Fri July 16: Kansas City here we come

[SteveA]

Gametime:  8:10 pm EDT

 

Forecast:  83 degrees, little chance of rain

 

Roster Move:  Jorge Lopez went on the bereavement list Wednesday.  He's expected back today or tomorrow so for tonight the Orioles are just playing with a 25 man roster.  If he gets back he will start tomorrow night.  If not, someone from the taxi squad, most likely Alexander Wells, will take his place on the roster tomorrow.

 

Matchup:  Keegan Akin (L) vs Danny Duffy (L)

 

Lineups

 

1. Cedric Mullins (L) CF

2. Austin Hays (R) LF

3. Trey Mancini (R) DH

4. Ryan Mountcastle (R) 1B

5. Anthony Santander (S) RF

6. Ramon Urias (R) SS

7. Pedro Severino (R) C

8. Pat Valaika (R) 2B

9. Kelvin Gutierrez (R) 3B

 

1. Whit Merrifield (R) RF

2. Carlos Santana (S) 1B

3. Salvador Perez (R) C

4. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF

5. Hunter Dozier (R) 3B

6. Jorge Soler (R) DH

7. Hanser Alberto (R) 2B

8. Michael A. Taylor (R) CF

9. Nicky Lopez (L) SS

 

Orioles Bench 

Domingo Leyba (S)
Ryan McKenna (R)
DJ Stewart (L)
Austin Wynns (R)

 

Bullpen Availability (last pitched)

 

Available

   Shaun Anderson, 1.2 IP, 40p last Friday
   Paul Fry*  1.0 IP, 24p Sunday
   Adam Plutko 2.2 IP, 54p Saturday
   Tanner Scott* 1.2 IP, 23p Sunday 
   Cole Sulser 0.2 IP, 16p Sunday
   Dillon Tate, 0.1 IP, 2p Sunday
   Pat Valaika, 1.0 IP, 2p last Friday
   Cesar Valdez 1.0 IP, 30p last Friday
   Tyler Wells 2.0 IP, 40p Sunday

 

Did not include Eshelman, Harvey, Watkins under the assumption they are starters.

*denotes lefthander

[SteveA]

Kaufman Stadium is definitely on my bucket list.  Still looks pretty good as it heads towards 50 years old.

[SteveA]

Best first inning batting average in MLB.

[Moose Milligan]

Duckfart for a hit, nice job Cedric.

[Moose Milligan]

The Pudgy Faced AppleJohn!

Was hoping we'd get someone else to start tonite.  My interest in this game has declined by about 25% just with Akin out there alone.

WTF do the Royals have that gold stuff on their jerseys like they won the WS last year?  2015 was a long time ago, you guys are absolute garbage.  

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

2 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

The Pudgy Faced AppleJohn!

Was hoping we'd get someone else to start tonite.  My interest in this game has declined by about 25% just with Akin out there alone.

WTF do the Royals have that gold stuff on their jerseys like they won the WS last year?  2015 was a long time ago, you guys are absolute garbage.  

Pyrite jerseys. 

[Moose Milligan]

Lol Akin sucks.

[Gurgi]

Got out of that with just one run......I will take that. 

[Moose Milligan]

4 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Pyrite jerseys. 

Sure, they're still terrible.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

5 minutes ago, Gurgi said:

Got out of that with just one run......I will take that. 

Akin escaped the big inning that time, the problem is he's always juggling baserunners every inning. 

[SteveA]

Hanser Alberto gets a line drive base hit vs a lefty.  I think I've seen that before a few times 

[Moose Milligan]

If there was ever a lefty prime for Hanser Alberto...it would be Akin.

Here we go, this appears to be the big inning that he's usually good for.

[OriolesMagic83]

14 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Lol Akin sucks.

Thank you Captain Obvious

[SteveA]

I like Gutierrez.  

[SteveA]

Batting practice.