vs. RANGERS, 6/20

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Game 1 (8:05)

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Team Records

39-28 |=======| 45-25

1st, +1.0 |=======| 1st, +8.5

Streaks / L10

+2, Won 4 of 6 / 5-5 |=======| +6, 14-4 in June / 8-2

Team Offensive Rankings (AL)

BA: .263 (5th) |=======| BA: .265 (4th)

OPS: .786 (2nd) |=======| OPS: .750 (6th)

Runs: 336 (4th) |=======| Runs: 329 (5th)

HR: 107 (1st) |=======| HR: 86 (6th)

Last 7 Days

BA: .294 (3rd) |=======| BA: .262 (10th)

OPS: .850 (3rd) |=======| OPS: .781 (6th)

Runs: 39 (5th) |=======| Runs: 43 (4th)

HR: 13 (3rd) |=======| HR: 15 (2nd)

Team Pitching Rankings (AL)

ERA: 4.21 (10th) |=======| ERA: 3.91 (4th)

WHIP: 1.38 (13th) |=======| WHIP: 1.31 (8th)

BAA: .263 (12th) |=======| BAA: .253 (7th)

TB: 1001 (9th) |=======| TB: 977 (7th)

Last 7 Days

ERA: 5.75 (13th) |=======| ERA: 4.31 (7th)

WHIP: 1.46 (10th) |=======| WHIP: 1.25 (5th)

BAA: .270 (9th) |=======| BAA: 251 (7th)

TB: 125 (10th) |=======| TB: 96 (6th)

Starters

ERA: 4.94 (13th) |=======| ERA: 3.52 (1st)

WHIP: 1.42 (13th) |=======| WHIP: 1.26 (3rd)

BAA: .272 (12th) |=======| BAA: .242 (2nd)

TB: 660 (7th) |=======| TB: 605 (1st)

Relievers

ERA: 3.03 (2nd) |=======| ERA: 4.76 (14th)

WHIP: 1.32 (10th) |=======| WHIP: 1.41 (13th)

BAA: .249 (9th) |=======| BAA: .274 (13th)

TB: 341 (11th) |=======| TB: 372 (14th)

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

- 6 IP, 2ER

- 7 IP, 3ER

- Game ERA must be 4.00 or less

Kevin Gausman

(0-4)

4.14 (1.30/.262)

57K / 17BB, 11HR

QS: 5

Last 8 starts (44 IP): (0-3) 5.31 (1.57), 10HR

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In the eight starts following his eight inning masterpiece against the Yankees on May 5th, Gausman has not been very good. He did allow two or fewer runs in three of those starts, but his ERA in all others is well over four and has allowed four or more runs in four of those eight starts. He has an ERA over five and a WHIP over 1.50 through those eight starts to show for it. I know many disagree with it, but Gausman does not seem to have the mental make up to be the ace people expect him to become. That could change, of course, but he gets rattled too easy out there and starts moping around and brooding. It needs to be better. Gausman has been at his worst on the road, but has pitched well in limited starts against Texas. His worst of those innings came at Accident Insurance Company Park, though. It is worth pointing out that Gausman gets hammered by righties with nine of his 11 HR's surrendered to them. The .292 BAA when in the wind-up is also worth noting.

Splits & Sits

104 vs. left: .224/.262/.346, 2HR

166 vs. right: .287/.345/.464, 9HR

Bases Empty: .292

RISP: .218

RISP w/2 outs: .217

Men on w/2 outs: .209

Man on 3rd, < 2 outs: .250

2016 Away (6 starts)

(0-3) 4.78 (1.44/.283), 6HR

Career @ Globe Life Park (1 start)

(0-1) 6.2 IP, 9H, 4ER, 2HR

Career vs. TEX (2 starts, 1 relief)

(0-1) 3.68 (1.36/.273), 2HR

vs. Batter

Prince Fielder 4/8, S-HR

Mitch Moreland 1/7

Elvis Andrus 1/6

Adrian Beltre 2/6, BB

Shin-Soo Choo 1/5, HR, 2RBI, BB

Ian Desmond 0/5

Rougned Odor 1/3, 2B

Bryan Holaday 2/2, RBI

Robinson Chirinos 0/2

Jurickson Profar 1/1, 2B, RBI

VS

Derek Holland

(5-5)

