Sunday October 3: Orioles try to end season by ending the Blue Jays' season

[SteveA]

Gametime:  3:07 pm

Forecast:  66 degrees, good chance of rain so roof will be closed

Matchup:  Bruce Zimmerman (L) vs Hyun-Jin Ryu (L)

Lineups

1. Cedric Mullins (L) CF

2. Ryan Mountcastle (R) 1B

3. Austin Hays (R) RF

4. Trey Mancini (R) DH

5. Pedro Severino (R) C

6. Kelvin Gutierrez (R) 3B

7. Tyler Nevin (R) LF

8. Pat Valaika (R) 2B

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
Nick Ciuffo (L)
Jahmai Jones (R)
Ryan McKenna (R)
Austin Wynns (R)
 

Bullpen Availabiity

Available
    Fernando Abad*   0.1 IP, 11p Friday 
    Marcos Diplan  1.0 IP, 15p Friday
    Conner Greene   1.1 IP, 19p Friday
    Eric Hanhold 1.0 IP, 22p Wednesday
    Joey Krehbiel  1.0 IP, 16p Thursday 
    Brooks Kriske  1.1 IP, 19p Friday, 1.0 IP, 19p Wednesday
    Isaac Mattson 1.1 IP, 16p Friday
    Cole Sulser   1.0 IP, 10 p Thursday 
    Dillon Tate    1.0 IP, 11p Thursday

Not Available
    Konner Wade  2.2 IP, 59p yesterday;  1.0 IP, 26p Wednesday
    Spenser Watkins  2.1 IP, 24p yesterday;  1.0 IP, 20p Wednesday

*denotes lefthanded pitcher

Likely done for season:  Lowther, Eshelman, Means, Wade, Watkins

 

[SteveA]

Time to crush the Blue Jays dreams.

[O's84]

That didn't take long.

[CynBeth]

Was hoping we would get to enjoy the game a little before the Ravens begin theirs.

[scOtt]

Just now, O's84 said:

That didn't take long.

And one of the boys that Mike Elias found... George f-in Springer.

[Dreadnought]

Down to the wire:   Need Arizona to win today.

 

Edited October 3, 2021 by Dreadnought

[O's84]

This is looking like a crooked number inning.

[scOtt]

Who holds the tiebreaker between Boston and Toronto and Seattle?

 

Or is there some kind of one-game-playin?

[scOtt]

Just now, O's84 said:

This is looking like a crooked number inning.

Only the HR was crushed. Well placed GB and a bloop. GIFT call on Vlad.

[O's84]

Just now, scOtt said:

Only the HR was crushed. Well placed GB and a bloop. GIFT call on Vlad.

I'm aware, but it's lot to take that and then also get enough outs despite that.

[scOtt]

The hard hit ball is an out!

[O's84]

A lot of hard contact, fortunately Martin bailed him out there.

[O's84]

Zimmerman doesn't have it, couldn't even get out of the 1st inning.

[scOtt]

That's the shame. TOR stadium is filled and loud. If this was TB in the exact same situation there'd probably be 15K there. If that.

[ArtVanDelay]

I was hoping we could either beat the Blue Jays to end their season or get the #1.  Neither scenario is looking good so far.