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An extremely satisfying series win


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Wow, that was a tense, tough series. The O's had so many chances to score, and tonight the ump really made things tough on them. It's been frustrating at times, but the team has been tenacious. The bullpen was nails as always, but give a ton of credit to Tillman for hanging in there after that excrutiating first inning.

That was a series to build on.

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4 - 3 - 2 runs in consecutive games to Toronto. I'll take that every day and twice on Sundays. If we can hold the likes of Toronto to a 3.0 ERA we're going to win a lot of games.

Got to like the trend too going into KC.

Heck, maybe the KC series will go underwater like current global interest rates and KC will start forfeiting runs???

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Tillman pulled a Houdini. After looking completely lost...to only allow 2 through 6? Good on him. Offense was incredibly lucky today to squeak out 3. Where we'd be this series without Rickard and Machado, I have no idea.

Pretty unlucky offense actually considering the trumbo K.

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As we have been for most of the last 4 years now, we are a difficult team to beat. No better way to describe it. We do so much to stay in games offensively, defensively, and with our bullpen that it's literally never over until the fat lady sings against us. We won't win every game, but I love that we'll go down swinging every night trying to.

FYI, the best part of this series win was that we did it largely with an effective pitching staff. We are who we thought we were.

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Great series! If we are playing like this at the deadline, I wonder what Dan will do. A real ace would be so nice in our rotation! Not sure how you pull that off though.

Bundy has also looked pretty good this series too. Very encouraging for the rotation next year!

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Quite a few HOF pitchers, if you wanted to get him, you had to get on them early.

Look, not saying Tilly is HOF, but just some pitchers, once they get in their groove, its over for them.

He does have a history of bad first innings so I should know better [emoji1]

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