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He was pulled from today's game with muscle cramps. So we got about 2 hits out of him. Send him back where he came from.

The other BP. Not Bullpen, but.. Batting Practice.

Muscle cramps...

Well, Aaron Hicks is a welcome addition so far.

My prediction: we'll go 1-2-3 three consecutive innings in a row against their good pen. Then someone will hit a FUHR (a you-know-what home run) and we'll lose at least 11-8 (or more than 11, if the Indians continue trying hard).

Not to mention David Wells, CC Sabathia and Bartolo Colon had very good careers. Tommy Hunter had some good years too, while being rather hefty. Givens doesn't look as heavy as any of them. And what is Baumann's excuse for giving up a 2-run bomb to a light hitting nobody like Arias?

We need a 20-page "Release Givens and Perez" thread on Orioles Talk or something. If we're loud enough, maybe Elias will hear us. Gotta do something about these dudes who just have NOTHING day in and day out. It's unacceptable.

Who other than Bautista has been good out of the 'pen who was also good previously? Seems like all the guys we used to rely on have regressed tremendously except for Bautista.

Good point. Not a lot of balls missing bats. They just keep fouling them off. Annoying, but if you make competitive pitches, you don't need 105 to get through 4.

At this rate, we're going to need 20 runs to win 20-19. Bats are going, so if we lose, this is on our very ... uh, eccentric, pitcher management, and on the failure to cut Perez after he's demonstrated that he's basically a position player in terms of pitching effectiveness.

Yeah... Perez's mojo is long gone. DFA.

Wow... Akin giving us 1 inning and Voth giving us 2... I remember when a long man could go 5 innings, and we're already on our third pitcher in the 4th inning?

Ugh, pathetic. McCann can't catch, nobody can pitch, nobody can hit. Little league! I can't watch anymore. Cya guys tomorrow.

Their 0.093 hitter is 1-3 with a single and a sac fly.

Perez needs to be released. No shift, his pitching approach doesn't work with the modified game. Cya Cionel. Pathetic. Although this game isn't REALLY on the pitching (yet). There's a big goose egg on the other side of the board. Can't win if you can't score.

Maybe, but the offense has been far better against far superior pitching than the Rangers and the Guardians. We just seem to suffer these team-wide offensive outages that happen in the middle of the season. I've seen it happen basically every year that I've been on OH. It tends to last a fairly long time, and the depths to which they can sink can be jaw-dropping (multiple consecutive shutouts). The difference between a good O's team and a bad one is that the good ones (like 2012 and 2014, and maybe this year?) will bounce back reasonably quickly from forgetting how to hit a baseball -- maybe a week, week and a half; and during that stretch they'll manage to scratch out 2 or 3 runs in well-pitched games and win a couple. The bad teams can be shut out 2 or 3 games in a row, and basically fail to produce any offense at all for the better part of a month.

Completely blown call for the ump, several inches high and away, but we'll take it.

No Rutschman, no Henderson, but who else from the "A" team has the day off?

Looks like we might have a rain delay. Really hope it doesn't rain out with a cheap 1-0 win in the 6th.

Looks like we need to hope we'll get to their pen in the 8th or 9th. These guys have zero pitch recognition on the sweeper, which is almost always thrown for a ball. And when they DO make contact with something, it's right at-em. Can't make this up. Losing to a 23-29 team with the worst offense in MLB. lol.

Frazier took on a bad sweeper, then got fooled and swung and missed on a better sweeper.

I'm glad they didn't send Urias there. He would have been out by 90 feet. lol.

OK, it's time for the Rangers' bullpen, which is rated 26th in MLB, to pitch like they're 26th in MLB. So far this series, they've been pitching like everyone in their pen is mid-career Mariano Rivera.

These Rangers can hit anything. Even their outs are loud and hard-hit. Good grief. If we have to face them in the playoffs, we're completely hosed.

Snakebitten today. We had a lot of chances early and blew it with boneheaded sends and boneheaded baserunning. The game would have gone VERY differently if we didn’t make all these mental mistakes. Not to mention the fielding error.