Saturday October 2 at Toronto: the day all the announcers break out the word penultimate

[SteveA]

Gametime:  3:07 pm

Forecast:  72, no precip, so roof likely open

Matchup:  John Means (L) vs Alek Manoah (R)

Lineups

1. Cedric Mullins (L) CF

2. Ryan Mountcastle (R) 1B

3. Austin Hays (R) RF

4. Trey Mancini (R) DH

5. Kelvin Gutierrez (R) 3B

6. Ryan McKenna (R) LF

7. Pat Valaika (R) 2B

8. Nick Ciuffo (L) C

9. Richie Martin (R) SS

 

1. George Springer (R) CF

2. Marcus Semien (R) 2B

3. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (R) 1B

4. Bo Bichette (R) SS

5. Teoscar Hernandez (R) LF

6. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (R) DH

7. Santiago Espinal (R) 3B

8. Danny Jansen (R) C

9. Randal Grichuk (R) RF

 

Orioles Bench
Jahmai Jones (R)
Tyler Nevin (R)
Pedro Severino (R)
Austin W:ynns (R)

 

Bullpen Availabiity
Available
    Fernando Abad*   0.1 IP, 11p yesterday 
    Eric Hanhold 1.0 IP, 22p Wednesday
    Joey Krehbiel  1.0 IP, 16p Thursday; 2.0 IP, 12p Tuesday
    Cole Sulser   1.0 IP, 10 p Thursday;  1.0 IP, 12p Tuesday
    Dillon Tate    1.0 IP, 11p Thursday
    Konner Wade  1.0 IP, 26p Wednesday
    Spenser Watkins  1.0 IP, 20p Wednesday

Maybe Available
    Marcos Diplan  1.0 IP, 15p yesterday; 2.0 IP, 22p Tuesday 
    Conner Greene   1.1 IP, 19p yesterday
     Brooks Kriske  1.1 IP, 19p yesterday, 1.0 IP, 19p Wednesday
    Isaac Mattson 1.1 IP, 16p yesterday

*denotes lefthanded pitcher

Tomorrow's starter:  Bruce Zimmerman
Likely done for season:  Lowther, Eshelman

[Just Regular]

Has Means ever had a team context stage close to this?

There's the no-hitter and of course his wonderful introductory moment to me when he broke Giancarlo Stanton, but I think today it by a good deal.

Appropriately, Mountaineers football starting in 300 hour this afternoon too.

[scOtt]

I HATE to compliment Toronto in any way but I'll say this... They look like they "want it" a LOT more than Boston did. They're fired up.

[Just Regular]

Five 100 mph exit velocities allowed in 12 Batters Faced won't help Means' xwOBA.

xwOBA percentiles of Orioles SP - last 4 years

2021: Means 56, Akin 15, Harvey 13, Lopez 12, Zimmermann 4, Kremer 2

2020: Means 86, Akin 43, Kremer 29, Lopez 15, Cobb 9

2019: Means 61, Bundy 52

2018: Bundy 30, Cobb 16, Cashner 5

Ben just with the nice line Means was an 11th round pick from WVU, and Manoah was the 11th overall pick from WVU.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

42 minutes ago, scOtt said:

I HATE to compliment Toronto in any way but I'll say this... They look like they "want it" a LOT more than Boston did. They're fired up.

They’re a young team and hungry to make the playoffs. While Cito still sucks, I’d rather see the Blue Jays in the playoffs over pink hat nation. Especially now that Jose Bautista is gone. 

[ORIOLE33]

The Yankees better win tomorrow or they might be having a seat right next to us. Lol

[SteveA]

Disappointing final start for Means.

[spiritof66]

Great day for some football.  ?

[Philip]

For a team like this, “penultimate” is too big a word…. I think “pencilultimate” will suffice.

[Philip]

I honestly think the early division standings for next year look like:

Rays

Jays

 Bosox 

Os

Yankees

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

26 minutes ago, ORIOLE33 said:

The Yankees better win tomorrow or they might be having a seat right next to us. Lol

[Philip]

Ok, a question for the crowd. When anyone can come in to relieve Means, why Wade? He did badly, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. 

[SteveA]

9 minutes ago, Philip said:

Ok, a question for the crowd. When anyone can come in to relieve Means, why Wade? He did badly, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. 

There aren't that many choices, given we used about 6 guys yesterday, and it was early in the game so Hyde wanted some length, and Wade has started all year 

I know this is a dead horse but why can't you just ONCE, when you question a move, say what you think the alternative should be?  Why couldn't you say who you would bring in?  It would make your question a lot more worthwhile if you would state what you would have done differently.

[Philip]

4 minutes ago, SteveA said:

There aren't that many choices, given we used about 6 guys yesterday, and it was early in the game so Hyde wanted some length, and Wade has started all year 

I know this is a dead horse but why can't you just ONCE, when you question a move, say what you think the alternative should be?  Why couldn't you say who you would bring in?  It would make your question a lot more worthwhile if you would state what you would have done differently.

I didn’t have a problem with the move, you shouldn’t make that inference. I was just asking whether his coming in meant anything beyond itself.

Notice I said that he did badly, but that doesn’t mean by itself. If I had a problem with bringing him in, I’d have mentioned his performance in a more disparaging way, but I didn’t.

[SteveA]

As he takes a perfect game into the 6th I'll ask again: why hasn't Tanner Houck been in the Boston rotation all year?  I think he would have been better than Richards or Perez.