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Bedard literally has the Best Pitched Game this season

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By Moose Milligan
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terporiolefan A-Ball

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Nope BBTN doesn't give Bedard or the O's any credit. SportsCenter shows more O's highlights than BBTN. Too bad the rest of the national media knows it's baseball. Shame on ESPN!

Ooh wow, we do exist! haha...I said this before, but I wish at the beginning of the season that I started tracking the O's coverage on BBTN. It's safe to say most nights we get nothing more than a quick mention of the score, maybe if we're lucky, a scoresheet graphic after the highlights & scoresheet of ANOTHER team. Tonight they gave us the highlights, but no full-screen scoresheet. As a displaced fan, I hope for highlights each night. Everything else is a welcome bonus. An actual complete breakdown of an O's game (highlights, scoresheet, & conversation after) is as rare as a direct answer to a question from Flanny! (OHHH!)

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Anyone know how many first pitch strikes he ended up with?

I think i heard Hunter say 14 of the first 17 batters saw a first pitch strike.

I know 1970 has mentioned this a lot this year, how he wanted to see him get that number up from earlier in the year.

BTW, Palmer is right...First pitch strike is the best pitch in baseball.

I know this is a little late SG, but I did a little research and counted 21 out of 27 first pitch strikes, and got 12 of his strike outs on those 21 ABs.

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Does anyone think Bedard wanted to prove something when he was not selected to the All Star game? His performance was on the highest of levels.

Then why didn't he pitch like this on Monday?

The All-Star rosters were announced on Sunday.

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JTrea81 Hangout Grand Counsel

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For the record, SportingNews.com, FoxSports.com and CNNSI.com all have the Bedard story on their top headlines. ESPN.com's only coverage is buried in the Game Recaps. But at least we know former Yankee David Wells was ejected... :rolleyes:

And now for the postgame quote from Bedard:

''We won and that's the bottom line,'' Bedard said. ''If I throw a complete game, I throw a complete game. If I don't, I don't. At the end of the day we won and that's what counts.''

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/recaps/2007/07/07/16340_recap.html

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isestrex Hangout Grand Counsel

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Most impressive thing: they all say Mark Buerhle.

That's Nasty: not a single pitch. 15 K's and none of them were nasty.

It was fate, my remote had to break somehow: if it's not the game itself, it's the disappointing BBTN lack of love.

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Well I just left the game and I have been going to O's games since 1954. I have never seen a better pitched game then what Eric Bedard threw tonight. He was in complete control all night. Having just moved to Texas this was my 1st game at the Ballpark in Arlington. Beautiful place, very big. Bedard had the Ranger hitters walking away from the plate talking to their selves.

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Rex Thunder All-Star

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Yeah, what's up with that? Last outing he just stunk. Period. 5 days later and he pitches this gem. Funny game.

GREAT job, Erik!

Not to nitpick, but Ive been gone all day and Im just catching up- of course one of the few games I miss is a gem... but I have to say- lighten up... " Last outing he just stunk. Peroid." Ummm, no.. Jon Garland just stunk yesterday. brian Burres just stunk the other day. Bedard only gave up 5 or 6 hits the other day- but just had one of those days where he wasn'[t placing right and the batters didn't miss- going yard 3 times. That's a bit flukey. He far from stunk though. It was similar to Guthrie's performance against the Angels last weekend- batters just taking advantage EVERY time they got the chance.

Again- obviously not his best performance last outing- but people seem to think it's easy to go out EVERY night and ALWASY have it- sometimes batters will hit good pitches, and sometimes batters will miss bad ones. Bedard's last outing- batters hit EVERY bad pitch for a homerun. Some nights that's just the way it is, but he didn't "absolutely stink. Period."

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Not to nitpick, but Ive been gone all day and Im just catching up- of course one of the few games I miss is a gem... but I have to say- lighten up... " Last outing he just stunk. Peroid." Ummm, no.. Jon Garland just stunk yesterday. brian Burres just stunk the other day. Bedard only gave up 5 or 6 hits the other day- but just had one of those days where he wasn'[t placing right and the batters didn't miss- going yard 3 times. That's a bit flukey. He far from stunk though. It was similar to Guthrie's performance against the Angels last weekend- batters just taking advantage EVERY time they got the chance.

Again- obviously not his best performance last outing- but people seem to think it's easy to go out EVERY night and ALWASY have it- sometimes batters will hit good pitches, and sometimes batters will miss bad ones. Bedard's last outing- batters hit EVERY bad pitch for a homerun. Some nights that's just the way it is, but he didn't "absolutely stink. Period."

He stunk. Period.

The 5 2/3 -inning outing was Bedard's worst start since giving up six earned runs to the Minnesota Twins on Opening Day. It was also the first time in 101 career starts that he gave up three home runs. He also walked four batters, tying his total number in his five June starts, while striking out five, his lowest total in six starts

But Bedard's teammates bailed him out.

"It was kind of hard to throw strikes," Bedard said. "It was one of the games you force yourself to throw strikes, but nothing happens consistently. But it was really fun to watch at the end. To come back like that says a lot."

Stunk for Bedard is a relative thing. His worst outing is like an acceptable outing for a Woody Williams. But for Erik, he was trash. I couldn't find the quotes I remember, but he said himself he was terrible.

Doesn't matter. Thank Og tonight he was Cy Young. ;)

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cindyluvsbrady Hangout Grand Counsel

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Well I just left the game and I have been going to O's games since 1954. I have never seen a better pitched game then what Eric Bedard threw tonight. He was in complete control all night. Having just moved to Texas this was my 1st game at the Ballpark in Arlington. Beautiful place, very big. Bedard had the Ranger hitters walking away from the plate talking to their selves.

That must have been great to have been there! Id keep the ticket!:)

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