SteveA

The Orioles didn't take advantage of Nevin's blazing speed when we had him. He didn't have a steal for us.

Yep. Off to a minor league park in Sacramento.

Why would we only have a one run lead? We have Burnes on the mound looking good. We average 5.67 runs per game. We have scored fewer than 4 runs in a game 3 times out of 24 games, and it's been 2 weeks since we haven't gotten to 4.

Those raw numbers sure sound good.

Cedric to the flag court!

Solid but not as good as the Greek place I go to often when I'm in Blacksburg. They shave the meat right off that rotating stick immediately before making the sandwich. I have a feeling this meat was sliced earlier today and has been in the truck ever since. And I'd have liked a tad more tzatziki, they did have a side order of it on the menu but I didn't know I'd need it. I'll say a grade of B. My favorite (Korean) truck wasn't there this week.

Ditto

Stopped at the last cl fire department food truck Friday, went Greek. Gyro and Greek fries. Way too many fries for one person, feel free to grab some off the plate if you want...

Gametime: 7:05 pm Forecast: 64 degrees, mostly sunny Promotion: Autism Acceptance Night; former Orioles' beatwriter and official scorer Jim Henneman is throwing out the first pitch Roster Move: Jackson Holliday optioned to Norfolk; Ryan McKenna recalled from Norfolk. To make room for McKenna on the 40 man roster, Daniel Banuelos (who had been in Norfolk) is DFA'd. Matchup: Ross Stripling (R) vs Corbin Burnes (R) Lineups LF Esteury Ruiz R 1B Tyler Nevin R C Shea Langeliers R DH Brent Rooker R CF JJ Bleday L 3B Abraham Toro S SS Darrell Hernaiz R RF Lawrence Butler L 2B Max Schuemann R SS Gunnar Henderson L C Adley Rutschman S DH Ryan O'Hearn L RF Anthony Santander S 1B Ryan Mountcastle R CF Cedric Mullins L 2B Jordan Westburg R LF Colton Cowser L 3B Ramon Urias R Orioles Bench Heston Kjerstad (L) Jorge Mateo (R) James McCann (R) Ryan McKenna (R) Orioles Bullpen Available Keegan Akin (L) 0.2 IP, 15p Tuesday Mike Baumann (R) 0.1 IP, 19p Monday Yennier Cano (R) 1.0 IP, 12p Wednesday; 1.2 IP, 21p Monday Danny Coulombe (L) 0.2 IP, 11p Wednesday Craig Kimbrel (R) 1.0 IP, 19p Wednesday; 1.0 IP, 23p Monday Yohan Ramirez (R) 1.1 IP, 21p Tuesday Dillon Tate (R) 1.20 IP, 14p Tuesday Jacob Webb (R) 1.0 IP, 12p Wednesday; 0.1 IP, 4p Monday; 0.2 IP, 19p Sunday

Perhaps he's saying that a mental reset / change of scenery can be helpful to someone. Perhaps he's saying that it is easier to work on mechanical changes in an environment where the games don't "count" as much and you aren't feeling like you are letting your teammates down if you struggle. Maybe development doesn't completely trump winning at AAA, but the ratio of the importance of the two is skewed very differently than it is at the big league level. There's a luxury of being able to experiment and tinker with things at AAA without any pressure that if something doesn't work, or takes a long time to work, you will be sent down.

Yep. To do that, though, they pretty much would have had to have decided before Sunday's game in KC, because right afterwards the team flew from KC to California, and there would be no sense in Holliday making that flight and then flying to Norfolk. And someone (travelling secretary) would have to arrange a flight from KC to Norfolk for Holliday. So those wheels would have had to go into motion Saturday night at the latest, and maybe they weren't ready to pull the trigger that soon. Making a guy fly by himself from KC to Norfolk while the rest of the team celebrates a win and flies in the other direciton can't be fun. I remember when a lot of people felt it was classless that the Mets fired manager Willie Randolph in the middle of a West Coast trip.

Joey Gallo has 40 strikeouts and 1 single so far this year.

oops, thanks!

If they lose tonight and get 4-game-swept by the Yankees, I would be annoyed if they show up here and suddently start acting competitively. I'd really like to see them get a W in NY tonight, somehow.