Sunday July 3: Orioles try to complete 3rd consecutive .500 road trip in Minnesota

[Yossarian]

Need a DP

[SteveA]

2 minutes ago, Yossarian said:

Need a DP

Got it!!!

[justD]

4 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

Just following the game on the game thread.  Was Martin picked off and caught stealing or was that the same play?  For all his talent, Martin makes a lot of boneheaded plays.

Yes, same play. 

[justD]

Wow when you really, really need a 6-4-3, soft hand toss to bullet and now to make the guy on 3rd not matter. 

[justD]

So incredibly refreshing to have someone behind the dish with a runner on third who can actually block!

[justD]

Oh well.  That was a great at bat by Polanco.

[justD]

I like that he's left Wells in.  I think. 

[SteveA]

Good job Wells!  Akin time in the 7th.

[Beysbol]

15 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Man so much negative talk in this thread today.  We are on the road for the last 3 games of a ten game road trip, against a first place team, and we have pretty much been the better team for all but two innings of the series, where our closer who had been great all year coughed up a couple 1 run leads.

It sucks that happened, but all this fatalistic talk about how awful we are seems just over the top to me.  The team has plenty of weaknesses, which we all know, but we are in a two month stretch of playing .500 ball, we are getting pretty good starting pitching despite the losses of Means and G-Rod.

This should be fun but it seems everyone on the game thread is just sitting around waiting for disaster.

Cool story, bro! 

[Yossarian]

I say bring Wells out for one more against the bottom of the order.  

[justD]

Atta boy.  Career high strikeouts, six complete innings.  I guess I wasn't paying attention to the fact that the Twins drafted him!

[dtk9119]

Need more runs.. in a big way.

Hopefully Akin can finish it out.

[OriolesMagic83]

Do you use Bautista here or against the heart of the order next time?  Can't believe they will use Lopez today.

[Beysbol]

Put in Mullins! 

[justD]

Kevin: There are some people who believe the bird on the field may be a Great-Tailed Grackle. 

Ben: Great-Tailed Grackle? Some people just be makin stuff up.