Malike

Pitchers like Rom are available on the waiver wire all the time. Dime a dozen.

Was after a swing. He stayed in the game.

Dude has a .400 OPS. I don't call it disrespect.

93 is low velocity?

What happened? Are we losing now? I can't watch the game yet. EDIT: Just checked Gameday, seems the inning is over but he walked someone. The Horror.

It's such an easy thing, you'd think every pitcher in baseball would just do it. I wonder why they don't?

He's no Wainwright.

About 200 PAs.

The point being that teams with nothing to play for still try to win every day. They don't just mail it in, they are professional athletes who want to compete and win every day.

I think the Orioles are more concerned about St. Louis right now than they are Tampa, unlike many people in this thread.

We had nothing to play for in 2011 but still knocked Boston out of the playoffs, the players never stop trying to win. Management may put a team on the field that they think will tank, but the players will never tank intentionally.

This is true. It's insufferable when we don't score every inning, "only" have a 5 run lead that we're inevitably going to blow every inning, are down 2 in the 3rd and the team is a lazy mess and packing it in and the game is over. It's always much better when the team is bad in the game thread.

They are professional players, they are not going to give up playing hard to help the Orioles. They are playing hard every game, as they should. This shouldn't be surprising to you.

I'm not sure I'd call 4 with Cleveland and then 4 to finish with Boston "nobody". Cleveland can pitch, and we've seen how Boston hits.

Jax blows the hold in the 9th. Rays up 5-4 on a Randy A. HR.

Twins banged him around for 4R and 2HR. Hope we can do the same and Grayson bounces back.

I addressed as much in the game thread. What a poor teammate.

He was laughing and joking in the dugout last night. He knows hes bad right now and he knows he can do better. It's got to suck coming to a winning team and not posting up when you have the ability to. Nothing about his actions have suggested he's a headcase or a cancer to the clubhouse.

So the deal Flaherty'ied?

Seattle has tough road ahead. After the LAA series they have 3 vs LAD, 3@ OAK, 3@ TEX then they are home for 3 vs HOU and 3 vs TEX. Talk about a 9 game stretch.

Texas has a bad bullpen, but it won't matter if they start hitting like they did for the first 141 days of the season.

Twins save the day!

Correa swung at ball 4 with the bases loaded and popped out.

Looks like Cash is punting this game by using his worst relievers in a 1 run game. Bases loaded 2 outs.

Littell was dominating, there was no indication he was in trouble the entire game.