Tuesday, April 25th: vs. Red Sox

[Morgan423]

1 minute ago, 25 Nuggets said:

Voth or Akin?  It's not Bautista, Baker, Coulombe, Cano or Perez.

Voth.   Though I suppose there are still plenty of innings for him to get tonight.

[Moose Milligan]

I missed the grand slam. Did Palmer remind everyone that he never gave one up? Always the one redeeming part of the Orioles giving up a granny with Palmer in the booth. 

[SteveA]

5 minutes ago, ArtVanDelay said:

I’m never starting the game thread again

My bad.   Got busy at work and forgot.

[Billy F-Face3]

It's always a high scoring game when these teams get together. Let's start chipping away, Fellas! Let's go Orioles!

[Spy Fox]

I don’t mind bringing in Baumann there. It was a given that both him and Voth were going to pitch a couple innings once Bradish needed a quick hook. But yeah, someone should have been up and near-ready at the start of the 3rd 

[Just Regular]

I'd guess Voth gets some innings tonight regardless, though he may have given a better chance to go very long.

That last pitch of the tough battle with Casas looked pretty good to me.

[baltfan]

2 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Look, these nights happen with pitchers. But a good manager has to know when to get him out before it blows up completely. 

I would have had Voth up and ready if Bradish put two guys on the next inning. But to let him load the bases on three hard hits and then let him pitch to another guy with no one up is ridiculous. 

Just a poor feel. 

And why waste Baumann here? Why not turn it over to Voth and let him extend? Instead Hyde wants to use one of his better relievers down 7-0 in the 3rd inning.

I agree with you on Voth.  I don’t have as much of an issue with leaving Bradish in and letting him try to figure it out.  They were hitting a ton of balls in holes.  There was some hope that maybe he would get a bit lucky.  There are psychological reasons to not pull guys sometimes.  In favor of your argument, if he was fatigued getting him out of there might have helped for the next start.  Now he is even more likely to be fatigued. 

[Tony-OH]

2 minutes ago, SteveA said:

My bad.   Got busy at work and forgot.

It's pretty much your fault.

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I missed the grand slam. Did Palmer remind everyone that he never gave one up? Always the one redeeming part of the Orioles giving up a granny with Palmer in the booth. 

Someone should invoke god and tell him to stop beating a dead horse.

[dtk9119]

Bad Bradish tonight 

[Can_of_corn]

At least with the pitch clock this will be over faster than in years past.

[Natty]

Well we do have that one hit. 

[dtk9119]

Just now, dtk9119 said:

Bad Bradish tonight 

And I said that as I watch the 2nd inning on DVR. My bad lol!

[mrbig1]

That was sad.

[Tony-OH]

Just now, baltfan said:

I agree with you on Voth.  I don’t have as much of an issue with leaving Bradish in and letting him try to figure it out.  They were hitting a ton of balls in holes.  There was some hope that maybe he would get a bit lucky.  There are psychological reasons to not pull guys sometimes.  In favor of your argument, if he was fatigued getting him out of there might have helped for the next start.  Now he is even more likely to be fatigued. 

I didn't have an issue with him starting the 3rd, but after a 40-pitch inning, I'd have a very quick hook on him. I get it that they really wanted to see if Bradish could work through it, but he really had nothing tonight and everything was hit very hard.  

Obviously a tough night and we all know Voth is not good coming in mid-inning, so he very well could have given up the grand slam himself, but maybe you do use Baumann to get through the 3rd BEFORE he gives up the slam. See if Baumann can give you two then go to Voth to try and get through the rest of the game.