allquixotic

Oh yeah, definitely. In years past, nearly every player would be taking Mountcastle's approach of live and die by the home run. Collectively, this team is more dynamic and can score in any number of ways. Mounty reminds me of the 2012-2016 stretch, though. Strike out and hit a lot of home runs.

Solid inning for the good guys. This team is fun to watch.

Mounty will K, but unless someone else takes his home run leader crown, I'm not sure I mind. Well... as long as he doesn't K as often as Chris Davis.

Get 'em Santander! Interesting defensive play by the Jays, tried to cut down the run, no joy! Score!

Ooh, challenge! Off the bag?

No throw on Mullins' steal. No double play. This is going exactly as you'd hope so far.

Ortiz! Mullins!!! Big opportunity here for Adley!

Kremer trying to give us a heart attack. Ultimately, well done. Solo homer is no big thing.

Buying tickets just as often as I can afford them! The team deserves the support. Unrelatedly, I watched the Baysox pitch a combined no-no against the Altoona Curve on Friday night. That was fun. I think we should at the very least have a packed Camden Yards in August and September, assuming the team is still a serious contender for a wildcard then.

The most annoying ones are when we had multiple golden opportunities to win, but dumb decisions blew the game. 1. Pitching Voth 2. Frazier running into an out

Both Chapman and Garrett seem to have no command of their pitches. We'll score more than 10 runs this game, win or lose.

I gotta hand it to the offense though. They realize that Chapman is slow to the plate and they're stealing like crazy. Kudos to the lineup for gutting out a late game comeback on the offense. Boo to the pitching staff who've been throwing BP since the second inning.

If we can string together a few more runs, we might win this game despite a putrid pitching staff.

Yeah-heah! URIAS!

No outs, first and third, let's find a way to roll over on this. GIDP, pop out, anyone? I'm being negative for the reverse jinx btw

Mullins should just stand at the wall instead of having to run back there every pitch.

5 pitches 3 outs. The bats are out there hacking at everything and the pitchers are throwing meatballs and tipping their pitches. This is sad and embarrassing.

Take a pitch! Good grief!

It wouldn't surprise me if there is no encryption, and that fact will only surface after someone blows the whistle. Or they're just using an old Bluetooth standard with known attack vectors.

All of our guys are weakly popping out. All of their guys make our pitchers look like they're throwing BP. What is going ON?

Need to smack some homers of our own. Jordan Lyles is STILL in there after 8 runs and we're just hitting pop-outs. Make him work.

Good. Hyde pulls him when we're still up 8-5. Can't blame the loss on the manager at this point, it's just up to the individual performances. If we have multiple pitchers in a row who are bad, we deserve to lose. Here's hoping the pen has a good day. Or maybe we need to score 16 runs.

If Grayson gives up 8+, this is on Hyde. He should be out of there long before he has a chance to let them tie it up. If we lose because the bullpen yields, that's not as much Hyde's fault, we just got beat. But I will be very mad if Hyde leaves this guy in until he's given up the lead.

As soon as I saw Cano wasn't returning for the 10th, I knew Hyde had messed up badly. Very upset with him right now. Terrible call not to leave Cano in for another inning. It's not like his arm would explode if he threw another 10 pitches. If we were really that worried about Cano's pitch count, just get Gillaspie warm in case he's needed. But in all likelihood, with the ghost runner, Cano would either win the game for us, or lose, without going over a pitch count of about 25-30. Then you just give him a few days of rest and he'll be fine.

Yennier Canó was dealing tonight. Oh, man, was he ever. Unhittable stuff, he had his sinker working as well or better than peak Zach Britton, with great location. He threw 11 pitches and 9 strikes. He was giving me visions of Mariano Rivera out there on the mound. Working fast, efficient, devastating pitches. WHY IN THE WORLD you would pull someone like that, after 11 measly pitches, on a night when your closer isn't available, and put in someone who should've been cut from the team last week like Logan Gillaspie, is completely beyond me. We'd be celebrating a win tonight if Hyde didn't resurrect the ghost of Robo-Buck by pulling him. This loss is on Hyde. I really wish we'd had a chance to see what Canó could have done in the 10th tonight.