Trying to Avoid the Sweep (vs. BLUE JAYS, 8/19)

[OFFNY]

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Trying to avoid the sweep ........ 

 

 

TORONTO/BUFFALO BLUE JAYS

Lourdes Yunielki Gurriel Castillo, Jr. - DH

Teoscar Jose "T.J." Hernandez - RF

Travis Shaw - 3B

Randal Grichuk - CF

Vladimir Guerrero Ramos, Jr. - 1B

Brandon Drury - 2B

Santiago Espinal - SS

Anthony Joseph "A.J." Alford - LF

Reese Jackson "R.J." McGuire - C 

Tanner B. Roark - RHP )) (1-1, 6.00ERA)

 

BALTIMORE O RIOLES

Chance Thomas Leo Sisco - C

Anthony Santander - RF

Renato Nunez - DH

Rio Ruiz - 3B

Hanser Joel Alberto Pena - 2B

John Dwight "J.D." Smith, Jr. - LF

Patrick Valaika - SS

Chris Davis - 1B

Boyce Cedric Mullins II - CF

Tomaso Anthony Milone - LHP )) (1-2, 4.00 ERA)

 

https://www.mlb.com/starting-lineups

 

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[MurphDogg]

Sisco with an ideal leadoff atbat.

[survivedc]

Is going on contact the right call there?

[OldNewGuy]

 No

[Can_of_corn]

7 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

Sisco with an ideal leadoff atbat.

Twenty pitch at bat than ends with a dong?

[allquixotic]

Pathetic.

Absolutely. Pathetic.

If we're getting into a situation now where Santander is the only guy on the team who can produce, we're in for a long losing streak. That was a team failure there, as well as an indictment of the failure to hit situationally for the 3 guys who came up there after we got runners on second and third with no outs. Extremely, extremely frustrating!

[SteveA]

• Seems like Cedric could have made a jump for that.   Didn't clear the fence by much.

[SteveA]

Today is the first day since Sunday, July 26 that all 30 major league teams are in action, weather permitting.

[milbest77]

2 minutes ago, allquixotic said:

Pathetic.

Absolutely. Pathetic.

If we're getting into a situation now where Santander is the only guy on the team who can produce, we're in for a long losing streak. That was a team failure there, as well as an indictment of the failure to hit situationally for the 3 guys who came up there after we got runners on second and third with no outs. Extremely, extremely frustrating!

It’s almost like this was never expected to be a playoff team and they’re regressing to the mean...

[MurphDogg]

4 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Twenty pitch at bat than ends with a dong?

Nah, homers are rally killers. 

[eddie83]

Nice start to game. 

I don’t get why 2nd and 3rd no outs contact play would be on. Not saying it wasn’t. Either way Sisco needs to stay in rundown and let other runners move up. 

Really poor at bat by Rio. Gets ahead 3-0 and winds up striking out on a 3-2 center cut 91 mph fastball. 

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, MurphDogg said:

Nah, homers are rally killers. 

Every highly successful at bat ends with a dong.

[eddie83]

I don’t expect much with some of the pitching. Just hope we don’t start playing sloppy. 

[survivedc]

9 minutes ago, allquixotic said:

Pathetic.

Absolutely. Pathetic.

If we're getting into a situation now where Santander is the only guy on the team who can produce, we're in for a long losing streak. That was a team failure there, as well as an indictment of the failure to hit situationally for the 3 guys who came up there after we got runners on second and third with no outs. Extremely, extremely frustrating!

Don’t you think this is a bit of an over reaction? Severino, Ruiz and Sisco have all been hitting pretty well over the last week especially.

[SteveA]

Please Chris, strike out.

Need to avoid the DP here.