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Seems like a good day to update this, following a game where our bullpen blew a save but we won anyway. Since the OP, in the last 55 games the O’s bullpen has blown 6 saves, as follows: May 24: Yennier Cano entered the game in the bottom of the 7th with the O’s leading the White Sox 4-3, but yielded a one-out homer to Andrew Vaughn to tie the score. The O’s answered with two in the top of the 8th and won 6-4. June 2: Dillon Tate relieved Cole Irvin with one out in the top of the 7th, ahead of the Rays 3-2. He escaped that inning but allowed 2 runs in the 8th and the O’s lost 4-3. June 12: Keegan Akin entered the game with 2 outs in the 7th, O’s leading Atlanta 2-0. He got through that inning but allowed a 2-run bomb to Matt Olson in the 8th to tie the score at 2-2. No matter: the O’s scored two of their own in the bottom of the frame and the O’s won 4-2. June 19: Craig Kimbrel entered in the bottom of the 9th, O’s leading the Yankees 5-4. He allowed lead off double to Anthony Volpe and then a one-out RBI single to Giancarlo Stanton, but escaped the inning tied 5-5. The O’s scored 2 in the top of the 10th and Tate allowed 1 run in the bottom half but held on for the 7-6 win. July 14: Ahead of the Yankees 4-3 in the bottom of the 9th, Kimbrel walked the no. 8 hitter Trent Grisham and no. 9 Oswaldo Cabrera, then allowed a 3-run homer to Ben Rice to put the O’s behind 6-4. But in the bottom of the 9th, the O’s rallied for three runs of their own, aided by two two-out Yankee miscues that handed the victory to the Birds, 7-6. July 25: Kimbrel entered a game in Miami ahead 6-3 and quickly got the lead off batter. But then, Norby tripped after charging a slow roller to 2B, ruled a single, and Kimbrel walked the next two batters on 3-2 pitches. The next hitter hit a routine grounder just to the right of 2B that Gunnar fielded but flubbed, allowing a run to score The next hitter hit a sacrifice fly to LF to make it 6-5, and then Josh Bell hit a single in the gap on an absolutely terrible pitch that tied the score. At that point Kimbrel was yanked from the game and Cano was able to end the inning with a strikeout. Fortunately, the O’s scored once in the top of the 10th and Cionel Perez was able to shut Miami down in the bottom of the inning, and the O’s won 7-6. So miraculously, these most recent 6 blown saves only resulted in one loss. Interestingly, the last three were all by Kimbrel and all ended as 7-6 wins. Great job by the O’s offense to overcome adversity. So, on the year, that’s 32 saves and 16 blown saves, a decent 67% save rate (league average is 63%) that becomes better when you realize that the 16 blown saves only resulted in 7 losses. The perpetrators: 6 - Kimbrel (2 losses) 3 - Cano (2) 2 - Akin (0) 1 - Baumann (1 loss), Coulome (0), Suarez (1), Tate (1), Webb (0). -
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By HowAboutThat · Posted
What I’m saying is that the reinforcements that Mike started the year with were inadequate in quantity and quality. Burnes was only a lateral move, and Mike knew about Bradish and Means, at least, in time to do something. His attempts to redress the issue have been pretty dreadful. Why hire Thiago Vieira, for instance? And it was unwise to expect to get a full seasons quality from Suarez and Irvin. Povich and McDermott are not assets right now -
By OriolesMagic83 · Posted
Note to Elias: having whatever starter and reliever you trade for available for the DH on Monday enhances whatever trade you make. -
By Moose Milligan · Posted
I like seeing the Rays sell but I know they won’t be down for long. -
By Moose Milligan · Posted
Getting Puk would have been nice. Trying to talk myself into getting excited about Fedde but whatever. I’m sure he’ll be better than Flaherty was last year.
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