Louis, I appear critical but mainly it is directed at 1 pitcher, uBADo Jimenez, who just continues to be a train wreck. I actually am pretty impressed with the O's who continue to win, contend, and surprise most of the numbers 'experts' who continue to pick them to finish last, year after year. Outside of uBADo, my main complaint is trying to keep up with the musical chairs the O's play with their roster. It seems that there is a least 1 player that is new to the roster every game.^&grin The AL East continues to entertain, what with the O's and NYY's outperforming all expectations. May it continue to game #162. -- Al
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This is trying for O's fans. They have blown at least 3 such leads of late and I just hope that when we get to September, that we aren't looking back on these particular games and ruing the losses. -- Al
Last night's blown lead is the big topic on the local O's talk show. They posted an interesting stat: from 2012-2016, the O's blew leads of 5+ runs exactly twice (2) in 810 games. In 43 games in 2017, they have blown 3 such leads. I never expected the loss of Britton and the resulting confusion in the pen to hit the O's this hard. -- Al
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uBADo, one of the best and most appropriate nicknames ever!
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At least Bundy went more then 4 innings or give up 6-7 runs in 1 inning... Yanks losing last I heard so not a total loss.
Bundy has been a surprise from my POV. I figured him to be decent, but not the staff ace as he has been. We'll see if it lasts but he continues to pitch well with very few exceptions. Tillman and Miley (wouldn't have bet that horse) have also been very good. The starting staff could certainly be worse but they are hanging in, despite the obvious failure of he who shall remain nameless. Just need to get the pen up and running and the O's will stay in this thing to the end. -- Al
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Agreed. I just saw the highlights, Santana was lights out. No shame in that loss.
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The Mets may soon regain the semblance of a pitching staff as Matz and Lugo are on rehab assignments. If they are effective, this would relieve a lot of pressure on the relievers. Cespedes is also almost ready, not that they need the offensive help but it would relegate Granderson to the bench.
Some good news, for a change. Never hurts to have your starters back in the line-up. -- Al
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While I have not looked at the statistics, it seems like almost every day/night there is an extra inning game? I thought of that again when I was watching the ESPN broadcast of the Dodgers and Cardinals go into the 13th inning last night. A couple of weeks back the ESPN Sunday night game between the Yanks and Cubs game went into the 18th inning too.
I have no official stat to back this up, but common sense (and a boat load of runs) tells me Nats #5 starter Joe Ross has the best run support in baseball. He's been up and down this season but he is 2-0 in 4 starts. He should be 4-0 but wasn't able to make it to the required 5 innings in 2 games. Why 4-0 you ask? Because the Nats have scored 62 runs in his 4 starts! My genius IQ tells me that is an average of 15.5 runs of support per game. My deceased grandmother would be 4-0 with that kind of support.:rolleyes2: -- Al
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Samardzija has looked better, even in today's loss to the Cubs he looked sharp.
Es bueno.^&grin -- Al
No doubt about it. Bit of a slump. Everything out of whack. No hitting right now and a waste of good starts by Gausman, Bundy, and Miley. A little frustrating, to say the least. -- Al
Nats have gotten on track against SD this weekend. Scherzer threw 8.2 innings of 1-run ball while fanning 13, winning 5-1 last night and today Strasburg went 7 innings of shutout ball, fanning a career high 15, in a 3-0 win. Taking into account that the Padres aren't very good and that they have the 3rd most strikeouts in MLB, the Nats were still impressive, fanning a total of 31 in the 2 games. Game 3 tomorrow with Ross going for the Nats, whom the Nats are scoring for at a rate of 15.5 runs per game. This of course means the Nats will be shutout. -- Al
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The month of May has sucked all around, from the time Britton was put on the forever DL the team has struggled in all phases, good pitching = they lose 2-0 or 3-2...good offense= they lose 12-7 or 9-6, not looking good right now, the little ray of hope is the O's have a long home stand coming up with Sox, Yanks, if they drop a bunch of those games it could get ugly before the break, not tossing in any towels but surely enjoyed the month of April a hell of a lot better then the month of May.
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Orioles fans may one day look back on the 2014-2017 seasons as a wasted opportunity due to ownership not bringing in a true ace. If the 2004, 2007 and 2013 Red Sox taught me anything, it's that offense wins games during the regular season, but what you really need is pitching and timely hitting, not three run home runs all over the place.
The great Orioles teams of the 60's, 70's and 80's had some great hitters but even better pitchers.......................you can't win a WS title marching out tomato cans for a starting rotation no matter how much your offense mashes the ball, the 70's Red Sox taught me that one; Fisk, Yaz, Scott, Remy, Burleson, Lynn, Rice, Evans, Carbo, Hobson, Petrocelli, they could hit **** tons of home runs, but their starting staff was mediocre at best...........................
The great Orioles teams of the 60's, 70's and 80's had some great hitters but even better pitchers.......................you can't win a WS title marching out tomato cans for a starting rotation no matter how much your offense mashes the ball, the 70's Red Sox taught me that one; Fisk, Yaz, Scott, Remy, Burleson, Lynn, Rice, Evans, Carbo, Hobson, Petrocelli, they could hit **** tons of home runs, but their starting staff was mediocre at best...........................