There are two major scenarios before the Orioles weekend series against Astros. The first revolves around home debut of prospects recently promoted Dylan Beavers and Samuel Basallo. The second offers the languid offensive of Houston against the dominant starting rotation of the Orioles.
The beavers and Basallo have experienced a large part of the success since they made their MLB debut in Houston, and collectively instilled a new life in the Orioles offensive. During his first four games, Beavers is 4-in-14 with a double, a product point and three walks. And even if we are still waiting for the first explosion of the powerful major Basallo League, he contributed five points produced in three games while going 3 for 10. Since the beginnings of the Beavers last Saturday, the Orioles mark 6.5 points per game and are 3-1 in this section.
Baltimore may however not need a ton of offense to take this series of Houston. Astros have a 3-6 sheet in their last three series and are on average just two points per game during this section. Before yesterday’s match against the Tigers, the Astros were mired in an aimless sequence of 28 rounds – a sequence that ended at 31 sleeves on a double of Mauricio Dubón Rbi off Charlie Morton in the 4th. In the two games that the Orioles won last weekend in Houston, Baltimore blocked the astros while granting only seven strokes through the two victories.
Match 1: Thursday August 21, 7:15 p.m. HE
Probable licks: RHP Brandon Young (1-6, 5.68 ERA, 46 k) against RHP Jason Alexander (3-1, 4.74 ERA, 35 k)
What is the best way to follow an almost perfect game? How about a second crack in the programming you just dominated? After starting the match with 7.2 perfect rounds against the Stros last Friday, Brandon Young will launch the series in Baltimore, will seek to close Houston again.
The Texas native delivered the best start of a career against his hometown team, largely thanks to the Great Fastball Command. He launched 41% of radiators against Houston the last time, and not only the astros made a quick ball, but they had only one .101 XBA on the four sailors on which they managed to obtain wood. We saw Trevor Rogers Excel this year with a large -part attack plan on the quick ball command, and it seems that Young tries to follow suit.
Opposing the right -handed of the Orioles is not the actor who played George on SeinfeldBut rather RHP, 32, Jason Alexander. The native of Northern California is experiencing the first success of his career with the Astros this season, displaying an MPM of 2.63 in seven appearances. Alexander set up a start of quality during his first appearance against the Orioles, going 6.0 IP, 3 h, 2 er, 1 hr and 6 K. The O hope to be better prepared against the change of Alexandre, after having succeeded out of the field out of speed last Saturday.
Game 2: Friday August 22, 7:05 p.m. HE
Where to look: MASN / MASN +
Probable licks: LHP CADE POVICH (2-6, 4.98 ERA, 90 k) against RHP launched McCULLERS JR. (2-4, 6.90 ERA, 50 K)
The Orioles deployed an opener last Saturday before turning to Povich in the second, and the left -hander delivered with a summit of 10 ks. The quick ball and the change of povich were his best weapons all season, but against the astros, he made his curve ball work. The Stros obtained only three strokes (all in simple) from his rupture ball, while generating five swings and failed.
Povich will try to maintain this level of success when he returns to Camden Yards. The second year left -hander has an MPM of 6.05 in Camden Yards this season, against 3.86 ERA on the road. Povich faced Astros once before in Baltimore, making a decision without decision after having set up 5.0 IP, 5 er, 2 HR and 3 K. Slim was particularly struck by the acquisition of the Astros deadline, Carlos Correa, which is 4-for-8 against him with a circuit.
The left -hander of the Orioles will try to surpass the old star launches McCullers Jr. while he continues his recovery from a series of devastating injuries. Former key element of two WORLD Series winning teams, McCullers missed all seasons 2023 and 2024 due to the complications of elbow surgery. His return to the mound in 2025 was less than promising, because he has a career of 6.90 ERA while granting almost 2 hours and 6 BBS per nine sleeves. Among the current Orioles, only Ryan Mountcastle and Adley Rutschman faced McClullers, combining to go 0 for 4.
Match 3: Saturday August 23, 7:05 p.m.
Where to look: MASN / MASN +
Probable licks: RHP Dean Kremer (9-9, 3.97 ERA, 123 k) against RHP Cristian Javier (1-1, 3.38 ERA, 7 K)
After Rogers, Kremer is the biggest contributor to the rotation of the Orioles, having the best era of MLB in August. The 29-year-old has an MPM of 2.14 on three departures in August, and an MPM of 3.23 in 39 IP at six starts in the second half.
The Orioles and Kremer had unlucky losers in the first five of these departures, but the six-year-old veterinarian won his first victory for the second half the last time against the Astros. Like Young, Kremer dominated Houston’s programming, launching seven laundering rounds, while only granting four baskets and cutting seven. It was only the last chapter of a career full of domination against the Astros, while Kremer enters the match on Saturday with an MPM of 1.47 and an average of 0.188 against five career departures against Houston.
Like McCullers, Javier only retreats from an elbow injury which cost him most of last season and the first four months of this season. Javier only made his second appearance of the season last Sunday – when he also faced Kremer – during 3 IP, 3 h, 1st and 2 k in a 12-0 Orioles victory. It is not clear how many Houston throws wants Javier to launch at this stage; He launched five rounds on 85 throws during his first departure from the IL, but launched only 50 throws against Baltimore before leaving with a disease.
Match 4: Sunday August 24, 1:35 p.m.
Where to look: MASN / MASN +
Probable licks: LHP TREVOR ROGERS (6-1, 1.41 ERA, 67 k) against RHP Spencer Arighetti (1-4, 6.94 ERA, 21 k)
Rogers did not have the chance to face the Astros in Houston, but will try to continue his unprecedented race when he closes the series in Baltimore. The ERA 1.41 of Rogers gives it the best era during the first 12 departures of a launcher in the history of the Orioles – making the temple of renown Hoyt Wilhelm and Jim Palmer. Southpaw, 27, is in the middle of a sequence of eight consecutive quality departures and did not grant more than one race during an exit in more than a month.
Rogers faced the astros only once before in his career, setting up a start of 5.1, 6 h, 2 st, 2 bb and 5 k last season just before the stars break. It is a testimony of the path traveled by Rogers with the Orioles which, if it were to repeat the same line of statistics on Sunday against Houston, it would be considered a bad start for the AS booming with Baltimore.
How Rogers tackles the Astros range will be interesting. Until this point, Rogers has launched around 40% fast balls and 25% of changes, while mixing its breaking balls if necessary. Astros are a much better struck team against the fast balls than changes, so we will see if it deploys a match plan similar to its exit against the phillies, when it has launched its change 36% of the time.
At the opposite end of the Rogers spectrum is the planned starter of Astros, Spencer Arighetti. Since it was recalled on August 8, Arrighetti has had an MPM of 7.90 out of 13.2 rounds while abandoning an average of .339 and a percentage of shots of 0.571. The native of the Houston region took the L during his last departure against the Tigers, abandoning five points in five rounds while granting two hours in a defeat of 10-0 Astros.
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