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As much as I love our offense today, this performance collectively by the pen absolutely terrifies me. Andrew Miller yesterday, too! If Darren O'Day and Zach Britton are the only pitchers in our bullpen who can pitch, we're going to have a really difficult stretch run. We can't score 12 runs every day.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Rosters expand tomorrow. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/orioles?src=hash">#orioles</a> will add 2 pitchers from Norfolk, according to Buck. Webb and Saunders strong possibilities</p>— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href="

">August 31, 2014</a></blockquote>

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