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Left-handed pitchers have embarrassed the Orioles for years and Elias has yet to solve this problem. How can that be? He literally has SIGBOT building him lineups and even his right-handers don't hit left's well. Then when they do get a guy who hits lefties well (Stowers) they bury him because they don't like left-lefty matchups? Can we just try putting names in a hat and pulling out the names for the next lineup and tell Sig and Eve to reprogram their computer?

Gray, rainy, and the Orioles looking like absolute dog-poo the last three nights (How many innings have they led in this series, like one?) is no way to go through a week in Baltimore. Add in the Angels absolutely crushing the Orioles on Sunday, and yeah, no fun in birdville.

Just be glad they got rid of Frazier and Odor. SIGBOT would think they could be in the same lineup.

Never draw too many conclusions based on the first six games of a season. Saying that, it does appear that scrappy, fast teams are going to give Orioles problems. It's literally embarrassing how easy it is to steal on Rutschman and McCann.

Cowser's route has nothing to do with catch probability.

Strangely, the feed updated but that play is not on O'Hearn's catch probability list. Not sure why.

This won't be available until sometime today when baseball savant updates. They don't have catch probability available to the general public in the game feed for some reason.

There is no reason that Ryan O' Hearn should be playing outfield on a contending team in anything other than an emergency. He's a DH/1B and EMERGENCY outfielder. I think they had planned all along for Cowser to start in LF and give Hays off, but the weather made them decide to put O'Hearn in RF instead of Santander. The fact that we ran a lineup out there that included Kemp at 2B and O'Hearn in RF is pretty sad when there are better players in AAA. But Elias likes depth and tries to get away with these guys playing out of position. I will say though, you can't on one hand tell hitting prospects like Holliday, Mayo, Norby and Kjerstad to go back and improve defense when you are running a guy like O'Hearn out to RF to start a game. It absolutely makes him look hypocritical.

Pretty sure Perez has a 1.000 OBP against the Orioles.

We're down 4-1, and Kevin Brown over here asking Grant Hill to stick around to use his monotone voice to now talk basketball! Oh joy!

Literally posted at the same time. LOL

I swear if you have any kind of insomnia, play a recording of Grant Hill talking.

Nobody should. He is slow, has a noodle for an arm, and struggles on anything that isn't hit right at him. Not sure why the a contending team like the Orioles should be playing him the outfield. 1B or DH. That's it. You wanna give Santander a break, keep Hays in the lineup and put Cowser at there. It's just dumb, but apparently the SIGBOT computer doesn't take outfield defense into consideration.

Baseball, gotta love it. Everybody hitting Irvin but Witt! lol

Oy, play a terrible outfielder in the outfield and the ball will find him. Any decent outfield has that has the last out.

Loftin giveth last night, he taketh away tonight.

Good Holliday stories?

BTW, the Norfolk game is the free game of the day if you don't have MiLBTV.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky then good! Not a lot of effort by the 3B though.

Norby just went back to back with home runs with Holliday to start off the Norfolk game tonight.

Looks like rain is going to be here by 8, and may be here for awhile after that. They may want to slow things down because if they get in 5, that might be all they get in.

Who had Cole Irvin giving up three runs in the 1st two innings, with his only Ks being Bobby Witt Jr.?

Would you want to be out there tonight? 49 degrees and misting? God bless those who went tonight. No way I'm going out there and sitting in that weather to watch a April baseball game.

I really would like to know in what universe a 0-2 cutter from left-handed pitcher to a right-handed batter after a curveball is the right pitch call?

I think they get the game in. Looks fry from now until 7:30, 8ish and that might just be a passing shower. Probably closes by 1000 though.