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2 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

No, I was hoping at some point it would stop raining.  Is there going to be another worldwide flood?

Not a worldwide flood, but not a good day for baseball.   They'll be lucky to get one game in.   Scheduling two makes no sense when Toronto will be coming into town again in July.

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5 hours ago, dtk9119 said:

I want the streak to end as much as anyone bc I am sick of hearing about it.

That said, I thought if we lose tomorrow then we have been swept bc the rescheduled game is now part of the July series?

The streak ending requires the Orioles to lose. Why would you want that?

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How many teams in mlb can throw better arms out there over10 innings than Berrios, Garcia, and Romano?  Maybe there’s 5-10 matchups like that in mlb. 

It took all of that to beat us on a game where we had two baserunners other than Adley’s HRs. Hit, walk, ghost runner. 

Literally, everything had to go right for the Jays to beat us in a game on May 14th. 

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6 minutes ago, Mooreisbetter27 said:

Weather app is showing 45% chance of rain at 11AM and nothing after that.  I imagine we get this in.  

Woo! I’m cutting out of work early to walk over, so I’m hoping that I can successfully play hooky on this one!

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1 hour ago, ExileAngelos said:

So if we get rained out again does it mean our sweepless streak is over?  What if we play and lose?  We only played 2 of the 3 scheduled games of the series.  Hmmmmmm

I think a loss today means the streak is over. 
 

A rainout shouldn’t mean that because 1 game is not a “series”, nor is it a “sweep”, by any definition of the words. 

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