The Orioles have reinstated outfielder Ramón Laureano from the 10-day injured list and designated outfielder Jordyn Adams for assignment.
Laureano sprained his left ankle in Milwaukee. He homered yesterday for Triple-A Norfolk in Louisville in his second rehab game. He’s batting .266/.320/.532 with seven doubles and six homers with the Orioles.
Adams was used as a defensive replacement, his only at-bat coming yesterday.
Jordan Westburg and Gary Sánchez also homered yesterday for Norfolk and should be nearing returns.
The bullpen will undergo another change. The Orioles acquired Scott Blewett from the Braves today for cash considerations.
Blewett made two relief appearances with the Orioles in April and allowed an unearned run with six strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings. He hasn’t reported to the team, but another roster move is pending.
Blewett’s time with the Braves ran out yesterday after allowing five runs, including three homers, in the ninth.
The Orioles are in Sacramento tonight to see what all the fuss is about.
Sutter Health Park will be the 59th ballpark, regular season and playoffs, to host the Orioles since the franchise moved to Baltimore in 1954.
The Athletics have relocated temporarily and lost 20 of their last 22 games. On top of that, the Orioles have averaged 6.85 runs per game against them since 2023, their highest total versus any opponent, per STATS. They’ve averaged 1.92 home runs per game in that span (25 in 13 games), also the most versus an opponent.
Adley Rutschman heated up in Seattle, going 7-for-13 with two home runs, and he’s hit six homers in 58 career at-bats against the A’s.
Rutschman has a career slugging percentage of .655 against the Athletics, the highest of any catcher with at least 50 plate appearances.
“Adley’s looked really good here for a while,” interim manager said yesterday after Rutschman’s three hits included a game-tying, two-run homer. “We keep talking about it, go back to the Anaheim series, minus a couple games against the White Sox. He’s really trending in the direction that we saw today.
“He hammered that ball to center field earlier in the game, as well, hit the ball hard as a right-handed hitter later in the game. It’s starting to kind of all come together. I think he’s catching great, too.”
More STATS: Dean Kremer, who’s from nearby Stockton, has the second-largest decrease in ERA among qualified pitchers since the beginning of May at minus-4.32, going from 7.04 to 2.72.
Kremer’s last pitching appearance in the Central Valley came on May 16, 2018, when he allowed one run in six innings with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes in a road win over his hometown Stockton Ports.
Kremer has allowed one run in 11 1/3 innings in his last two starts. He’s walked three and struck out 11.
Two career starts for Kremer versus the A’s have resulted in six runs allowed in 10 1/3 innings. Brent Rooker is 1-for-2 with a home run and three RBIs.
Ryan O’Hearn’s .449 road on-base percentage is the second-highest this season among qualifiers behind Aaron Judge’s .503.
The Orioles have won six in a row, nine of 11 and 10 of 14. The staff ERA is 2.45 in the last 11 games and rotation has a 2.33 ERA, including seven quality starts.
The A’s are starting left-hander JP Sears, ending the Orioles’ stretch of facing right-handers. Sears has a 5.05 ERA in 12 outings, but he’s walked only 11 in 62 1/3 innings. He’s one of four pitchers with at least 10 starts and more home runs (13) allowed than walks. Tomoyuki Sugano is another, with 12 homers and 11 walks.
Sears has surrendered three runs or fewer in nine starts, but he allowed six in five innings against the Angels and nine in 3 1/3 in Houston in back-to-back outings last month.
Sears has faced the Orioles six times (five starts) and posted a 6.26 ERA and 1.427 WHIP in 27 1/3 innings. Gunnar Henderson is 5-for-9 with two doubles, a triple and a home run. Rutschman is 4-for-10 with two homers.
The Orioles are 4-11 against lefty starters.
The A’s ended a nine-game losing streak Thursday with a 14-3 win over the Twins. They also stopped a streak of 21 straight games without winning by more than one run, the longest in a single season since a 22-gamer by the 1945 Philadelphia Athletics.
A last one from STATS: Jacob Wilson has 86 hits in his 60 games played this season. In the last 90 seasons, Carney Langsford is the only other A’s player to total 85-plus hits in his first 60 games of a season with 96 in 1988.
The Athletics’ .744 OPS ranks fifth in the majors, but their 5.79 ERA is last and their 1.54 WHIP is 29th.