4/29 Rays at O's: battle for first place

[PaulFolk]

RAYS:

Iwamura 2B

Crawford LF

Upton CF

Pena 1B

Longoria 3B

Gomes DH

Navarro C

Hinske RF

Bartlett SS

Hammel P

ORIOLES:

Roberts 2B

Mora 3B

Markakis RF

Millar 1B

Huff DH

Scott LF

Jones CF

R.Hernandez C

L.Hernandez SS

Olson P

[BillySmith]

Interesting to see if Olson returns to busting the fastball on the inside corner, something he wasn't supposed to do under Mazzone. Good luck!!

[Jagwar]

Interesting to see if Olson returns to busting the fastball on the inside corner, something he wasn't supposed to do under Mazzone. Good luck!!

Just answered in the Olson thread. I just want to see improvement over last year's results

[BillySmith]

Nice. Down 3-0 and strikes him out.

[Jagwar]

The Ump is giving Olson anything close yet.

EDIT: isn't

[BillySmith]

EZ Peezy Lemon Squeezy.

[Jagwar]

How about that? 1-2-3 inning! How many pitches was that?

[HeyIt'sMe]

We'll probably make Olson look like Sandy Koufax in his prime. The Rays have a history of making borderline pitchers look like All-Stars.

[BillySmith]

Just 12 pitches so far. Nice start.

[El Gordo]

Lookin' good so far, not overstriding, keeping the ball down.

[baltosravns2110]

How about that? 1-2-3 inning! How many pitches was that?

12 pitches-7 were strikes

[Jagwar]

Lookin' good so far, not overstriding, keeping the ball down.

His fastball looks pretty lively, not let's see if he can throw his off-speed stuff for strikes

[The Rick]

Well done by MelMo to work the walk there.

Let's go Nick!

[baltosravns2110]

Come on Nick. Hit a two run bomb right now. You're due.

[blueberryale77]

Our announcers said Crawford was leading the league in steals, so I went to look how many he had. It turns out he is not leading the league, he has 8, two behind BRob and Carlos Gomez. The glaring thing about the SB list, though, was that NOBODY is getting caught stealing much. Chone Figgins is 7-for-11 and BJ Upton is 4-for-8. Everyone Else with more than 3 steals is breaking even or well above, mostly well above (only Kinkajou and Alex Rios are right at 75%).