Friday, August 26: Orioles begin 6 game road trip vs division leaders in Houston

[justD]

What a horribly disappointing end to that otherwise excellent at bat.

Two outs.

Sigh. 

[bpilktree]

McCullers would be torture if he played for us.  He always has had great stuff but nibbles so much.   

[PHRESH]

Ryan needs a HR to go with his defensive play earlier. 

[eddie83]

Ughhh. 
 

Ryan should have been hacking first pitch there….

[dtk9119]

Absolute garbage. 

He's over 60 pitches at least...

[justD]

I mean we really need to score SOMETHING before the ABs get his pitch count so high that we’re facing their bullpen.

So frustrating. 

[bpilktree]

You won’t beat good teams leaving runners on and not getting runs in when you get guys on base.  

[Tony-OH]

Mountcastle is going to see nothing but sliders away as long as he continues to show he can't hit anything in the low away quandrant of the strike zone. I'd fine my pitcher and catcher they set up anywhere else. A good pitcher can easily get him out and I'm not sure he has the ability to hit anything other than a mistake at this point. He's become Renaldo Nunez with less power but better defensively at 1B.

[Beysbol]

Just now, bpilktree said:

You won’t beat good teams leaving runners on and not getting runs in when you get guys on base.  

Exactly what I was thinking. You have to score runs against teams like Houston because they definitely will.

[bpilktree]

The Astros won’t play another team over .500 after this series until September 30th.  No I didn’t mistype that.  Not 1 game vs winning team for over a month.  

[eddie83]

1 minute ago, bpilktree said:

The Astros won’t play another team over .500 after this series until September 30th.  No I didn’t mistype that.  Not 1 game vs winning team for over a month.  

They play the Orioles before that. Unless you aren’t counting them twice. 

[eddie83]

Odor is something else.  

[justD]

Did Odor imitate his throw there behind him?LOL

[Aristotelian]

If Odor messed him up, omg...

[LA2]

Bradish looking very good. Now second time through the lineup.