April 25th-26th @ Chicago

[JohnLockesGhost]

Millar is amazing at taking a homerun swing, hitting it solidly, but meekly flying out.

[OnTheBlack]

Do you suppose there's anybody here who could get into an argument with DT about baseball-things and win the argument? (I don't.)

::ding ding ding ding ding::

Bingo.

[The Rick]

Do you suppose there's anybody here who could get into an argument with DT about baseball-things and win the argument? (I don't.)

Well put, and I couldn't agree more.

Hell, I wouldn't want to argue with him. He'd likely take me to the back room and beat my ass.

[Mashed Potatoes]

In his 3 starts Burres has thrown 81, 86, and 88 pitches. He had 90 going into the 8th, I definitely bring him back out so there's no point to this post, but I already did the research so you all have to read it.

[O'sFanThruJune]

You're missing my point. We're leading in the game. We needed 9 more outs w/o giving up 2 or more runs. More runs would have been nice, but they weren't necessary to win at that point. You don't get extra points for winning 4-0 instead of 2-0.

BTW, my original post made it seem that I would have played it the same way. I'm not sure what I would have done, but I can see what he was thinking. I was just trying to explain what I thought was going through his head.

I understand what you're saying, I'm just saying being up 4 with 9 outs to go gives you a bigger margin of error, so that you could afford slightly worse defense. It's all a big cost-benefit analysis, and my guess is that PHing was the way to go. There's certainly an argument to make either way, but ideally there's a "more likely to lead to a win" approach.

[Crazysilver03]

In his 3 starts Burres has thrown 81, 86, and 88 pitches. He had 90 going into the 8th, I definitely bring him back out so there's no point to this post, but I already did the research so you all have to read it.

With his 95th pitch he gets the first out in the 8th inning.

[Crazysilver03]

With his 95th pitch he gets the first out in the 8th inning.

With the 97th pitch he gets the 2nd out of the 8th inning.

[The Rick]

Wow, what an outing by Burres.

This is such a tough decision. Do you let Burres go for the CG SO? He's got 98 pitches and looks great.

[JohnLockesGhost]

In his 3 starts Burres has thrown 81, 86, and 88 pitches. He had 90 going into the 8th, I definitely bring him back out so there's no point to this post, but I already did the research so you all have to read it.

Thanks for that.

Burres through eight scoreless.

Do you let him go for the complete game? Or do we call the Sheriff?

[Crazysilver03]

With the 97th pitch he gets the 2nd out of the 8th inning.

With the 98th pitch he gets the 3rd out of the 8th inning.

I would bring Burres back in for the 9th with George Sherrill warming up just in case.

[fansince71]

Can you say complete game shutout?

[JTrea81]

Awesome. I think you give him a shot at it and then bring Sherrill in if somebody gets on. I just love that Walker and Bradford didn't have to come in...

[Mashed Potatoes]

With his 95th pitch he gets the first out in the 8th inning.

Easy 8 pitch inning puts him up to 98, do you bring him back out? I think the answer is dependent on information we don't have as fans, the simple, "how are you feeling" question. Burres gets to make this decision.

[erb8472]

Thanks for that.

Burres through eight scoreless.

Do you let him go for the complete game? Or do we call the Sheriff?

Great outing, but I call in the Sheriff to lock this game up.

[8istheman]

Can you say complete game shutout?

When and whom was the last Oriole to do that? Sir Sid?