April 30 -- start of a road trip in Oakland

[O's84]

Means cruising.

[Frobby]

1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

Means is cruising.

I think he sold his soul to the devil.  

[SteveA]

8 Ks thru 5

[Frobby]

Stewart doing what he does best.   Ball four.  

[Frobby]

Fiers is out of gas IMO.  

[SteveA]

Mountcastle needed that.

[Beysbol]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

Fiers is out of gas IMO.  

Yeah, he definitely is. 

[Frobby]

Dammit Ruiz.    The one thing you couldn’t do.  

[Frobby]

Blew another good scoring chance.  I hope it doesn’t come back to burn us.

[spiritof66]

Someone needs to convince Valaika that he's not a power hitter. Launching the ball is the last thing he should be trying to do.

[Beysbol]

They need more runs

[SteveA]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

Blew another good scoring chance.  I hope it doesn’t come back to burn us.

Yep we've left a couple of runs on the table now.

[OFFNY]

o

There was some bad luck on the double play that was hit up the middle. The positioning of the shortstop was great, otherwise it would have been an RBI-single.

 

o

[O's84]

As good as Means has been, it could only take one little slip up, or by the bullpen and we'll be regretting not cashing in those runs earlier. 

[SteveA]

1 hour ago, OFFNY said:

o

As a result of that run that the Athletics just scored, Means' ERA has ballooned up from 1.50 at the start of the game to 1.69.

 

o

Took him a while but he's worked it back down to 1.50.