vs. Rays 5/19

[scOtt]

Very tidy inning for Chris. 91-93 and DOWN to the glove! Keep it up. Go offense!!! Score early and often.

[Ori-Al]

Too many pitches for two outs already. I hope Chris can cut down the pitch is needed for outs in the upcoming innings.

I might've played Nate against Moore today. Lefties hit more better than righties. Hopefully, Steve will do well.

[mrbig1]

They made Chris work that inning. We have to do the same to Moore.

[OFFNY]

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Lately, Tillman has had a habit of throwing a lot of pitches in the early innings, settling down in the middle innings, and going deep into games.

[Malike]

We'll get to Moore at some point.

[caesarod]

I spent yesterday getting a little sarcastic about the "sky is falling" posts. So here's my gloom input for today: I don't have a good feeling about Tillman. I think he's at his best when he's kind of hidden in the rotation, but suddenly he's being asked to be The Man (by default, but whatever) and I'm not sure how he will handle it. So there.

[Malike]

Manny swings at balls 3 and 4.

[OFFNY]

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I'm hoping that we can somehow use this to our advantage today:

Matt Moore has gas given out 26 free passes (25 walks, and 1 hit batsman) in 48 innings this season. He has thrown at least 100 pitches in all 8 of his outings this season, including 3 in which he went 5.33, 5, and 5 innings in his 2nd, 6th, and 7th starts, respectively. In those 3 starts, his pitch-counts were:

106 (54 Strikes, 52 Balls)

101 (53 Strikes, 48 Balls)

104 (56 Strikes, 48 Balls)

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=moorema02&t=p&year=2013

[Malike]

What's the biggest difference between Moore and Matusz? They seem to have similar stuff.

Moore has a better fastball.

[mrbig1]

13 pitches for Moore in that at bat. Have to make him work harder than that.

[OFFNY]

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And, I was hoping that Jones would take at least one strike before swinging, and contribute toward making Moore labor as much as possible.

[Malike]

I'll buy that.

The difference wouldn't be too big if Matusz hadn't lost his changeup, that was supposed to be his best pitch, and its seemingly gone.

[Can_of_corn]

Only 19 for Tillman in the first, I am feeling CG.

Also some good news.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>O's prospect Nicky Delmonico left game last night with hamstring injury, but report is he is fine today.</p>— Steve Melewski (@masnSteve) <a href="

">May 19, 2013</a></blockquote>

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[OFFNY]

The difference wouldn't be too big if Matusz hadn't lost his changeup, that was supposed to be his best pitch, and its seemingly gone.

As well as he has been pitching out of the bullpen since he went there last year, do you think that he should try to rediscover it (the change-up), or leave well enough alone, and continue pitching the way that he has been?

[scOtt]

Just for fun... Crazy Keith!

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