Wednesday afternoon August 30: Orioles try to cap spectacular month with sweep of White Sox

[MDK02]

Gibson wasting no time giving those runs back. Nice.

[Emory Eagle]

Yeah, really not making the case for making a post-season start here... And so many pitches this inning, ugh.  Hopefully he rights the ship and can eat some more innings down the stretch, but that's about all I am hoping for from Gibson.

[Malike]

Just now, Moose Milligan said:

I love Ben but sometimes he makes too many excuses for these pitchers.  Gibson just gave a meatball there, there's no other reason.

In fairness, if balls at the bottom of the zone are called balls when they are in fact strikes, you have to bring the ball up. Now, his command up hasn't been great, but he's been hosed on low strikes.

[mrbig1]

1 minute ago, dystopia said:

Gibson is by far our worst starter. 

He pitched great his last outing.

[Hallas]

1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

I love Ben but sometimes he makes too many excuses for these pitchers.  Gibson just gave a meatball there, there's no other reason.

Well he did follow that up by saying, "he's not getting the bottom of the zone, but he just threw a cutter that didn't really do anything and caught way too much of the plate."

[O's84]

Gibson's ERA is now above 5.

[Roy Firestone]

Bullpen on speed dial..Gibson doesn't have it today...were lucky we scored a bunch in the first...

[justD]

Mullins made that catch look easy.  I was actually holding my breath thinking it was going over his head for sure. 

[mrbig1]

Watch our bats drop dead the whole game.

[baltfan]

Gibson has struggled since they went to the 6 man.  

[oriolediehard]

2 minutes ago, G54377 said:

If you had to pick a guy to start a playoff game are you giving the ball to Gibson or Flaherty?

Neither!! Give it to Bradish or GRod

[justD]

1 minute ago, Hallas said:

Well he did follow that up by saying, "he's not getting the bottom of the zone, but he just threw a cutter that didn't really do anything and caught way too much of the plate."

Also stating that McCann was set up expecting it to start in and run to the outside, and instead it started outside and leaked right to the center of the plate.  Watching where the catcher sets up and where the ball ends up is always a good tell. 

[Hank Scorpio]

Stop throwing the cutter.

[Moose Milligan]

3 minutes ago, Malike said:

In fairness, if balls at the bottom of the zone are called balls when they are in fact strikes, you have to bring the ball up. Now, his command up hasn't been great, but he's been hosed on low strikes.

You don't have to do anything that'll get your pitches hammered.  I'd rather see him not get pitches low in the zone and keep trying for them instead of bringing the ball up and getting hammered.

[Malike]

1 minute ago, baltfan said:

Gibson has struggled since they went to the 6 man.  

He pitched 8 innings of 3 run ball last start. I'd take that every day from our starters if that is struggling.