Friday, July 15: Orioles take double digit winning streak into the Tropicana Dome

[celery]

1 minute ago, RVAOsFan said:

Should Santander have caught that? Kinda looked like he ran past it. 

Looked pretty awful by Santander

[LA2]

There's three innings left and we're a good comeback team. But we haven't played or been managed particularly well today. I blame it on too many off-days LOL. Although Hyde strangely didn't take advantage of them by pulling Wells.

[SteveA]

12 minutes ago, LA2 said:

No no no! It was the inverse of that: they had to sweep the Brewers to tie for the div. crown after 162 and surprisingly blew out the Brewers the first three of the four-game series (8-3, 7-1, 11-3). Hopes were high b/c Palmer was pitching the fourth game--but  he blew it and we lost 10-2. I.e., after 161 games, they were tied with Milwaukee for first place. Ended up 94-68, 1-game behind.

Game was close until the late innings.  Which Brewer hit the ball down the LF line for an extra base hit with men on base that broke it open?  After that we kind of fell apart.

Ben Oglivie maybe?  Without looking it up that is my guess.

[spiritof66]

6 minutes ago, ArtVanDelay said:

Did it or did Santander just whiff horribly and deceive everyone?

Ball was fair all the way. Santander created an illusion it was foul by leaping to catch it in foul territory. Your brain (or my brain, anyway) tells you the ball must be in the glove or pretty much directly over it. Santander was trying to catch the ball a few feet to the left of where it was, and you don't often see that.

[Yossarian]

Not a good way to answer with your 2-3-4 hitters.   The steak looks to be over. 

[SteveA]

8 minutes ago, Jagwar said:

I remember listening to those games on the radio with my mom in our Edmondson Heights dining room. Whenever I talked she would snap at me, "Dammit Thomas! Sit still and be quiet. You're going to jinx this"

It was very difficult to pull in the radio stations that carried the O's from Blacksburg, where I was a freshman in college.  I lived on the first floor of a dorm, and I took a 6 pack of beer up to the top (6th I think) floor and perched a radio on a hallway window ledge with the antenna out the window to listen to that Friday night doubleheader we swept.

[RVAOsFan]

3 minutes ago, LA2 said:

There's three innings left and we're a good comeback team. But we haven't played or been managed particularly well today. I blame it on too many off-days LOL. Although Hyde strangely didn't take advantage of them by pulling Wells.

Palmer was all over it, he knew Wells needed to be pulled.  This one is on Hyde.

[Yossarian]

This pitching staff had done a Herculean job to hold leads recently.  It's time for the offense to do their part and give the staff some breathing room. 

[fansince71]

1 minute ago, SteveA said:

Game was close until the late innings.  Which Brewer hit the ball down the LF line for an extra base hit with men on base that broke it open?  After that we kind of fell apart.

Ben Oglivie maybe?  Without looking it up that is my guess.

Are you talking about the final game? I thought they jumped all over Palmer and it wasn’t even close.  That’s just from memory. 

[Riggodrill44]

2 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Game was close until the late innings.  Which Brewer hit the ball down the LF line for an extra base hit with men on base that broke it open?  After that we kind of fell apart.

Ben Oglivie maybe?  Without looking it up that is my guess.

Palmer would have been the only pitcher to beat them 3 times that year.

Don Sutton pitched a great game.

[SteveA]

1 minute ago, spiritof66 said:

Ball was fair all the way. Santander created an illusion it was foul by leaping to catch it in foul territory. Your brain (or my brain, anyway) tells you the ball must be in the glove or pretty much directly over it. Santander was trying to catch the ball a few feet to the left of where it was, and you don't often see that.

Reminiscent of Keon Broxton when he was with us a few years ago.  He would go back to the fence and make a spectacular leap at the wall.  And the ball would go out 8 feet to the left or right if where he was leaving.  Did it several times.

[LA2]

6 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Game was close until the late innings.  Which Brewer hit the ball down the LF line for an extra base hit with men on base that broke it open?  After that we kind of fell apart.

Ben Oglivie maybe?  Without looking it up that is my guess.

I remember Ogilvie's hit being the stroke of doom. Just looked it up: It was 4-1 after five, with Pancakes giving up 4 runs (3 earned) in 5+ innings. Just was not the situation we were in in the first three games. The whole top of that formidable Brewers lineup finally had their good games.

[Yossarian]

3 minutes ago, Yossarian said:

Not a good way to answer with your 2-3-4 hitters.   The steak looks to be over. 

Of course I meant the streak, not the steak.  I don't know how much steak is left.

[SteveA]

1 minute ago, fansince71 said:

Are you talking about the final game? I thought they jumped all over Palmer and it wasn’t even close.  That’s just from memory. 

Looked it up.

We were down 4-1 in the 7th, 5-2 into the 9th.  They got 5 in the 9th to win 10-2.

[LA2]

This team has shown it can overcome a 3-run deficit. But we're in the Tropicana playing the Rays....

We needed a Markakis-type hitter up in Adley's those two bases-loaded situations. Even Urias maybe....