5.14 (1.35/.259)

39K / 23BB, 10HR

QS: 6

This is another case of someone's numbers being misleading as Holland hasn't been as bad as those numbers indicate. He had a 2.48 ERA in April and had four straight quality starts through the mid-late May into June where he allowed seven runs in 25.2 IP, so where's the problem? He faced Toronto in his first May start and allowed 11 runs in 2.2 IP and followed that up allowing four earned in 2.1 IP against Chicago. His ERA jumped from 2.48 to 6.09 over those two starts and it hasn't helped that he has allowed nine runs over the last 8.2 IP coming into this start either, but really that one 11 run start is largely to blame for his numbers as he hasn't been consistently bad by any stretch. He has allowed at least one home run in five straight starts including three two starts ago. Holland has yet to have three bad ones in a row, so we'll see how he rebounds in this one. He has always pitched well against the Orioles and he has very good numbers in his home ballpark.

Splits & Sits

56 vs. left: .196/.232/.268, HR

236 vs. right: .274/.331/.436, 9HR

Bases Empty: .215

RISP: .375

RISP w/2 outs: .304

Men on w/2 outs: .279

Man on 3rd, < 2 outs: .625

2016 Home (5 starts)

(3-1) 3.33 (1.19/.257), 2HR

Career vs Baltimore (7 starts, 1 relief)

(5-2) 2.94 (1.14/.214), 4HR

vs. Batter

Mark Trumbo (45 AB) .311, 3 2B, 5HR, 12RBI

Adam Jones (21 AB) .238, 2B

Matt Wieters (18 AB) .111, 2HR, 3RBI

J.J. Hardy (13 AB) .154, 3BB

Chris Davis (11 AB) .091

Jonathan Schoop 0/3

Nolan Reimold 0/2

The Orioles come up with a big win in the finale to take the series and pushes Toronto to three back of the lead, so they will have some more work to do before they can get any closer to the top. Marcus Stroman is pitching in the middle of the plate all too often lately and Toronto better sort him out soon or he will force the use of the bullpen early way too much. Still, they are hitting well and should be able to have their way with the D'Backs.

Gausman has really struggled overall for quite awhile now and is coming off his worst start of the season to face the best team in the AL currently on a six game winning streak and have only lost four times in 18 June games. Holland has had his share of struggles, but is nowhere near as bad as his season numbers suggest. Gausman struggled at Accident Insurance Company Park during his only start and Holland has been pretty dominant against the Orioles and has been at his best at home.

Boston is keeping up with us having won two straight of their own and remain just a game back and Toronto is three back. Both Cleveland and the rejuvinated KC Royals have won three in a row and are both red hot and separated by just a half game while Detroit has fallen to 4.5 back with their three game skid and the White Sox have also lost three in a row and are back 5.5 games. It just wasn't meant to be with the White Sox this season, it seems. Meanwhile, Texas leads the West by a ridiculous 8.5 games as Seattle has been tumbling and Houston is back to winning sitting 2.5 games behind Seattle and 4.5 out of the WC. It seems like the Angels and A's are out of it barring a torrential hot streak.

You take the time to do this entire write up but can't capitalize Rangers?

You take the time to do this entire write up but can't capitalize Rangers?

It was an accident. I made some changes to the Rangers colors and it apparently un-capitalizes the text in the title box while I am fiddling with it and "previewing" the post repeatedly. It's the second time that happened

and I didn't know why it did the first time, but I know now (I think) and will double check it in the future. The @ sign is intentional to show that it is an away game. The lowercase text was not. Anyone with the power,

feel free to put "RANGERS" in all caps for me.

You probably did not make that mistake, and I will explain why.

It had nothing to do with the time that it took to type your preview. With the software on the OH, you MUST put at least one lower-case letter in thread titles AND in your posts.

