Wednesday, September 15: John Means vs the Evil Empire

[SteveA]

Gametime:  7:05 pm

Forecast:  Hot and muggy, perhaps some occasional thunderstorms

Matchup:  Nester Cortes (L) vs John Means (L)

Lineups

Yankees TBA

1. Cedric Mullins (L) CF

2. Ryan Mountcastle (R) 1B

3. Austin Hays (R) RF

4. Anthony Santander (S) DH

5. Ramon Urias (R) 2B

6. Ryan McKenna (R) LF

7. Pat Valaika (R) SS

8. Kelvin Gutierrez (R) 3B

9. Austin Wynns (R) C

Orioles Bench
Jahmai Jones (R)
Trey Mancini (R) -- was in original lineup but scratched due to sore abdominal muscle
Richie Martin (S)
Pedro Severino (R) -- left last night's game with soreness in his upper leg and groin area
DJ Stewart (L)

Bullpen Availability

Available
    Fernando Abad*  1.0 IP, 20p Sunday  
    Conner Greene  1.0 IP, 16p Sunday 
    Cole Sulser  2.0 IP, 37p Friday
    Dillon Tate   1.0 IP, 12p Saturday 
    Tyler Wells  1.1 IP, 35p Saturday

Maybe Available
    Michael Baumann 3.0 IP, 67p Sunday
    Marcos Diplan 1.0 IP, 24 p last night;  0.2 IP, 19p Saturday; a trip to Norfolk and back in between

Probably Not Available
    Eric Hanhold 2.0 IP, 27p last night; 1.2 IP, 34p Sunday
    Spenser Watkins 2.0 IP, 30p last night; 0.1 IP, 23p Sunday

*denotes lefthander

Current Rotation (T=Today, A=Announced, G=Guess)
   T-Means, A-Ellis, G-Akin, G-Lowther, G-A. Wells

[Legend_Of_Joey]

Revised line up.

[LA2]

Only one game in the loss column separates the Jays, Yankees, and Red Sox, with two of these teams likely to be Wild Cards, although Seattle and Oakland are far from being out of the picture. So these games really mean something. Would love to see the O's sink either the Sox or Y's--we have a somewhat better chance of doing the latter since we're already 7-10 vs. them (4-9 vs. Boston; 5-11 vs. Canada).

Let's go, O's!

in the process, barring injury and the type of slump he's avoided all season, Mullins will reach 30/30, Mountcastle will get his rookie record-breaking homer, Hays and Santander have a good chance of hitting 20 homers each (need 2 and 3 more respectively), and John Means has a very slim opportunity to get his ERA back under 3.00.

[mrbig1]

We shall win tonight.

[mrbig1]

1-2-3 first.

[O's84]

I'm really getting sick of these horrible calls.  That ball was easily inside, not close to being a strike.

[O's84]

More awful calls, and this game has only just started.

[O's84]

Cedric with a great catch, robbery!

[spiritof66]

Wow! What a catch! Got to trade that guy. 

[spiritof66]

There are a lot of guys on this team who don't seem to know how to play baseball.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

11 minutes ago, spiritof66 said:

Wow! What a catch! Got to trade that guy. 

Best catch by an Oriole I’ve seen this year.

 

[O's84]

After Urias, the bottom part of the lineup is awful.

[LA2]

4 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Best catch by an Oriole I’ve seen this year.

 

I agree: The precise timing, the height of the leap. and the SUPER-TWIST! Even Sanchez, not the most gracious player around, was so amazed he just said, "Wow...."

[O's84]

Just now, O's84 said:

After Urias, the bottom part of the lineup is awful.

Not that BA is the end all be all.  But of the 4 batters after Urias, 3 have a BA under .200, and the one that is above is BA .205.  

Oh and look, the umpire just robbed Means of a strike out.  This guy is bad at his job.

[LA2]

1 minute ago, O's84 said:

After Urias, the bottom part of the lineup is awful.

Miss having a bopper at third base, but neither Franco nor Nunez cd even begin to field nearly as well as Gutierrez (except that Franco suddenly got pretty good at coming in and one-handing rollers).