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PHILADELPHIA – Tyler O’Neill is wearing a soft brace on his right wrist after leaving last night’s game in the sixth inning. He’s out of today’s lineup.
O’Neill sustained the injury while leaping at the right field wall for Max Kepler’s home run ball. He stayed in the game for four more innings and underwent X-rays that came back negative.
The testing isn’t done.
“Just sore this morning,” said interim manager Tony Mansolino. “He’ll get some imaging tomorrow, and after we go through the imaging tomorrow we’ll have a better idea of what it looks like. I does sound like, talking to Scott (Barringer), our trainer, that there’s a little bit of progress and he’s feeling a tick better. But he’ll be out today.”
O'Neill has made two trips to the injured list this season with neck inflammation and a left shoulder impingement.
The Orioles summoned Vimael Machín from Triple-A Norfolk and placed him on the medical taxi squad. He hasn’t played in the majors since 2022 with the Athletics.
Machín is hitting .294 with an .835 OPS, 22 doubles, two triples, 15 home runs and 69 RBIs in 97 games with the Tides. It’s a carryover from spring training, when he slashed .400/.438/.578 with five doubles, a home run and 10 RBIs in 23 games.
“It’s a good story, for a guy that got a shot in the big leagues in Oakland, played pretty good there,” Mansolino said. “Ended up heading down to Mexico and absolutely torched that league for a couple years, then kind of gets another shot here in Norfolk and puts up a dang-near .300 number, swings the bat good, hits some homers, does great. It’s always a good story.”
Machín was pulled from last night’s game after one at-bat and told about the medical taxi squad.
“It’s been a grinding year,” he said. “Been working every day obviously down there in Norfolk and good things are happening to me right now. I would say I’ve done everything I could to be up here.”
Machín watched many of his Norfolk teammates get the call and wondered if his turn would come. It sort of did with his opportunity to join the Orioles, but not on the active roster.
“You have that thought in the back of your head, but at the same time that makes you keep doing better,” he said. "It’s a business and, I mean, just try to be patient. And the way I was doing it down there, whenever they need me, I’ll be ready for it.”
Infielder/outfielder Jorge Mateo (left hamstring strain) and catcher Gary Sánchez (right knee sprain) should return next month. Mateo is a little ahead of Sánchez, who has a more strenuous set of goals as a catcher.
Mateo is running and “starting to get up to some higher speeds on the ground,” according to Mansolino. “I fully expect to see Mateo as early as early September possibly if all goes perfectly well.”
The Orioles aren’t ready to update the condition of Norfolk outfielder Heston Kjerstad, who’s on the injured list.
“Nothing to share on Kjerstad yet,” Mansolino said. “Later in the week once we kind of talk through it, but nothing we want to share.”
Reliever Scott Blewett (right elbow discomfort) is playing catch but he isn’t scheduled for a bullpen session. Nothing is imminent.
Colton Cowser is trying to break out of his slump. His average is down to .212 with a .679 OPS in 55 games. He went 17-for-81 (.210) in July and is 2-for-16 with 11 strikeouts this month.
“Just struggling right now,” Mansolino said. “It’s trying to figure out the swing a little bit. He’s getting beat up. It’s real. He knows it, he’s going through it. Fighting confidence right now. Just trying to be consistent at-bat to at-bat.
“I like the game he had the other day in Chicago. He felt pretty good about that. That last game hit a couple balls hard. … But not himself right now. They’re working hard. He’s in the cage. We’re confident he’ll get out of it. He’s just not himself right now.”
For the Orioles
Jackson Holliday 2B
Jordan Westburg 3B
Gunnar Henderson SS
Adley Rutschman DH
Jeremiah Jackson RF
Coby Mayo 1B
Colton Cowser LF
Dylan Carlson CF
Alex Jackson C
Trevor Rogers LHP
The Orioles are starting Tomoyuki Sugano, Brandon Young and Cade Povich in the weekend series against the Athletics at Camden Yards.
Reliever Rico Garcia is expected to join the Orioles on Friday.
For the Phillies
Trea Turner SS
Kyle Schwarber DH
Bryce Harper 1B
Nick Castellanos RF
Harrison Bader CF
Otto Kemp 3B
Edmundo Sosa 2B
Weston Wilson LF
Rafael Marchán C
Ranger Suárez LHP
