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McGreevy was scratched from his start Tuesday for Memphis, and for good reason. The right-hander will be up as a multi-inning bullpen option for St. Louis, but could make a start before the season comes to a close.

The 29-year-old was tasked with preserving a 3-2 lead in the ninth inning, but he walked two batters and allowed a weird, long bloop single to the outfield to suffer the blown save. Gregory Soto would come on and get the Orioles out of the jam, but Domínguez now has a 4.37 ERA on the season. After Craig Kimbrel was designated for assignment on Wednesday, the Orioles have tons of questions to answer about their bullpen performance.

Conforto blasted a two-run shot off Zach Eflin for his 18th home run of the season. It briefly gave the Giants a 2-0 lead. The 31-year-old has enjoyed a bit of a bounceback season despite only playing in 122 games so far. He is on pace to play the most games since 2019 while posting his high batting average, most home runs, and most RBI over the same span too.

This is Eflin’s seventh quality start in eight starts since coming to the Orioles. The right-hander struck out five and walked one on the day with the only blemish being a home run allowed to Michael Conforto. He’s set to make one more start next week against the Yankees.

Webb struck out eight and walked two, but he had run his pitch count up to 96 pitches after five frames. The 27-year-old had his sweeper working on Thursday, leading to a 30 percent whiff rate and 29 percent CSW. He figures to make one final stop next week against the Diamondbacks.

Holliday also made a tremendous leaping grab at second base and had an overall solid game. He’ll need to string together a few more of them over the weekend because all of Jordan Westburg, Ryan Mountcastle, and Ramon Urias appear to be close to returning to the Orioles’ lineup, which could squeeze the younger Orioles out of the lineup in the final week of the season.

The homers came off Brandon Leibrandt in the final two innings of the game. He wound up with four homers in the three-game series against the Reds, and his current .405 slugging percentage and .696 OPS are his high marks since early May.

Sale’s velocity was down from the start today. He dialed it up some in the third, but he was particularly low in the final two innings. In the fifth, six of his seven fastballs failed to reach 91 mph. On the whole, he averaged 92.7 mph with his fastball, down from 94.9 mph on the year. Sale’s velocity was also down in his first two starts on September before bouncing back last time out against the Dodgers. We’re guessing some of this is intentional as he tries to save bullets for the postseason. It hasn’t hurt him in the process; he’s allowed only three runs this month, and the Braves have won his last eight starts. He’s 18-3 with a 2.38 ERA headed into a potentially huge final regular-season start next week against the Mets.

Aguiar gave up two homers, the seventh and eighth he’s allowed in 31 2/3 innings this season. Somewhat incredibly, this is the Reds’ first loss in seven games with Aguiar on the mound; they had been 6-0 in spite of his 4.88 ERA. Aguiar should get one more start against the Guardians next week.

His 25th two-homer game, four of which have come this year. It’s been a disappointing season for Olson, but he’s now two homers and six RBI away from a fourth straight 30-homer, 100-RBI campaign.

Horn is going back to the minors as the corresponding move for the activation of Lucas Sims. He had a 6.50 ERA and 1.77 WHIP in 18 innings with Boston this year.