Orioles at Blue Jays, June 24-27

The Orioles lost two of three to the Jays last weekend, despite Cedric Mullins, Ryan Mountcastle, and Trey Mancini combining to hit no less than nine homers in the three games. Since the Jays left town, the Houston Astros strolled into Camden Yards and commenced to hang just an awful beating all over the unfortunate Orioles. Avert your eyes, if ye be soft-hearted, because this was simply gruesome. The Orioles were outscored 26-3 in the three games, and have now lost 13 of their last 14 games.

So as we head into the last days of June, who's been hot this month anyway? Vlad, of course, is always hot, like a personality crisis.  But who else?

                         G   PA   AB   R   H  2B  3B  HR  RBI  SB  CS  BB  SO   BAVG    OBP     SLUG    OPS
Vladimir Guerrero       20   85	  73  15  28   3   1   7   18	1   1  12  19	.384	.471	.740   1.210	
Cavan Biggio            12   46   38   6  12   3   0   3    4   0   0   8   8   .316    .435    .632   1.066  
Santiago Espinal        12   29	  24   5  10   1   0   0    0	1   1	5   3	.417	.517	.458	.976
Reese McGuire           15   44   42   6  14   6   0   1    4   0   0   2  10   .333    .364    .548    .911 
Bo Bichette             20   90	  84  18  27   2   1   3   16	5   0	5  15	.321	.367	.476	.843 

For someone who was supposed to be a defence first catcher, all Reese McGuire has done in the majors is hit. (With the exception of that 3-41 that represents his work in the pandemic year of 2020, of course.) The sample sizes are exceedingly minute, but in 2018 he hit .290/.333/.581; in 2019 he hit .299/.346/.526; and this year he's up to .300/.347/.443.

You could say he's holding his own

Well, there be matchups....

Thu 24 June - Kremer (0-6, 6.20) vs Kay (0-2, 6.43)

Fri 25 June - Harvey (3-9, 7.80) vs  Manoah (1-0, 4.18)

Sat 26 June - Akin ((0-3, 6.42) vs  Ryu (6-4, 3.25)

Sun 27 June - Lopez (2-9, 5.68) vs Stripling (2-4, 4.33)