June 15: afternoon rubber match with Blue Jays

[Baltimorecuse]

I don't get pulling Cano.  

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

1 minute ago, dtk9119 said:

I sure hope Bautista has limited rust. Very nervous bringing him in w 2 on

Bautista needs to stick with the fastball here. He should have a live arm with six days off.

[slakattack]

Ha!

[FlaO'sFan]

Nice, nice, nice.

[dtk9119]

At least to start Felix does NOT look rusty

[Malike]

Phew, awful splitter at the top of the zone but froze Chapman.

[Baltimorecuse]

An insurance run would be appropriate.

[Beysbol]

That was so SWEET!! 

[Winter]

Go get an insurance run!

[Moose Milligan]

Kevin Brown:  WILL WE SEE THE SPLITTER?!?!?!

Man, I am not impressed by a splitter that looks like it hangs at the top of the zone.  I'm sorry, I'm just not.  A better hitter could hit that thing 450 feet.  

[O's84]

1 minute ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Bautista needs to stick with the fastball here. He should have a live arm with six days off.

I really think he should have gone fastball up in the zone there.  Chapman was barely fouling off his fastballs down in the zone.  Going up in the zone would have gotten him.  In the end Felix went with the splitter.  Got him, but not really where you want to throw it.

[Alasdaire]

2400 spin rate and 32 degrees break on Yennier’s last pitch to get a strikeout. The movement seems fine?

[justD]

2 minutes ago, Baltimorecuse said:

I don't get pulling Cano.  

He looked awful imo.  And Bautista was well rested, right?

[Malike]

Just now, Moose Milligan said:

Kevin Brown:  WILL WE SEE THE SPLITTER?!?!?!

Man, I am not impressed by a splitter that looks like it hangs at the top of the zone.  I'm sorry, I'm just not.  A better hitter could hit that thing 450 feet.  

It was a bad pitch but Chapman was looking fastball luckily.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Just now, O's84 said:

I really think he should have gone fastball up in the zone there.  Chapman was barely fouling off his fastballs down in the zone.  Going up in the zone would have gotten him.  In the end Felix went with the splitter.  Got him, but not really where you want to throw it.

It worked, but the Orioles really need an insurance run in case Bautista hangs one in the ninth inning.