The Silver Lining Report: Game 1/162

[interloper]

Welcome to my rainbows and unicorns  thread that I am going to force upon you all for

Every.

Single.

Game.

The idea here is that there will obviously be enough threads voicing frustrations and talking about the losing, and I will be participating in those threads as well. However, I cannot do another season like last year where I'm focusing on the negative. I am committed to the process that Elias is enacting and seeing the tiny slivers of good things and/or funny things about this season of Orioles baseball. 

If you're here to tell me this is dumb or wrong or bad or that Davis should be released, surely there is a better use of your time on this earth. If you're here to say "sure, but they did these other things badly" (and I will surely agree with you), I kindly point you to any of the other threads, though I expect this will be mostly ignored. I do not do this to invalidate your own frustrations or despair about this season. I just want to point out the stuff our good good baseball sons have done on the field for each game. Because while I may stretch to find it, there will always be something. 

And yes: unless the mods find a problem with it, I will be creating a new thread for every single game, give or take extenuating life circumstances. 

Without further ado:

• Trey Mancini: 3-4, 2B, RBI. Likes to DH. 
   
• Rio Ruiz: good play on a hot shot at 3B, got the O's on the board with a sneaky RBI single up the middle.
   
• Cedric Mullins: BB, 4.5 pitches/PA to lead the team.
   
• Joey Rickard: Excellent diving catch on a very shallow ball to RF.
   
• Richie Martin: Turned a couple of double plays smoothly, looked unfazed out there.
   
• Dwight Smith Jr.: Handled a number of deep fly balls to LF smoothly, looks like a natural OF.
   
• Hanser Alberto: Entered the game late and got a hit off Chapman.
   
• David Hess: Nice max effort stuff out of the 'pen, the only O's pitcher to post a positive WPA.
   
• Held Tanaka to 5 Ks, 3 of which were Davis, so they put the ball in play against him.
   
• Errors: 0
   
• Hits: 8 to the Yankees 9, including 1 off Britton and 1 off Chapman.
   
• Weird play: Dropped pop-up by Jesus Sucre was turned into a DP against the Yankees who ran into some outs.
   
• Brandon Hyde: Smooth debut. PH Nunez for Davis against Chapman, a welcome sign that Davis will only be put in positions he is most likely to succeed. Yanked Cashner at the right time, I thought, while still getting about as much as you could from him. Got through what was a sure loss without warming up or using Givens, Bleier, or Castro. Got every batter into the game other than Pedro Severino. 
   
• Gary Thorne: "Better his wife than mine!" I don't even remember what they were talking about.
   
• Mike Elias aviator game: Strong. 

See you for Game 2. 

[Frobby]

I like the concept.   

[Answerman]

Interloper...this is the best idea I’ve seen in quite a while. Refreshing. Thank you for doing this.

How about Alberto contributing late? I never thought he would get on base in that situation. Also the dropped pop up converted into a double play!

[interloper]

Just now, Answerman said:

Interloper...this is the best idea I’ve seen in quite a while. Refreshing. Thank you for doing this.

How about Alberto contributing late? I never thought he would get on base in that situation. Also the dropped pop up converted into a double play!

Yeah! Two good ones. I'll add them to the OP. 

[mdbdotcom]

Injuries: None

[interloper]

1 minute ago, mdbdotcom said:

Injuries: None

Crucial. 

[Going Underground]

3 minutes ago, interloper said:

Yeah! Two good ones. I'll add them to the OP. 

Can you have Mike Bordick edit the silver lining report? "It's Always Sunny in Birdland". This is fine. I am sure they will be a few things a game that will be positive. 

[interloper]

I've also added that Hyde managed to get every batter into the game other than the backup catcher, Severino. 

[Going Underground]

4 minutes ago, interloper said:

I've also added that Hyde managed to get every batter into the game other than the backup catcher, Severino. 

I am sure Severino will be in one of the next two games. By Sunday, I can see every pitcher and position player getting into at least one game. The Oriole players won't be as tired in September this year. At least the position players.

[eddie83]

Tied for second place. Everyone else in division lost except of course Yankees.  

[Luke-OH]

Hess averaging 94.4 and t96 in the pen after averaging 92ish last year. Hopefully they keep him there.

[interloper]

1 minute ago, Luke-OH said:

Hess averaging 94.4 and t96 in the pen after averaging 92ish last year. Hopefully they keep him there.

That was definitely interesting. They say he's starting Monday, but we'll see. 

[interloper]

Rickard's catch made the top 5 plays of the day (#2) : https://www.mlb.com/video/top-5-plays-of-the-day?t=mlb-network

 

[Aristotelian]

47 minutes ago, mdbdotcom said:

Injuries: None

Well, there is one particular guy that might help the team by getting injured, not that I would ever wish for that.

[interloper]

It's much more difficult/straight up impossible to share the specific highlight videos from MLB dot com. You used to be able to do this. Bummer - I'll continue to see what I can do.