Labor Day afternoon: Game 1 of the Orioles biggest doubleheader in decades

[Gurgi]

Just now, Moose Milligan said:

Javy Lopez eh?

I get them mixed up.  Whatever that pitcher guy we traded like hot potatoes. 

[Just Regular]

Remember the old days of working the starter's pitch count.   

Those days are gone, the Jays like Baumann's strikes so well he may pile up innings if BABIP is kind.

[Moshagge3]

5 minutes ago, Fiver6565 said:

Toronto knows they can all but knock us out today. And they came out playing like it. 

Eh, Henderson comes up with the baseball and it's still tied.

[Gurgi]

1 minute ago, Fiver6565 said:

Thank god for that wall. 

Maybe we should rip some holes in the right field walls this off season?   Put the wall back 15 feet in the right field power alley?

[eddie83]

Alright. I’m drinking. 

[Moose Milligan]

2 minutes ago, Gurgi said:

I get them mixed up.  Whatever that pitcher guy we traded like hot potatoes. 

One was a catcher we had in like 2005. 

[Emory Eagle]

No control of that breaking pitch 

[Gurgi]

Just now, eddie83 said:

Alright. I’m drinking. 

I am tempted to smoke something.   Got a little nugget a friend gave me a couple of weeks ago.  Anything to relax me.   The games stress me out now.  Last year was so much easier hoping for loses so we could get the top draft pick.   I might be too old for the stress of a playoff race.   I dont remember being like this decades back.  

[Emory Eagle]

Good lord some terrible pitch locations 

[Moose Milligan]

Ben McDonald basically just called Baumann average to below average in a really nice way. 

[eddie83]

Just now, Gurgi said:

I am tempted to smoke something.   Got a little nugget a friend gave me a couple of weeks ago.  Anything to relax me.   The games stress me out now.  Last year was so much easier hoping for loses so we could get the top draft pick.   I might be too old for the stress of a playoff race.   I dont remember being like this decades back.  

Well. Get used to it.  We are going to be good for awhile. 
 

It was odd last couple of years. Games meant nothing. 

[Fiver6565]

Thought for sure Bauman had gotten starts the last couple years but they keep saying it’s his first. I guess he was in the BP before. I wasn’t watching much then for obvious reasons. 
 

nice quick inning, assisted by the wall. 

[dtk9119]

Hey a 1 2 3 inning 

Now the crapola offense needs to pick it up 

[Just Regular]

6 minutes ago, Fiver6565 said:

Thank god for that wall. 

Apart from all our finesse lefties, a RHP freight truck like Baumann probably benefits as much as any RHP.

I noted Ben mentioning his slider too hard, and Brown calling one pitch a fast change-up.

I hope in time he can be like a better Akin, but would guess the repertoire depth won't get there to hold a rotation job.

On balance still encouraged what I see so far today for him earning his way back into the mix.    He is not backing down from the Jays lineup.

Edited September 5, 2022 by Just Regular

[eddie83]

Just now, Just Regular said:

Apart from all our finesse lefties, a RHP freight truck like Baumann probably benefits as much as any RHP.

I noted Ben mentioning his slider too hard, and Brown calling one pitch a fast change-up.

I hope in time he can be like a better Akin, but would guess the repertoire depth won't get there.

On balance still encouraged what I see so far today for him earning his way back into the mix.    He is not backing down from the Jays lineup.

Curious who follows him. 9-1-2 due up next inning for Jays.