Tuesday night game thread: @ Mariners, 9:40 pm

Late night baseball, woo! Let’s do this thing.

I’ll be honest, I probably won’t make it to the third inning of this thing. But one thing that might keep me up is tonight’s starting pitcher, Brandon Young. It still hasn’t stopped feeling weird to say that he’s the best starting pitcher on the team, but here we are. I’m trying to get used to it.

The Mariners sent Logan Gilbert to the plate. Gilbert faced the Orioles in his last start and allowed just one run in six innings. Maybe do better this time around, ok guys?

There is no use pretending this won’t be a very tough road trip. They’re on the wrong coast, playing two first-place teams, and are seemingly incapable of putting together any kind of winning streak.

One thing that might help is the reinstatement of closer Ryan Helsley from the injured list. Anthony Nunez has been optioned to Triple-A Norfolk to make room. Nunez will be back, but in the meantime, the bullpen is now improved.

Tonight’s starting lineup is about as strong a lineup as the Orioles have right now. Although I have to wonder what it’s going to take to get Gunnar Henderson out of the second spot in the lineup.

Orioles lineup

Taylor Ward (R) LF
Gunnar Henderson (L) SS
Adley Rutschman (S) C
Pete Alonso (R) 1B
Samuel Basallo (L) DH
Leody Taveras (S) RF
Colton Cowser (L) CF
Blaze Alexander (R) 3B
Jackson Holliday (L) 2B

Mariners lineup

J.P. Crawford (L) 3B
Cal Raleigh (S) C
Julio Rodríguez (R) CF
Dominic Canzone (L) RF
Rob Refsnyder (R) DH
Cole Young (L) 2B
Victor Robles (R) LF
Colt Emerson (L) SS
Miles Mastrobuoni (L) 1B

Let’s go O’s!