O's 8, Rays 4: Magic!

But I think Baez deserved a nod for MBP.

“I love winning. It’s like, you know, better than losing.”

A very rare game when I really wanted to vote for 3 guys: Nicky, Danys [!] and, of course, Alex Ovechkin.

In the meantime, I just noticed that Zack Greinke of the, er, Division Leading Kansas City Royals, is totally, completely, off-the-deep-end insane. OK, he’s been a good pitcher for what, 3 years. His 6-game start this year, however, is so sick it makes you wonder whether he snuck into the Yerkess locker room last time in NY and heisted A*Clod’s stash or something.

6-0, 0.40, with a K/BB of 54/8. Holy crap. Read ’em and [bleep].

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AgJPQgAgWBHUgz6Lh.uZYg0c0bYF?slug=ap-whitesox-royals-rdp&prov=ap&type=lgns

I know most of the lineup hasn’t been producing but it was good to see Wiggington and Izturis get an RBI. I’m not an Adam Eaton fan at all but I thought, every once in a while, you could see why he has stuck around for so long. He threw some pretty nice pitches but unfortunately they are the minority.

I voted for Brian due in fact that if he didn’t give us those insurance runs late in the game, Sherrill would’ve lobbed it over the plate for one of those big power bats in the Rays lineup to crush it and leave us with another late game loss. Georgie boy is looking so god awful, I wish they wouldn’t even put him out there in these non-save situations.

We were easily on our way to losing.

Rich Hill, David Hernandez, Jake Arrieta, and Troy Patton all pitching (assume they don’t get rained out). I can’t find who’s pitching for Frederick (also a double header) or Delmarva. If it clears up it might be a nice night to go down to Bowie for the games.

the doctor has 10 bb this year and i believe pie has a roughly comparable bb rate. in his few plate appearances this year, montanez has showed improved patience over last year, but not as good as the other two.

huff really isn’t doing very well. not terrible, mind you, just not all that good.

but if baez doesn’t prevent the 5th run from scoring, (runner on 2nd, 0 outs; runner on 3rd, 1 out) then we don’t win the game (a la the “here we go again syndrome”)

What an effort. Let’s put this in perspective. Dave “Priceline” Trembley took Luke out and inserted Felix for defensive purposes. The move of the game as it seems. Flat Brim was aweful as usual. If Felix does not get to that ball with the dive and because it was two outs that means all the Rays on base were running. The ball drops and undoubtly would score 3 runs at the least with a man on 2nd or 3rd and the winning run coming to the plate. That catch was huge and the determination on his face is what I want to see from all of our O’s. Good win indeed.

Jake Arietta , 2-0, 2.00 is starting the first game. Last outing was 6.0 of shutout pitching against Erie.

Fredy Deza, 1-1, 2.63 is starting the second game. Fredy has been up and down between Norfolk and Bowie this season. He is a RHP from the Dominican Republic. In 2008 he had success in Aberdeen and Fredrick. He finished 2008 at Norfolk pitching 8.0 innings with a 2.25 ERA.

Also Freel was signing for the fans Saturday and looked to be in a better mood. One of the kids was questioning Freel why he was there. Freel took the time to explain the head injury. The kid said he was hit in the head too which brought a good laugh from Freel. He has shown nothing at the plate but I guess that is why he is on rehab to regain his stroke. We will see tonight.