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I Cannot Believe The Way This Team Has Folded.

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I'm also very disappointed with how the team has played down the stretch.     Basically, the offense went into a slump that the team couldn't afford, just when we were getting into a stretch of playing teams with very good pitching.   And this team has to win with offense on most days.

I'm hoping they play respectably over the final 9 games, so I don't have too sour a taste in my mouth when the season ends.   

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1 minute ago, Frobby said:

I'm also very disappointed with how the team has played down the stretch.     Basically, the offense went into a slump that the team couldn't afford, just when we were getting into a stretch of playing teams with very good pitching.   And this team has to win with offense on most days.

I'm hoping they play respectably over the final 9 games, so I don't have too sour a taste in my mouth when the season ends.   

The Oriole pitching might look better the last nine games. Rays have not hit since the All Star break. Pirates have really been slumping and also not hitting.

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For the better part of this season, this team had historically bad starting pitching.

Subsequently, the bullpen was very much overworked, having been asked to do much more than could be reasonably expected.

In addition to the overworked bullpen, that's a lot of pressure on the offense to constantly put up big numbers to even give the team a chance to win many of their games.

Considering all of that, I think that it was incredible that they were somehow 3 games over .500 as late as August 29th (71-68.)

 

As a rabid Oriole fan, I am disappointed that the Orioles could not expand on the 10-3 spurt that they managed to go on between August 23rd and September 5th to stay in the race for the Wildcard positions ........ but I am hardly shocked about it, for the reasons stated above.

 

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Eh, I never really expected them to get over the hump. The Yankees crushed any faint hopes I had. Beckham and Schoop were hitting out of their minds and we all knew that wasn't sustainable. The pitching is what it is. We're just not a very good team. Winning the TOR series might have been nice, but there is nothing to play for, so it really doesn't matter.

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The O's were 1.5 games out of the wild card  on Sept 3rd.    They played 13 of their next 16 vs the Indians, Yankees and Red Sox.   Clearly these three teams are better than the O's.  The Indians were in the middle of winning the most consecutive games in AL history.   The Yankees and Red Sox were/are fighting it out for the division title.

This was a tough place for the O's to be and it showed.

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26 minutes ago, wildcard said:

The O's were 1.5 games out of the wild card  on Sept 3rd.    They played 13 of their next 16 vs the Indians, Yankees and Red Sox.   Clearly these three teams are better than the O's.  The Indians were in the middle of winning the most consecutive games in AL history.   The Yankees and Red Sox were/are fighting it out for the division title.

This was a tough place for the O's to be and it showed.

The Indians is one thing, but I did not expect them to get crushed by the Yankees and Red Sox. Two teams they've had pretty good success against.

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4 minutes ago, ORIOLE33 said:

The Indians is one thing, but I did not expect them to get crushed by the Yankees and Red Sox. Two teams they've had pretty good success against.

Looking back on the games with the Yankees and Red Sox  this month and comparing the O's starting staff to theirs,  how many games do you think the O's should have won against them?

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3 minutes ago, wildcard said:

Looking back on the games with the Yankees and Red Sox  this month and comparing the O's starting staff to theirs,  how many games do you think the O's should have won against them?

I certainly wasn't expecting 2-8. 

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2 hours ago, eddie83 said:

So they waited until they were in WC contention in September to say the hell with Buck? 

Sorry, didn't see this before. No, I'm not saying they said to Hell with Buck. Buck comes in and changes the culture, they start winning (the most games in AL for 5 years) so they believe in the plan. This year, the team really has Buck's stamp on it and Buck's guys's didn't perform and the pitchers that were shipped out (I blame Buck) had some success, while those here (I blame DD) crapped the bed. I think psychologically, being behind regularly so regularly takes a toll and when we got to September Buck's will just wasn't enough to keep them grinding.  

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It just must be incredibly frustrating for the hitters to see the team down by 5 runs by the 3rd inning about every 3rd game.  They must be thinking "Here we go again".  I know they are professional athletes, but this would get to anyone.  I wonder if there is anything to Trumbo objecting to being pied matching up to when the team nosedived.  If there is, it is just reason #100 to get rid of Trumbo.

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It just must be incredibly frustrating for the hitters to see the team down by 5 runs by the 3rd inning about every 3rd game.  They must be thinking "Here we go again".  I know they are professional athletes, but this would get to anyone.  I wonder if there is anything to Trumbo objecting to being pied matching up to when the team nosedived.  If there is, it is just reason #100 to get rid of Trumbo.

Yes but the pies in the face need to stop too. I am not going to say anything about the players. I think how would I feel if I was a player? Play your ass off only to still lose.Must be physically  exhausting to be a professional athlete. I would never want that job.

 

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