April 29: Series finale vs Yankees

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

And that is with Mullins leading the league in hits. That just tells you how bad the rest of the team has been.

Vlad Jr has 1.7 fWAR.  The Blue Jays offense, as a whole, has 1.5 fWAR.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, NashLumber said:

In my neighborhood, bouncing one off the top of the fence for a HR counted for two runs. With the phantom base runner in extra innings, why not this, too? 

Too hard to hit one of those off the Green Monster.

[scOtt]

1 minute ago, NashLumber said:

In my neighborhood, bouncing one off the top of the fence for a HR counted for two runs. With the phantom base runner in extra innings, why not this, too? 

I like the way you think!

[SteveA]

We need a couple scoreless innings of relief to get it to Valdez in the 9th.

[bpilktree]

4 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

And that is with Mullins leading the league in hits. That just tells you how bad the rest of the team has been.

Especially early on in games when starters are in.  The games we have scored some runs it seems like they come in later innings.  The starters are getting no support when they are in.

[scOtt]

1 minute ago, bpilktree said:

Especially early on in games when starters are in.  The games we have scored some runs it seems like they come in later innings.  The starters are getting no support when they are in.

Means' shutout. That hurt.

[spiritof66]

15 minutes ago, O's84 said:

This not a good team and you will see this a lot year.

I expected this offense to be a lot better than it's been so far, even if inconsistent and hapless against real good pitchers. The Orioles and Tigers have by far the worst offenses in the AL.

And it's worse than even the team totals would imply, in that the guys who might be around longer-term aren't contributing much other than Bumbry, I mean Mullins, and maybe Trey if you want to include him.

[bpilktree]

Galvis was second in the team in OPS coming into this game.

 

 

[O's84]

Just now, spiritof66 said:

I expected this offense to be a lot better than it's been so far, even if inconsistent and hapless against real good pitchers. The Orioles and Tigers have by far the worst offenses in the AL.

And it's worse than even the team totals would imply, in that the guys who might be around longer-term aren't contributing much other than Bumbry, I mean Mullins, and maybe Trey if you want to include him.

It has been.  But let's get to the half way mark before making any verdict.

[Philip]

I HATE it when the announcers laud a reliever for “no earned runs” and ignore the runs he allowed that were charged to the previous pitcher.

[O's84]

Nice DP.

[scOtt]

6-3 DP!

[NashLumber]

10 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Too hard to hit one of those off the Green Monster.

Incentive to go opposite field for righties. 

Tough twitters. Suck it up, Beantown. 

[SteveA]

1 minute ago, Philip said:

I HATE it when the announcers laud a reliever for “no earned runs” and ignore the runs he allowed that were charged to the previous pitcher.

Plutko came in in a pretty bad situation.   The fact that he gave up a 2 out base hit and allowed a couple of Lopez's runs to score shouldn't tarnish a very good relief outing too much.

[scOtt]

There's an OLD school reference by Palmer!

"Powder River." See if you can hit it.