It's here! It's Opening Day!

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THE PAST: ...)o BALTIMORE O RIOLES

NEW LOOK: ..lllb BALTIMORE O RIOLES

[SeaBird]

But it's in Anaheim. And the same two teams open for real against each other tomorrow night. Very odd scheduling.

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Dress rehearsal?

[OFFNY]

Twins insight with Twins Beat Writer.

The link is broken.

I think these are them:

http://www.baltimorebaseball.com/2016/04/03/audio-dan-connolly-chats-twins-beat-writer-lavelle-e-neal-iii/

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[weams]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There isn't really anything else like it. It's Opening Day 2016.<a href="https://t.co/SCpDlc5Iq2">https://t.co/SCpDlc5Iq2</a></p>— Baseball Tonight (@BBTN) <a href="

">April 3, 2016</a></blockquote>

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oooooo

The Orioles' first game of the 2016 season is ......

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[notfast]

Best day of the year.

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An appetizer, while we're waiting ......

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Archer was good today.

He was let down by his defense in the 4th inning when an error led to an unearned run (plus, a bunch of additional pitches.)

He had a shaky first inning, but 12 of the 15 outs that he recorded were via the strikeout.

15 OUTS: 12 Strikeouts, 2 Groundouts, 1 Lineout

CHRISTOPHER ALAN ARCHER O(vs. BLUE JAYS, 4/03) O[Opening Day]

IP:l 5

H:;; 5 ll(1 Double, 4 Singles)

R:l) 3

ER:)2

BB: 3

SO: 12

Pitches: 107 (66 Strikes, 41 Balls)

PITCHES BY INNING

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33 (19 Strikes, 14 Balls)

14 (91 Strikes, 51 Balls)

18 (11 Strikes, 71 Balls)

25 (15 Strikes, 10 Balls)

17 (12 Strikes, 51 Balls)

[backwardsk]

He did run that pitch count up and didn't make it into the six.

Stroman, on the other hand, has been more economical.

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He did run that pitch count up and didn't make it into the six.

Stroman, on the other hand, has been more economical.

He may have gone an additional inning if not for the error.

That said, a pitcher needs to occasionally get 4 outs in an inning, and not use errors as an excuse.

Good points overall ...... strikeouts are very good, but that is a lot of pitches for only 5 innings, with or without the error by his defense in the 4th inning.

[2010BUCK26]

I'll be there, man....

Wife surprised me with tickets I'm lucky.

I will be there as well Section 75. Want to meet up for a brew?

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Appetizer Part II, while we're waiting ......

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14 of the 24 outs that Stroman recorded were via the groundball.

In 3 out of the 8 first innings that he pitched, Stroman threw a single ball (the 3rd, the 5th, and the 7th.)

In 5 out of the 8 first innings that he pitched, Stroman threw 2 balls or less (the 1st, the 3rd, the 5th, the 7th, and the 8th.)

24 OUTS: 14 Groundouts, 5 Strikeouts, 3 Flyouts, 1 Lineout, 1 Out Trying to Go from 2nd to 3rd Base on a Ball that was not Handled Cleanly by the Catcher

MARCUS EARL STROMAN O(vs. D-RAYS, 4/03) O[Opening Day]

IP:l 8 - PLUS

H:;; 6 ll(1 Home Run, 1 Double, 4 Singles)

R:l) 3

BB: 1

SO: 5

Pitches: 98 (74 Strikes, 24 Balls)

PITCHES BY INNING

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10 (81 Strikes, 2 Balls)

18 (11 Strikes, 7 Balls)

16 (15 Strikes, 1 Balls)

14 (81 Strikes, 6 Balls)

41 (31 Strikes, 1 Balls)

12 (81 Strikes, 4 Balls)

71 (61 Strikes, 1 Balls)

11 (91 Strikes, 2 Balls)

61 (61 Strikes, 0 Balls) *

* Stroman did not record any outs before departing in the 9th inning.

[wildcard]

Rain in the forecast for Baltimore 3-6 pm. Clearing later. How long will the hold the crowd before they move the game to sunny, but cool Tuesday?

[weams]

Rain in the forecast for Baltimore 3-6 pm. Clearing later. How long will the hold the crowd before they move the game to sunny, but cool Tuesday?

Until Midnight. Opening Day is opening day. Light rain in April? Play though it. No T-Storms.

[ChuckS]

Rain in the forecast for Baltimore 3-6 pm. Clearing later. How long will the hold the crowd before they move the game to sunny, but cool Tuesday?

It depends on how heavy the rain is. Weather.com has rain from 3-5 and light rain form 5-6. Not sure how heavy "rain" is expected to be.

The forecast could always change. We could get no rain or it may not start until later in the day.

[Sessh]

Weatherbug on my tablet is usually pretty accurate. As of right now for Monday:

Partly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s. SW winds 10-15 MPH with gusts up to 25 MPH. Chance of rain 90%.

2PM 30% chance of rain

3PM 50% chance of rain

4PM 70% chance of rain

5PM 50% chance of rain

It's supposed to get real cold when the sun goes down plus the wind chill.