Monday October 3: Orioles try to ruin Blue Jay hopes of hosting wild card round, weather permitting

[tntoriole]

15 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

Looks like Adley and Gunnar will likely end up w/ the top 2 OPS's on team.  Yeah I know SSS for Gunnar.  Surprised to see Santander down at .780.  Thought he was closer to .800.

Gunnar has been less hot recently..

[justD]

5 minutes ago, Yossarian said:

We have got to learn how to hit with guys on base.  We had so many squandered opportunities this season because we couldn't come up with a hit with runners in scoring position. 

Can that be learned? Not being sarcastic, I never played so I don’t know. 

[spiritof66]

Really good tag by Odor. Like much of what I see from Odor, I'm left wondering why he can't consistently do stuff like that well.

[SilverRocket]

3 minutes ago, justD said:

Can that be learned? Not being sarcastic, I never played so I don’t know. 

The team has a .698 OPS overall, .702 with RISP, .693 with runners on, .701 with bases empty.

It's mostly random, but we win the games where we time it right and lose the games where we don't.

[SilverRocket]

That first strike to Santander is one of the worst calls I've ever seen.

[dystopia]

1 minute ago, SilverRocket said:

That first strike to Santander is one of the worst calls I've ever seen.

The Eric Gregg comparison wasn't far off.

[O's84]

I know it's mostly our fault were losing, but it's really embarrassing how bad some of these miscalls are.

[JR Oriole]

Man none of our guys can hit.  Maybe we need a third hitting coach.

[mrbig1]

11 minutes ago, JR Oriole said:

Man none of our guys can hit.  Maybe we need a third hitting coach.

It's hard to watch.

[SteveA]

3 hours ago, Fiver6565 said:

Did something happen to Hays or is he also on the bench? 
 

not a criticism, just making sure I didn’t miss something. 

My bad, I forgot Urias was on the IL.

I'm correcting it now, better late than never.

[O's84]

They must be allergic to runs.

[slakattack]

What a miserable night for baseball...fans in attendance should get a 2023 game voucher.

[JR Oriole]

Os are 22nd in the majors in OBP, but the real story is they are 29th in BA, OBP, and OPS with RISP.  So they aren’t very good at getting on base and when they do get on, they are terrible at doing anything. 

[OriolesMagic83]

4 minutes ago, JR Oriole said:

Os are 22nd in the majors in OBP, but the real story is they are 29th in BA, OBP, and OPS with RISP.  So they aren’t very good at getting on base and when they do get on, they are terrible at doing anything. 

The ability to hit (or not hit) w/ RISP is supposedly not a repeatable skill.  Maybe it was just bad luck.  Maybe if there is a slight normalization in RISP results, along w/ full seasons of Adley, Gunnar and whoever replaces Odor, that will be a drastically better offense.

[eddie83]

11 minutes ago, JR Oriole said:

Os are 22nd in the majors in OBP, but the real story is they are 29th in BA, OBP, and OPS with RISP.  So they aren’t very good at getting on base and when they do get on, they are terrible at doing anything. 

Splitting hairs here but I am seeing 22nd, 24th and 22nd. 

Edited October 4, 2022 by eddie83