If you do not, the entire thread title (and any individual posts within a thread) will automatically make every single letter lower-case, without fail. So what probably happened is that you did indeed type in "RANGERS" in upper-case letters, but because you did not have any lower-case letters along with it in your title, the system automatically made your entire thread title lower-case letters.

So in the future, you would be better off writing "vs." instead of "@", even in games in which the Orioles are playing on the road ...... otherwise, it will continue to revert your thread title back to all lower-case letters.

Oh! Thanks, I was wondering if it maybe was the @ sign and I guess it was indirectly. I just thought it would be nice to be able to tell whether a game was home or away by just looking at the thread title.

Oh! Thanks, I was wondering if it maybe was the @ sign and I guess it was indirectly. I just thought it would be nice to be able to tell whether a game was home or away by just looking at the thread title.

Try "at". BTW, I think you do a good job...but I bet the pay is abysmal.

You take the time to do this entire write up but can't capitalize Rangers?

Typical Constanza snark.....:slytf: Go back to making uniform material suggestions!

Try "at". BTW, I think you do a good job...but I bet the pay is abysmal.

He gets paid in rep...so yea.

I got him yesterday.

It was an accident. I made some changes to the Rangers colors and it apparently un-capitalizes the text in the title box while I am fiddling with it and "previewing" the post repeatedly. It's the second time that happened

and I didn't know why it did the first time, but I know now (I think) and will double check it in the future. The @ sign is intentional to show that it is an away game. The lowercase text was not. Anyone with the power,

feel free to put "RANGERS" in all caps for me.

My mistake. Just a pet peeve of mine. Rep to you later (out of rep right now).

o

23 Orioles vs. 25 Rangers ...... and on their home-field, also.

I doubt they even took 23 players. Roch said the other starters and Brad Brach aren't making the trip. Brach used up yesterday and Saturday.

Flooding RUNS!

I doubt they even took 23 players. Roch said the other starters and Brad Brach aren't making the trip. Brach used up yesterday and Saturday.

Flooding RUNS!

Today's Sun reported 10 people not making the trip from the usual travelling party:

Manny (obviously)

Brach

Tillman

Gallardo

Wilson

assistant hitting coach Mark Quinn

Ramon Martinez (he and Quinn will stay behind and supervise workouts in Baltimore)

And two members of the training/conditioning staff that normally make the trips.

That's 9. The Sun said 10 then just mentioned 9 people. So either they are math challenged or they omitted someone.

Try "at". BTW, I think you do a good job...but I bet the pay is abysmal.

Yeah, I was going to try that next time. I honestly never cared much about the rep/ratings (pay) and stuff, but I do appreciate the support. I kind of like that I can't see who reps me for better or worse, though.

So long as I enjoy doing them and it doesn't feel like a chore or job, I'll keep it going. I admit it does get a little harder every year to get going in April, so I just take it one year at a time.

Today's Sun reported 10 people not making the trip from the usual travelling party:

Manny (obviously)

Brach

Tillman

Gallardo

Wilson

assistant hitting coach Mark Quinn

Ramon Martinez (he and Quinn will stay behind and supervise workouts in Baltimore)

And two members of the training/conditioning staff that normally make the trips.

That's 9. The Sun said 10 then just mentioned 9 people. So either they are math challenged or they omitted someone.

Lew Ford.

Hi Roy!!! Good to hear your voice on The Fan during my ride home from work! Interesting thoughts on OJ. And I was 4 in 1989. :laughlol: (I'm behind you all the way and I don't want you to feel bad about your involvement with OJ - chin up man!)

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Yeah, I was going to try that next time. I honestly never cared much about the rep/ratings and stuff, but I do appreciate the support. I kind of like that I can't see who reps me for better or worse, though.

So long as I enjoy doing them and it doesn't feel like a chore or job, I'll keep it going. I admit it does get a little harder every year to get going in April, so I just take it one year at a time.

Thanks for all this preview info. But what was "S-HR" for Prince Fielder supposed to mean?

BTW the Korean word tattooed on his neck is pronounced "Wangja" and means Prince.

My mistake. Just a pet peeve of mine. Rep to you later (out of rep right now).

No problem, it annoyed me too when I saw it both times.