Thursday 6/13 vs. Atlanta

[Roy Firestone]

My God, we are being worked by Lopez...but maybe he will come out in the  7th...or earlier...we need to work counts and foil some off...

Edited June 13 by Roy Firestone

[dtk9119]

1 minute ago, Dibbs31 said:

Westburg beat out an infield single to lead off the second 

Oh yes forgot. Still a miserable showing today.

[SteveA]

2 minutes ago, oriolediehard said:

Steve, Do I need to wait until after 9 inning after the score ends 3-0 to bring my issue up?   Am I allowed to be disappointed that my team is losing?  Lot of people on OH don't feel good when we are losing.  Am I supposed to be apathetic and not care who wins, just enjoy the action by either team?   If I don't feel that way, it is not a crime!!

Of course we are disappointed we haven't hit well for four innings today.

It's just claiming we have "slumping bats" based on less than 2 times through the order against one pitcher, and that the lead seems in surmountable, is just so over the top.

I know you've watched this team all this year.   I know you must have seen MANY times where we don't hit early in the game but we wind up scoring a bunch.   I know you know we have the highest scoring offense in the entire major leagues.

I guess the over the top sky is falling stuff just gets on my nerves.   We are winning games at a near historic pace this year... we are on pace to win more games than any team in Oriole history except 1969.   The idea that the game is over and we have no chance because we are down 3-0 in the 4th inning just seems so laughable, I find it hard to believe people actually think that way.    Have they not watched this team all year.

Yeah, we may lose today for just the 23rd time in 68 games.   But this talk of "slumps" that are 15 at bats long, or 3 run leads being insurmountable, is just mind boggling to me.

[O's84]

8 minutes ago, Flash- bd said:

Well, Reynaldo looks pretty legit. This one looks it's gonna be tough.

2/3 with Suarez, Povich, and Irvin starting would still be very good, though. 

Unfortunately were probably throwing those 3 against the Yankees.  But it's baseball, so watch us take 2/3 from them.

[TopGunnar]

1 minute ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

I would have signed up for winning 2 of 3 with those starters against Atlanta's best.  

Absolutely. 2/3 against Atlanta is a nice win

[SteveA]

3 minutes ago, Flash- bd said:

Recency bias, no, guys? We did well enough against Fried on Tuesday! 

We beat up Gausman pretty good last week too.

[Rbiggs2525]

I don’t get bothered losing today. It is a bit eye opening 7/9 players look like they have no chance at the plate. This is what we will see in the playoffs.

[DirtyBird]

1 minute ago, SteveA said:

We beat up Gausman pretty good last week too.

Gausman stinks. We always spank him around.

[Moose Milligan]

I'm not getting all Roy on this game, but I don't like how this is going.

[vab]

Alright, can't hold these guys down forever. Just glad we're getting them out of town today because they're probably going to start crushing folks soon. 

[O's84]

Well Irvin kept us in the game.

[dtk9119]

3 minutes ago, O's84 said:

Unfortunately were probably throwing those 3 against the Yankees.  But it's baseball, so watch us take 2/3 from them.

I've been screaming this for over a week since they went to this 6 man rotation. Wasting all the good arms vs an NL team that we are not chasing. 

Game completely out of reach now. And like clockwork mop up man Bryan Baker up and throwing as I called in the first inning. 

[SteveA]

5.2 innings, 2 earned runs (assuming the runner is stranded).

Not bad.   Especially since the 2 earned runs scored on the first 4 pitches of the game.

Come on Baker, get this out!

[Roy Firestone]

Irvin wasnt great, but our bats today wouldn't have won anyway....maybe KC can win for a change..

[justD]

3 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Of course we are disappointed we haven't hit well for four innings today.

It's just claiming we have "slumping bats" based on less than 2 times through the order against one pitcher, and that the lead seems in surmountable, is just so over the top.

I know you've watched this team all this year.   I know you must have seen MANY times where we don't hit early in the game but we wind up scoring a bunch.   I know you know we have the highest scoring offense in the entire major leagues.

I guess the over the top sky is falling stuff just gets on my nerves.   We are winning games at a near historic pace this year... we are on pace to win more games than any team in Oriole history except 1969.   The idea that the game is over and we have no chance because we are down 3-0 in the 4th inning just seems so laughable, I find it hard to believe people actually think that way.    Have they not watched this team all year.

Yeah, we may lose today for just the 23rd time in 68 games.   But this talk of "slumps" that are 15 at bats long, or 3 run leads being insurmountable, is just mind boggling to me.

So much energy invested in chewing people out for expressing themselves spontaneously in a game thread.

I might suggest looking at these posters' posts on the main forum to see what they think about slumps and such when they're trying to be more thoughtful and insightful.  It might turn out they just use game threads to vent, nothing more, nothing less.  It's not like they're trying to convince anyone.  Maybe they're just venting. 

I've always thought the game threads were a much safer place for that, not as much detailed rationality required.  

But that's just me.