Monday, May 20: Orioles at Cardinals

[Matt Bennett]

Tony sure seems to be swinging and missing and some outrageous pitches this year. 

[Sports Guy]

If the knee is a problem for Santander, why not IL him?  Why risk anything when you don’t have to?

[Billy F-Face3]

Somehow we had to face the spirit of Greg Maddux tonight.

[emmett16]

The K pitch to Cowser was filthy. 

[dtk9119]

What a miserable game this is

[Aristotelian]

Just now, Sports Guy said:

If the knee is a problem for Santander, why not IL him?  Why risk anything when you don’t have to?

Because Santander is hitting so well! /s

[dystopia]

Just now, Philip said:

It is something of a strawman to blame the app. He’s missed a couple of calls, but Dean is not pitching very well, and the Cardinals are taking advantage of his mistakes. You can’t blame that on the Ump.

Kremer has not pitched well, but when you have to get 4 strikes in an AB then I have no problem blaming the ump.

[Roy Firestone]

Horrible Horrible performance...this is why we arent going to win this division vs Yankees...itll be 3 back after tonight..

[Aristotelian]

Sonny Gray is really, really good. I was hoping we would sign him this offseason. Can't complain about the guy we got though.

[Sports Guy]

The pitch that is called a ball most often is the 0-2 pitch. Diaz was already in ball mode and when he missed the spot, he called it a ball. Bad umping and poor assumption.

[LGOrioles]

5 minutes ago, RavensNOsGuy said:

Too many non competitive offense games this year. It’s gotta change or we won’t win near 100 again. Reminds me of the Buck days. Feast or famine.

That’s been the case lately, but they’ve been really good against teams over .500 and really bad (considering their record) against teams under .500. If they lose tonight they’ll be 13-10 against teams under .500. For reference the Yankees are 18-8, LAD are 23-9, PHI is 30-12, and ATL is 17-5. SSS but they’ve been playing up or down to their competition so far. 

[Malike]

1 minute ago, Roy Firestone said:

Horrible Horrible performance...this is why we arent going to win this division vs Yankees...itll be 3 back after tonight..

Neither team in the world series last year won the division, big whoop.

[emmett16]

Is Kevin brown in the game thread??

[Dunk35]

Santa really is coming up small in his FA walk year. Losing a good bit of money it seems like. Our long term vets have all been pretty bleh this year. Hays, Ced, Tony, RMC. 

[24fps]

So I just checked in and it looks like Kremer coughed up a sizeable hairball and the slugging O's lineup is getting no-hit after 5.  At least one of the of the Cards' players thinks it's cool to wear number 0.  Stupidest thing ever.

There, I feel better...