Monday July 19: O's travel to St Pete to try to win their 3rd in a row

[Il BuonO]

I’d say Watkins has to live on the edges of the plate to be successful. And he gets no favors w/ Severino back there taking away strikes either.

[Il BuonO]

That's a good miss on 0-2. I wish more of their guys would expand the zone like that.

[Il BuonO]

Yep, JP is right, good pitches. A 2-0 slider/cutter in a FB count.

[HowAboutThat]

9 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:

Well, like I said, little room for error. But I was struck by his command the first couple times. So, let’s see....seems like he knows who he is, not trying to do too much. But yeah, second and third time through and we’ll see if that holds up.

I really like him, he seems efficient and he seems to be fooling the other guys, and he had at least one page called ball that I bet a better catcher could’ve worked for a strike, oh my gosh isn’t that centerfielder fantastic?

[HowAboutThat]

I hate hate hate hate hate interviews over gameplay. That was a fantastic catch by Kiermaier and we missed it because we were listening to them yak with Austin Wynns

[SteveA]

#&@^!!*#& Keirmaier

[Il BuonO]

Kiermaier is a perennial GG candidate.

[HowAboutThat]

Yarbrough wanted that Strike call.

[O's84]

Not a strike, that was well off the plate.

[HowAboutThat]

Nah! And he got THAT one even though it was 6 inches outside

[SteveA]

And a BS call robs Pedro of a chanced to drive in a run.

I liked hearing Wynns talk about catching, he clearly knows his stuff.

[HowAboutThat]

1 minute ago, SteveA said:

And a BS call robs Pedro of a chanced to drive in a run.

I liked hearing Wynns talk about catching, he clearly knows his stuff.

I agree, but we’re not here to watch him talk, we are here to watch baseball. Save the interviews for non-gameplay timesI agree, but we’re not here to watch him talk, we are here to watch baseball. Anytime you think that talking is more important than gameplay you are devaluing gameplay, which is exactly the opposite of what we’re trying to do. Meanwhile, Watkins has come out for the third and he’s dealing

[HowAboutThat]

The umpire is calling the outside strike it seems, but that time it look like Severino framed it well

[SteveA]

2 minutes ago, Philip said:

I agree, but we’re not here to watch him talk, we are here to watch baseball. Save the interviews for non-gameplay timesI agree, but we’re not here to watch him talk, we are here to watch baseball. Anytime you think that talking is more important than gameplay you are devaluing gameplay, which is exactly the opposite of what we’re trying to do. Meanwhile, Watkins has come out for the third and he’s dealing

I wouldn't want lots of it but I'm willing to sacrifice a half inning of a game every few days for an interesting interview, like Means on Saturday and Wynns today.

Now I don't want to hear Chris Davis.

[Il BuonO]

2 minutes ago, Philip said:

The umpire is calling the outside strike it seems, but that time it look like Severino framed it well

Words I never thought I’d hear.