When Rutschman made the leap to the majors, he demolished fastballs but struggled against breaking balls and off-speed pitches. That's changed in 2026.
“I don’t take it for granted, every single day,” Sherry said. “It’s been 20-something years here at this ballpark, but that young girl in me still remembers that field trip, and the feeling I had when I walked out on that field."
Holliday is on a rehab assignment as he continues to work back from lingering discomfort after a February surgery to remove the broken hamate bone from his right hand.
Adley Rutschman and Pete Alonso came through against Jacob Lopez with solo homers, but the Orioles managed only three other baserunners against a pitcher who averages almost two baserunners per inning.
At the end of this dismal four-game series in New York, one of these teams looked like a World Series contender. It wasn’t the Orioles. Not by any measure.
The 23-year-old Gibson did not seem to allow the eye-widening dimensions of Yankee Stadium or his high-level opponents to rattle him. It was almost the opposite — an at-ease kid taking this all in stride.
It continued a three-game losing streak in which Orioles starters have conceded five runs or more in four innings each, and now Baltimore is three games below .500 (15-18).