I consider Jones to be the goat of this game

[Frobby]

I realize JJ blew the save and Matusz got the loss, but to me Jones' "too cool for school" pursuit of Jeter's fly ball makes him the goat of the game. The 9th inning HR by ibanez doesn't matter if Jones makes a catch that should have been made.

[jjdman]

I realize JJ blew the save and Matusz got the loss, but to me Jones' "too cool for school" pursuit of Jeter's fly ball makes him the goat of the game. The 9th inning HR by ibanez doesn't matter if Jones makes a catch that should have been made.

You wont get any argument from me.

[Tom13206]

I realize JJ blew the save and Matusz got the loss, but to me Jones' "too cool for school" pursuit of Jeter's fly ball makes him the goat of the game. The 9th inning HR by ibanez doesn't matter if Jones makes a catch that should have been made.

100% Agree

[ChuckS]

I agree. This loss is completely on Adam Jones.

[Moose Milligan]

[BillD]

I can't disagree.

[Loophole]

It's insane to put it on any one player. If Hardy or Wieters or Thome or Davis gave us ANYTHING at the plate, that one run probably wouldn't have mattered.

[Orioles2012]

Adam Jones has a tendency to be very over-agressive, this was shown throughout the regular season.

Put that person in a playoff atmosphere and they completely fall apart.

[Pedro Cerrano]

At least he's hitting the cover off the ball!

The whole team, starting rotation aside, collectively decided to start sucking because it was the big bad Yankees.

Screw you Jones.

Screw you Johnson.

Screw you Wieters.

Screw you Reynolds.

[ADZ23]

It's insane to put it on any one player.

This. Jones certainly contributed but hardly the sole culprit.

[NATTYBO's]

You mean jone let me swing at another down and away breaking ball

[The Rick]

It's still JJ. Two outs away. You've gotta get the job done there.

After the defensive gaffe, the O's had several AB's to make up for it, and weren't able to.

When you're at the point of the game where you're 2 outs away from a win, you're margin for error is all but diminished.

[baltfan]

The offense is the goat. It has been putrid and the pitching we have faced, besides CC, hasn't been that great.

[ShaneDawg85]

Jones totally dogged it on that fly ball, and he deserves a lot of the blame for that play and his continued poor offensive performance. But, once again this team cannot get guys in when runners are on, and it's happened all series long. Not to mention Johnson throwing a pitch that pretty much any major league player could hit out. This was just a terrible loss in every sense of the word.

[tinamodotti]

That pic must be from '08, he's a lot beefier now.