A's Series

[Frobby]

4 hours ago, Just Regular said:

With Sears, Muller and Waldichuk still to come tonight, they aren't short for LHP even after moving on from Cole Irvin.

Which is one reason why they moved him.

[RZNJ]

Tomorrow is a must win against a bad team.  If we split 4 against this sorry bunch at home then the O’s are an even sorrier bunch.   They certainly deserved to lose tonight.   

[Just Regular]

Yeah, each of the first three nights I've hoped for at least one Rays like stomp out of the series, and its an 0-for-3.    Even the wins have been too close for comfort.    

[Billy F-Face3]

Cole Irvin to face his former team tomorrow in a revenge game. Let's GOOOOO!

[RZNJ]

We need a 7 inning 2 run or less outing from Irvin.

[PsychoBird68]

1 hour ago, RZNJ said:

Tomorrow is a must win against a bad team.  If we split 4 against this sorry bunch at home then the O’s are an even sorrier bunch.   They certainly deserved to lose tonight.   

I agree we do need to win tomorrow but I sure don't agree that we deserved to lose tonight..... I guess it depends on your perspective..lol....  I believe we should win games that we score four runs ..... So by my perspective our offense should be 9 and 3 and our pitching/defense should be 2 and 10.....SMH.... I guess we should thank our lucky star that we are playing 500 ball and I'm sure we can agree if we don't start pitching and playing defense it's going to be a long season  

[Frobby]

10 hours ago, RZNJ said:

Tomorrow is a must win against a bad team.  If we split 4 against this sorry bunch at home then the O’s are an even sorrier bunch.   They certainly deserved to lose tonight.   

I’d like to win this game.  I can’t say it’s a “must win.”  From what I’ve seen in the early going, this is a .500ish team, and the outcome of this game won’t change that.  

This is pretty simple to me: the pitching and defense need to be much better.  The offense is okay, neither great nor terrible, and will have its good and bad days.  But the pitching has been really disappointing so far, and the defense has made the pitchers’ jobs much harder.  I’m going to feel that way regardless of what happens today.  I need to see several weeks of better pitching and defense to feel like this team has any chance of going somewhere.  
 

[JR Oriole]

This is the ultimate .500 team.  We are the Omen O's. 6 wins, 6 losses, 6 games back, 66 runs scored, 66 runs allowed.  3-3 at home, 3-3 on the road.  Yikes.

[Moose Milligan]

Even though we've won two games this series, looking back on it I can't get really excited about it.  The second win took a monumental effort from Mountcastle and Hays.  Can't count on Mounty driving in 9 runs a game all the time, that's not really a repeatable performance.  

I think the only game where we really looked like a good team from top to bottom was the first game of the series.  Yesterday was a disaster.  

I'd like to see the Irvin we thought we were getting today.  Hopefully he's throwing strikes.

 

[Going Underground]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

I’d like to win this game.  I can’t say it’s a “must win.”  From what I’ve seen in the early going, this is a .500ish team, and the outcome of this game won’t change that.  

This is pretty simple to me: the pitching and defense need to be much better.  The offense is okay, neither great nor terrible, and will have its good and bad days.  But the pitching has been really disappointing so far, and the defense has made the pitchers’ jobs much harder.  I’m going to feel that way regardless of what happens today.  I need to see several weeks of better pitching and defense to feel like this team has any chance of going somewhere.  
 

The next  three weeks  the schedule is the easiest of the year  They need to play well against these teams. Tigers are bad but I think the Orioles lost all the games to them last year. White Sox are a .500ish team and without Tim Anderson.Nationals are not good. Boston is not that good  Sale has near a 10.00 ERA . Adam Duvall is hurt .He was quoted as saying " I love the smell of Oriole pitching in the evening ". Royals are also bad. The schedule right after the All - Star break looks brutal on paper.

[sportsfan8703]

I actually like Irvin in this spot. It’s a young lineup. I think he’s going to get them off balance and have him swinging at his pitches. 
 

We get a righty today, so it’s time for Santander, Mullins, and Gunnar to wake up. 
 

Irvin also owes us a good start. 

[Going Underground]

10 hours ago, RZNJ said:

We need a 7 inning 2 run or less outing from Irvin.

Gole Irvin found a clue. Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick?

 

[sportsfan8703]

We need to show some gumption today. Last year we had a tendency to lose the last game of a series. Day game too. I trust Irvin. We need to bring the bats. 

[NCRaven]

2 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

 Can't count on Mounty driving in 9 runs a game all the time, that's not really a repeatable performance.  

Is that a double dog dare? 

[eddie83]

1 hour ago, Going Underground said:

Gole Irvin found a clue. Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick?

 

I have been very impressed so far with the Banner’s coverage of the Orioles.