O's @ __ Rays 4/11 - 4/13

[TheDoyler23]

April 11-13. The Baltimore Orioles 6-3 Vs. The Tampa Bay ___ Rays 4-5.

Season series: 1-1

2008 Record: 11-7

Guthrie Vs. Shields 7:10

Same match up as OD. Hopefully a diff result.

Cabrera Vs. Hammel 7:10

Hammel is 0-3 with an ERA near 9 against the Birds.

Burres Vs. Niemann 1:40

Niemann is making his major league debut. He's 6'8", 280#! He and Dcab should fight at the pitchers mound. :laugh:

Weather: Grey. The Tampa Bay ___ Rays play in a warehouse. Its the worst piece of garbage in baseball.

Injuries: TB- Cliff Floyd, Matt Garza, Rocco Baldelli. Bal: none

[twenty-eight]

In the history of baseball has anyone ever missed more games due to injury than rocco baldelli? Seriously....he's probably been active for like 15`% of his career games

[turtle]

o's up 3-0 bottom of 1st

[turtle]

O's up 3-2 top of 2nd

[GOSKINS_08]

Roberts with an RBI double! 4-2

[JMURedskins]

A couple strikes called on Markakis that definitely weren't strikes.

[GOSKINS_08]

Say what you want about Millar, but he is a great defensive 1B.

[JMURedskins]

Luis needs to stop sitting back on ground balls. That error almost cost a run.

[JMURedskins]

This Ump calling a lot of balls strikes against the O's.

[abdcskins]

^Yeah, his strike zone is rather large....when we are at bat. I like the way Guthrie is pitching, he's got his curve going. These jams are annoying but he gets out of them. I'll take a 5 run inning.

[twenty-eight]

Two out rbi single for ramon!!!! Called out at second trying to stretch it into a double

[ixcuincle]

From 5-2 to 5-5...

Ball 4 :doh:

Now 9-5. Can we get a Capitals-like comeback in the 9th? Please? :mad:

[TheDoyler23]

1. I don't give a **** how many pitches Guthrie has thrown. Keep him IN the ****ing game through 7. ****.

2. Pena's dinger was just unfortunate. The two runners on base were on because of an error (called an infield hit, but it was an error) and a flare popup to no man's land. Then a mistake. **** me.

3. Sarfate wasn't getting it done...why keep him in the ****ing game? Oh and Pena got the highest bull**** level walk ever. The PITCH was a strike and he ****ing swung at the ball. ball 4, what ****ing ever.

This is why I didn't boast about the bullpen when it was going well.

[turtle]

What the hell happened? 3 loses in a row? man we need to get back on track!

[TheDoyler23]

What the hell happened? 3 loses in a row? man we need to get back on track!

Bad execution, bad managing and bad luck happened. Hopefully we can get them tomorrow, but right now I wanna punch a hole in a wall somewhere. :laugh:

[sith lord]

Now this is the O's I remember. It was good while it lasted.

[abdcskins]

I'm too angry to really make a thorough analysis. I've been so mad all night I couldn't even party properly.


- Luis Hernandez needs to get his head in the game. He messes up a grounder, and he should've gotten out further on that Crawford bloop single. That's two plays in a row he lets the batter get on. Then Pena blasts one.

- The third base umpire BLEW that "walk" on Pena with the bases loaded to give the Rays the lead. Pena clearly went around. Would've been the second out. The flood gates opened after that.

Tomorrow is about as close to a must win game you'll get early in the season. I know that sounds silly, but it's true.

[JMURedskins]

:cuss::cuss::cuss::cuss::cuss::cuss::cuss::cuss:

That is how I feel about Luis Hernandez's D and our bullpen yesterday.


I guess we had to come back to earth eventually.

[MDRedskinsFan]

The hardest thing to do in sports is stop losing. It's what separates the good teams from the bad. It was a good start, and I actually think we'll be playing our best baseball after the All-Star break. Because they are young, they are going to have growing pains early in the year, and it's expected. The thing that concerns me, is the starting pitching has to consistently go 6-7 innings for them to be effective. We can't have pitchers over 100 pitches before the 6th inning on a consistent basis, there isn't enough bullpen arms to overcome that. So we'll see how things shake out, tonight is a must-win game though.

[aejm1400]

O's leading 2-0 in the top of the 6th currently.

[aejm1400]

For anyone who seen it, how did Ramon get himself that triple?

[aejm1400]

D-ab gives up 1 run in the 6th. After 6, 2-1 O's. 3 BB's and 4 Ks...typical Cabrera.

[GOSKINS_08]

Very good game pitching by Daniel Cabrera tonight..We still lead 2-1 going into the bottom of the 8th.

[GOSKINS_08]

****! Carlos Pena hurts us again..HR off of Jamie Walker..Tied 2-2

[GOSKINS_08]

Ramon Hernandez with a HR with 2 outs in the top of the 9th!!!!

3-2!!

[GOSKINS_08]

Sherril with a 3 up 3 down 9th inning, and we win!!

