8/16 v Orioles

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

VAZ needed a tennis racket on that one.

[jung]

SOX making another rag arm look like Bob Gibson.

 

All Brooks has is FB's, 2 seam and 4 seam. He throws underneath (or some people call it throwing around) both his slider and his curve which is just like putting them on a tee unless he jerks the pitch off the plate.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Not an easy play for a minor leaguer, which the O's have a ton of.

[TylerD]

Offense getting going.

[jung]

Stewart does not look like he was designed to run 127'.

[TylerD]

Stewart does not look like he was designed to run 127'.

 

Thanks to your negative Porcello comments he has now walked a man.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Walking C. Davis should come with a fine.

[FredLynn]

Rick the Prick is about to implode.

[FredLynn]

Porcello got lucky there.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Mancini looking for something fast, got something slow.

[TylerD]

Rick the Prick is about to implode.

 

Not today. He’s going 7 with just the single run. Lady Luck is in his side tonight

[jung]

I am beginning to think that tiny little ballpark in Baltimore does not do the O's much good. This is three years running at least that they are the absolute kings of launch angle nonsense to the point where everything they swing at goes in the air and more often than not is a pop up.

 

Pitching is a weakness for them. But you don't lose this many games on pitching alone.

[TylerD]

I am beginning to think that tiny little ballpark in Baltimore does not do the O's much good. This is three years running at least that they are the absolute kings of launch angle nonsense to the point where everything they swing at goes in the air and more often than not is a pop up.

 

Pitching is a weakness for them. But you don't lose this many games on pitching alone.

Agreed.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Devers doing at Fenway what smart LH hitters should do, unless the LH hitter is Ted Williams.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Not today. He’s going 7 with just the single run. Lady Luck is in his side tonight

 

Lady Luck plus it is the O's.

[jung]

So just for fun I went to look at O's splits. Just for the record they have few injuries that matter. Trumbo is not playing at the moment.

 

They are 39-82 overall....39 and 82!

 

Of that they are 18-43 in their little shoebox stadium and 21-39 on the road.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

The O's are so bad that one can't even tell if POR is pitching well or not.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

So just for fun I went to look at O's splits. Just for the record they have few injuries that matter. Trumbo is not playing at the moment.

 

They are 39-82 overall....39 and 82!

 

Of that they are 18-43 in their little shoebox stadium and 21-39 on the road.

 

Similar to the SOX that they're better on the road.

[TylerD]

Lady Luck plus it is the O's.

 

Lmao. Yeah that is probably a better explanation actually.

[jung]

Brooks has been pretty lucky tonight as well. He has no breaking pitches that he throws well. Has no Change and if it were not for the thundering elephant he has in RF, he would have been in pretty good shape.

[TylerD]

Like I said. Rick will go 7 tonight.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Fortunately, it wasn't the elbow.

[FredLynn]

Here is where Vasquez has to get the runners to advance...at least.

[jung]

I have no idea how Brooks got as far as he has gotten throwing like this and not just in this game but in general. Maybe it just says the O's have just nobody that can throw. I know their pen is a laugh.

[FredLynn]

Similar to the SOX that they're better on the road.

 

I would phrase that differently: they are NOT AS BAD on the road as at home.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Another reason the Yankems are way ahead of the SOX this year is that they destroy bad pitching much more than the SOX do.

[FredLynn]

Really? Owings to PH? He is horrible.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

I would phrase that differently: they are NOT AS BAD on the road as at home.

 

True. Never use the word 'better' when referring to the O's.

[FredLynn]

Really? Owings to PH? He is horrible.

 

Like I said, they should PH Owings.

[TylerD]

Pinch hitting worked. 5-1!