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Better than a K... a solid knock scores a run here.

Jays 1B Tellez thought there were 3 outs, lol.

Santandah is having a white hot streak. Just won't quit with the bat! Love it.

I give her renditions a 9/10. Yeah - no embellishments. Was nice.

Should they really be singing Oh Canada for the Buffalo Jays? LOL

Makayla Lynn sung Oh Canada and the national anthem. https://www.makaylalynn.com/ She is pretty.

Since we're playing the Jays (albeit, at OPACY), I'll ask the question: How have other teams been handling the Buffalo stadium they're playing in? Is it a hitter-friendly, pitcher-friendly or meh park? It's not every year that MLB has a new park, so it's always interesting to see how the ball plays in there.

Did he really shut us down, though? If you're looking at the scoreboard, he didn't. Other than that, he went deeper into the ballgame than most starters can go these days, so that's the most impressive thing I'd say about his outing. But it turned out to cost him 3 runs for that extra inning or so he pitched.

And Scherzer wasn't really the reason we lost that game. John Means and Rio Ruiz were, with contributions from Chris Davis and Hanser Alberto. I just realized I actually can't tell from the context whether you were implying that Scherzer's walk rate was a good thing for us or bad. If the former, I like your optimism!

Nope, no one else would. Actors: it doesn't matter as much how many takes they need to get it right, as long as they do eventually get it right. The ones who don't end up out of the business because the films they're in flop. Surgeons: they have to do it right, every time, live. Even a small failure rate and they face lawsuits and having to find new employment. IT workers: they have to meet their deadlines, and when someone says something's on fire, they have to drop everything and fix it immediately. If they can't do either of these things with a very high success rate, they won't stick long in the profession. Baseball hitters (for positions where defense isn't that hard to get right, or for DH): No one would argue with a batter hitting .300, but .150 is unacceptable. So there's a gradation. Hitters as poor as Davis who are nothing special defensively often end up getting DFA'ed after a few months. Davis is the equivalent of an actor who single-handedly causes a movie to get bad ratings; a surgeon who only does his surgeries correctly 50% of the time; an IT worker who ignores his deadlines and plays video games all day; and... I really don't have any other hitter to compare him to in MLB, because there's no one out there right now who's quite as bad as him. When literally every other hitter in MLB is looking down at you going "whew, at least I'm not that bad" and the club STILL won't cut him... there's something wrong there. Which hospital retains a surgeon who's like "Yeah, I accidentally killed 24 people last week by completely botching their surgeries." ??? Which actor is so bad that they're not even funny and has a long and illustrious career? Which IT worker keeps making 6 figs year after year when they don't even know how to open a command prompt on Windows?

I'm worried Means might become a headcase like Matusz, Arrieta, Tillman, and the cast of thousands who've had "great stuff" but absolutely implode in the first inning for us. They've been doing it since 1998, maybe even earlier. "Flashes of brilliance" describes about every Orioles starter we've tried to raise through the farm system. Maybe we should adopt a strategy of "buy the arms, grow the bats" since it seems we don't have any problem coaching hitters. Go spend money on guys like Scherzer when they hit FA (obviously not Scherzer himself, he's getting old, but I mean sign him when he was on the market after being with the Tigers.)

Well this kind of ruined my day.

Ugh. Just ugh. Lost the game on a terrible throw.

I want Davis off the team. I know we've been saying this for years, but it's time. Come on. It's time.

I think Hyde either wanted to troll us or is watching the board, because Davis is at the plate. WTF?

I have a greater chance to both hit a home run and NOT strike out sitting here in my room, and I'm out of shape.

Small blessings, Tanner Rainey is no longer pitching. Daniel Hudson has a 4.58 ERA coming into the game.

Well, they have to take his breaking ball because it's usually a ball out of the zone, so if his fastball looks identical until the last 10 feet before the plate, they probably thought they needed to take. Very deceptive pitcher. There's a reason he has like a 0 ERA in 9.1 IP now.

Three. THREE TIMES. Unbelievable. These guys have made some noise today, but that guy must have a fastball and breaking ball that look COMPLETELY identical all the way to the plate if he's fooling them that badly. Hope we don't see him in the 9th.

Swing at the baseball!!!! GD..... UGH!

And now Lakins can't find the plate. Great.

TERRIBLE error there! Might cost us the game.

At some point, he has to realize that becomes counterproductive. Going deeper in the game is respectable, but not if you give up a ton of runs. I'm sure he isn't happy about today. Scherzer has done as well as an ineffective John Means and a ragtag band of relievers.

Nah. This game isn't ours. A ton of bad luck, a ton of impatience tonight. Up there hacking at everything. Terrible pitching. Staring down the end of the streak. Gotta regroup and get 'em tomorrow.