Orioles 6, White Sox 2: Are we in Birdland or Bizarro Land?
by Stacey on Apr 23, 2009 10:11 PM EDT
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PrintDave Trembley defended Adam Eaton yesterday, saying "If he pitches great tomorrow, everybody's going to jump on the band wagon and say, 'Hey, what a great pitcher he is." Well Adam Eaton pitched great tonight, but I don't think any of us are jumping on any bandwagons.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to take away from Eaton's night. He pitched a hell of a game, going 7.1 innings and allowing 2 runs while striking out 9 and walking zero. If Jim Johnson had done a better job in relief Eaton could have had a shut out. Continuing in bizarro fashion, JJ (0.2 IP, 1 BB, 1 HBP, 1 H) was the only pitcher to have a bad night because in addition to Eaton channeling a real, actual pitcher, George Sherrill pitched an easy 1-2-3 ninth.
Bartolo Colon was not good for the White Sox tonight. He lasted only 3 innings, although that was long enough to give up 5 runs. If the tops of the innings were the Adam Eaton Show, then the bottom half of those innings belonged to Aubrey and Wiggy. In the first Huff knocked in Adam Jones with a double, then scored on Wiggy's single. Then in the third Aubrey and Wiggy scored together on a Luke Scott double. It was a nice change for Wiggy to actually get a few hits; hopefully he can keep it up.
If I were going to predict a win for the Orioles tonight, I would have put the score at 8-6 or something like that considering the pitching. Sometimes I love being wrong.
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Beautiful game by Eaton
He pitched well. He did give up those two, but it felt like the game was decided by then. Tremendous outting.
Bizarrely accurate prediction by Peter Schmuck
From his blog at 3:30 this afternoon, predicting Eaton will match up well tonight.
Sure, the stopped clock and all that, but it’s not like he made a high-percentage prediction. Maybe he was just playing the reverse lock hard.
Cry havoc and unleash the Esskay hot dogs of war! - The Wayward Oriole, Opening Day 2008
by Eat More Esskay on Apr 23, 2009 10:32 PM EDT reply actions
I saw that
He didn’t take the bait on the bigger reverse lock in Adam’s last start (in Fenway vs. Beckett), so that gives him more cred with this prediction.
Schmuck as Kreskin…
Eaton shutting down the White Sox after a bad Guthrie start…
My disdain for Pie softening after seeing him in an orange Koji t-shirt postgame…
These are the end times, people. Go be with your loved ones.
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
by Brotz13 on Apr 23, 2009 11:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
come to think of it...
roch had a pretty solid prediction for bergesen, too.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Apr 24, 2009 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Though it should be Eaton,
I can’t bring myself to vote for him and Birdland
by Markakis and Wieters 4 Life on Apr 23, 2009 10:35 PM EDT reply actions
I can't believe I did this
but Eaton was Birdland today without a doubt.
One thing about Eaton...
So far this year, his strikeout rate is very good. It’s pretty hard to maintain continued success without a lot of K’s, which is why I continually worry about Guthrie and Uehara, even when they’re doing reasonably well.
I’m not saying Eaton will suddenly become Johan Santana, but as long as he’s getting batters to swing and miss, there’s hope he’ll be serviceable.
Guthrie
He has a low K rate but it does not worry me that much. He has been around 6.0 K/9 in his two good years and thats nothing to be ashamed of. He isn’t a strikeout pitcher but the balls that are hit aren’t usually hit hard and that helps him as well. As long as he is getting major league hitters out, nobody will complain.
"I have seen the future and his name is Matt Wieters." Keith Law
by Reddrummer9187 on Apr 23, 2009 11:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm sad that I missed the Bizarro Birdlandness.
Why do I only catch the crap games?
"Believe it or not, I read the paper." - Nick Markakis
per yahoo sports
"It felt great," Eaton said of the ovation. "It’s been a long time since I have had that."
Aww shucks, hope he does well again.
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
My ride back up 83 from the park...
was spent mostly in stunned silence. Finally, after crossing the border into Pennsylvania, my girlfriend (the Phillies fan) turns to me and said “Nine fucking strikeouts?”
I don’t know what more to say other than Adam Eaton pitched a hell of a goddamned baseball game tonight. MBP by far.
Eaton Pitch f/x
If you’re into that sort of thing. I don’t understand half of it, but the strike % were excellent tonight.
"You hold it like this and throw the shit out of it" -- Steve Carlton
The Total Awesomeness that is Birdland...
Only in Birdland could this, 2009 – Adam Eaton 0-2 2 2 0 0 0 0 8.0 17 10 10 1 4 10 11.25 2.63, turn into this, 2009 – Adam Eaton 1-2 3 3 0 0 0 0 15.1 23 12 12 1 4 19 7.04 1.76 in one game. Enjoy it while it last Adam “Stop Hitting Me While I’m” Eaton.
PS-I hate Chris Berman.
Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."
That is SO RANDOM
and so hilarious, nonetheless
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
Drunk and juyst subled to my compiter
I don"t know who that was but seeing Adam Eatin in person….that wasn"t Adam Eaton…That was BIRDLAND!!!!…Best game I saw in person this year and I pass out at my computer……………………
"When they get drafted by the Baltimore Ravens, we expect them to play like that. Are we surprised? No."
by UMBC Oriole fan on Apr 24, 2009 12:33 AM EDT reply actions
What did Adam eat this morning?
Because whatever he did today, from the side of the bed he woke up on to the way he walked to the mound, needs to be repeated exactly. Tremendous performance from Eaton tonight. No walks, 9 K’s and kept the pace of the game going much like Bergesen the other night.
Bring on the Rangers!
