Ryan Mountcastle Out Sick Thursday
10 months agoUpdating a previous report, Baltimore Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said that first baseman Ryan Mountcastle (illness) was scratched from Thursday's Grapefruit League lineup against the Pittsburgh Pirates because he was under the weather. Mountcastle is fine and should be back in the lineup in spring training games soon. The 27-year-old right-handed-hitting first baseman missed a month of action in 2023 due to a bout with vertigo, but this illness doesn't appear to be related to that, thankfully. After a rough start last year that was likely a result of his vertigo, Mountcastle started raking and finished by hitting .270/.328/.452 with 18 home runs and 68 RBI for the first-place O's. He has gone hitless through his first six spring at-bats and will look to get going when he returns to the lineup, most likely at some point this weekend.
Source: MASN Sports - Roch Kubatko
Source: MASN Sports - Roch Kubatko