Orioles news: Boos come out as frustration mounts

Orioles stuff you might have missed

All eyes are on the Orioles bats. They keep disappearing. (The Baltimore Sun) It wasn’t supposed to be like this. But, once again, it is! What’s really wrong with the Orioles (Baltimore Baseball) “They’re not bunting enough” would probably not make my top 50 on the list of concerns about the 2026 Orioles season. Orioles trying Jackson Holliday at third base during Sunday rehab start (The Baltimore Banner) I don’t think that you need to gaze too long into the tea leaves to start to think that this means the Orioles are considering that the Coby Mayo experiment is running out of time, at least for now. Heston Kjerstad started rehab assignment on Saturday (School of Roch) As Roch observes, the likely outcome is that Kjerstad’s rehab plays out and then he’s optioned to Norfolk afterwards. But if you’re tired of seeing Tyler O’Neill, I don’t blame you for wondering if Kjerstad’s coming right up. Polar Bear and his cub, Teddy, set to celebrate Mom (Orioles.com) Needed to get at least one feel-good Orioles Mother’s Day story in here.

Birthdays and Orioles anniversaries

In the 40th game a year ago, the Orioles lost a 6-3 game to the Twins. This was the first game of a doubleheader; they also lost the second game, dropping their record to 15-26 on the season. I took to Camden Chat the next day and proclaimed hopes for the season to be over. This year’s O’s are currently 17-23. Win today and they’re three wins better than they were a year ago. Lose today and it stays at a scant two, which I think is creeping pretty darn close to the point where the hole is too deep to reasonably hope to escape. There is one lone former Oriole who was born on this day: Happy 42nd to Kam Mickolio, the 2008-2010 reliever who arrived in the trade that sent Erik Bedard to Seattle and departed in the trade that brought Mark Reynolds to Baltimore. Is today your birthday? Happy birthday to you! Your birthday buddies for today include: actor Fred Astaire (1899), basketball coaching legend Jim Calhoun (1942), Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious (1957), author John Scalzi (1969), actor Kenan Thompson (1978), and gold medal swimmer Missy Franklin (1995).

On this day in history…

In 1773, Great Britain’s Parliament passed the Tea Act, which set in motion the series of events leading to the Boston Tea Party later that year. In 1801, Barbary corsairs based in Tripoli declared war on the United States, leading to a four-year, largely naval war in which great Marylander Stephen Decatur distinguished himself for the US Navy. In 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was appointed as the director of the FBI, the first to hold that post. He remained in charge for the next 48 years, until his death. In 1969, American and South Vietnamese forces began an assault on a North Vietnamese-held hill simply dubbed Hill 397 on the map. This has since become dubbed Hamburger Hill as it took a week to capture at a cost of 56 Americans killed and 367 wounded – and the position was abandoned only two weeks after being taken. In 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the president of South Africa. \\ And that’s the way it is in Birdland on May 10. Have a safe Mother’s Day. Go O’s!