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did we
not vote on a Birdland player for yesterday?
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
nobody put up a thread
I didn’t watch the game. I think that one might be worth the ol’ heave-ho some have talked about. After some careful consideration I guess I sort of agree that there will be some games (conveniently ones I don’t watch where no one gets a post-game up) where we can’t really vote for anyone. I mean who was there to vote for? Brian Bob’s 2-for-4? Markakis again? Bass for not sucking? Eh.
I also thought of this scenario: Let’s just say the Orioles get no-hit and lose, like, 11-0. Who the hell would you vote for? Gary Thorne?
"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 Scott Christ on Apr 24, 2009 3:52 AM EDT up reply actions
Or the 30-3 game
That whole game was so fucking un-Birdland, if anything like that happens again, no way could I vote for anyone on the team, even if someone had hit a 3-run HR.
You could vote for the bullpen catcher
He got a lot of work in that 30-3 game.
by Fred Sanford on Apr 24, 2009 7:53 AM EDT up reply actions
well..
i know you and I are kinda taking reverse roles here now, but defense can be Birdland as well. But yea, no MBP is fine with me.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
According to the 8-2 score
there wasn’t much of that either.
Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."
Just Because.........
this clown Eaton has one decent outing I refuse to jump onto his bandwagon, he is still the same pitcher that everyone was calling for his head last week, every now & the sun does shine on a dog rear end…… I’m sorry but he is still a garbage pitcher and will be, period!
Likely true
But can’t we celebrate if just even for one thread…EATON=BIRDLAND on 4/23/09!!
Mood about O's rotation: Depressed : (
8 and 8
Berry nice.. now, if we can continue getting unlikely performance after less likely performance I smell World Series.. and Campion del Mundo para los Birds!
John tonight let it be Lowenstein
Just remember
we were 15-12 at one point last year, too.
Matt Wieters took batting practice this morning. There were no survivors.
And we were in first place at the All-Star break in 2005
Sorry I brought that up. Just sayin’.
"This ain't a football game. We do this every day."
by Fear and Trembley on Apr 24, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions
with one away and a pop-up for the second out landing in our catcher's glove...
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
oops
tried to attach a picture to my prior post and it didn’t quite take.. these computer thingies bewilder and perplex me. I am not a bright human as illustrated by my thinking the Bizirds are goin’ to the World Series
John tonight let it be Lowenstein
this game augurs ill for the sox...
isn’t usually the o’s that are out of nowhere stymied by some unheralded rookie or sorry, no-account veteran bum?
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
actually, this series...
Unheralded rookie=Bergesen, Sorry, no-account, not-even wily, veteran=Eaton
Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."
oh, true...
anyhow, the central division looks even weaker than usual this year.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Apr 24, 2009 9:58 AM EDT up reply actions
Quick question
We are fully prepared for the possibility that Adam Eaton is this year’s Daniel Cabrera, right? One game with lots of K’s and great pitching, then another where he gets by, then 3 straight where he doesn’t have a clue.
Matt Wieters took batting practice this morning. There were no survivors.
difference being, of course...
we have no emotional investment in eaton and the team has a nominal financial investment. w/ simon gone, he’s vying for the right to be this year’s bruce chen or rodrigo lopez.
…or which was the pitching mercedes? luis or jose?
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Apr 24, 2009 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions
Jose.
Luis was a no-hit middle infielder who was very popular during his time in Hagerstown for whatever reason.
"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
I'd take that from Eaton.
2 – 3 out of every seven starts, with the team splitting the games he’s not the pitcher of record.
hakkaa päälle !
I'd say
Things have come to a pretty pass with the Adam Eaton Project if we’re now hoping that he can reach the celestial heights of pitching virtuosity achieved by Daniel Cabrera, the Arm of No-Mind.
Granted, duck is not hoping so much as predicting. But given E’s performance so far, I’d put this in the hope category.
(I hate to pile on the guy because he really did have a fantastic day, but damn.)
"This ain't a football game. We do this every day."
by Fear and Trembley on Apr 24, 2009 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I get tired of the "he sucks" and "we owe him an apology" type stuff
Eaton had a good outing. It’s going to happen. Daniel Cabrera once almost threw a no hitter. Overall, Eaton will still likely finish with a 1.5+ WHIP. Not sure how long the K rate will continue. Baez had some decent outings and some bad. Guthrie has been pounded the last two outings. Etc.
Overall the current rotation will still rank near the bottom. Best we can do now is enjoy the occasional decent outing and really hope the young guns pan out.
Adam has Eaton Birdland
Damn, I am channeling my inner Berman today… and I do apologize.
Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."
Never thought i'd see it...
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
and...
by over 300 votes!? Is that the largest margin ever?
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
We can all be Heroes, if for just one day
"In a couple of weeks or a month, I'll be excited about this team," Dawkins said. "I've got to get used to saying that -- I'm a Bronco." Then he paused. "I'll tell you one thing -- I'll always be an Eagle."
well-played, sir.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Apr 24, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I would like to apologize to Jim Johnson
He did not walk anyone last night. I must have dreamt it. In fact, the Orioles didn’t walk anyone last night. Pretty nifty.
I’m smart, not a dummy. ~Adam Jones
Jim is looking
rather sharp lately. Sort of glad we didn’t move him into a starting role, I think he would be on the DL by now. Maybe he is just destined to fill his current role and we should be happy with that…
Mood about O's rotation: Depressed : (
Those guys are valuable
"In a couple of weeks or a month, I'll be excited about this team," Dawkins said. "I've got to get used to saying that -- I'm a Bronco." Then he paused. "I'll tell you one thing -- I'll always be an Eagle."
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