vs. RED SOX, 7/25

[25 Nuggets]

A bounce back season from Alex Cobb would be one heck of a present for the Orioles franchise.  They might even be able to trade him in the off season!

[scOtt]

1 minute ago, 25 Nuggets said:

A bounce back season from Alex Cobb would be one heck of a present for the Orioles franchise.  They might even be able to trade him in the off season!

About $14 mill owed next year...

[milbest77]

Glad they found the new Jim Hunter in Big Ben

[SteveA]

10 minutes ago, O-The-Memories said:

Do you let Cobb pitch six innings in his first start back? His pitch count is low, and our bullpen isn't great. I think I would put him back out there, but it's a tough decision. Either way, it's a super encouraging start.

Fry up in the pen and after Devers leads off, 3 LH batters in the next 4.

[allquixotic]

46 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

He is watching on tv just like us, it is not a way to broadcast baseball.

They showed the sportscasters' booth in OPACY. The crew has access to about 3-4 extra angles that we don't have, in addition to the "production" stream that we see on TV. It's laid out on a bunch of large monitors in front of them. It's not too bad.

At some places like at Nats Stadium, they probably rely more on the monitors than they do their own eyes, because the booth is so high up that the players look like tiny ants down on the field. Worse than the 300 sections at OPACY.

They'll figure out which monitors to look at, when, and be in good shape. The thing I'm more annoyed with is the MASN stream intern who can't keep the count and number of outs straight. It's like the MLB Gameday App intern who's usually several hitters behind and with a ~20% error rate on balls and strikes is now working for MASN.

[scOtt]

3-2 splitter! K!

[Chavez Ravine]

Just now, scOtt said:

3-2 splitter! K!

I just started watching; that thing was nasty.

[Il BuonO]

“That right there will hurt your feelings.”

-BM

[Il BuonO]

Well....

[scOtt]

Huh! Too much middle and line drive HR.

 

 

And that is it for Cobb. GREAT day for him!

[Il BuonO]

Yeah, didn’t get it in.

[25 Nuggets]

Oh well.

Still a very good first start by Alex Cobb.  Tip of the cap to him.

[allquixotic]

5 1/3, 1 run isn't bad these days. In the 60s it would've been embarrassing, but with the reduced stamina and harder velo of today's pitchers, and the elevated home run numbers from moving the fences in, it's a pretty typical, pretty decent outing. Especially this early in a season.

[Philip]

Why is Valiaka playing between first and second while Iglesias is between second and third???

BTW, does Valaika look good on defense? He does to me.

[scOtt]

2 minutes ago, allquixotic said:

5 1/3, 1 run isn't bad these days. In the 60s it would've been embarrassing, but with the reduced stamina and harder velo of today's pitchers, and the elevated home run numbers from moving the fences in, it's a pretty typical, pretty decent outing. Especially this early in a season.

Best start of the year....