Memorial Day, May 29: Guardians come to town

[baltfan]

18 minutes ago, tntoriole said:

So if they have no starting pitching weakness and no bullpen weakness, how are they 23-29 ? 

Their offense is awful. 

[Can_of_corn]

On the bright side, five run deficit maybe Adley actually gets a whole game off.

[tntoriole]

This team has won close games with a thin margin.  What it cannot do is overwhelm another team.. to just punch them in the mouth, take over a game and shutout the other team.  We have had almost no blowouts this season. 

[bpilktree]

2 minutes ago, spiritof66 said:

I originally thought the McCann acquisition made a lot of sense and the Frazier acquisition made none. I've changed my mind on both. McCann reminded me of Severino on that last botched "catch." 

It was a shirt hop bad throw.  

[Alasdaire]

4 minutes ago, bpilktree said:

In May he had ERa of 1 his whip was. .899 and teams were hitting .178.  He has been very good in May coming into today and it wasn’t like they pounded him today.  

Time will tell, because I think they're giving Perez every chance to keep his spot. But there have been several outings this year where he has barely recorded an out.

[spiritof66]

1 minute ago, Gurgi said:

He catches the ball like Mountcastle.  Just ineptly stabs at the ball.  Misses and looks awful

That was Severino's m.o. on handling pitches. No body movement or weight shifting. Just stick your arm out and hope the ball lands in the glove. Sometimes it does.

[tntoriole]

1 minute ago, baltfan said:

Their offense is awful. 

We are the balm for ailing offenses

[Winter]

2 minutes ago, dtk9119 said:

Something needs to be done to wake this team up. Not expecting perfection but maybe play slightly better than this ****show today

really its been 4 days in a row, lucky we got that win yesterday

[tntoriole]

You let their guy pitch 7 complete and look like a bunch of high school players doing it. Worse game than the 6-0 loss to KC 

[SteveA]

2 minutes ago, dtk9119 said:

Something needs to be done to wake this team up. Not expecting perfection but maybe play slightly better than this ****show today

As to the hitting... we are just 4 games removed from a 10 game span vs LAA/Tor/NYY where we scored 57 runs despite facing Cole, Ohtani, Manoah, Gausman, and Cores among others in that stretch.

It's been frustrating as hell the last four days but slumps do happen.

[SemperFi]

7 minutes ago, dtk9119 said:

Inexcusable lazy ass play by Frazier and McCann. This team is asleep and needs to be chewed out by Hyde.

Frazier double clutched-that's execution. The fundamental blunders continue with Bauman forgetting to cover  the plate.  He's not a good enough player to forget to cover with the infield in, maybe he will learn in Norfolk. 

[Gurgi]

Wonder if this is the beginning of some bad stretch?  Hopefully they can minimize the losing.  We mess around too much and we will be looking up at NY and Boston.  

[baltfan]

This has been a frustrating game but Allen has also been pretty nasty. Great location and change of speed. 

[SteveA]

4 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

On the bright side, five run deficit maybe Adley actually gets a whole game off.

Yep, they even sent Gunnar out to catch that ceremonial first pitch before the game.

[baltfan]

Givens is cooked or still recovering from injury. I choose both.