April 1 vs The Royals

[Roy Firestone]

pitch count ...high.

[dtk9119]

Just now, Roy Firestone said:

We better wake up....these games are supposedly against "lesser" opponents...

Exactly. These first 6 games should have been 5-1 easy.

[Billy F-Face3]

That's the way to respond and recover Dean. Now Orioles hitters, make the bats come alive! Respond!

[TopGunnar]

Kremer picking up where he left off in Arlington. Let’s see what the bats can do. 

[Tony-OH]

2 minutes ago, Billy F-Face3 said:

Okay that might get into Dean's head. Gotta flush those.

The Monkey banging the cymbals in there went to sleep after Witt absolutely crushed his fastball. Walks the next guy on 4-pitches and throw an awful (though a terrible pitch call) cement mixer cutter. 

 

[O's84]

1 minute ago, dtk9119 said:

Exactly. These first 6 games should have been 5-1 easy.

Doesn't always work that way in Baseball.

[justD]

1 minute ago, Tony-OH said:

Just had to come on here and say that was a SH!T pith call by Rutschman. Everyone, and I mean everyone knew he was going to throw a cutter on 1-2. 

Why? Why? Perpez swings at everything and if he guessing right, he's going to tattoo you. 

So what does Rutschman do? Call the EXACPT pitch everyone expected including Perez.

So we already know the analytics people are dictating lineups.  Are they also contributing to, or dictating, pitch usage?  

[Tony-OH]

2 minutes ago, dtk9119 said:

Exactly. These first 6 games should have been 5-1 easy.

You can never do that with early games. We've done the same thing to teams early on when we've absolutely sucked. It evens out.

Saying that, with the mustache boys being zeros at the plate, Rutschman calling pitches like a little leaguer, and Kremer losing his cool in his first start if the year, it's a not good look over the last 12 innings.

[Roy Firestone]

How about a hit?

[Yossarian]

We just continue to tap grounder to the infield

[Roy Firestone]

Sleepwalking since Game 2....so frustrating...

[Billy F-Face3]

Just now, Roy Firestone said:

How about a hit?

I'll even take a man on base at this point

[Tony-OH]

2 minutes ago, justD said:

So we already know the analytics people are dictating lineups.  Are they also contributing to, or dictating, pitch usage?  

He may have the info provided by them, but I've never heard he's getting pitch calls and he never looks into the dugout.

[Spakman]

Lifeless like the non existent crowd

[Say O!]

5 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Just had to come on here and say that was a SH!T pith call by Rutschman. Everyone, and I mean everyone knew he was going to throw a cutter on 1-2. 

Why? Why? Perpez swings at everything and if he guessing right, he's going to tattoo you. 

So what does Rutschman do? Call the EXACPT pitch everyone expected including Perez.

There have been several questionable pitch calls/sequences by Adley in the first couple of games.