Tuesday, July 26: Orioles vs Rays

[LA2]

40 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Vavra woulda had it!

Anyway, thank you Arozarena.

On the replay, it looks like Odor should have got that grounder. Despite its high hop--it wasn't moving quickly. Cost us a run.

[Just Regular]

I can see why McClanahan pitched in the World Series in 2020 yet only earned 158 days of service time in 2021.

[OriolesMagic83]

Does anyone believe that Mountcastle has an old car that needs CarShield?

[dtk9119]

Watkins still out there? Hyde playing with fire? Can't give up anything else

[seak05]

2 minutes ago, dtk9119 said:

Watkins still out there? Hyde playing with fire? Can't give up anything else

Think Hyde is playing with a short bullpen, would've been nice if he could have gotten through 6

[SteveA]

Pretty happy with what we got from Watkins tonight.

Got into the 6th, gave up 3, 0 walks, 4 Ks.

We used 6 innings of pen last night.   We needed 5+ from Watkins and got it.

[O's84]

Got out of it.  Now can we steal this game is the question.

[mrbig1]

7 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Pretty happy with what we got from Watkins tonight.

Got into the 6th, gave up 3, 0 walks, 4 Ks.

We used 6 innings of pen last night.   We needed 5+ from Watkins and got it.

Good point my friend.

[mrbig1]

Looks like we're going to win this game via the solo homerun.

[O's84]

8 pitches in the 5th and 7 pitches in the 6th is not going to get the job done.  He'll have a complete game at this rate.

Edited July 27, 2022 by O's84

[mrbig1]

that was a fast 1-2-3 inning.

[Just Regular]

Just now, mrbig1 said:

Looks like we're going to win this game via the solo homerun.

The way McClanahan is beasting, these few paragraphs from Petriello in a Savant website story today seem relevant.

So you’re a contender, or at least you think you might be one. You’re looking ahead to the postseason and how your lineup might square up against the best pitching in the land. You’re wondering if you need a power bat, and the answer is: Yes, you do need a power bat. That’s because, despite the myth that power doesn’t play in October and small ball wins pennants, power plays extremely well in the playoffs. How could it not?

We explored this in great detail in 2020, but the short version is that because pitching gets better -- not only do the worst pitching teams go home, but the surviving teams use their best pitchers more aggressively -- offense goes down, and so the thing that’s guaranteed to score at least one run becomes even more important.

 

To put it in stark numbers, teams that outhomer their opponents have won 77% of the time in the regular season since 2020 ... and teams that have done that have won 90% of the time in the postseason. You might remember seeing last postseason that teams that hit more homers went 25-2; you definitely remember that Jorge Soler did not win World Series MVP for his sacrifice-bunting skills.

[SteveA]

Wow this bullpen is just amazing.

[O's84]

The defense, ours vs. theirs is the difference in this game.

[mrbig1]

Another 1-2-3 inning.