Official 2012 Baltimore Orioles Thread

[pjfootballer]

The only way we can win is to get them right where we want them:

EXTRA INNINGS!!!

[DjTj]

The only way we can win is to get them right where we want them:

EXTRA INNINGS!!!

Or a one-run game. Just keep it close, and the Orioles will have a good chance to pull it out.

And as for that edge in being the home team? Forget it. In the previous 10 postseasons there have been 18 double elimination games (win-or-go-home for both teams). Here's what those 18 games tell us:

• Home field is not an advantage. The home teams are 8-10 in those games.

• Scoring first is not an advantage. The team that scores first is 9-9.

• Games tend to be close and low scoring. Ten of the 18 games were decided by one or two runs. The teams combined for an average of 7.23 runs per game -- that's 16 percent lower than the 2012 MLB regular season average.

• Pitching changes increase. World Series Game 7 last year and ALDS Game 5 between the Tigers and Yankees included 22 combined pitchers. The average for the 18 games is eight pitchers.

• Slugfests almost never happen. Here are the runs scored by the losing team in the past 11 elimination games: 2, 2, 0, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 3, 2.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...#ixzz28S64w8h9

[Ellis]

[pjfootballer]

Or a one-run game. Just keep it close, and the Orioles will have a good chance to pull it out.

It's my thing, like abdcskins.

[TD_washingtonredskins]

Ellis, awesome!

[KingGibbs]

Nice Ellis. GACOLB says he loves it!

I have a feeling we are going to see an All-Star game type pitching rotation tonight from Buck.

[MattFancy]

Damn it I can't see the picture Ellis posted

[DjTj]

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...14960256_n.jpg

Go O's! **** Dallas.

[fullnelson9999]

That picture's gonna get some people's blood boiling for sure lol.

[KingGibbs]

Damn it I can't see the picture Ellis posted

It's the Oriole bird with the Redskins feather coming out of his cap. It's a classic. Hence why I said GACOLB loves it!

[MattFancy]

It's the Oriole bird with the Redskins feather coming out of his cap. It's a classic. Hence why I said GACOLB loves it!

Ah I saw one my FB friends posted that today. Can we send that to GALCOB?

Since he thinks we're just O's/Ravens fans that come and hang out on a Redskins message board all day and talk Orioles.

[youngchew]

My first timeseeing that pic...I love it! That's where my heart is!!

[the burgundy and gold]

Great pic. I'm super nervous for tonight. Offense needs to bring the big sticks tonight.

[fullnelson9999]

Good start. Young is garbage defensively.

[Hitman21ST]

Great start for the O's. Now if only TBS would switch coverage.