 scoreless innings of work against the Reds, which, put together with the Yankees series, gives the O’s rotation a 1.05 ERA over the past seven games. That’s, uh, pretty good! Alex Church recapped the latest brilliant outing, Kremer’s mastery of the Reds to complete a three-game sweep yesterday. Means and Kyle Bradish haven’t missed a beat in their return to the rotation, helping replace the injured Grayson Rodriguez, who began this streak of excellence with his 5.2 scoreless innings against the Yankees last Monday. Oh, and the O’s bullpen has been pretty fantastic, too, allowing only three runs in those seven games, giving the Orioles pitching staff a 1.14 ERA. The Orioles have given up two runs or fewer in seven consecutive games, the first time they’ve done so since 1980, as MASN’s Steve Melewski tweeted. And did we mention the Orioles’ offense is also doing amazing things? With Anthony Santander’s game-breaking grand slam yesterday, the O’s now have eight hitters with five or more home runs. According to the great Sarah Langs, it’s nearly unprecedented for a team to have eight 5+ HR hitters before their 35th game of the season. It’s been accomplished only twice before in MLB history. It’s been a very, very good week for Orioles baseball, and now they’ll get two days off in the next four, with a brief two-game interleague rivalry series in D.C. sandwiched in between. The Nationals have been surprisingly scrappy this year, exceeding expectations by clawing their way up to a .500 record. Still, the way the O’s are playing right now, no opponent should be too difficult to handle. Links Rodriguez begins a throwing program, plus other pregame notes from Cincy - Steve MelewskiGrayson Rodriguez is working his way back from his shoulder inflammation, which means eventually the Orioles will again have to figure out how to squeeze so many good starting pitchers into a five-man rotation. It’s not a bad problem to have. How Orioles’ Jacob Webb went from waiver claim to dominant - The Baltimore SunI’ll admit I didn’t have any particular confidence in Jacob Webb as a useful reliever when the season began, but he’s sure been silencing the doubters like me. Dean Kremer continues Orioles’ run of masterful pitching - The Baltimore BannerAnother incredible O’s pitching performance yesterday was marred only by Mike Baumann struggling to throw strikes with an 11-run lead. With all due respect to my birthday buddy, he really stands out in a bad way on this otherwise impressive staff. Orioles birthdays and history Is today your birthday? Happy birthday! One member of the 2024 Orioles has a birthday today: Yohan Ramírez turns 29. He appeared in five games for the Birds this season but is currently in DFA purgatory. Hope you enjoy your day anyway, Yohan. Former Orioles born on this day include outfielder Gerardo Parra (37), utility man Mike Kinkade (51), left-hander Tom Bolton (62), and the late infielder Leo Burke (b. 1934, d. 2023), a Hagerstown native who signed with the O’s as an amateur free agent in 1957. On this day in 1984, Cal Ripken Jr. hit for the cycle in the Orioles’ 6-1 win over the Rangers at Arlington Stadium. Cal began the cycle with the toughest hit, an RBI triple in the third, then singled in the fifth, doubled in the seventh, and capped it off with a solo homer in the ninth. At the time, Cal was just the second player in Orioles history to hit for the cycle, a list that is now up to seven. And on this date in 2012, the Orioles played the extra-innings epic at Fenway Park known affectionately as the Chris Davis Game. The O’s, in a 6-6 tie, got 10.2 sensational innings out of their bullpen before running out of pitchers in the 16th. Buck Showalter turned to his designated hitter Chris Davis — who was 0-for-8 with five strikeouts as a hitter that day — to make his first career pitching appearance, and he befuddled the Red Sox with two scoreless innings, including a meme-worthy strikeout of Adrian Gonzalez. Davis earned the win when the O’s went ahead in the top of the 17th on an Adam Jones home run. That was the moment when it appeared something special was going on with the 2012 Orioles, which turned out to be very true.

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