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Somebody will need to tell me what DL Hall did to deserve to be pitching in a 1 run game? What has he done to be in a high leverage situation. Hyde should have some real explaining to do. This was Perez' role. Hall was scuffling in AAA since mid-August yet he's pitching high lev?

This is partly on Hyde. Why is Hall pitching on a high leverage situation? What had he done to deserve to be in this game down by just one?

Stop with the bullcrap slider... Stop calling that pitch against right handers. Where is the changeup???? Terrible game calling on top of Hall's crap stuff.

Nah, you let him take a damn beating like he deserves.

Lots of 95s in there. He should be sitting 97 and touching 99 in short stints. He really doesn't have the command and throws too many uncompetitive pitches.

Maybe they moved down to the elementary school AV club since the middle schoolers were probably getting expensive asking for $10 a game.

Hall not getting a lot of swing and miss and his middling velocity shows he's not really at 100% at this stage of the season.

Homer announcer by homering obviously.

Even Angel Hernandez was like, "That's a bad call!"

Sorry, but this is where Hyde needs to get thrown out of the game!

Tough turn but yeah, Gunnar will tell you he needs to turn that.

What is Elias' fascination with Aguilar? Literally the fact is he's not good and starting him against Gauman makes no sense. No way he can handle that split finger pitch. WHY is he starting?

We'll disagree. He made two of the worse trades in team history and sat on his hands and acquired dog crap during the 1989 seasons. Moreland was 35-years old, and besides a good May, had been the same bad right-handed, slow DH since his last decent season in 1987. Those three things alone make him a terrible GM in my opinion. His teams were mediocre at best. Basically if you want a mediocre but not terrible team, Hemond was your guy. Add in his penchant to get creamed in trades, he was not good.

The Walitmore holds....

Interesting facts about the "Why Not" Orioles. They spent 119 days in first place (last day was August 31st) Biggest lead was 7.5 games up on July 20th. They had 8-game winning streak and an 8-game losing streak. The most runs they scored was 16 and the most runs they allowed in a game was 16. They had 8 walk off wins and 5 walk off losses The team was 53-38 on July 18th, 7.5 games ahead in 1st place They went 34-37 the rest of the way The only moves GM Roland Hemond made after July 18th was to trade for reserve outfield Stan Jefferson (.260/.284/.409/.693 in 134 PAs w/Orioles) on July 20th, end of career 35-year old DH Keith Moreland (.215/.243/.280/.524 in 111 PAs w/Orioles) and Jamie Quirk (216/.328/.255/.583), a 34-year old "catcher" who had already been released by Yankees and the A's and had caught just 8 major league games and 9 minor games all season before being signed by Hemond. While the Orioles had to keep running out 32-year old Dave Schmidt (5.69 ERA in 38 gms, 26 starts and gave 22-year old Pete Harnish (4.62 ERA in 17 gms, 16 starts) they kept 22-year old Curt Schilling in AAA most of the year despite him putting up a 3.21 ERA in 27 starts. So while we look back at a team fondly because they were so awful in 1988, we really have to wonder what could have been had Hemond not be so bad at picking up players down the stretch or by not using what little talent he had in AAA. Hemond of course is the guy who traded Eddie Murray to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Juan Bell, Brian Holton and Ken Howell and also made the Schilling, Finley, Harnish trade for Glenn Davis in 1991. I guess what I end up remember out of all of this is that Roland Hemond has to go down as one of the worse Orioles GM of all-time or squashed a chance to make his surprising 1989 team better and then went about making two of the worse trades in team's history and setting back the Franchise almost a decade before the Pat Gillick/Angelos spending spree in the winter of 1995 brought winning baseball back to Baltimore.

While painful, here's the game when Olson threw that wild pitch to give up the lead. It's still an interesting blast from the past for those too young to know those 1989 Orioles. Craziest thing is the Toronto announcer literally said, "Quirk has to watch out for the curveball in the dirt". Quirk who was never know for his defense, wasn't able to get over and block the pitch even though it was significantly outside. A late season pick up, Quirk was an odd choice to start this game at catcher. He allowed 32-year old Lawless to steal 2nd with a noodle but accurate throw, then wasn't able to block the ball. After Olson struck out the nest batter to end the inning, Quirk spiked the ball in the dirt as he ran off, clearly frustrated. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TOR/TOR198909290.shtml

Every time I hear Cedric is having a bad year, I'd like to refer them to plays like this!

No, he had given up 4 straight hard hits and the bases were loaded with a lefty coming up. Hyde went Akin, and the A's countered with a right-handed batter. Akin got him to hit into a nifty 6-4-3 DP to end the threat.

Awesome all around. Have a great day. I know Michael will be with you in spirit!

Watching the 1st half of the MD-Buffalo game, now I know why good players were jumping ship despite all of the "hype" around Locksley's Terps. 17-7 against Buffalo at halftime? Can't make one yard on two players on 3rd and 1 on the 40 yard line. Dumb penalties, bad O-line and Tag looks terrible with his decision making and throws. Going to be a long year if this half is any indication.

Yep. Not even sure why this is being discussed. Rutschman is not overworked, he just happens to DH when he's not catching because his bat is special.

Would be cool if he started at 1B. Wonder if that has ever happened in a player's first 4 major league games.

We'll take it!!!

Stweart actually makes more sense because he's a left-handed batter to Mountcastle's right. Aguilar makes as much sense as Nevin did. Just weird, weird roster management.

Hays has to realize that he no longer guaranteed anything any more. Hackamatics are not what this organization is looking for unless they are an elite defender.