May 12: The Dark Knight returns to Gotham City (early day game)

[scOtt]

1 minute ago, Yossarian said:

These hard hit balls have to start finding holes, right?  They have to!!!

Apparently not.....

[Yossarian]

Running Franco, Ruiz, and Sisco up to the plate in order does not really invoke feelings of "rally time", does it?

[Surhoffan17]

Sometimes you hit into bad luck and then completely just stop hitting like us today!

[Surhoffan17]

Yet they bloop hits like crazy....baseball is a funny game!

 

[scOtt]

I hope Villar DOES try to steal! I don;t think Chance has missed any throwouts this year.

[scOtt]

1 minute ago, scOtt said:

I hope Villar DOES try to steal! I don;t think Chance has missed any throwouts this year.

'Cept that one.....

[scOtt]

Easy tag, gets to 3rd.

[spiritof66]

7 minutes ago, Yossarian said:

These hard hit balls have to start finding holes, right?  They have to!!!

Sure they do, but it might not be until next week.

[scOtt]

Just now, scOtt said:

Easy tag, gets to 3rd.

As if 4-0 isn't bad enough.....

[Tony-OH]

This game is about as much fun as watching paint dry. 

Ho hum Harvey and a sleeping offense is not good baseball.

[scOtt]

Ok.... I have an empire to build. See ya's!

[Philip]

Very sad day. I see that once again, the starter was left in too long, he opened an inning, continued To be bad, and then came out.

I realize there’s a lot of nuance involved, But Harvey was struggling from the start. He gave up lots of loud outs and was having lots of deep counts. As Ben said, “he’s throwing lots of strikes but he’s not throwing good strikes.”If Armstrong had started with a clean inning, well, he might not have done very well either, but Hyde should have been proactive instead of reactive, Especially when the offense has made it clear that they are taking the day off and the game is lost anyway.

Edited May 12, 2021 by Philip

[spiritof66]

Does someone think that having Armstrong on the team is helpful either this season or for future  Oriole teams?

If so, who thinks so and why? If not, why is he still on the ML roster? The only reason I can think of is that replacing him with someone who might be more useful would cost some additional money.

[Tony-OH]

1 minute ago, Philip said:

Very sad day. I see that once again, the starter was left in too long, he opened an inning, continued To be bad, and then came out.

I realize there’s a lot of nuance involved, But Harvey was struggling from the start. He gave up lots of loud outs and was having lots of deep counts. Has been said, “he’s throwing lots of strikes but he’s not throwing good strikes.”If Armstrong had started with a clean inning, well, he might not have done very well either, but Hyde should have been proactive instead of reactive, Especially when the offense has made it clear that they are taking the day off and the game is lost anyway.

The entire team sucks today. How anyone can blame Hyde for this debacle is beyond me. We have scored ZERO runs. Harvey crapped the bed in his return. This team is not very good defensively. Add it up, and you have a very bad team that is playing a very bad game. 

[Philip]

2 minutes ago, spiritof66 said:

Does someone think that having Armstrong on the team is helpful either this season or for future  Oriole teams?

If so, who thinks so and why? If not, why is he still on the ML roster? The only reason I can think of is that replacing him with someone who might be more useful would cost some additional money.

I think he’s here because he’s a warm body and there’s no one beating down the door yet. I wonder if he’d be claimed if he were designated, but I also wonder who’d replace him, since Lowther appears to be in the doghouse.