Red Sox 2, Orioles 1: Horseshoes and hand grenades

by SC on Apr 19, 2009 4:18 PM EDT in Post-Game Comment 35 comments

More photos » by Winslow Townson - AP

Despite a great effort from Koji Uehara, the Orioles dropped their fourth in a row and third straight in Boston, losing 2-1 to Jon Lester and the Red Sox.

Uehara (2-1, 5.29) took the loss despite his best start of the season, and arguably the best Orioles start of the season. Koji became the first Birds starter to pitch into the seventh inning, and completed seven full with just two earned on five hits and a walk. He struck out five.

But he was outdueled by Jon Lester (1-2, 5.50), who befuddled the Orioles again to improve to 7-0 over his career against Baltimore. Lester also went seven, striking out nine and walking two. He allowed no runs on just four hits. The Orioles couldn't come close to figuring him out.

Ramon Ramirez pitched a perfect eighth for Boston, and Takashi Saito closed it out with Jonathan Papelbon unavailable. The Orioles did get a run off of Saito, but Luke Scott and Gregg Zaun stranded Aubrey Huff at second base.

Not a whole lot to say about this one. They got beat. Couldn't hit Lester. End of story.

Biggest News of the Game: Adam Jones left in the second inning with a sore right hamstring. Felix Pie replaced him in center and had a hell of a time out there. Let's hope Adam isn't out for any amount of time and just needed to take the rest of today off.

Poll

Most Birdland Player (MBP) for today's game was:

Ty Wigginton (2-for-4, RBI)

5 votes

Koji Uehara (7 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, BB, 5 K)

223 votes

228 votes | Poll has closed

0 recs | Comment 35 comments | Share

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

...It's baseball, right?

What’s with Pie’s defensive failings. The guy was a stud for the Cubs, making great plays and gunning people at the plate. With the Os it looks like he’s forgotten what game he’s playing.

by Dr Orpheus on Apr 19, 2009 4:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

i kind of think he's just real nervous right now and he'll calm down

by thewaywardO on Apr 19, 2009 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

nope, he blows.

just accept it. he’s terrible. here’s what i’m hoping though. adam jones is out for 2 weeks. they bring up reimold. pie continues to suck and reimold hits .500 for those two weeks. jones comes back. they can’t help but leave reimold up and DFA pie, right?

please? please?

by joet on Apr 19, 2009 6:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

here’s what i’m hoping though. adam jones is out for 2 weeks.

no thx u

Bad Left Hook
Camden Chat

"If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it." -- Marvin Hagler

by SC on Apr 19, 2009 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, that's where you lost me, too.

"Believe it or not, I read the paper." - Nick Markakis

by 2632 on Apr 19, 2009 7:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

to clarify

i’m assuming a hamstring pull is going to get you for two weeks. i’m not rooting for it. i hope he’s fine to play tomorrow. but the most likely scenario is they stick him on the DL for 15 days to play it safe.

if that’s inevitable, then at least maybe we’ll get something good out of it instead of just sticking pie in center and freel in left for the next two weeks and calling up montanez to ride the bench. i’d like us to give whoever they bring up an actual shot.

by joet on Apr 19, 2009 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Who voted for Wigginton? You guys are as bad as the baseball writers voting on the Hall.

Bad Left Hook
Camden Chat

"If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it." -- Marvin Hagler

by SC on Apr 19, 2009 5:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

His mother

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 Apr 19, 2009 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Turn on MASN2 now.

Manny Acta is pisssssssed at his bullpen.

"You have to discipline yourself so you don't come out with something just to say you made a trade. You have to make sure you come out better than you were before." - Andy MacPhail, 7/31/08

by getxstoked on Apr 19, 2009 5:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Manny promises a bullpen housecleaning

http://www.masnsports.com/ml/video.php?show_id=84029

by typozzz on Apr 19, 2009 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And gets one...

http://masnsports.com/2009/04/shell-rivera-ledezma-are-out-w.html

"You have to discipline yourself so you don't come out with something just to say you made a trade. You have to make sure you come out better than you were before." - Andy MacPhail, 7/31/08

by getxstoked on Apr 19, 2009 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Going, going...

In the comments McElroy is already looking past Manny.

If he is fired, I think Riggleman would make a fine interim skipper.

by typozzz on Apr 19, 2009 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fine effort by Koji

As for the rest of us, not so much. Oh well. Frankly speaking, I’m still happy about the new road uniforms and regardless of the team’s performance, the glow from that should last at least through May.
And then there’s Dave Trembley, brightening up my rainy day as per usual, with some thoughts about the future of troubled-teen Adam Eaton:

“You would hope that sooner or later it would click and he’d be able to make some adjustments, make some improvements, go deeper into the game,” Trembley said. “When you have two starts back to back when you’re in the fourth inning and [at] 100 pitches and behind by quite a few runs, it is something of a concern. I am concerned about it. I want to give everybody an opportunity, but we have to do what we think is right.”

When you have two starts back to back when you’re in the fourth inning and 100 pitches and behind by quite a few runs, it is indeed, gentle reader, something of a concern.

