Saturday afternoon July 2: Orioles try to bounce back after tough loss vs Twins

[mrbig1]

Six outs away.

[Il BuonO]

Great pitch

[SteveA]

3 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Must’ve been a lot of one-pitch hits. 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TOR/TOR197806260.shtml

Looks like they don't have pitch count data from that era.   6 total pitching changes in the game.

I remember this game very well.   My Dad was never a baseball fan, so I never had anyone teach me how to score a baseball game.   I played Little League until i was about 10, but I don't recall ever looking at scoresheets.

So at 14 years old, I didn't know how to keep score, even though I was a huge Oriole fan.   I found a book in the library that showed me how to do it, and using a ruler and a sheet of paper, I made my own scoresheet.

And this particular game was the one I decided to try to score for the first time.  It was not on TV, so I was listening on the radio.   It was up in Toronto, but in this area there were thunderstorms so I was listening through a crackle of constant static on my radio whenever there was lightning.

And of course I chose this crazy game to be my first attempt at scoring.   My scoresheet was a total mess, Toronto had guys bat twice in an inning several times.   For many years I saved that scoresheet because it was such a confusing mess ,but at some point I lost it.

Elrod wasn't the first position player to pitch in that game.   Larry Harlow preceeded him.

[Il BuonO]

Good call, Ben.

[Il BuonO]

Don’t like the splitter up there. FB at 101 right there again please.

[SteveA]

Well, I couldn't connect to the board for a moment, so you will never see the post I tried to make saying I thought we should walk Buxton, even though putting the go ahead run on base is not considered a good thing.

Guess I was wrong!

Great job Felix!

[Il BuonO]

I’ll take it, much better location.

[waroriole]

Felix is just filthy. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and he becomes wild, but he’s very consistent this year. 

[SteveA]

Here we go...

[mrbig1]

what's the odds of a 1-2-3 inning.

[SteveA]

Damn.

[mrbig1]

I knew it.

[oriolediehard]

Why couldn't Hyde stick with Bautista?

[mrbig1]

Just now, oriolediehard said:

Why couldn't Hyde stick with Bautista?

Could not agree more.

[maybenxtyr]

I had to go back and check because I thought Polanco was about 40. He's only 28 but it feels like he's been around forever.