Friday, July 21: Showdown in St Pete continues

[LA2]

3 minutes ago, O's84 said:

Can't wait till robo umps.  Seems like every other night we see a series of awful calls.

Tbh we've benefited from bad calls over the season too.

Edited July 22, 2023 by LA2

[Bahama O's Fan]

4 minutes ago, TopGunnar said:

We aren’t still riding the Hicks bandwagon are we?

Got to till Mullins comes back, him and Cowser. Who else do you want? McKenna? Stowers?

[Baltimorecuse]

1 minute ago, Pat Kelly said:

Os lack of HR power hurting them tonight. Still feel like we are missing a bat, Mullins injury really hurts with no real replacement.

Spot on.  However, I don't think anyone was going to hit their starter tonight.  

[dtk9119]

I'm not super confident w Cy McClanahan vs Grod tomorrow. Hopefully we get the split. The key is we would still have the season series lead w TB having to come to OPACY in September 

Perez w a nice outing.

[SilverRocket]

Perez is keeping his job for a bit.

[Bahama O's Fan]

Perez looked good tonight. At least the pen got rest

[Bemorewins]

I had no expectation that we were going to sweep them. They are a good team too. With the way Eflin pitched combine with the generous strike calls below the zone, we probably are going to have to just chalk this one up and move on. It's baseball. 1 of 162. On to tomorrow if we don't pull off a miracle tonight. We will still be 2 up on them in the loss column.

[mrbig1]

Dogs, Top of the order due up. We shall overcome.

[Roy Firestone]

Perez looked very good just now....surprised me...

Edited July 22, 2023 by Roy Firestone

[Uli2001]

Top of the order incoming. At least get some good swings in.

[O's84]

1 minute ago, LA2 said:

Tbh we've benefited from bad calls over the season too.

I'd rather just have a game called properly because it's makes the game fair.  Not this frustrating nonsense we see all too often.

[Alasdaire]

1 minute ago, Bemorewins said:

It may indeed be true that one day SS doesn't work for him. But right now he looks kind of awesome at it. It appears to be no legitimate reason to move him off of the position RIGHT NOW. If one day he can't handle it and Holliday proves better, you can slide him over to 3B. But as the expression goes, "if it ain't broke why fix it?"

That's fine/fair. He is better at SS than 3B right now, and if it means no Mateo then I'm for it.

Maybe I'm putting too much emphasis on the long-term. It's just a general principle that it doesn't do a developing player looking for their footing many favors to be constantly shifting their position. It's like the offensive linemen who get jerked around from guard to tackle and never settle.

[O's84]

Are you serious umpire?

[Malike]

#FireMannyGonzalez

[dtk9119]

My God that first pitch to Gunnar wasn't remotely close.

And we look at strike 3 again.