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Carroll has heated up a little bit from his terrible start, going 6 for his last 21 with a home run. I don't understand the point you're making about 2022. Adley and Gunnar were playing every day down the stretch. Bautista was closing games and Bradish was in the rotation. Grayson was not healthy, he was coming back from a lat strain. The Orioles went 15-18 in September and October, that's why they missed the playoffs. If you want to blame Elias for 2022, blame him for having crappy placeholders at the beginning of the year like Chris Owings and Robinson Chirinos that put the team in a 14-24 hole before Adley came up.

On the one hand, the streak is cool, and I really like looking back at the lineups the O's were running out there the last time they were swept in the regular season just to see how far they've come as an organization. On the other hand, every time the streak is brought up it just reminds me of the ALDS whether or not it counts, and you can't brag about the streak around fans of other teams or they'll throw the ALDS in your face. It would be like if it got constantly brought up that Ubaldo Jimenez never gave up a walkoff home run.* *in the regular season

After processing the ridiculousness of last night's game, one of my first thoughts was "what a shame that Kimbrel cost Kyle Bradish the win." Of course I know that pitcher wins are meaningless and outdated and almost nobody will look at Bradish's win total when considering him during awards voting, salary arbitration, or free agency. I certainly don't want Brandon Hyde to think about win eligibility in his decision-making. But a part of me is sad that Bradish has come back and been awesome and doesn't have a win yet. I'm not like this with other obsolete stats. I don't care at all if Gunnar Henderson drives in 100 runs, I don't care if Adley Rutschman hits .300 for the season, but I get bummed when our guys lose out on a deserved win. Am I completely alone here, or are there any other closet win fans?

Not letting Kjerstad take this AB is bull----

Nationals have their best relievers still available.

But why not Webb since Abrams hits lefties well?

If Melanie and Ben know that Abrams is a reverse splits guy, why doesn't Hyde?

Marked safe from: Cionel Perez's 5/8 eighth inning

Cionel has nothing working.

What a crappy 0-2 pitch from Perez! He got real lucky there.

I mean that was a seriously impressive at bat by Young. Does anyone on our team take that last pitch?

Parker is really lucky the Orioles haven't done more damage.

I was about to say, "how in the hell is that not even on the warning track????"

I believe Gunnar hasn't had an XBH since leading off the Yankees series with a home run. He sets the tone for the offense.

Cedric can't square up a fastball at all these days. Gets up in the count 3-0 and the pitcher just throws three fastballs down the middle to get him out.