Great way to come back after we blew the lead in the 8th

Big win! Now lets get the series win tomorrow!

[abdcskins]

Well, I figured out how to win. All I have to do is not post during the game. Easy. It also helped when I threw one of my Nikes into the middle of the room after Upton got on with that bunt.


What a bomb by Ramon Hernandez, and huge. I liked how Cabrera pitched, getting ahead helps tremendously. That double play he got Haynes to ground into was big. Also, Adam Jones needs to learn how to hit situationally, he left Ramon on third with 1 out in the 2nd inning. Obviously he is young, he reached for a slider.

Gigantic game tomorrow, going home 8-4 would be a big lift to our morale. So let's do it.

[TheDoyler23]

****! Carlos Pena hurts us again..HR off of Jamie Walker..Tied 2-2

Bradford never allows dingers. Maybe Trembs should pitch him against Pena. I know Pena had bad numbers against Walker in the past, but I think he figured something out about his pitching.

Hernandez crushed that bad boy. A nice no doubter for the lead late in the game.

I love Shep's 1-2-3 saves! :cheers:

[TheDoyler23]

For anyone who seen it, how did Ramon get himself that triple?

Upton misplayed it then lollygagged to the wall to get the ball. :silly:

[aejm1400]

Upton misplayed it then lollygagged to the wall to get the ball. :silly:

I thought he got to first and let lil Hernandez finshing running it out for him. :laugh:

[TheDoyler23]

Roberts leads off with a 3-2 single to left. Steals second.

Mora walks.

Markakis K's on a 3-2 heater. Looked tentative.

Millar grounds to short, who makes a bad throw to second. Everybody's safe!

Huff pops out on a pitch at his shoulders. BLECH.

Scott hits a warning track ball. Damn, I thought it was gone... :mad:

[sith lord]

The fact of the matter is that this team doesn't have enough good hitters to be good. We'll finish in last place.

[TheDoyler23]

Burres goes from throwing 4 no hit innings to allowing 6 runs, all earned.

Oh, and out lineup is making a guy in his major league debut (with a horrendous looking delivery) into Walter Johnson.

[sith lord]

And we're getting shutout by a pitcher making his first major league start.

[TheDoyler23]

And we're getting shutout by a pitcher making his first major league start.

Yep. Add him to the list of guys who pitched great in their ML debuts against us.

[turtle]

what the hell is going on? we started off so strong just to fall.

[TheDoyler23]

Markakis leads off the 6th with a solo dinger!

[sith lord]

Markakis leads off the 6th with a solo dinger!

Great, but we needed that a few innings ago.

[TheDoyler23]

Quiroz walks, Fahey singles and Roberts hits a looper over the IF. Bases loaded, 0 outs.

Mora pops out.

Markakis walks in a run! 6-2.

Millar K's on a questionable call.

Huff K's to end it... damn.

[sith lord]

2nd time in this game they had bases loaded and no outs and they do nothing.

[TheDoyler23]

2nd time in this game they had bases loaded and no outs and they do nothing.

Loaded with 1 away netted 0 runs

Loaded with 0 away netted 1 run.

Just unacceptable if you want to win games.

[abdcskins]

I had a bad feeling after we didn't score in the first inning. We just aren't producing at the plate right now.

2-4 on the road trip doesn't do it. I was hoping for at least 3-3. We need to have a winning home stand, bad.

[ixcuincle]

Forget this...I looked back at MLB.com and my hypothesis really has no merit. Hopefully we'll do better during the homestand.

[TheDoyler23]

****ing Texas couldn't beat the Jays one damn time, so were tied for first now.

**** Texas.

[the burgundy and gold]

well the losing has begun now. That was an ugly road trip. I have no confidence in the up coming home stand, it'll be really tough to win either of the series.

[skinfan2k]

i have markakis in my fantasy league and what kind of production do you expect this year? better than last year?

[TheDoyler23]

i have markakis in my fantasy league and what kind of production do you expect this year? better than last year?

I think his power numbers in HRs will be about the same or a few worse, but his steals, obp, runs scored and overall ops will increase. I think he's going to be pitched around with the lack of a good 4 hole hitter behind him. Pitchers are going to make him hit to the opposite field or take walks.

[the burgundy and gold]

i think his numbers will go down, he has no protection and is now known as a great hitter around MLB. I wouldn't expect too much of a decrease though.

[pjfootballer]

Lose 2 out of 3 to Texas and TB on the road. The real O's are showing up I guess. But to be expected out of a young team. I'm not getting down on them. I said we might have to go down further before we get back up. Let's do some damage at home.

[paige3girl]

Lose 2 out of 3 to Texas and TB on the road. The real O's are showing up I guess. But to be expected out of a young team. I'm not getting down on them. I said we might have to go down further before we get back up. Let's do some damage at home.

I just would like to be in first or at least a game up on the Yankees when they come to town Friday...

[aejm1400]

4 out of 6 being loses sucks, but last year that was a 6-game losing streak.