4-8 Home Opener! Red Sox vs. O's

[LA2]

What a bum call on the 3rd strike to RMC! Did NOT swing!

Anyone else think the plate umpiring this season (so far) has been really inconsistent (for both sides)?

[mrbig1]

Bad call by the ump. Clearly a check swing.

[PHRESH]

Damn, I really wanna see a replay of the check swing. 

[O's84]

Santander got a pitch to hit and couldn't  keep it fair.  When you are down 4 you have to convert those.

[LA2]

1 minute ago, O's84 said:

Santander got a pitch to hit and couldn't  keep it fair.  When you are down 4 you have to convert those.

RMC also got a fastball down the middle, swung late, and fouled it into the RF seats.

[LA2]

V unlikely to score 4 runs off of Barnes in the 9th (assuming LeBlanc blanks the Sox). Did just manage to get JD out.

[Beef Supreme]

3 minutes ago, O's84 said:

Santander got a pitch to hit and couldn't  keep it fair.  When you are down 4 you have to convert those.

It's like they say: hitting a baseball is the easiest thing to do in pro sports.

[GuidoSarducci]

5 minutes ago, LA2 said:

Need a Weaver Special from RMC here.

Unfortunately we got a Chris Davis special

[O's84]

2 minutes ago, LA2 said:

RMC also got a fastball down the middle, swung late, and fouled it into the RF seats.

Yeah, we missed quite a few in this game.  Unfortunately, we better to get used to it, because this is the Orioles.

 

[OFFNY]

o

 

87% of the outs that Harvey recorded (13 out of 15) came via the Groundout and the Strikeout.

Prior to the 6th inning, Harvey had retired 13 out of the previous 15 Red Sox batters that he faced.

Harvey had a moderate improvement in his Strikes-to-Balls ratio as compared to his last outing.

 

 

15 OUTS: )  8 Groundouts, 5 Strikeouts, 2 Flyouts

 

 

MATTHEW EDWARD HARVEY )))))))) (FINAL NUMBERS)

IP:l.l5 -PLUS

H:llll.7 ) l(1 Home Run, 3 Doubles, 3 Singles)

R:lll. 4

BB:ll1

SO:ll5

Pitches: l) 84 )(57 )Strikes, )27 )Balls)

2021 ERA: l) 5.59 )  9.67 IP  (6 ER) 

2021 WHIP: l)  1.552  )  9.67 IP  (15 H/BB) 

2021 OPPONENTS BATTING AVG: l)  .317  )l (13 for 41)   

 

PITCHES BY INNING  

*******************  

25 llll(15 llllStrikes, ll10 llllBalls)

81 llll(71 llllStrikes, lll11 lllBalls)

18 llll(12 lllStrikes, lll61 lllBalls)

71 llll(51 lllStrikes, llll21 lllBalls)

18 llll(13 lllStrikes, llll51 lllBalls)

81 llll(51 llllStrikes, llll31 lllBalls) ) *

 

* )) Harvey did not record any outs before departing in the 6th inning.

 

o

[LA2]

2 minutes ago, GuidoSarducci said:

Unfortunately we got a Chris Davis special

Did seem to be a bad call by the ump though.

[LA2]

1 minute ago, O's84 said:

Yeah, we missed quite a few in this game.  Unfortunately, we better to get used to it, because this is the Orioles.

 

I'm still confident that RMC will have a good season as a hitter. But if he doesn't improve in the field we've got the Trumbo problem all over again.

[O's84]

2 minutes ago, Beef Supreme said:

It's like they say: hitting a baseball is the easiest thing to do in pro sports.

How is this relevant to my post?

[Beef Supreme]

13 minutes ago, O's84 said:

Santander got a pitch to hit and couldn't  keep it fair.  When you are down 4 you have to convert those.

 

9 minutes ago, Beef Supreme said:

It's like they say: hitting a baseball is the easiest thing to do in pro sports.

 

3 minutes ago, O's84 said:

How is this relevant to my post?

If it were so easy to "convert" foul balls into fair balls, hitting would be the easiest thing to do in pro sports. But it doesn't work that way. 

[O's84]

2 minutes ago, Beef Supreme said:

 

 

If it were so easy to "convert" foul balls into fair balls, hitting would be the easiest thing to do in pro sports. But it doesn't work that way. 

I never said it was easy.  I said when you are down 4 you have to convert those.  Because it's hard to comeback down 4 runs, especially late in the game.

Edit: I was answering your 2nd post, quoted your first by mistake.