B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 204.83; Flight Crew Total 357.23; Flight Crew Type 357.23
Troubleshooting; Workload
Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
Airport
As I stopped short of exiting the Southport on the Bravo line; waiting for ATC clearance; our nose wheel rolled into a hole.  I had the right engine running.  I could not exit the hole on one engine.  I started the second engine and could not exit the hole with normal breakaway thrust.  We coordinated with ramp and increased the thrust to 70% and still could not break out.  I was just about to shutdown and request a tug; but tried once more; moving the nose wheel and a little more thrust as we were able to break out. This hole needs to be filled.
An air carrier pilot reported MCO ramp has a pothole that required excessive thrust to taxi out of.