Doug Fox

Had the sequencing of that series worked out a little differently, people probably would have felt okay about it, but you lost two in a row, and the issue with that is...

Not just that you squandered at least one of those games.

Sunday, I think we could have written up as you're probably going to lose one of the bullpen days.

But losing two in a row at the back end, as you roll into a series against the best team in baseball so far, means you could be looking at an L3, an L4, an L5 in the win-loss column by the time this is done.

So before we get into the specifics of last night's game, and I know you wrote about this, you know, it was kind of your lead last night at Sportsnet.ca, the swing from they got back to .500,

They got back into a playoff spot, and now suddenly they've dropped three in a row.

They've fallen out of that last playoff spot, not that you entirely care on June 3rd, but as a kind of marker of where you're at.

And there's still this tough stretch ahead with more Braves and then the Phillies coming to town.

That's a pretty big emotional swing, it feels like.

I know you weren't on the road for the Orioles series, but what was kind of the vibe around the team yesterday now that all that positivity has kind of quickly turned to a mini losing streak here?

Yeah, as Gosman put it to you in your piece, four steps forward, two steps back, which is not exactly how that saying goes, but we'll give it to him in this case.

With respect to Gosman, look, not his sharpest out of the gate last night and kind of an unconventional Gosman start where the splitter wasn't really there until late, but the fastball was pretty good, getting swing and miss and things like that.

I know he kind of...

put it on himself in a way that when the team scores three runs, I don't think we need to put it all on the starter in that case.

But what did you make of his outing?

And obviously not the start he wanted with the walk and then the home run, but it was kind of a pretty different Kevin Gosman outing given the reliance on the fastball over the splitter.

And the other thing that struck me when Gosman says that is it was, I think it was 2024, right?

where we heard a lot of comments like that from Gosman and Bassett and Brios and a lot was being asked of those guys.

This is before things completely, you know, went off the rails and they sold at the deadline.

But with how thin the pitching staff is right now,