Next step for O's: intersquad game

After five days of batting practice, workouts and drills it’s finally time for a game... against each other.

THE ORIOLES ARE PUTTING INANOTHER DAY OF WORK AT CAMDENYARDS AS THEY GET READY FORTHE 2020 SEASON.

NOW ITFOR THE BIRDS TO STEP IT UP ANOTCH.

WMA━2 NEWS SHAWNSTEPNER EXPLAINS.After five days of B.P.,workouts and drills itfinally time for a game.Against each other.

BrandonHyde, Orioles Manager: Wegoing to play a ━an━━halfinning, controlled environmentintersquad tomorrow evening.Orioles Manager Brandon Hydesays Tommy Milone will startfor one team, Thomas Eshelmanfor the other.

Some meaningfulmeaningless baseball at CamdenYards.

Hyde: Theyready to go.

These guys areitching to intersquadtomorrow.

I think theygetting tired of going throughthe daily workout.

One ofthose guys itching to get outthere is outfielder DJStewart, who was hampered byinjuries last year.

Hiso━field and zoom backgroundgame feeling good in 2020.

DJStewart, Orioles Outfielder:For me to get back out thereand get in a competitiveatmosphere, obviously itagainst our teammates but,webetter.

Wetreat it as a competitiveatmosphere to get ready forgame one and the rest of theseason.

When it comes to thesafety and health of Stewartand the rest of his teammates,Hyde says the Ofollowing the procedures andprotocols.

Hyde: Wereminding each otherconstantly about masks andmasks in the clubhouse andkeeping our distancing.

Itstarting to become a littlebit more normal now.

I thinkit was really strange thefirst couple days.

If theBirds, along with the rest ofMajor League Baseball, cankeep it up, they*openin* up the season inBoston on July 24.

GeneralManager Mike Elias, confidentwea couple weeks.

Mike Elias,Orioles General Manager: Ifeel great about it.

We feellike weplace to execute the season.

Ifeel better about it than whenwe started.

Elias says goingforward the club wonrevealing names of players whopotentially test positive forCOVID, citing among otherthings the possibility offalse positives.

He calls it aprivate health matter for theplayer.

Shawn Stepner, WMA━2News.NEW TONIGHT... TWO