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MLB seems to give more credit to seniority vs grading. I'm only surprised Angel Hernandez is not umping.

97 cheese at the knees for strike 3.

I'm surprised Mountcastle was off the lone that far with Grossman up.

Crowd is pumped...

Yeah, that's a nice little graphic.

Big strike zone today, or at least high.

3-pitches, strike out!

96 sinker on the first pitch.

There were more major league quality players on that Tides team than on the Oakland A's this year. And I'm not really exaggerating too much!

Well they don't have the NFL anymore and St. Louis is a baseball town first. Saying that, while St. Louis has it problems like most major cities in America, I think the Freddy Gray riots, especially when they attacked baseball fans at Pickles for no reason, certainly sticks in people's minds. Md's laws that basically make 13 year olds or younger in the State has no surprisingly seen a huge spike in crimes by 13 year old and younger. This has become an even bigger problem in the city so I think there is a portion of the fan base that just rather stay at home or go to the local sports bar for that "fan" experience. Now winning will convince some to come back, and maybe a revitalized inner harbor will to, especially if the city can hire and keep enough police officers to make that area to appear safe. But not surprisingly, after being vilified by govt officials and attacked by the DA at every chance while having legislatures take away their protections from being sued by the public, it's getting harder and harder to hire and keep police officers all over the state, but Baltimore in particular is so under manned it's not funny. I can remember back in the day going to an Orioles game and walking back to Little Italy where I used to park and I would see a cop on about every few blocks and patrolling the inner harbor. Now you're lucky if you see a few directing traffic. Again, these are just things I've observed or know about it or have head from other people. I'm going to game two of the ALDS with my son.

I know some people don't want to acknowledge this, but again, Baltimore's current reputation with a lot of people who don't live in the city hurts the attendance. Even with all the winning, some fans still don't feel safe in Baltimore and before you start telling me all the reasons why it's safe, I'm just telling you what I still hear quite often. Just to make sure this does not get political, I'm just going to leave it at that. I'm doubtful the Orioles will ever cross the 2.75 million point again no matter good they become because of the city's reputation, the affordability of big screen high definition televisions, and other entertainment options available via the internet. Now, could much needed upgrades to the stadiums, better close parking options, and better close eating, entertainment, and bar areas push it back over that if the team continues to win, perhaps. Either way, the attendance this year wasn't that bad overall considering where this team has come from over the last two seasons. But it's going to take some sustained winning and some fan friendly upgrades to the stadium and surrounding area to really bump the totals back up significantly past 2.5 million.

He's become a solid every day major league outfielder. Nothing wrong with that.

Congrats to Buck and all the Tides!

Cowser's 455 ft 107.6 MPH bomb wasn't even the hardest ball he hit tonight. His single earlier in the game was at 109.1 MPH. I think he may be seeing the ball well tonight!

He took a few steps to make his pitcher feel better than was like, Nope! lol

Wow, 0-2 absolute bomb! Cowser crushed that!

And some people thought Flaherty would be a good closer?

A little!

There we go Mounty!

Yeah, they've really been lucky the pitching has been great, because this offense is in a heinous slump right now. Somebody needs to put the team on their back and do something.

What's the over under this team score another run this regular season? I understood yesterday but they are hitting serious cruise control on offense.

Too early for me to start looking at that. Saying that, I personally think they will trade for a candidate rather than sign one.

No surprising. Definitely makes getting a legitimate closer this offseason a priority.

This^^^ He was most likely not available the last two games after pitching last night and Zimmerman provides some length. If Zimmerman pitches tonight he will be optioned and then Irvin will probably be recalled for Sunday.

Whoops! That would have been an even bigger surprise. I fixed it.