Friday, July 7: Orioles at Twins, televised exclusively by AppleTV+

[Bemorewins]

Good play Westy!!

[dtk9119]

Thank you Westburg 

[Moose Milligan]

Fairly confident that’s a ball Frazier doesn’t get to. 

[Moshagge3]

Bailed out by a nice play by Westy. Offense needs to do something here.

[Gurgi]

Frazier does not make that play.......

[Bemorewins]

3 minutes ago, TopGunnar said:

No, it’s a terrible job by the guy actually playing. 

I don’t disagree. But he should have never been brought into the game. If you were going to relieve Irvin, you bring in the lefty for the left on left matchup. Besides, you don’t bring Baumann in a high leverage spot to begin with. He’s average/mediocre at best.

[LA2]

7 minutes ago, EddeeEddee said:

Exactly, why take out the lefty when a lefty is coming up -- unless you're putting in Coulombe?

Miranda was the batter due up--he is right-handed and has better stats vs. LHP. They wd not have pinch-hit for him if Irvin had stayed in the game. I wd guess the O's preferred Bauman vs. Kirilov or Miranda over a tiring Irvin vs. Miranda.

[oriolediehard]

1 minute ago, Gurgi said:

Frazier does not make that play.......

At least Hyde didn't play Frazier.

[Aristotelian]

1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

Fairly confident that’s a ball Frazier doesn’t get to. 

Westburg has impressed me with the glove, especially at 2B.

[TopGunnar]

Top of the order, tie game. Good teams get it done here

[gtman55]

At the deadline, we need middle relief, middle relief and middle relief.

[LA2]

4 minutes ago, Bemorewins said:

I don’t disagree. But he should have never been brought into the game. If you were going to relieve Irvin, you bring in the lefty for the left on left matchup. Besides, you don’t bring Baumann in a high leverage spot to begin with. He’s average/mediocre at best.

There wdn't have been a lefty-lefty match-up possible. The Twins wd have stayed with right-handed hitting Miranda against either Irvin or Coulombe. Kirilov (the lefty) was a pinch-hitter.

Edited July 8, 2023 by LA2

[Moshagge3]

Awesome AB by Gunnar!

[Moose Milligan]

Great at bat by Gunnar especially after being down 0-2. 

[dtk9119]

Nice Gunnar. Worked the count and drew a walk