Saturday afternoon May 25: Orioles at White Sox

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, Roy Firestone said:

Funny, I feel like Moose...

Then you’d be like was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[Grt 2BA FL Gator]

Bullpen decision critiques are like play calling critiques in football

Gotta be able to push across 3 today. But we look pretty uninspired. Fedde channeling 2009 Brad Bergesen.

[royalstillman]

When is the last time this offense strung together a series of hits? This is ridiculous.

[Aristotelian]

1 minute ago, dtk9119 said:

Suarez could have come back out or maybe choose another reliever besides Akin who has been garbage lately?

Suarez was toast. Akin has to pitch sometime and this was a perfect situation for him, he just sucks as he always does. The choices were Akin, Webb, Tate, and Perez. Not much for Hyde to work with there to cover five innings.

[Roy Firestone]

1 minute ago, Goober Noodles said:

Yeah, it's pretty bad lately.  Some of ya'll need to chill.

I am chill...like the Oriole offense for the last month...when it heats up...I will too..

[dtk9119]

1 minute ago, oriolediehard said:

The Yankees feasted off the White Sox pitching!!!

Exactly for everyone who thinks folks are being hyperbolic and want to mute bc of the negativity just compare what NYY did vs this pitching staff and what the Orioles are doing.

Way to respond there in the 6th.

[KojiSplit]

Looks like Adrian Johnson all of a sudden has 2 different strike zones. Akin’s pitch to Benintendi which caught the plate called a ball and a pitch below the zone to O’Hearn called a strike….

[Malike]

3 minutes ago, SilverRocket said:

We need an easier way to mark users as Ignore in the game threads.

It's pretty easy, just hover over their name and click the ignore button, check all 3 boxes and profit. Then most of the thread will look like this.

[royalstillman]

Flailing and failing,flailing and failing.

[Malike]

Just now, KojiSplit said:

Looks like Adrian Johnson all of a sudden has 2 different strike zones. Akin’s pitch to Benintendi which caught the plate called a ball and a pitch below the zone to O’Hearn called a strike….

Yeah terrible missed call. Otherwise, the inning is over with no runs scored. It was a clear strike.

[elextrano8]

3 minutes ago, justD said:

Fascinating to see how many lurkers post only when they suddenly think we’re going to lose. 

Very fascinating!

“Sorry, you cannot add any more reactions today.”

[dtk9119]

Just now, Aristotelian said:

Suarez was toast. Akin has to pitch sometime and this was a perfect situation for him, he just sucks as he always does. The choices were Akin, Webb, Tate, and Perez. Not much for Hyde to work with there to cover five innings.

I would have gone with Vespi who can also cover multiple innings. But yes Akin has to do better. He should have been sent down instead of DFA Baumann 

[Moshagge3]

2 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

This past inning is why Akin hasn’t entered the circle of trust yet. I wouldn’t feel comfortable bringing him into a high leverage situation in October baseball. 

Unless he can tap into a few more ticks of velocity or learn a new breaking pitch or something, he's not entering the circle of trust. The stuff is pedestrian. He's a chunkier TJ McFarland.

[eddie83]

3 minutes ago, dtk9119 said:

Suarez could have come back out or maybe choose another reliever besides Akin who has been garbage lately?

You have 5 innings to go. Suarez at 80 pitches after 4 innings not having pitched in awhile. 
 

Akin is matched up well vs LHB. He gets squeezed first hitter and makes horrible pitch to Sheets. He wasn’t facing the Yankees in the 8th inning and the top of order up one here.  

[LookitsPuck]

4 minutes ago, Goober Noodles said:

Yeah, it's pretty bad lately.  Some of ya'll need to chill.

It’s not a great feeling when the bullpen has allowed nearly 20 earned runs in the last week or so.