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Tuesday, April 30: Orioles vs Yankees


SteveA

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5 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Not as if they have two of the top five slugging percentage against non fastballs in the lineup!

 

Oh wait...

Traditionally they have struggled.  Cortes usually owns the O's.  I hope this year is different.  Gunnar is one of the 2, who is the other one?

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1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

Kremer needs to get it together.  Yanks have been killing the ball, just happened to go right at our fielders. That can’t last. 

If their twig-hitting catcher is doing that, it could get ugly against the power guys.

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2 minutes ago, justD said:

Hey! Late for my bday game!

What’d I miss?

 

Happy Birthday!

Good Oriole defense.

Bad Yankee defense.

Poor plate umpiring.

Another HR by a backup catcher against us.

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1 minute ago, Emory Eagle said:

That was a very rare type of foul ball.

Brings to mind an old Home Team Sports broadcast when the catcher took a foul tip right in the Jimmy

Mel Proctor: "The trainer is seeing if he can count to 10"

John Lowenstein: "He only has to count to two!"

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3 minutes ago, Morgan423 said:

If their twig-hitting catcher is doing that, it could get ugly against the power guys.

How can he not be a good hitter.   Roy said their lineup was absolutely loaded.

Well, we knew we wouldn't shut them out the whole series.

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If I were a major league pitcher, I'd have to have some sort of weird euphus or knuckleball or something like that for these at bats.  If we get to 8, 9, 10 pitches, I'm throwing that thing, and this at bat is going to end, one way or another... I'm not pitching to you all night 😆

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