O's 5, Royals 2: Ol' Nine Inning Cabrera

The Orioles have officially scored one more run then they've allowed

by math_geek on Jul 2, 2008 9:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

lets keep it that way the rest of the year

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey

by jobe on Jul 2, 2008 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'll take that...

on a PER GAME basis, no problem. Always score one more run that allowed each game. Works for me…

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 2, 2008 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Awesome game by Danny!

Now I’m watching the Red Sox implode against the Rays on ESPN.

"We’re not concerned about what other teams think. I know teams come in here thinking we’re playing the Orioles. And then 9 innings later, they got the loss, they know what we’re about." ~Adam Jones

by Stacey on Jul 2, 2008 10:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

awesome!

rays by one!

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 2, 2008 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Make that Rays by three!

I love it.

"We’re not concerned about what other teams think. I know teams come in here thinking we’re playing the Orioles. And then 9 innings later, they got the loss, they know what we’re about." ~Adam Jones

by Stacey on Jul 2, 2008 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

God, I think I'm jumping on the Rays bandwagon

if the Orioles can’t get there, I’ll be rooting for the Rays to win the WS

by math_geek on Jul 2, 2008 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Dude

I’ve been on the Rays bandwagon for quite some time. I’m their frontrunner. Next year after the Rays win the World Series I’m going to be all up in Camden Yards in my pink Rays hat all WOOOOO!

(well, maybe not all that, but I am rooting for them this year)

"We’re not concerned about what other teams think. I know teams come in here thinking we’re playing the Orioles. And then 9 innings later, they got the loss, they know what we’re about." ~Adam Jones

by Stacey on Jul 2, 2008 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

hahaha

Anyone who beats the Yankees and Red Sox is likeable.

by math_geek on Jul 2, 2008 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not the Blow Jays

Not anymore.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 2, 2008 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i'm still lookin for someone else..

but so far, i think i’m the only one who actually bet for a good Rays team this year. I have a few bags of coffee on the following standings:

1. red sox
2. tampa rays
3. ny yankees
4. blue jays
5. o’s

that was pre-season! even though the standings aren’t exactly like that right now.. i think they may be.. as good as the rays are, i still think the damn sox can pull it off for the division.. and the O’s will most likely trade off several guys and then sink. hope i’m wrong on the latter

by Y Not on Jul 3, 2008 12:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

you're not

Baseball Prospectus had them winning 88 games and almost everyone else with a clue (nobody on TV) thought they were a nice sleeper team.

"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum

Camden Chat
Bad Left Hook

by SC on Jul 3, 2008 1:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah

Neyer predicted they would be good (of course, he uses PECOTA and other projections to make his own).

But yeah, dude, PECOTA was all over the rays.

by pipkin on Jul 3, 2008 8:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bartlett single

Rays are up by three now

by math_geek on Jul 2, 2008 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

6 run inning

ha ha!

"We’re not concerned about what other teams think. I know teams come in here thinking we’re playing the Orioles. And then 9 innings later, they got the loss, they know what we’re about." ~Adam Jones

by Stacey on Jul 2, 2008 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

absolutely beautiful

If Texas wasn’t such a mess, I’d be totally watching sportscenter tomorrow

by math_geek on Jul 2, 2008 10:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

it's fun

too bad the Rangers decided to implode also

by math_geek on Jul 2, 2008 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

BOOOOOOOOOOO bad Rangers bullpen....

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 2, 2008 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I missed the game of course.

But I think a few people owe Danny an apology for JUMPING DOWN HIS THROAT IN THE FIRST INNING.

by zknower on Jul 2, 2008 10:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

he gave up a HR to their leadoff hitter with broken ribs

by math_geek on Jul 2, 2008 10:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

There is that....

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 2, 2008 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i was around for that.

and then what he went and did. DESPITE EVERYONE PISSING ON HIM.

He’ll never be perfect, but people have to back the fuck off. He went through a bad stretch. It happens. He also had 9 quality starts in a row before the bad stretch.

I’m not saying he’s going to be our ace, but he’s obviously better this year. He changed his game. Then they adjusted. Now maybe he’s adjusting back. Can we stop throwing the book at him when he has bad early innings?

Sheesh.

by zknower on Jul 2, 2008 10:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

shit

should have been

“and then LOOK what he went and did”

by zknower on Jul 2, 2008 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I understand what you're saying

although, to be fair, he didn’t look very good for the first 3 innings today.

