Friday, July 29: Game 100 is an early evening start in Cincinnati

[tntoriole]

3 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Let me say this, if Mountcastle is not going to be smart enough hitter at this point to know that a changeup pitcher is going to throw him a changeup, well that's why he's a .740 OPs hitter.

The Orioles need more from first base.

Exactly.  His swing path is ALL pull.. he has not gone with a pitch to right field in a month.  Mancini same way.  When these guys slump it is usually they are trying to pull every pitch. 
 

And the entire lineup has had a terrible approach to Minor thus far who puts that junk outside and waits for our undisciplined hitters to go chasing. 

[O's84]

At some point the collective slump of Mancini/Mountcastle/Hays needs to stop.  Especially given the pitching injuries, they will have to do more.

[seak05]

Can Stowers play first base? or can Santander?

[SteveA]

Great inning for Bradish.    A foot or two shorter on Votto's ball and he'd be working on a 2 hit shutout right now.

[seak05]

quick inning there, when Bradish has more then two pitches going, shockingly, he's much better

[dtk9119]

Quick inning by Bradish hopefully we can squeeze 2 more out of him.

Now can this offense wake up??

[Yossarian]

Has any of you tried that Win Reality virtual reality batting simulator thing?

[Tony-OH]

4 minutes ago, tntoriole said:

Exactly.  His swing path is ALL pull.. he has not gone with a pitch to right field in a month.  Mancini same way.  When these guys slump it is usually they are trying to pull every pitch. 
 

And the entire lineup has had a terrible approach to Minor thus far who puts that junk outside and waits for our undisciplined hitters to go chasing. 

It's like they forgot that you attack a changeup pitcher by going the other way. Really, really bad approach tonight from the team.

[Tony-OH]

3 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Great inning for Bradish.    A foot or two shorter on Votto's ball and he'd be working on a 2 hit shutout right now.

He has pitched really well so far. I need to go look at his stuff on baseball savant if it's anything different or just better command.

[O's84]

I've seen more than enough of Odor at this point.

[xmichaelx]

Why is Vavra not playing at this point? Unbelievable. 

[dtk9119]

Man just a horrible approach against Minor. He misses the target by 20 inches and Odor still strikes out. Then Mateo can't even take a few pitches. 

[Yossarian]

We're running out of time.  Can't continue making Minir look like Randy Johnson. He is just waltzing through this game with no stress.  Offense needs to wake up. 

[O's84]

Yeah this would be a candidate for most embarrassing offense game of the year (should this continue). 

[tntoriole]

Minor with a 6.65 ERA … 6.65 and our hitters just swinging at every damn pitch he throws 

Worst offensive approach of the entire season thus far

Last time we played bad teams we ran through them to accumulate a 10 game streak

But this kind of playing down to the opponent is much more the norm for us