Saturday afternoon August 14: Chris Sale makes his first start of the season

[scOtt]

7 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Good inning for Lopez.  Let's put another couple runs on the board 

The Oriole always put enough runs on the board to TEASE YOU into thinking they can come back. Get the tie run, winning run to the plate... and then last inning third out thanks for coming out NYTOL!

[SteveA]

0 for 30 with runners in scoring position.  That's just a damn joke.  Even if you have a .200 batting average, there should be about a tenth of percent chance of a sequence of 30 ABs resulting in outs.

They can't possibly be that bad.  It makes no sense.

[LA2]

It's tempting to take MLB.com up on its offer for television broadcasts the rest of the season, but I'm just saying No--already have enough depressants in my daily life and Oriole baseball is nothing if not daily and depressing.

[eddie83]

3 minutes ago, LA2 said:

I'm not listening and so I don't know, but the decline in Palmer's descriptive abilities and memory over the last two or so seasons has been fairly obvious, sad to say.

Maybe he needed Hunter's straightman feeds--and Thorne's inebriated energy--to stay sharp!

 

2 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Yep

Yeah I rewound it. He did say that. 
He does enjoy correcting Scott. Last night Scott misjudged a long fly out and Palmer chuckled.  
 

He and Scott get along fine but it’s not that chemistry with Gary. Can’t recreate that. 

[SteveA]

Sweet Caroline isn't enough?  Now they have to play Dancing Queen between innings at Fenway too?

The hatred is just welling up in me right now.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

8 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

To be fair it was Super Bowl, not a pre season game. 

Betting on a preseason game line is basically flipping a coin too. 

[LA2]

2 minutes ago, scOtt said:

The Oriole always put enough runs on the board to TEASE YOU into thinking they can come back. Get the tie run, winning run to the plate... and then last inning third out thanks for coming out NYTOL!

Have a good evening!

[eddie83]

Hope Lopez can at least keep this up and eat some innings. 
 

Not something you want to deal with consistently.... but it does say something when you can soak up innings after a terrible start. 

[LA2]

3 minutes ago, SteveA said:

0 for 30 with runners in scoring position.  That's just a damn joke.  Even if you have a .200 batting average, there should be about a tenth of percent chance of a sequence of 30 ABs resulting in outs.

They can't possibly be that bad.  It makes no sense.

The O's are pulling that 0-fer?

[eddie83]

Just now, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Betting on a preseason game line is basically flipping a coin too. 

That it is. I’m pretty sure I’ve bet on preseason before. Been years ago. 

[KillerTofu]

It’s always nice starting a guy with an 8 ERA. Geez

[eddie83]

Ravens total is 36 tonight. Under will be a winner. 

[SteveA]

1 minute ago, LA2 said:

The O's are pulling that 0-fer?

Since the start of the Detroit series.  I don't what they did in the last AB(s) with RISP vs TB Sunday so I suppose it could be worse.

[LA2]

1 minute ago, KillerTofu said:

It’s always nice starting a guy with an 8 ERA. Geez

No need to exaggerate--6 is bad enough!

[eddie83]

4 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Sweet Caroline isn't enough?  Now they have to play Dancing Queen between innings at Fenway too?

The hatred is just welling up in me right now.

Verdugo looks like an easy player to dislike.