Astros series

[Alasdaire]

10 minutes ago, MacAdoo said:

At least Elias went out and got a high leverage bullpen arm at the deadline to make sure that kind of stuff doesn’t happen against playoff caliber teams like Houston down the stretch and in the post-season…

Someone should have told Elias that if only he had acquired a relief pitcher we would have gone from losing every series to the Braves/Dodgers/Astros to winning them.

[OriolesMagic83]

I'm at least glad the O's didn't trade for that Michael Lorenzen bum. 

[Uli2001]

14 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

I'm at least glad the O's didn't trade for that Michael Lorenzen bum. 

That is the least of the concerns. Flaherty may not be as good, but he's still pretty good. Starting pitching is not the problem. Bullpen is.

[Moshagge3]

This is so similar to the Dodgers series. Lose the first game in a heartbreaker with a grand slam spoiling a good Grayson Rodriguez start. Lose a pretty uncompetitive Game 2, cue the takes of "look at the massive gap between us and a real contender (ignore that said real contender has a worse record than us)." Now once again Dean Kremer on a getaway day is all that stands between the O's and a sweep. I'm not saying history will definitely repeat itself, but the parallels are pretty striking. 

[sportsfan8703]

We need to show some heart like the Dodgers series and take game three. 

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, sportsfan8703 said:

We need to show some heart like the Dodgers series and take game three. 

Have to keep the not getting swept streak alive!

 

[NashLumber]

Tarp on, but no drizzle the last half hour. about 20 to 35% chance of rain through 3pm. Far less than predicted a day ago. 
 

[Sanfran327]

Pretty tired of these guys. Every pitch after the 6th inning against this team is hotly contested. How many times did they make something happen by inches this series? Yeesh. 

[Chelsea_Phil]

TaKe a chill pill, we won!

[glenn__davis]

What a battle.  Reminds me a lot of the Braves series.  

That top 4 of their lineup is pretty insane right now.

At worst, we get through half of the 6-game set with them still 2 games up.

 

[jcaponio]

This is the one team I don't want to see in the playoffs. I think we could handle Tampa, Toronto, Texas, Minnesota, or Seattle. I'd be much less confident against a healthy Astros team.

[bpilktree67]

1 minute ago, jcaponio said:

This is the one team I don't want to see in the playoffs. I think we could handle Tampa, Toronto, Texas, Minnesota, or Seattle. I'd be much less confident against a healthy Astros team.

A healthy Orioles team with Mullins in center and we take 2 out of 3.  

[glenn__davis]

They're good.  We gave them some breaks too.  

Not scared of them any more than I am any other playoff team in a short series.

[Emory Eagle]

If not for a series of extremely unfortunate events, could have been 2 out of three (not going to entertain the more negative possible outcomes).  Oh well, guess the Os will just have to sweep them in front of their bandwagon fans in Houston to take the season series.

[Alasdaire]

27 minutes ago, Emory Eagle said:

If not for a series of extremely unfortunate events, could have been 2 out of three (not going to entertain the more negative possible outcomes).

Why stop there? If not for a series of unfortunate events, we could have swept them!