With so many potential 100 loss teams in the AL it means that a team that would normally be around .500 (like Texas or Oakland) is likely going to end up with 90+ wins, because somebody has to win these games. I think Boston will easily make the postseason but there's going to be one unexpected team hanging around for a wild card spot all season.
Also I don't like muting the broadcast because I still like hearing the game action and crowd. If only there was a "Mute Announcers" option.
2B LeMahieu
1B Voit
CF Hicks
C Sánchez
SS Torres
DH Morales
3B Urshela
RF Maybin
LF Gardner
Strange that Boone is starting Gardner over Frazier against a tough lefty. Boone said yesterday that Frazier was out because he had a scheduled day off. However Frazier still being out after yesterday's rainout tells me that was a load of s*** and for some reason he prefers the matchup with Gardner (.541 OPS against LHP this year) instead of Clint (.711 OPS against LHP this year). I'd at least start Frazier over Morales.. but whatever. Boone has been pushing all the right buttons this season so we'll see if it continues.
Game has been postponed and will be made up on August 3rd as part of a doubleheader.
This definitely benefits the Yankees since now they won't need to have an opener/bullpen game.
We'll see how many of these four games actually get played. There's supposed to be thunderstorms all night and the forecast also calls for thunderstorms most of the weekend #buildmoredomes
Hit four HRs and put up seven runs without Sanchez, Hicks, Judge, Stanton, Didi, and Andujar. While going up against a guy with a 1.93 ERA.
Our trash players > everyone else's trash players > The O's
You could be right. We'll likely have bullpen games/spot starters in three of our next six games so going .500 or worse during that timeframe is possible, though I'll say we finish 4-2 against KC/SD. As for the Sox series, I feel like we'll take 3 of 4 at home but who really knows.
I dunno if you could say Tampa was floundering since they were leading the division when we first played them and then went 4-2 against them. The O's are trash of course, but sweeping a four game series on the road isn't easy considering that on average even the worst teams still win one out of every three games.
I think poor attendance has more to do with how bad the O's roster is. Why would fans pay a considerable price to watch a team of castoffs lose 75% of their games? When the O's were pretty good between 2012-16, their average attendance was 28,310. And it was 30,426 in 2014 when they made it to the ALCS. Those aren't amazing attendance numbers but they're respectable.