Monday July 4 afternoon: Orioles' first July 4 home game in 14 years

[Yossarian]

Arauz has got to stay in the pickle long enough for Hays to score

[Brian88]

2 minutes ago, justD said:

Good grief.  So sick of these rundowns and wasted outs.  Or whatever it is they're wasting.  Don't like it. 

That was bad, Arauz had no chance of ever making it to second.

[justD]

I'm sure @SteveAwill beat me to it, but for those not watching, Arauz hits a ground ball through the right side.  AR shows off that sprint speed by scoring from 2nd.  Hays makes it to 3B but Arauz keeps running toward 2B and the ball comes right to the second baseman in front of him, and it only took like 2 throws to throw him out so Hays had to hold up and couldn't score.  I can kinda see what the new guy was trying to do, but man, wasting Hays on 3rd. 

Edit: Hey Steve, or anyone else watching, if I got this wrong feel free to correct

[justD]

Too many baserunners for Kremer.  He won't be able to go very deep at this pace. 

[SteveA]

4 minutes ago, justD said:

I'm sure @SteveAwill beat me to it, but for those not watching, Arauz hits a ground ball through the right side.  AR shows off that sprint speed by scoring from 2nd.  Hays makes it to 3B but Arauz keeps running toward 2B and the ball comes right to the second baseman in front of him, and it only took like 2 throws to throw him out so Hays had to hold up and couldn't score.  I can kinda see what the new guy was trying to do, but man, wasting Hays on 3rd. 

Edit: Hey Steve, or anyone else watching, if I got this wrong feel free to correct

Nope, your descritpion was spot on.

[justD]

And now off to "grill" some hot dogs.  Weams would've been using the real grill -- I'll be using the George Foreman  

Might make a Philly Cheesesteak out of the Steak-Umms and Cheese Whiz. 

[SteveA]

3 minutes ago, justD said:

Too many baserunners for Kremer.  He won't be able to go very deep at this pace. 

It's 2022.   Wanting your starters to go deep is SO early 20th century. He'll give us 5 innings and we'll take it with a smile.

[SteveA]

Hyde is kicking butt at challenges this game.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, justD said:

And now off to "grill" some hot dogs.  Weams would've been using the real grill -- I'll be using the George Foreman  

Might make a Philly Cheesesteak out of the Steak-Umms and Cheese Whiz. 

Sounds delightful.

 

[SteveA]

Honestly I thought he should have sent Jorge from the get-go.   Was surprised to see the stop sign.   Then the RF fumbled it a bit and Jorge had to re-accelerate.

Way to go Cedric!

[dtk9119]

Some weird challenges and sequences early. Nice double by Mullins but why send him w the IF in? He was out by a mile. They could have gotten more there. 

[SteveA]

Hays with a double.

That would have been 10 rows deep last year.

[SilverRocket]

12 minutes ago, dtk9119 said:

Some weird challenges and sequences early. Nice double by Mullins but why send him w the IF in? He was out by a mile. They could have gotten more there. 

Mountcastle popped it up, so the end result was the same.

[LA2]

16 minutes ago, dtk9119 said:

Some weird challenges and sequences early. Nice double by Mullins but why send him w the IF in? He was out by a mile. They could have gotten more there. 

No commonly accepted baseball tactic annoys me more than automatically sending a runner from third on a ground ball.

[LA2]

5 minutes ago, SilverRocket said:

Mountcastle popped it up, so the end result was the same.

We can't know that.