vs. BLUE JAYS, 4/19

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BALTIMORE O RIOLES

Joey Rickard - LF

Manny Machado - 3B

Adam Jones - CF

Chris Davis - 1B

Mark Trumbo - RF

Matthew Wieters - C

James Jerry Hardy - SS

Pedro Alvarez - DH

Jonathan Schoop - 2B

Dennis Michael Wright - RHP (1-0, 7.20 ERA)

TORONTO BLUE JAYS

Michael Saunders - LF

Josh Donaldson - 3B

Jose Bautista - RF

Edwin Encarnacion - DH

Troy Tulowitzki - SS

Justin Smoak - 1B

Russell Martin - C

Ryan Goins - 2B

Kevin Pillar - CF

Marcus Earl Stroman - RHP (2-0, 4.22 ERA)

http://www.baseballpress.com/lineups

Baltimore Orioles (8-3, 1st +2.5) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (7-7, T-2nd -2.5)

Streak / L10

BAL: -1, Lost 3 of 4

TOR: +2, Won 4 of 6

Game 1 (7:05)

(QS=0)Mike Wright (1-0) 7.20 (1.20/.263), 4/1, (1HR)

vs.

(QS=2)Marcus Stroman (2-0) 4.22 (0.98/.190), 12/6 (1HR)

Mike Wright: Well, the numbers are pretty self explanitory. Wright is not good at home and absolutely terrible against the Jays in three appearances allowing 19 baserunners in only 6.2 innings. Yuck. He didn't look all that good against Boston, either.

Splits & Sits

11 vs. left: .250/.455/.455, HR

11 vs. right: .273/.273/.364

Bases Empty: .231

RISP: .000

RISP w/2 outs: .000

Men on w/2 outs: .500

Man on 3rd, < 2 outs: NA

Career @ Camden Yards (5 starts, 2 relief)

(2-2) 6.08 (1.39/.276), 6HR

Career vs. TOR (2 starts, 1 relief)

(0-2) 9.45 (2.85/.375), 1HR, 7BB/12H in 6.2 IP

vs. Batter

Justin Smoak 2/4, 2 2B, RBI

Josh Donaldson 1/4, 2B, RBI, 2BB

Jose Bautista 2/3, 2B, HR, 3RBI, 2BB

Ryan Goins 2/3, 2B, BB

Kevin Pillar 2/3, BB

Edwin Encarnacion 1/3, 2B, RBI

Russell Martin 0/3

Troy Tulowitzki 0/2, 2K

Marcus Stroman: In Stroman's young career, he has put up a 3.42 (1.12) in 179 innings of work starting for the Blue Jays with WARs of 2.0 and 1.3. He has made three starts thus far in 2016 and two were quality starts of eight innings each with five runs total allowed in those 16 innings. His one bad one was against Boston where he gave up five runs on six hits in 5.1 innings. He has thrown 296 pitches in those three starts and has a GB/FB ratio of 44/23 so far.

Stroman has made three appearances against the Orioles and has been pretty solid overall, but his numbers are a bit higher when the relief appearance isn't included which did not occur at Camden Yards, thus his numbers are higher there, but still decent. No one in this lineup has reached the 10 AB mark yet against him.

Splits & Sits

50 vs. left: .178/.260/.280, HR

36 vs. right: .206/.250/.250

Bases Empty: .167

RISP: .250

RISP w/2 outs: .250

Men on w/2 outs: .250

Man on 3rd < 2 outs: .000

Career @ Camden Yards (2 starts)

(1-1) 3.86 (1.29/.264), 2HR

Career vs Baltimore (2 starts, 1 relief)

(1-1) 3.00 (1.06/.231), 2HR

vs. Batter

Ryan Flaherty 1/7, HR, 2RBI

Jonathan Schoop 1/4, 2B

Adam Jones 2/3, RBI

Chris Davis 0/3, 2K

J.J. Hardy 0/3

Caleb Joseph 0/3

Manny Machado 0/3

Matt Wieters 0/2

This could be a very rough series for the Orioles as only Jimenez has respectable career numbers against Toronto, but he could be bad at any time regardless of the opponent. This rivalry has become a bit personal now and so far, the Jays seem to have the upper hand on the Orioles. At least our guys are rested, but keeping these guys off the board should prove to be much more difficult and putting runs up may not be easy, either.

I think we're going to find out how good we really are.

Big big series, obviously. Toronto has more batters with cold starts than Baltimore -- Martin, Tulowitski, Colabello, Goins, Smoak all struggling. The Orioles need to keep them that way.

The Orioles defense is apparently struggling right now. I don't understand it, but their team ERA (3.84, 103 ERA+) is almost 2/3 of a run worse than their FIP (3.20). We have had some shaky defensive games early on in the season, so the team needs to get their consistency back.

Something tells me the Jays are going to light up Wright tonight.

Joe and Fred are back together.

Something tells me the Jays are going to light up Wright tonight.

Common sense?

Common sense?

:laughlol:

This is a terrible pitching matchup for the Orioles. Stroman has dominated the Orioles and Wright has pitched to a 8.66 ERA since his first 2 starts of his ML career & a 9.46 ERA over last 8 starts.

Is tomorrow a national holiday?

Hunter AND Bordick? I guess it's a music night.

Why is the game starting late?

Over under on Wrights innings tonight 3.

Strike out!

Good K.