Labor Day Game 2: O's need doubleheader split badly; ALERT: LYLES last second scratch, Akin going

[SteveA]

1 minute ago, tntoriole said:

Radio announcers talking about “all the pressure on the Jays” … oh yes, that may have been true a month ago but you know what.. expectations have changed and the Os are the ones playing tight. 

Is an emergency last second starter not pitching well "playing tight"?

Is a reliever being used for the 3rd straight day after throwing 41 pitches the past two days, and not doing well, playing tight?

Especially when both are lefties against one of the strongest RH dominant lineups in baseball?

As for our hitting, it hasn't been that great for a while.

 

[O's84]

Of course that happens.

[dtk9119]

More annoyance from Bo Bichette 

[SteveA]

Toronto has made a couple of great defensive plays, each of which saved a run.

[Riggodrill44]

Hyde is showing us, the overall state of the organization is more important than trying to get to the playoffs.

GRAND SCHEME

[Aristotelian]

10 minutes ago, dtk9119 said:

Lol Rutschman beats 4 man OF again 

I would like to see him start going to RF occasionally. 

[slakattack]

Turns out Melanie is versed in something....flowers.

[dtk9119]

Just now, slakattack said:

Turns out Melanie is versed in something....flowers.

Nice because she certainly isn't in play by play... they need to just keep her at the MASN desk

[Fiver6565]

Easy to forget that Zimmerman was in the rotation at the start of the year. Nice to have some experience in reserve. 
 

I guess they have no intention of using Harvey at all. 

[ORIOLE33]

Scoring a run here and there isn’t going to cut it. 

[tntoriole]

3 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Is an emergency last second starter not pitching well "playing tight"?

Is a reliever being used for the 3rd straight day after throwing 41 pitches the past two days, and not doing well, playing tight?

Especially when both are lefties against one of the strongest RH dominant lineups in baseball?

As for our hitting, it hasn't been that great for a while.

 

Just bad luck then I guess .. que sera sera.  

Does a 21 year old playing out of position in the most crucial game of the season get anxious at all?  Maybe not.  

Is it fatigue with the reliever or maybe gripping that ball a little tighter being in a pressure filled situation knowing how critical any mistakes might be?

Again I don’t know.. maybe the pressure doesn’t affect how they play and it is just the way the ball bounces and Lyles being sick as a bad break etc. 

If pressure affects anything it has certainly not seemed to affect the Blue Jays as of yet. 

[oriolediehard]

A very sad day today 

So much promise going in today.

 

[Fiver6565]

We just cannot hit. Zero chance to string hits together for a while now. 

[Fiver6565]

1 minute ago, tntoriole said:

Just bad luck then I guess .. que sera sera.  

Does a 21 year old playing out of position in the most crucial game of the season get anxious at all?  Maybe not.  

Is it fatigue with the reliever or maybe gripping that ball a little tighter being in a pressure filled situation knowing how critical any mistakes might be?

Again I don’t know.. maybe the pressure doesn’t affect how they play and it is just the way the ball bounces and Lyles being sick as a bad break etc. 

If pressure affects anything it has certainly not seemed to affect the Blue Jays as of yet. 

The Blue Jays have been here before. Almost none of our players have. Do you not think that makes a difference?  Our most experienced player by far is the one we had to scratch. 
 

the good news is they are getting to experience some of this so they can learn from it to use the next couple years. 

[bpilktree]

We have hit into some really bad luck this game but got to keep hitting it hard hope a few fall in.