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2 minutes ago, MDK02 said:

Bad day of baseball. Things aren't looking good going into Cleveland. A sweep of us and Twins winning 2 of next 3 would end it.

My 2 memories of Alex Gordon are both horrible. The bloop double ALCS game 1 and today, no hustle to the pop up in left, how he thought Escobar would make that catch with his back turned towards the infield is unreal.

It ain't over yet, but this definitely didn't help.

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Doubt this team makes the playoffs.  Too many games the starter buries this team early on.  You need 1 more starter to have a chance and they couldn't make it work.  I mean it's possible a SP (Ynoa, Ubaldo) get's hot but not likely.  Coupled with the schedule imbalance and you have a very tall task.

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2 hours ago, O's are Legends said:

Unreal, Gordon didn't take charge on that pop up and may cost them the game. Yes indeed, with the Twins schedule and O's playing the Indians, this is a very bad result for the O's if it holds up.

Indians are due for a loss.Brewers were swept by the lowly Reds.You never know with the schedule. 

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3 hours ago, O's are Legends said:

Maurer throws a pitch that lands completely in the strike zone and is called a ball, should have ended the inning now. What in the world are the umps seeing, or not seeing, unreal.

4-2 Twins lead, Royals come up to bat bottom of the 9th

Just ridiculous. So many times this BS influences the outcome of a game. Such an ARCHAIC system if there can't be an electronic strike zone since these jokes can't do the job themselves. This is not 'Nam. There are are rules. Humans can't do the job, which is evident time and time again, to officiate such a precise action of calling a strike or a ball.

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1 hour ago, MDK02 said:

The Yankees vs Rays series is moved from Tampa to Citi field... how convenient. I mean come on, they couldn't find an actual neutral field?  

Baltimore was out due to hotel rooms. We actually should root for the Yanks that series. 

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19 hours ago, Spy Fox said:

20 games left. I'm guessing they need go 15-5 to grab the spot. Not impossible but I doubt we have the starting pitching to do it, even if the offense heats up. 

I think the way the other wild card teams are playing that 12-7 or 13-6 might do it. Not impossible but need to start winning now. 83 wins might be the number of wins needed.

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7 hours ago, Going Underground said:

I think the way the other wild card teams are playing that 12-7 or 13-6 might do it. Not impossible but need to start winning now. 83 wins might be the number of wins needed.

The odds are at least one of those teams is going to have a good three weeks. But it's definitely seems like the softest bubble since the two wild card system began.

It's a shame the starting pitching was hot garbage most of the year, because if they had been even room temperature garbage we could practically have one of these WC spots in the bag. 

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Putting aside the Orioles' struggles, the Twins are putting some distance between themselves and the rest of the field.    They're now 3 games ahead of their closest pursuers, with 16 games remaining.    They're 8 games over .500, meaning that if they played .500 ball from here, they'd win 85 games.   BP has their playoff odds up to 77.3%.

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