Colorado Series

[bpilktree67]

1 hour ago, glenn__davis said:

They better lay down for us like the just did to TB or I'm going to be very annoyed haha.

I dont think they laid down in the Tampa series they led or were tied in all 3 games going to the bottom of the 8th inning.  There bullpen just blew it.  

[Aristotelian]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

Wow, those stats are brutal.  Just to pile on, Freeland has a 6.62 ERA over his last ten starts.  However, Flexen and Blach have been better lately.  Blach in particular has a 3.25 ERA over his last 6 starts, after spending most of May and June in the minors. So, he’s way more dangerous than his overall numbers suggest.  Flexen has been marginally better in August, with a 5.32 ERA in that span, and he’s coming off a good start.  

Who remembers that Ty Blach was briefly an Oriole?
 

I was going to ask if this is the same Blach. What an awful baseball name and he his stuff looked terrible when he was with us. 

Have to remember these guys are still professional baseball players. As bad as Colorado is, they still win a third of their games. 

[ShoelesJoe]

58 minutes ago, bpilktree67 said:

I dont think they laid down in the Tampa series they led or were tied in all 3 games going to the bottom of the 8th inning.  There bullpen just blew it.  

The Rockies were competitive in each game, up to a point. But once Tampa started coming back in the late innings Colorado did lay down and give up. Like most bad teams they go into each game expecting to lose. If / when things start to go against them they basically call it a day and surrender. We took advantage of that mindset in Oakland, and need to do it again in the next two series. 

Edited August 25, 2023 by ShoelesJoe

[glenn__davis]

Yeah, it's semantics but when your bullpen blows leads in 3 straight games like that, that's laying down.

[Orioles Jim]

Hoping the weather holds up tonight as I’m trying to go to my 4th night in a row! (Will also go to 4 of the next 5 games thereafter).

[Rbiggs2525]

They traded 3-4 of their bullpen pitchers. Good strategy to get to bullpen early.

[DirtyBird]

9 minutes ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

They traded 3-4 of their bullpen pitchers. Good strategy to get to bullpen early.

That would involve scoring a lot of early runs - another great strategy 

[Malike]

16 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

That would involve scoring a lot of early runs - another great strategy 

Working pitch counts is effective as well, even if you aren't scoring runs.

[86this]

3 hours ago, Frobby said:

Speaking of Wynns, our former No. 10 pick from 2013 has now played in more major league games than No. 2 pick Chance Sisco, but not as many as No. 4 pick Jonah Heim.  That was the year we drafted 4 catchers in the first 10 rounds of the draft.  Only no. 6 pick Alex Murphy didn’t make it to the bigs.

He went on to the Detroit PD to become Robocop. 

[Moose Milligan]

4 hours ago, SteveA said:

I wouldn't say they laid down for Tampa.  They led 4-3 in the 8th inning of the first game, 5-3 in the 9th inning of the second game, and the 3rd game was tied in the 8th.

And then they laid down for the rest of those games.

I'm with @Sports Guyon this one, I'm not expecting a sweep but we should expect to take 2/3 here.  

[DrungoHazewood]

5 hours ago, SteveA said:

I wouldn't say they laid down for Tampa.  They led 4-3 in the 8th inning of the first game, 5-3 in the 9th inning of the second game, and the 3rd game was tied in the 8th.

So they apparently have the 2007 Orioles' bullpen, at altitude?

[Moose Milligan]

10 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

So they apparently have the 2007 Orioles' bullpen, at altitude?

Is that Kilne and DeJean?  Those two were the absolute worst.  I think DeJean might have been the worst reliever I've ever seen.

[DirtyBird]

43 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

And then they laid down for the rest of those games.

I'm with @Sports Guyon this one, I'm not expecting a sweep but we should expect to take 2/3 here.  

Why would you not expect a sweep?

[dystopia]

4 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Is that Kilne and DeJean?  Those two were the absolute worst.  I think DeJean might have been the worst reliever I've ever seen.

Paul Shuey as an Oriole is probably the worst I’ve ever seen. 

[Malike]

2 minutes ago, DirtyBird said:

Why would you not expect a sweep?

Because Colorado has more road wins than 0. Even bad teams win some games they aren't expected to in baseball.