8/10: A's at O's

[Hank Scorpio]

Jesus Jones... just make contact for the love of God.

[Why Not?]

That was a great bunt. He should definitely have more than 2 of those this year.

Hopefully he does it a little more often, but not too much. Doubles rock and that's what he tends to hit.

[alaniee]

Cmon AJ make good contact

sad sad

[FarmSystem]

Dave needs to push hard for Failey Crowley's firing.

[alaniee]

DANG I thought we had a godo chance of getting at least one this inning. 2nd and 3rd with 1 out and AJ/Markakis. Ouch that hurt.

[Skeletor]

It's hard not to score a run in that situation, but we figured it out.

[Three RBI Homer]

Jones falls for that pitch everytime.

Is it at all possible to get a clutch hit? Really? Or is this neat concept too much to ask?

[jets4ever]

It's hard not to score a run in that situation, but we figured it out.

And, we seem to do it well.

[FarmSystem]

Crowley's approach assume all other pitchers are morons and that teams don't scout you.

If they know you have an aggressive approach, and will "expand the strike zone" they will take advantage of that. But he's a former Oriole, so that trumps results.

[Skeletor]

Guthrie doesn't know how to stay out of the middle of the strike zone.

[El Gordo]

Jesus Jones... just make contact for the love of God.

That would be too easy. And he might not look cool. If he had only done what Nick did we would have had a run. Unfortunately for Nick, he forgot there were two outs and he had to get a hit.:rolleyestf:

[Icterus galbula]

ugh Ellis 2/2

[bce086]

:rofl: Nice swing Kennedy.

[alaniee]

Another score less inning by Guthrie. YAY! KEep it up mate.

[Why Not?]

I'm a big AJ fan, but at bats like that are ample evidence that he is still a very young hitter. He has some absolutely awful at bats against lefties and some putrid ones with guys on third and less than two outs.

Those kind of ABs are less-and-less common. Hopefully that trend will continue. He's never going to be Wade Boggs, but his approach is better.

What concerns me is when Jones losses the athletic ability to foul off pitches on which he's fooled. He makes contact sometimes and it makes me wonder how he did it. Someday he'll no longer have such quick reflexes.