Tuesday, May 23: two hot teams collide as Orioles visit Yankees

[O's84]

Just now, Tony-OH said:

Just an absolute piece of crap pitch. You can not be a closer on a contending team if you are going to throw 0-2 crap pitches. Just can't. 

Now, he didn't try to do that, but you can't have that kind of lack of focus and command in that situation. 

That is just the kind of pitch that makes me not trust Bautista. 

Yeah, the problem is he gets in ruts sometimes with his splitter hangs it and there goes the lead.

[Alasdaire]

Felix oscillates between being locked in and zoned out. I'll chalk it up to his lack of experience. Wild fluctuations even within an inning.

[Roy Firestone]

A little late Felix...

[Tony-OH]

We all hate to lose to the Yankees or blow leads to the Yankees, but to do it on an 0-2 pitch after getting ahead with two 100 MPH fastballs? 

The next pitch is either another 100 MPH fastball or a change in the dirt. The last thing you do is throw a little league middle middle shit splitter.

[Hank Scorpio]

I mean if you draw a perfect cross in that box, that ball was smack in the middle of it. I mean dead nuts center.

[SteveA]

Here we go again.   3rd straight extra inning game.

[Mooreisbetter27]

So now if we score… do you bring Felix back out? Cano prob unavailable tomorrow now after 2 innings. God I hate the MFY. Let that POS Cole off the hook too. 

[Dunk35]

And our bullpen will bleed out again. All we had to do was pitch around Judge. FFS.

[oriolediehard]

1 minute ago, Roy Firestone said:

No one hates em more than me...

I got you beat, I hate them more.  They always found s way to beat us.

[Aristotelian]

Get the lead, don't let judge hit. 

[Roy Firestone]

I'll say it again...Cano is BETTER than Felix...they should switch roles...or at least alternate...

[O's84]

The 2 splitters he threw prior was way up in the zone and the other one was in the dirt way short of the plate.  Should have just stuck to the fastball in a 1 run lead.

[Frobby]

Such a terrible pitch to Judge.  Might as well have put it on a tee.  Frankly I hated that pitch call considering the other splitters he’d thrown that inning, both of which were way up.  

[baltfan]

If Orioles get the lead, do they send Bautista out for the 10th?  

[ArtVanDelay]

Should’ve thrown 4 straight fastballs at 102 above the zone to Judge.  Maybe he takes all 4.  Better than giving up a bomb