vs. ROYALS, 7/24

[El Gordo]

Can not catch a break.

No, can't take advantage of a break.

[Il BuonO]

Good AB by Henry there.

[Jonesy10]

Can not catch a break.

They gave us 2 free baserunners to start the inning in the 2nd and we hit a tapper back to the mound for a double play. In the 1st we had a lead off double and didn't score. That's not unlucky, it's just terrible hitting (by Markakis and Hardy). Both Urrutia and Jones hit it hard but in those situations we shouldn't have to rely on 2 out hits to score.

[isestrex]

Good swing Henry. Too bad you weren't hitting #3 today.

Riiiiight... because a veteran major league pitcher is going to pitch exactly the same against a rookie as he does against Markakis regardless of the number of outs.

[pdiddy]

Nothing better than George Brett losing his mind.

[oriolesmagic9]

The O's will win.

[Norfolk orioles]

Riiiiight... because a veteran major league pitcher is going to pitch exactly the same against a rookie as he does against Markakis regardless of the number of outs.

He threw one pitch to markakis so I'm not really sure what your argument is.

[weams]

That was an inning.

[BohKnowsBmore]

The O's will win.

I like the positivity. Seems rare in the game threads.

[pdiddy]

Steve Johnson at Aberdeen today:

2.1, 4 hits, 2ER, 4K, 1BB

Gave up a dinger in the first.

Struck out the side in the second.

Left in the third and inherited runner scored.

Why such a short stint?

[tntoriole]

Good swing Henry. Too bad you weren't hitting #3 today.

Or hitting third during any of the other half a dozen games where runners were on third with nobody out and our number three was just watching pitches go by.

[isestrex]

The O's will win.

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[BohKnowsBmore]

Or hitting third during any of the other half a dozen games where runners were on third with nobody out and our number three was just watching pitches go by.

What??

[Jonesy10]

Thought B-Rob might have gotten hurt out of the box...

[Ori-Al]

They give us 2 free base runners to start the inning and we still can't score. 0-4 already with RISP. 0-7 with RISP the last 3 innings. 5-26 in the series.

We're not that good at taking advantage of errors and walks (the few we get.) That's not new.