vs. RED SOX, 5/30

Baltimore Orioles (28-20, 2nd -1.0) vs. Boston Red Sox (30-20, 1st +1.0)

Streak / L10

BAL: +1, Lost 5 of 7 / L10: 4-6

BOS: +1, Lost 3 of 4 / L10: 6-4

NEW: Quality Start minimum requirements (experimental, suggestions welcome)

- 6 IP, 2ER

- 7 IP, 3ER

- Game ERA must be 4.00 or less

Game 1 (1:35)

(QS=2)Tyler Wilson (2-3) 3.80 (1.13/.232), 22/10 (6HR)

vs.

(QS=8)Steven Wright (4-4) 2.52 (1.10/.208), 54/21 (3HR)

Tyler Wilson: Wilson has yet to throw 100 pitches in any start this season and has a May line of 4.32 (1.16) in 25 innings after putting up a 3.06 (1.08) in 17.2 April innings. The main difference he's giving up more home runs and issuing more free passes this month. On the bright side, Wilson has gone at least six innings in all four May starts. so that's something. He has allowed four home runs over the last 19 IP, though.

Splits & Sits

103 vs. left: .261/.324/.340, 2HR

74 vs. right: .194/.216/.392, 4HR

Bases Empty: .228

RISP: .333

RISP w/2 outs: .308

Men on w/2 outs: .276

Man on 3rd, < 2 outs: .600

2016 Home (3 starts, 2 relief)

(0-2) 4.15 (1.25/.222), 2HR, 9BB in 21.2 IP

Career vs. BOS (1 relief)

3 IP, 2H, 2K

vs. Batter

Travis Shaw 1/2

Xander Bogaerts 1/1

Everyone Else 0/7, 2K

Steven Wright: All eight of Wright's quality starts pass my new definition with only one of his nine starts falling short of any definition of a QS. Wright has been very, very good for the Red Sox and even has a complete game to his credit this month and he also went eight innings two starts ago. No one on the current Orioles roster has a hit off of Wright, but he has only made two relief appearances totaling 5.2 IP career against the Orioles. Wright has been even better than his season numbers on the road this year and has yet to show any signs of a slowdown. It's a tough opponent to start off a series like this with, but it's what we're going to get.

Splits & Sits

99 vs. left: .169/.253/.263, 2HR

147 vs. right: .235/.306/.259, HR

Bases Empty: .203

RISP: .240

RISP w/2 outs: .200

Men on w/2 outs: .182

Man on 3rd, < 2 outs: .250

2016 Away (5 starts)

(2-3) 1.73 (0.96/.172), 2HR

Career @ Camden Yards (2 relief)

5.2 IP, 4H, 1ER, 3BB, 8K

Career vs Baltimore (2 relief)

Same as above

vs. Batter

Ryan Flaherty 0/3, K

Adam Jones 0/2, BB

Chris Davis 0/1

Manny Machado 0/1

Jonathan Schoop 0/1, BB

Matt Wieters 0/1, RBI, K

Nolan Reimold 0/0, BB

The Orioles, once again, blew a three run lead and headed into the top of the seventh tied at 4-4 until Hyun-Soo Kim smoked one into the right field seats for his first ML home run which turned out to be the game winning run though the Orioles bullpen almost coughed up that lead as well. Nolan Reimold tacked on another run on a solo shot of his own in the top of the ninth and the Orioles come out on top 6-4 to win the series as we head back home to face Boston.

Knuckleballer Steven Wright has been nothing short of dominating this season for Boston with eight of his nine starts being "new" quality. He has allowed only three home runs over those nine starts. Meanwhile, Wilson has struggled this month for the Orioles, but at least he is getting through six innings consistently right now. I gotta give the edge to Boston here because if a knuckleballer is on his game, he's very hard to hit. I wonder if Kim has even seen a knuckleball before? Though this is only the end of May, dropping this series means being three games out and being swept means we're five out. Both surmountable, but there's no need to make things harder on ourselves. Anything worse than a split will do just that.

In the division, things pretty much remain the same. However, the Central has been shaken up quite a bit recently and is now the tightest division in baseball as 1-4 is separated by three games or less. With Cleveland's loss today, the Royals now sit atop the Central having won their third game in a row handing the White Sox their sixth straight loss as they continue their descent down through the ranks. The Tigers are up 2-0 on Oakland in the sixth inning with Pelfrey throwing a four hit shutout now in the bottom of the sixth in Oakland. In the West, all games are still in progress with Seattle and Texas at the top separated by a half game and everyone else way back. Seattle is losing to Minnesota 5-2 in the bottom of the fifth and Texas is up 6-2 on the Pirates in the bottom of the eighth, so it looks like a division lead change may be in the works there. Houston is up 4-3 on the Angels in the top of the seventh and if Seattle loses and Texas wins, Houston will pull to within 7.5 of first place if they can close out the Angels.

o

DOWN ON THE Regular A FARM

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o

For the 2nd consecutive game, Alvarado hit 2 batters.

15 OUTS: 5 Groundouts, 4 Strikeouts, 2 Popouts, 2 Flyouts, 1 Lineout, 1 Picked Off of 1st Base

CRISTIAN SANTO ALVARADO CASTRO O (vs. Regular-A Hickory, 6/01)

IP:l 5

H:;; 6 ll(1 Double, 5 Singles)

R:l) 0

BB: 1 *

SO: 4

Pitches: 68 (46 Strikes, 22 Balls)

2016 ERA: 4.13 (Regular-A Delmarva)

* Alvarado also had 2 Hit Batsmen

PITCHES BY INNING

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13 (81 Strikes, 5 Balls)

15 (10 Strikes, 5 Balls)

20 (12 Strikes, 8 Balls)

10 (91 Strikes, 1 Balls)

10 (71 Strikes, 3 Balls)

"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?' "

On the SOSH board, one of their posters has written a series of articles profiling opposing players. There is one about Darren O'Day that I found very interesting....

http://sonsofsamhorn.com/baseball/teams/al-east/baltimore-orioles/pitching-profile-baltimore-orioles-reliever-darren-oday/

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And one about Adam Jones which validates what we already know about his terrible pitch selection...

http://sonsofsamhorn.com/baseball/teams/al-east/baltimore-orioles/hitting-profile-baltimore-orioles-centerfielder-adam-jones/

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Sound, Color

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"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?' "[/quote

Well that tuck some guts.

I'll be there today

So much traffic

Very nice rendition. Let's go Os!

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Really great anthem by an obviously talented singing service man.

You are also a good judge.