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2024 Baltimore Orioles
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Tank
Hall of Famer
With the new players I think we’ve gained an average of 6 or 8 inches in height. lol
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drjohnnyfever
Pro Bowler
Getting two of the four games when we haven't been at our best is a good beginning to get back on track. Series might look a little different in October...
drjohnnyfever
Pro Bowler
Agree. Been a rough stretch. Just goes to show how lights out we were for a season and a half of consistent series wins. I think there going to start hitting again - they're showing signs, but the bullpen is a hot mess. No one is dependable. They have to get that shit together.
SepticeyePoe
Hall of Famer
drjohnnyfever
Pro Bowler
...I wish they would tear down the gray monstrosity in center field, tho! 
Tank
Hall of Famer
Good news here.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
Kevin Brown signs contract extension to remain in Orioles booth
Brown, a rising star in the industry, called his first Orioles game on radio in 2019 and in 2022 became the primary play-by-play announcer for MASN.
SepticeyePoe
Hall of Famer
JO_75
Hall of Famer
The fight tonight, the never give up nature of the Orioles is proof why I think they have a shot to win the World Series this year. Burnes had his worst night of the year, Craig Kimbrel better not be on our playoff roster that's all I'm saying. It's going to come down to the last game of the year to determine who wins the AL East, and who gets the 1/2 seed in the AL. Orioles have the bats..... but pitching is going to be the thing that is going to prevent the O's from getting far in the playoffs.
drjohnnyfever
Pro Bowler
The starters, until last night, had improved. I mean even Suarez got thru the 6th over the weekend and that's the second good start for him in a row. The RP is terrible. There is no one after the starters to stop a rally and no one has been able to escape an inning without a walk that hurts them and a run or more being scored. Part is the umps, but the bigger part is their lack of control.
About the umps, you could see Kimbrel's meltdown coming. He was shaky to begin with, but when a strike - in the center of the plate, in the strikebox of the auto ump, at least a full ball's height into it - was called a ball, Kimbrel lost any composure he had. I think that made the count 2-1 instead of 1-2. Then a ball. Then the HR pitch. I even said to my daughter after the bad call, "Look out, he's going to throw a HR." Low and behold. He's become very predictable. I guess that one can be blamed on the ump. It changed the pitch sequence, but the reality is the next pitch after it wasn't even close. High and outside - not even tempting to a hitter.
The RP has to be improved. I don't know if that means bringing the pitching coach from last year up from his evaluative roll he's taken on to advise a little or what, but something has to give. We seem very much like the Detroit Tigers we sent packing on Delmon Young's historic double. The starting pitching on that Detroit team was very good, but touch them for a few runs and in came relievers that would give the game away.
Boston is a good team. We have to manage a split. I think with that we win the season series with them anyway. But taking these two games would be better. I just don't really expect anything more than a 50-50 chance once we get the the bullpen and if we don't have the lead when we start using them, I'm pretty dubious on our chances.
edit - the positives are the bats seems to have reawakened AND, generally, the fielding is getting back to normal.
About the umps, you could see Kimbrel's meltdown coming. He was shaky to begin with, but when a strike - in the center of the plate, in the strikebox of the auto ump, at least a full ball's height into it - was called a ball, Kimbrel lost any composure he had. I think that made the count 2-1 instead of 1-2. Then a ball. Then the HR pitch. I even said to my daughter after the bad call, "Look out, he's going to throw a HR." Low and behold. He's become very predictable. I guess that one can be blamed on the ump. It changed the pitch sequence, but the reality is the next pitch after it wasn't even close. High and outside - not even tempting to a hitter.
The RP has to be improved. I don't know if that means bringing the pitching coach from last year up from his evaluative roll he's taken on to advise a little or what, but something has to give. We seem very much like the Detroit Tigers we sent packing on Delmon Young's historic double. The starting pitching on that Detroit team was very good, but touch them for a few runs and in came relievers that would give the game away.
Boston is a good team. We have to manage a split. I think with that we win the season series with them anyway. But taking these two games would be better. I just don't really expect anything more than a 50-50 chance once we get the the bullpen and if we don't have the lead when we start using them, I'm pretty dubious on our chances.
edit - the positives are the bats seems to have reawakened AND, generally, the fielding is getting back to normal.
Tank
Hall of Famer
This is unbelievable.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
Another one: Orioles place pitcher Zach Eflin on injured list
The injury to Eflin, who has been a revelation since arriving ahead of the trade deadline, is the latest to impact a pitching staff that has already lost three starters to season-ending ailments.
drjohnnyfever
Pro Bowler
Brutal. We'll never win it all this year. We're snakebit.This is unbelievable.
Another one: Orioles place pitcher Zach Eflin on injured list
The injury to Eflin, who has been a revelation since arriving ahead of the trade deadline, is the latest to impact a pitching staff that has already lost three starters to season-ending ailments.