BALTIMORE Orioles @ Rangers 4/13/09

[srock]

Danys is getting nickle and dime'd to death. Weak squid to RF followed by 2 week grounders = 3 runs.

[Twenty1]

I love the fact that Baez just buzzed Kinsler's tower. Baseball at it's finest.

[RShack]

Koji could of done this. I may be wrong but I would of liked to see him pitch through it and get out of the inning to save the pen.

Nah, he was toast.

Baez was getting outs, it was just all the damn baserunners...

[Elon Os Fan]

Baez is almost pitching like a 8 million dollar pitcher.....

[Carroll County]

Good job by Baez. A single and 3 soft grounders. What a pleasant surprise this guy would be if he can keep it up.

[HOF-Wieters]

Not bad from Baez. Would've liked 1 less run but I'll take it. Time for some more runs.

[AUOriole]

I tell you what...

I likes me some Baez so far this season.

GoO's!

[George]

I have another question.

I seem to remember that back in the seventies, the O's announcers would call certain relief pitchers "Firemen". I took that to mean that they were guys you brought into situations like this top "put out the fire" no matter what point in the game you were in. I can't remember the last time I felt the O's had such a guy.

Does anyone else remember this?

Go O's!

Yes. It goes back to the era when a quality start was more than 6 innings and fewer than 3 runs. A relief pitcher wasn't required unless there was a raging fire to put out. This disastrous turn of events didn't happen frequently when the O's had Palmer, McNally, and Cueller. None of these pitchers would be happy with their pitching performance if they didn't earn a complete game victory.

[JTrea81]

That was what you call an ugly hold...

Uehara with a solid 5 point night in fantasy if he gets the win... Ugh.

[EddieO's21]

really on average you would like to only allow 2 of those runs to score...but Baez did a good job...he avoided the big hit and used his splitter to keep things down

[Carroll County]

They seriously need to nix the close up face/turnaround/serious look shots of all our hitters.

I can only imagine what was going through Huff's head when they made him film those.

[waroriole]

Well Baez allows all of Uehara's IR to score. Nice job there...

You will complan about anything.

[murrayfan420]

A 3 run lead isn't going to cut it.

[mrbig1]

I tell you what...

I likes me some Baez so far this season.

GoO's!

Auburn and Bama fans agree.

[AUOriole]

Yes. It goes back to the era when a quality start was more than 6 innings and fewer than 3 runs. A relief pitcher wasn't required unless there was a raging fire to put out. This disastrous turn of events didn't happen frequently when the O's had Palmer, McNally, and Cueller. None of these pitchers would be happy with their pitching performance if they didn't earn a complete game victory.

*Sniff*

I miss those days...

Go O's!