Orioles (Kremer/Bradish) vs Red Sox (Bennett/TBD): 7/22/26, 1:35pm/7:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

The Orioles found a way to stop the Red Sox from winning.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	TOT
Tyron Guerrero	13	0	0	19	0	32
Ryan Watson	0	23	19	0	0	42
Justin Slaten	12	0	0	0	0	12
Jovani Morán	11	0	15	0	0	26
Greg Weissert	7	0	12	0	0	19
Garrett Whitlock	12	8	0	11	0	31
Brayan Bello	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aroldis Chapman	13	20	0	22	0	55

 

[JoeBrady]

Casual observations-

• It feels like we've been fortunate with our BP.  Winning this many in row requires a lot of use from your top guys.  It looks like we've been able to stagger them a little.
• I'd like to see out TBD pitch a complete game shutout, but I wouldn't mind seeing Bello either.  It seems like too long between appearances.  I'd like to see him maintain his mental sharpness.

 

[moonslav59]

18 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

Casual observations-

• It feels like we've been fortunate with our BP.  Winning this many in row requires a lot of use from your top guys.  It looks like we've been able to stagger them a little.
• I'd like to see out TBD pitch a complete game shutout, but I wouldn't mind seeing Bello either.  It seems like too long between appearances.  I'd like to see him maintain his mental sharpness.

 

Brez has done well with the WOO pen shuttle service and putting Bello there.

He may be hoping for the Suarez and Early returns to bump a starter (Rivera & then Sandoval) to the pen, but I think we need some outside help- as we do every year.

Here are the OPS Against numbers as RP'ers. I divided them into 4 groups:

Failures and not in our future plans:

2.500 La Sorsa (2 PAs Against)

1.378 Oviedo (18)

1.064 Uberstine (11)

1.013 Kahnle (43)

(.713 Anderson w 32)

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Not so good but will/may needed:

.822 Slaten (104)

.750 Watson (222 and improving)

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Doing okay to pretty good:

.692 Weissert (165)

.652 Gamboa (32)

.633 Samaniego (81, but not ding well in AAA)

.614 Kelly (71 doing okay in AAA)

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Doing well to very well

.615 Guerrero (90) Big BOOST!

.595 Chapman (134) Slipping, of late.

.535 Whitlock (137) The BULL!

.487 Bello (111) WOW!

.419 Moran (145) One guy I projected to do well & has.

.200 Rivera (10) Starting, for now.

 

[vegasbob]

Would love to get a few early runs to support Bennett who is a strike thrower.

Wondering why the TBD in game 2.

Maybe Suarez is not 100%

[FredLynn]

5 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Would love to get a few early runs to support Bennett who is a strike thrower.

Wondering why the TBD in game 2.

Maybe Suarez is not 100%

Well there you go!

[Brock Beauchamp]

This team cannot do wrong right now.

[mvp 78]

Stupid day at work. I need more runs! MORE!!!

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Durbin renewal.

[mvp 78]

Romy k'ing against at RHP. Cool.

[vegasbob]

Just now, FredLynn said:

Well there you go!

Yeah. that's nice but it's all singles.

I really wanted the big bopper.

That is not Gonzalez who needs more time at WooSox. He is clueless right now

[mvp 78]

Finally, Duran does something. 

[FredLynn]

Nice to see Duran finally getting a hit

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Duran Duran!

[vegasbob]

Duran is the clean up man today.

Very rough season but pretty good here and now

[FredLynn]

3 minutes ago, vegasbob said:

Duran is the clean up man today.

Very rough season but pretty good here and now

He is hitting the ball harder of late. Still swinging at too many balls out of the zone, but hitting it harder

[vegasbob]

Bennett has read the book that Clemens wrote : The most important pitch in your repertoire is Strike 1

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Good shut down inning.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Dean Wormer can't even hold back our pledges on double secret probation.

[mvp 78]

Cheng with another k. 

[FredLynn]

Kremer can't get Masa out. He's hitting over .500 against him

[vegasbob]

5 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Cheng with another k. 

Our MIF'ers have not laid bat on ball yet, but it is early

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Imagine if the ABS challenge was available when Williams played. If the ump called a strike on Williams and Ted glanced back at him, the ump knew he made the wrong call.

[FredLynn]

There's your GG CFer......🙄

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

1 minute ago, FredLynn said:

There's your GG CFer......🙄

You're still an idiot.

[FredLynn]

3 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

You're still an idiot.

And you are still a moron. Or a jackass. Which would you prefer?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

They're gonna wear out the tape on that Durbin homer.

[mvp 78]

4 minutes ago, SPLENDIDSPLINTER said:

You're still an idiot.

Fred has spent his whole life staring directly into every solar eclipse. He's trained specifically to never drop a flyball like the one Ceddanne did. 

[FredLynn]

1 minute ago, mvp 78 said:

Fred has spent his whole life staring directly into every solar eclipse. He's trained specifically to never drop a flyball like the one Ceddanne did. 

It was a tongue in cheek comment. Of course he lost it in the sun. It happens.

[FredLynn]

Nice job by Duran