Cabrera is inconsistent, so we’re looking for what we are going to see from the first couple innings, whereas someone like Guts gets a pass, because we know he recovers and gets over it. Major props for Danny Cabs getting his act together, which most people will agree happened right after that balk when Coach Kranitz came up to the mound and read him the riot act. Then he was pitching much more cleanly, and he became quite fun to watch. Walking no-one was incredible.

But do you really think we wouldve given a free pass to Olson or Burres if the lead-off guy hit a home run on his first day off the DL?

by math_geek on Jul 2, 2008 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

"BACK THE FUCK OFF"

“OWE HIM AN APOLOGY”

Ohhh, zknower

Do you get all tingly inside when you think about him?

by drj on Jul 2, 2008 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

was supposed to be zknower <3 Danny

by drj on Jul 2, 2008 11:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

zknower has a man-crush on danny

by zknower on Jul 2, 2008 11:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I went to this one

with my Pappy. Daniel was mowing them down. It’s the fourth, then you look up and it’s the seventh, then you look up and it’s the ninth. He was efficient, holy crap. Holy CRAP.
He didn’t even throw behind the next guy’s head when he balked that runner over.
I reserve the right to believe that he’s a head case, however.
Huge win for Danny. Huge for our bullpen. Huge.

"This ain't a football game. We do this every day."

by Fear and Trembley on Jul 2, 2008 10:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

He may have helped this team

win TOMORROW’S game with that CG. Bullpen needed a night off, and they got it.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 2, 2008 11:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

How efficient was Danny?

Time of game: 2 hours, 16 minutes.

Damn.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 2, 2008 11:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Wow

i checked the box score on my phone around 9:30 and was expecting the 6th inning with the O’s down by 2.

But the game was already over.

No complaints.

by dkdc on Jul 2, 2008 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

9IP, 105 Pitches.

"Chickens are hard to catch." Jennifer Scott (Luuuuuuuke's Mom)

by dayzd toe on Jul 3, 2008 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tht, that's pretty good

and that’s with a 20 pitch 9th inning. Went INTO the 9th at 85. Damn.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 3, 2008 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Cabrera

I see Cabrera as much better pitcher this yr.
pitched a great game tonite.I,d like to see
someone invest in teaching him to field
his position.

by hagers on Jul 2, 2008 11:09 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Fielding his position

is gonna be hard no matter what, since he’s SIX FEET NINE FREAKIN’ INCHES TALL.

That’s a serious detriment. No way around it.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 3, 2008 8:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah

Randy Johnson never got good at it either. Of course Randy Johnson is going to the Hall of Fame and Daniel Cabrera is striving to be league average.

"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum

Camden Chat
Bad Left Hook

by SC on Jul 3, 2008 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

When you strike them out

or give up fly balls, you don’t have to be as good a fielder. But if Ground Ball Danny (he’s, what, 3rd in the AL in ground balls?) continues with this approach, his lack of fielding is going to hurt him much worse than Randy’s ever affected him.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 3, 2008 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

OT,

but I just sent a love letter to AMA in the fanpost column. :)

by zknower on Jul 2, 2008 11:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It's a long season

But it sure is fun at the moment.

by drj on Jul 2, 2008 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good thing the Royals can't hit.

I remember Gary and Buck talking about how Danny boy didn’t have his best stuff. It appears not (only two Ks), but the Royals really are a terrible-hitting team, and it’s good to take advantage of that when you can.

by pipkin on Jul 3, 2008 8:02 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I'll take just 2 Ks

as long as they come with ZERO walks.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 3, 2008 8:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah...

pair that w/ 7 hits in 9 ip and you have a WHIP under 1. kind of amazing for danny cabs.

i can actually totally see him throwing a flawed no-no at some point (like, no hits, but 5 walks, a balk, 2 wp and an error leading to, like, 2 runs).

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 3, 2008 9:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

K/BB ratio of INFINITY

by punkrawka on Jul 3, 2008 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

2 Ks isn’t that off for him anymore. His strikeout rate stinks now. Man if he’d kept the strikeouts we’d really have something.

"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum

Camden Chat
Bad Left Hook

by SC on Jul 3, 2008 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

As the walks came down, so did the Ks.

I’m sure there’s got to be a connection.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 3, 2008 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

pitching to contact, plain and simple.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 3, 2008 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

See, I KNEW there was one!

It was just too complicated for me to see on first glance….. :)

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 3, 2008 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs