This Season's Last Three Regular Season Games

[PeteCanes]

5 hours ago, luismatos4prez said:

Epic WWE-style moment. I can hear Jim Ross now.

"Bah Gawd, that's The Mountain's music. It can't be!"

What???? What did we just see????

[wildcard]

O'Hearn should play vs righties to try to get him to a .300 average.   Gunnar will probably want to score his 100th run.  Roch makes it sound like Kjerstad is headed to Oklahoma for the AAA playoffs on Saturday.

Edited September 29, 2023 by wildcard

[baltfan]

5 hours ago, Malike said:

 

I hope the Orioles are paying attention.  This is a good idea. Let some fans be there so the Orioles get more of a game feeling. 

[Bahama O's Fan]

I would like to see Flaherty get a start. If there were any way to get Irvin up here to take one as well, it would be nice for him. I guess the question would be who goes down to lose for part of the playoffs. Figuring out who to rest and how much and who needs to play to stay sharp. Maybe Adley and Gunnar play one game each. Give Mateo and Urias starts and Westburg too. Let them play against some righties. The OF's could all use a day or so off. Let Frazier and O'hearn give them some time off. Would love to see Kjerstad play the field just once. Get Mountcastle up to speed. 

[hayek]

7 hours ago, Malike said:

 

Wouldn't it be cool if the O's invited their AA/AAA all-stars to Baltimore next week to play simulated games against the big league team?  I imagine fans would definitely be willing to come out to see that! 

[wildcard]

8 minutes ago, hayek said:

Wouldn't it be cool if the O's invited their AA/AAA all-stars to Baltimore next week to play simulated games against the big league team?  I imagine fans would definitely be willing to come out to see that! 

Kjerstad could play for both sides.

[Aristotelian]

7 hours ago, Frobby said:

I have tickets to a play on Saturday night, so I’m glad I won’t need to stand up my wife and our friends, or be at the play wishing I could be checking my phone for the score.  

I don’t think we need to overdo the rest thing, given that the team won’t play at all between Sunday’s game and next Saturday’s playoff game.  I’d have Adley catch Means just to keep building that relationship.  I’d get Mountcastle plenty of action so long as his shoulder isn’t bothering him. I’d definitely get some looks at Kjerstad in the outfield.  I think every position player and reliever should get into a game sometime this weekend, but nobody needs to start all three games.  And yes, if the team is giving a thought to using Bautista in the postseason, he should get into a game this weekend and show what he’s got.  DFAing Lopez would be the logical move if Felix is activated, so maybe save that for Sunday and get Lopez some action before then.  (I’m also fine if the O’s just scrap any plan to activate Felix in the postseason, and leave Lopez on the roster for now.)
 

Lol, I missed the game last night due to kid's play. It was excruciating but I was able to limit my phone checks to the intermission. I could have gone home to catch the 9th live but other kid was in the middle of a soccer game...

[dystopia]

1 minute ago, Aristotelian said:

Lol, I missed the game last night due to kid's play. It was excruciating but I was able to limit my phone checks to the intermission. I could have gone home to catch the 9th live but other kid was in the middle of a soccer game...

Kids ruin everything. 

[Frobby]

3 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

Lol, I missed the game last night due to kid's play. It was excruciating but I was able to limit my phone checks to the intermission. I could have gone home to catch the 9th live but other kid was in the middle of a soccer game...

Actually, last night in the middle of the game, my adult daughter and son-in-law came by to drop off their dog before going to New York.  I was watching the game, of course, but my wife and I wanted to visit with them a bit, so we sat in our TV room chatting with the volume down low on the TV set.  I thought they’d only stay 15 minutes or so, but it became clear they were settling in for a long visit.   So, while I had one eye on the game, I wasn’t fully experiencing the growing excitement of the crowd and the announcers.  So, I left the game on, but set my DVR to record the rest of it and the post-game celebration.  They were still at our house when the game ended, and I let out a little “YES!!!” but that was it.   They left soon after, and by then I was overdue to take my dog out for her nightly walk.  So, I saw just a bit of the on-field celebration live, but said goodbye to them, walked the dog, and then watched the 9th inning and all the celebrations until sbout 10:45.  Not exactly how I wanted to celebrate the clincher, but at least there was a clincher to celebrate.  And I won’t be deleting that from my DVR anytime soon.  

[Aristotelian]

16 minutes ago, Frobby said:

So, I saw just a bit of the on-field celebration live, but said goodbye to them, walked the dog, and then watched the 9th inning and all the celebrations until sbout 10:45.  Not exactly how I wanted to celebrate the clincher, but at least there was a clincher to celebrate.  And I won’t be deleting that from my DVR anytime soon.  

Lol, same. When I got back from the soccer game I watched a bit of the celebration interviews, then "rewound" the MLB.tv stream to the 9th inning and watched from there. Still very enjoyable but I hope to watch to playoffs in real time! 

[Mooreisbetter27]

This is the first time in a long while that I won't be super concerned with a win or a loss.  I always want to win, but knowing where we are headed, I am not going to be upset if we lose.

I would like to win at least 1 however, so we can finish the season series against the Red Sox over .500.  Would be the first time since, I believe, 2014 where we had a winning record against all the other 4 East teams.  

[glenn__davis]

3 hours ago, Aristotelian said:

Lol, same. When I got back from the soccer game I watched a bit of the celebration interviews, then "rewound" the MLB.tv stream to the 9th inning and watched from there. Still very enjoyable but I hope to watch to playoffs in real time! 

Haha I literally did the exact same thing.  Got home from my son's HS game around 9:30, watched "live" interviews until they went off, then rewound and watched the final pitch up until what I had missed.

[HelenaEngineer]

14 hours ago, rm5678 said:

DFA Lopez since he's not eligible for the postseason anyway.

You can have him for 2024 if you offer arbitration. I would think it depends on what the Orioles believe his potential to recapture his 2022 form is. If you think he has a decent shot to be a major bullpen piece next year, then why would you DFA him? If you don't think he is worth offering arbitration, then you could do what you want. Unless it opens up a spot for someone who you think might contribute in the post-season, it would seem to be a classless move, even if there is no real downside from a personnel perspective. I don't know what the team believes about his value and potential for 2024.

[HelenaEngineer]

While I am all in favor of Adley getting as much rest as possible, he only caught one of Means' three starts, and that is his only regular season game catching Means. Just for familiarity, if I were going to catch Adley only once, I would have him catch Means.

[dystopia]

6 minutes ago, HelenaEngineer said:

While I am all in favor of Adley getting as much rest as possible, he only caught one of Means' three starts, and that is his only regular season game catching Means. Just for familiarity, if I were going to catch Adley only once, I would have him catch Means.

If Adley catches tonight, then he catches Sunday too, otherwise you’d have McCann catching a day game after a night game. I’m fine with this, but I’d probably pull Adley after like 5 innings on Sunday.