Moose Milligan

I think you'd have a better chance at seeing a perfect game. Millar getting an inside the park homer would have to have so happen...like he'd have to hit it off the wall in RF, the rightfielder would have to miss the carom off the wall, miss the cutoff man...and even then, I'm not sure Millar could get around and be safe at home.

Until Tony throws his laptop at a wall. Actually, @Tony-OH how does OOTP deal with injuries? Is a guy who's always hurt in real life often on the IL in OOTP?

It's old school, but I agree. I just watched a bunch of the Ken Burns Baseball documentary. Still holds up fairly well. But I'd like to see a game with less strikeouts, more balls in play. Yeah, yeah, yeah, batting average isn't en vogue these days but it would be cool to see someone hit .350 again. Or .375. The game ebbs and flows between offense and pitching, rarely is it in perfect balance and that's ok. But I'm not sure how the game ever regresses from where it is now where you've got damn near everyone throwing 95+ and trying to strike everyone out. And hitters that don't care about striking out, either.

Anyone ever figure out how he passed away?

I dunno, they both suck. So they're not that far removed.

A partial interest in the Nats. Not even rooting for them, just happy to see them do well and happy for the fans in the region. Root, root, root for the home team, etc. But I'd rather watch the Orioles despite the Nats being better, for sure.

I remember Mike Lieberthal being a pain in the ass.

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I don't think Tekulve was top 5 ugly, he just had those rad glasses that he wore everywhere. Manny Sanguillen was ugly. Don Mossi might be the missing link. Otis Nixon. Willie McGee.

I don't care what anyone says, I like him on the postgame broadcasts. He's a hardass but for good reason...he had a hard road to the majors and it wasn't easy for him when he got there. https://www.mlb.com/news/dave-johnson-unique-orioles-hero

I was there, too. Not quite 10 years old. My dad wanted to leave early, so we did. He clearly had no idea what was going on. ?

Props to @LA2 for picking Wally Bunker.

He didn't play a whole lot. But yeah, probably was around longer than he should have been.

I watched the 83 one. Jomboy is pretty cool, not so sure about his cohort. But they both kinda played themselves when they didn't bother to acknowledge that Dempsey stuck around for such a long time because he was a good defender. They were both kinda clueless, which is understandable since you're probably not too aware of Dempsey if you're not an Orioles fan. But I kinda rolled my eyes when they deduced that he stuck around as a part time player because he was a good clubhouse guy. That's partially true but no one sticks around that long in baseball if they're not bringing something to the field.

4 dingers in a game. @ShaneDawg85, the Orioles have had plenty of no-hitters in your lifetime. Just been on the wrong side of them. Well in that case, I guess I remember when Josh Hamilton hit 4 homers against us, too.

I think @PaulFolk nailed it. I forgot that Steve Stone was pretty average and then out of the majors quickly thereafter.

Jerry Walker, 1959. Youngest ever to start an All-Star game, had no idea about that. Billy Gardner lead the league in doubles in 1957. Also at bats and plate appearances. Also thinking John Orsino, 1963. Jim Gentile had some good seasons but never came close to his 1961. Ron Hansen, 1960. Rookie of the year and never did much else. I'm not sure about you guys but for me, the Orioles start in 1966. I was born in '81 but it seems like there's a whole history of the Orioles that's pre 1966 that gets overlooked, unless you were there. I don't know much about these teams/players. I know Gentile had a monster '61 season, I knew of Ron Hansen. I'd heard the name John Orsino. I'd never heard of Jerry Walker until the other day.

Also fighting with Lenny Dykstra. I'd have loved to hear the words between these two before this went down.

Mike Young, '85. I get Larry Sheets but Sheets had a big year in '87 when a lot of people were having big years.

ESPN did this for the NL today, they'll have one for the AL later this week. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28941967/the-biggest-one-hit-wonders-every-national-league-team Figure it might be fun to try and predict who they'll pick.

He had a 6.7 K rate to keep him out of the top 25.

Dude wasn't a high strikeout pitcher though, I don't think he came close to 200 in any season.

Explain yourself.

Drabowsky's performance is something that's kind of lost in time. I think if anyone outside of Baltimore remembers the '66 Series it's remembered for Palmer beating Koufax in Koufax's last start ever.

....and every other MLB team. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23861547/the-best-pitching-performance-ever-all-30-teams Baltimore Orioles: Erik Bedard (July 7, 2007, versus Rangers) Pitching line: 9 IP, 2 H 0 R, 0 BB, 15 SO (Game Score: 98) Remember that one awesome season for Bedard? He led the AL in fewest hits per nine innings in 2007 and most K's per nine and had a day to remember in Arlington, a tough park to rack up a big game. The Orioles cashed in and traded him to the Mariners after the season for Adam Jones and Chris Tillman, and Bedard had trouble staying healthy after that. For argument's sake: Mike Mussina matched Bedard's 98 with a one-hit, 15-strikeout game in 2000, walking two batters. The highest extra-inning score belongs to Jerry Walker, who spun a 16-inning shutout in 1959 for a 111. He was only 20 and had started the All-Star Game that year; perhaps not coincidentally he came down with arm problems in 1960. He did have a long career as an executive with the Tigers, Cardinals and Reds. Most likely to beat it: Grayson Rodriguez is the team's top pitching prospect. He averaged less than five innings per start in Low-A, so he's a long ways away, but he is a strikeout machine. Notable: Here's an example of how the game has changed. Jim Palmer won three Cy Young Awards, threw 211 complete games and tossed 53 shutouts, but had just 13 double-digit strikeout games in his career -- and in just one of those 13 did he allow zero runs. His best nine-inning Game Score was 90. Palmer didn't need to strike out everyone with the defenses he typically had behind him. I guess this is going by game score only, though. I would have been impressed had they mentioned Drabowsky in the '66 World Series. I don't know if that really counts as the best pitching performance in the history of the franchise but it's in the conversation. I do remember this game by Bedard. I think there was a lot of consternation on here about whether or not he could go a full 9 innings, like if that was going to determine if he was a true ace or not. He was so much fun to watch that year. His curveball was amazing.