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Redskins Rick Hangout Grand Counsel

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The other night, Hardy made a fantastic play at SS.

Manny lunges to his left, ball glances off his glove. Hardy is running to his right has to stop and reach back and to his left and grabs the ball, and throws out the speedy runner at 1st.

Baseball is a game of inches, and this one play, Oriole Magic was flowing in their favor.

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Home run champ Chris Davis an elite defender? Believe it

Since the beginning of the 2014 season, Davis leads all American League first baseman with 13 defensive runs saved (DRS). That's four more than the next closest player, Mark Teixeira. This season, he has already been credited with 19 "good defensive plays" (think the opposite of errors), which is the most in the majors among first basemen and five more than Kansas City's Eric Hosmer, who ranks second in GDP's and has won the past three Gold Gloves in the American League. Hosmer's streak is one that Showalter thinks might not last much longer.

http://espn.go.com/blog/baltimore-orioles/post/_/id/774/home-run-champ-chris-davis-an-elite-defender-believe-it

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May 4

Davis nailed Ellsbury at the plate with a good throw in the first inning.

Joseph came out of his crouch to try to throw out a runner, and whiffed on the breaking pitch, allowing the runner to get to third.

Wilson spiked a throw to 1B, allowing a run to score.

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Breaking pitch to a LH hitter that started outside or outside corner and went over the plate. Joseph started to get out of is crouch and took a step to his left to get into throwing position. He misjudged the pitch. Instead of catching it in the webbing and making a throw, it went off the tip of his glove and rolled almost all the way to the backstop. Because the runner had been going, he was able to make it all the way the third. Joseph made the throw and it was pretty close but he was clearly safe.

I don' t think that was the full story. It appeared that Caleb called for a pitchout and Wilson missed the sign. Caleb came out of his crouch as soon as the ball left Wilson's hand. He was moving to the spot where he should have gone if it was a pitchout. I was watching YES and that is how the Yankee announcers saw it, and that made the most sense to me.

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Breaking pitch to a LH hitter that started outside or outside corner and went over the plate. Joseph started to get out of is crouch and took a step to his left to get into throwing position. He misjudged the pitch. Instead of catching it in the webbing and making a throw, it went off the tip of his glove and rolled almost all the way to the backstop. Because the runner had been going, he was able to make it all the way the third. Joseph made the throw and it was pretty close but he was clearly safe.

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Possible but it didn't look like it to me. Both Wieters and Joseph "cheat" by getting into a throwing position a little faster. It's been talked about. That's how the Orioles teach it. I haven't seen any kind of conversation amongst the Orioles that it was a called pitch out. I would expected to have seen Wilson, Buck, or Joseph comment on it and Wilson was interviewed after the game.

BTW, pitch outs are called from the dugout, not Caleb. If Wilson missed the pitch out sign, you'd expect a conversation at the mound between Wilson and Joseph about it.

If there wasn't miscommunication on a pitchout, they were at least crossed up on the pitch selection.

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May 8

Tillman was really helped by his defense today.

- Rickard to Machado to Wieters relay ends a first inning in which he'd already allowed three runs.

- Wieters to Schoop CS gets the 2nd out of the second inning. Great catch and tag by Schoop there.

- Diving catch by Rickard in the gap for the first out of the third inning.

- Nice running catches in LCF gap by Jones and Rickard later in the game.

- Flaherty made a nice backhand stab of a smash down the line in the 9th.

Schoop made an error with 2 outs in the 9th on an in between hop to his backhand, but the game was decided by then.

Tillman pitched 6.1 today but might not have made it past the 3rd inning if the defense hadn't been bailing him out in the first three innings.

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A lot of great plays this weekend, but the one that really confused me, was the ball AJ misplayed in the OF.

The one that he was up jumping over the wall, and the ball landed short and to his right.

He is normally a much better CF than that.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="hi" dir="ltr">JO-EY! JO-EY! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IBackTheBirds?src=hash">#IBackTheBirds</a> <a href="https://t.co/cgCiSSVkce">pic.twitter.com/cgCiSSVkce</a></p>— Orioles on MASN (@masnOrioles) <a href="

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="hi" dir="ltr">JO-EY! JO-EY! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IBackTheBirds?src=hash">#IBackTheBirds</a> <a href="https://t.co/cgCiSSVkce">pic.twitter.com/cgCiSSVkce</a></p>— Orioles on MASN (@masnOrioles) <a href="
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He followed up that great play in the 7th inning with a very good one in the 8th.

With 2 men on, 2 outs, and the Twins trying to get themselves back into the game, Rickard covered a lot of room in an area of the field where there is not much room to make the catch because of the wall being so close ...... and he made the catch.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orioles?src=hash">#Orioles</a> take series in Minnesota thanks to sparkling plays like this one from <a href="https://twitter.com/JRickard35">@JRickard35</a>.<a href="https://t.co/ysBleULGCT">https://t.co/ysBleULGCT</a> <a href="https://t.co/vaXCQO97Id">pic.twitter.com/vaXCQO97Id</a></p>— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a href="

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