Sunday May 19: O's vs Mariners

[OriolesMagic83]

2 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

I hope Irvin pitches well here,,,and we dont have to go to Kimbrel...

Omg!  The save rule.  Hyde is legally required to use Kimbrel in the 9th with a lead.

[HowAboutThat]

20 minutes ago, spiritof66 said:

I've enjoyed Ogden Nash since a fourth (I think) grade teacher taught us his poem about pelicans:

A wonderful bird is the pelican.

His bill can hold more than his pelican.

He can hold in his beak

Enough food for a week,

But I’m damned if I see how the helican.

Nash lived most of his life in Baltimore, and he wrote, "I could have loved New York had I not loved Balti-more."

Maybe Brown mentioned this,  but if so I missed it: Nash was a big baseball fan, and the poem that mentions Willie Keeler calls out to stars of the 1890s Orioles who are preparing for the return of MLB to Baltimore in 1954:

Wee Willie Keeler
Runs through the town,
All along Charles Street,
In his nightgown.
Belling like a hound dog,
Gathering the pack:
Hey, Wilbert Robinson,
The Orioles are back!
Hey, Hughie Jennings!
Hey, John McGraw!
I got fire in my eye
And tobacco in my jaw!
Hughie, hold my halo.
I'm sick of being a saint:
Got to teach youngsters
To hit 'em where they ain't.

Some of you will enjoy Nash's baseball poem Line-Up for Yesterday:
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_line.shtml

 

Ogden Nash is one of my very favorite poets, I’ve memorized many of his poems, and I loved his particular gimmick, which was, if he didn’t have a rhyming word for a line he would just make one up..

For those who wish to Moore, look up his marvelous collection, the bad parents garden of verse. Oh!what a hilarious collection, including the gem,” poem for a small boy who is standing on my shoes while I am wearing them.“

 

Edited May 19 by Philip

[eddie83]

Just now, SteveA said:

[ insert some sort of joke regarding Cows and Leather ]

I’m waiting for Chick-fil-A to do a local commercial with him. 

[Brian88]

Why is Cano warming? Let Irvin finish this, or if you insist on playing by the save rule, go to Kimbrel

[Billy F-Face3]

Shall we go with Kimbrel in the 9th since he hasn't pitched in a while?

[Matt Bennett]

Keep Irvin out there

[Fiver6565]

Hyde is going to pitch Kimbrel in the ninth, isn't he.  Just so we can all lose our collective sh!t.

[Morgan423]

1 minute ago, Brian88 said:

Why is Cano warming? Let Irvin finish this, or if you insist on playing by the save rule, go to Kimbrel

Mariners have three righties in a row coming up in the 9th.  Irvin's equipped to handle it, but matching up with a righty would be a valid call as well. 

[Mooreisbetter27]

Just just score 3-4 so it doesn’t matter regardless 

[spiritof66]

Voth is indistinguishable in my memory from a bunch of RHed relief pitchers who were sometimes effective but inconsistent with the recent Orioles. He looked pretty good today with a variety of breaking balls.

[Roy Firestone]

I truly worry...I think Kimbrel will blow this lead..Mountcastle is the new slump...

[Fiver6565]

I don't get why you wouldn't keep Irvin in.  Even if you love the save rule, its a three-inning save opp for Irvin.  And you've burned Cole for a day or two already anyway, and he looks good.  Just way too many reasons to leave Irvin in.

[SteveA]

Just now, Billy F-Face3 said:

Shall we go with Kimbrel in the 9th since he hasn't pitched in a while?

I would think so.

I know everyone is "scared" and doesn't "trust him".  

But when you have a 7 man bullpen and a long stretch with no off days, you have to use them all.  

Kimbrel has had 3 great outings in a row.  He has not allowed a run in 14 of his 19 outings this year.   He allowed one run in 3 others.   So he's only given up 2+ runs twice all season.

Not using him would be managing scared, not managing to win.   You have to use the guys on the roster.

[Spakman]

I think Mountcastle’s vertigo is back. He hasn’t been hitting and that play on that supposed double he looked like he was so off-balance..

[Fiver6565]

1 minute ago, Morgan423 said:

Mariners have three righties in a row coming up in the 9th.  Irvin's equipped to handle it, but matching up with a righty would be a valid call as well. 

This is a good point.  Who do they have on the bench I wonder?  Probably no one that would necessarily scare you.