Thursday afternoon 8/18 Makeup Game: Orioles try to sweep season series from Cubs

[SteveA]

Gametime:  3:05 pm

Forecast:    mid 80s, no precipitation

Giveaway:   Adley Rutschman Rookie Season Digital Collectible, whatever that is.   

Matchup:  Adrian Sampson (R) vs Spenser Watkins (R)

Lineups

1. Nick Madrigal (R) 2B

2. Willson Contreras (R) C

3. Ian Happ (S) LF

4. Franmil Reyes (R) DH

5. Nico Hoerner (R) SS

6. Nelson Velazquez (R) RF

7. P.J. Higgins (R) 1B

8. Zach McKinstry (L) 3B

9. Christopher Morel (R) CF

 

1. Cedric Mullins (L) CF

2. Adley Rutschman (S) C

3. Ryan Mountcastle (R) 1B

4. Anthony Santander (S) DH

5. Ramon Urias (R) 3B

6. Terrin Vavra (L) RF

7. Austin Hays (R) LF

8. Rougned Odor (L) 2B

9. Jorge Mateo (R) SS

Orioles Bench
Robinson Chirinos (R)
Ryan McKenna (R)
Tyler Nevin (R)
Brett Phillips (L)

 

Bullpen Availability

Available
Keegan Akin (L)  2.0 IP, 26p Sunday 
Bryan Baker  1.1 IP, 16p Monday  
Felix Bautista 1.0 IP, 11p Tuesday;  1.0 IP, 12p Monday
Joey Krehbiel 0.1 IP, 13p yesterday;  1.0 IP, 17p Sunday 
Cionel Perez (L) 0.0 IP, 9p yesterday;   0.1 IP, 1p Monday 

Probably Available
Logan Gillaspie  1.0 IP, 10p yesterday;  0.2 IP, 7p Sunday 
Dillon Tate 1.0 IP, 12p Tuesday;  1.1 IP, 20p Monday

Probably Not Available
Louis Head  0.2 IP, 23p yesterday 
 

[Spy Fox]

Melanie and Dave Johnson in the booth certainly screams "this game wasn't on the schedule."

[Gurgi]

Ump is calling balls strikes.  

[SteveA]

Nice quick first inning for Watkins.

[Gurgi]

Adley walks again.  The king of walks

[MDK02]

The commentary is just so bad… it’s hard to listen. 

[ShoelesJoe]

Strike three called to Mullins and strike one called to Adley we’re both well off the plate. Hope the ump gives those pitches to Watkins. 

[O's84]

Mountcastle way late on a low 90's fastball down Broadway.

[O's84]

Just now, ShoelesJoe said:

Strike three called to Mullins and strike one called to Adley we’re both well off the plate. Hope the ump gives those pitches to Watkins. 

It just seems like they got worse and worse each yeah.  

[justD]

Anyone else listen to or watch The Compound podcast that Ian Happ leads?  It's odd and cool getting to see him in a game after having watched the last 2 or 3 episodes on youtu.be.  He's rather impressed with the Os (as are most media-type folk these days).

[Gurgi]

Mountcastle swinging at slop

[MDK02]

We need a true #3 hitter.  Haven’t had that since Manny. 

[justD]

Surprised to see that graph of Santander being in the same small group as Bonds, Thome, Walker et al to lead slugging in Interleague Play. 

[dtk9119]

10 minutes ago, Spy Fox said:

Melanie and Dave Johnson in the booth certainly screams "this game wasn't on the schedule."

Yup first thing I thought of was yesterday we had the B team line up on the field and today it's the B team in broadcast booth...

[ShoelesJoe]

1 minute ago, Gurgi said:

Mountcastle swinging at slop

He swung at two pitches way outside the zone. Mountcastle needs to understand that his bat is all he has, and there are about a hundred guys in the system that can probably play his position. If any of them can produce offensively better than he can going forward then he’ll be working at Sears in his ‘30s.