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

by Fear and Trembley on Apr 19, 2009 8:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Dave's not gonna say it much clearer than that

“When you have two starts back to back when you’re in the fourth inning and [at] 100 pitches and behind by quite a few runs, it is something of a concern.”

means….

“One more start like that and someone’s coming up from Norfolk.”

Matt Wieters took batting practice this morning. There were no survivors.

by duck on Apr 19, 2009 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

11:05 tomorrow?

So damn stupid.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' -Earl Weaver

by Baltimo on Apr 19, 2009 9:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It's to create the biggest possible shit-show in Kenmore Sq.

The game gets out roughly around the same time the Marathon crowd is largest, as it’s right before the bulk of the runners go through Kenmore. So, one of several times of the year in Boston that there’s approximately 100,000 people crammed into a few square blocks, many of whom have been drinking since 9am. Finding new ways to create that type of situation some kind of bloodsport in that town.

"Believe it or not, I read the paper." - Nick Markakis

by 2632 on Apr 19, 2009 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ah

I forgot the marathon was tomorrow.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' -Earl Weaver

by Baltimo on Apr 19, 2009 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's Patriot Day

WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA, 2632!

It's 4 in the morning. Too much to drink. All the girls look hot. So, the Nationals are Jennifer Lopez to me. —Julian Tavarez

by zknower on Apr 20, 2009 1:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Has she been talking to Derek Jeter?

"I think it’s shocking that the Baltimore Orioles are off to a 6-2 start this year, considering they are managed by TJ Hooker."

by Stacey on Apr 20, 2009 7:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah, why's she hate America? that's what I wanna know

Bad Left Hook
Camden Chat

"If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it." -- Marvin Hagler

by SC on Apr 20, 2009 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm just bitter because I don't get that day off work anymore.

Drinking all day and watching those poor fuckers slave through 26.2 is actually pretty damn fun.

"Believe it or not, I read the paper." - Nick Markakis

by 2632 on Apr 20, 2009 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

There's actually a holiday called Patriot Day?

I thought we already had one, in November. It’s called Veterans Day.

hakkaa päälle !

by timg56 on Apr 20, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's only observed as a holiday in MA and ME

And it’s actually called Patriot’s Day. It commemorates the first Revolutionary War battles, I think. But people get the day off work in Boston mostly because the whole city has to shut down for the marathon, along with several major routes into the city.

"Believe it or not, I read the paper." - Nick Markakis

by 2632 on Apr 20, 2009 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks.

hakkaa päälle !

by timg56 on Apr 20, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

O's need to move some outfielders

Montanez has to be included in any trade since his bat is not needed in Baltimore. He is now at .419 with a 30 game minor league hitting streak in Norfolk. Reimond is doing great and should get a shot soon. We will suffer with MacPhails favorite (Pie) and Trembleys favorite (Freel) all season long. Get use to it.

by Baysox39 on Apr 19, 2009 10:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The hitting streak covers his last stint at Bowie too incase there was a reason for the 30 plus games.

by Baysox39 on Apr 19, 2009 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

no one wants montanez

that’s why he’s an orioles farmhand again

sheesh, this montanez stuff is gonna drive me nuts

freel isn’t trembley’s favorite. he’s highly paid and they’re showcasing him for trade because he can get on base and has shown he can actually play in the bigs a little.

urg

by pipkin on Apr 19, 2009 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was a Nice show

Well it pains me that there is a good chance that we’re gonna get swept 4 games by those blasted Butt-Sox, I hate them as mucj as the Skankees…. Why don’t we (O’s) do what Oakland does with their young gun pitchers, they just blood them in and it’s been pretty good for them over the past few years, and they’re doing the samething again this season?? No we have to set through 3 pitchers that basically suck royally, whats with that?? Anyway I this is me first post on C.C. and thanks for letting me rant a bit.

by F4Phantom on Apr 20, 2009 2:19 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I'll tell you why

I made this point in aanother thread, but it bears repeating.

We want to be Tampa Bay, right?

EVERY ONE of their starters spent all or parts of FOUR seasons in the minors. Every single starter.

We won’t dig out of this hole in 18 months.

Matt Wieters took batting practice this morning. There were no survivors.

by duck on Apr 20, 2009 6:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

also

“blooding them in” gives you the adam loewens of the world

It's 4 in the morning. Too much to drink. All the girls look hot. So, the Nationals are Jennifer Lopez to me. —Julian Tavarez

by zknower on Apr 20, 2009 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

nah...

bing not very good to start w/ was his problem. i agree w/ the no one size fits all argument, but as the counterpoint to the argument preaching holding guys back, look at zito, hudson and mulder. they were pretty damn good in oakland and i don’t think any one completed two full minor league seasons.

"If they pitch to you, make them pay."

--Diamond Dave to the Phenom

by j.q. higgins on Apr 20, 2009 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not really

Kazmir and Garza really only spent 3 years in the minors, unless you are counting rehab assignments. And Garza first came up his second year. Jackson came up his third year (when he was 19 with LAA).

I think Tampa is a good model, but that doesn’t mean we need to exactly match each of their moves. I’m not saying we should bring up any of the top prospects now, but I also don’t think we need to leave them in the minors for 4 years, especially the college pitchers.

"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle

by BirdFanInPhilly on Apr 20, 2009 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs