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Buck was out managed; he had several opportunities to put better hitters in and didnt. Leaving Chris Davis in to hit with runners on 2nd and 3rd is inexcusable. You need contact there, and Davis strikes out more than any other jitter available there.

The bullpen was out pitched. You can't serve up so many tack on runs to bad hitters.

Our situational hitting was horrible. If you don't score runs when you have the opportunity in the early innings then you let the other team think they can win it.

Arrieta is half way down the BW parkway. He is both not pitching well, and not getting innings. He's got to learn how to be productive even when he doesn't have his best stuff.

Really? This is one of the more absurd things I have read on here in a while.

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Pedro Cerrano Hangout Grand Counsel

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[sOSH Yesterday]Had a chance to win the game and go up 2-0 in the series against the Orioles.

We hold Hardy, Markakis, Jones, and Wieters, their only real players, to a handful of singles.

And we get beat by Wayne Tolleson's little kid and Wilson Freakin' Betemit.

We get two(!!!!!!) hits off of Brian "10.69 ERA" Matusz.

This was such a winnable game and we blew it. Sucks.

We cannot allow crap players on the eventual last-place team in the division beat us.[/sOSH]

What's your point or are you just being your typically sarcastic, snarky self?

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It was a winnable game, but let's not pretend Boston didn't have other opportunities to score. They had 16 baserunners today, to our 15. Both team missed several opportunities.

I usually have a bad attitude when we lose close games to Boston but this series I felt different. The team was at the end of this 20 game stretch and running on fumes a little. The question will be how we play vs KC, we have a very tough 9 game road trip coming up.

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Buck was out managed; he had several opportunities to put better hitters in and didnt. Leaving Chris Davis in to hit with runners on 2nd and 3rd is inexcusable. You need contact there, and Davis strikes out more than any other jitter available there.

The bullpen was out pitched. You can't serve up so many tack on runs to bad hitters.

Our situational hitting was horrible. If you don't score runs when you have the opportunity in the early innings then you let the other team think they can win it.

Arrieta is half way down the BW parkway. He is both not pitching well, and not getting innings. He's got to learn how to be productive even when he doesn't have his best stuff.

Davis was 9 for his last 20 coming into today. Why would you pull him out?

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Losses happen. Teams get beat by folks who aren't all stars or future HOFers. Move on. Win the next one.

This. I'm not as down about losing one game as I am about Arrieta's inconsistency for 1/4 the year now.

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It was a winnable game, but let's not pretend Boston didn't have other opportunities to score. They had 16 baserunners today, to our 15. Both team missed several opportunities.

Exactly. We've had a really tough stretch of games and have won a lot of them. June doesn't get much easier.

Let's get rested up and go in strong to this series against KC, who can take you by surprise if you let them.

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Losses happen. Teams get beat by folks who aren't all stars or future HOFers. Move on. Win the next one.

True, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

When you're the Orioles you need all the wins you can get and losing in this fashion, regardless as to what happened yesterday, is not something we can afford to be doing.

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No manager is taking Davis out there. No way you pinch hit there.

You should. You don't need a HR. You need someone who will put the ball in play: hit, sac, groundout to second are all acceptable. Hell, GO's to second is all Wieters has been doing lately. Tho you can't pinch your backup C there I guess.

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It was a winnable game, but let's not pretend Boston didn't have other opportunities to score. They had 16 baserunners today, to our 15. Both team missed several opportunities.

Exactly. That they only got 4 off of Arrieta was practically a miracle. As has been said, this one was brutal, but it happens. They were bound to lose one like this sooner or later.

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You should. You don't need a HR. You need someone who will put the ball in play: hit, sac, groundout to second are all acceptable. Hell, GO's to second is all Wieters has been doing lately. Tho you can't pinch your backup C there I guess.

So you are hitting who there? Tolleson? Davis has been hot lately, I know he has his weaknesses but I couldn't disagree more.

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True, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

When you're the Orioles you need all the wins you can get and losing in this fashion, regardless as to what happened yesterday, is not something we can afford to be doing.

Nobody likes it, and no team can "afford" any losses. Always sucks to lose. But you have to move on, this is a long season and even the best teams have ugly losses.

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What bugs me is the automatic take on 3-0 and the automatic swing on 3-1. A lot of those 3-1 swings seem to be at borderline pitches. The kind you can't do much with. But they hack anyway. And the 3-0 pitches are almost always meatbals that they take anyway. Don't get it.

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I'm unhappy we lost and it was frustrating, but the rest of this "you've got to do this" and "good teams do that" and blah, blah, blah is just emotional nonsense IMHO.

I'll admit to my share of emotional nonsense, but today's game had me in and out of the office with the radio so I didn't directly experience all the gory details. So I'm not as worked up as I could be.

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