Red Sox series

[SteveA]

Tonight was the first game in major league history where both starting centerfielder hit grand slams.

[Billy F-Face3]

19 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Tonight was the first game in major league history where both starting centerfielder hit grand slams.

Wow, that's quite a trivia question for the record books. The game is 150 years old.

In another great piece of trivia that happened tonight, which hasn't happened in 22 years, was the Twins beat the Yankees and claimed a season series for the 1st time since 2001.

The Orioles may have lost tonight, but on the bright side, so did the Rays and the Yankees. AND the Orioles fought back and didn't give up. Now they have an opportunity to still claim the series against the Red Sox and get redemption from the 1st series in 2023.

[Ridgway22]

On 4/24/2023 at 6:40 PM, Can_of_corn said:

I'm not one to jump to tipping conclusions but....

Wow, hadn't thought of that, and didn't pick it up during the game, but........ didn't with Andy the Yankee in 2001 WS either.......

[sportsfan8703]

Even though we didn’t come all the way back last night, hopefully that momentum carrie’s over to today’s game. Big game. 
 

Let’s get this rubber match. 

[JR Oriole]

28 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Even though we didn’t come all the way back last night, hopefully that momentum carrie’s over to today’s game. Big game. 
 

Let’s get this rubber match. 

Yeah it is important.  Can't lose every series you play to division rivals.  Bad for confidence.

[nvpacchi]

Nothing about Bradish was good last night, but two thing stand out that was puzzling/annoying.

He threw 81 pitches, and only 9 of them were sliders.  He threw all his other 4 pitches more than the slider.  Now why he threw his best pitch the least, I'm not sure.  Boston does have a lefty heavy lineup, which begs the question, does Bradish truly have a plan to get lefties out?

Because the changeup he has only thrown to lefties this year, and that definitely wasn't working yesterday.  Most concerning is the velo delta between his 4 seam and changeup has gotten smaller in each start.  Yesterday the difference was 3.5 MPH, against the Nats it was 5.5 MPH delta - and he's had a fat total of 0 whiffs on the change this year.

Basically it gives him 3 pitches all with relatively similar velo and movement profiles.  It makes the game plan much easier (especially for lefties) who only have to look for a fastball/changeup hybrid and the curve.

A bit too easy.  Would really like to see him do something to get the fastball and changeup to look more distinct, and trust that slider against lefties more!

[Just Regular]

Okay Red Sox...good luck until September.     Get many Wins against AL6 aspirants.

Injury stack contributing, but their up the middle personnel right now....not great.

Chris Sale's will to win in strong form, though.

If our roster becomes what I hope it will by Games 160-162, we'd be rather heavy favorites those games, should they count for anything.

[Frobby]

Nice to win the series.  We’ve now won 5 consecutive series.  On to Detroit!

This was a @Roy Firestonegame, three sac flies.  The O’s did that once last year.  Before that, you have to go all the way back to 2014 to find a 3-sac fly game from the O’s.

[btdart20]

6 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Nice to win the series.  We’ve now won 5 consecutive series.  On to Detroit!

This was a @Roy Firestonegame, three sac flies.  The O’s did that once last year.  Before that, you have to go all the way back to 2014 to find a 3-sac fly game from the O’s.

How do you find these stats?  

[Gurgi]

Very workman like game.  Very confident inspiring for me.  The Orioles looked tough to beat when we get pitching.   If we can fix Bradish we might go places.  

[Frobby]

15 minutes ago, btdart20 said:

How do you find these stats?  

BB-ref has a team batting game log for each year, that is sortable.  So, I just started looking at them (sorting for sac flies) beginning with this year and going backwards.   For example, here’s the game log for 2022: 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/tgl.cgi?team=BAL&t=b&year=2022

Click the SF column and it will sort by sac flies.  

Edited April 26, 2023 by Frobby

[Roll Tide]

Nice win today….Wells is back to the early last year Wells