Orioles 7, KC 3; also, Overnight Open Thread

…but I was hoping that Tillman would get the win. He pitched well enough, but had a couple Guthrie moments.

I can’t believe the ump cheated Reimold out of a BB on that tremendous at-bat.

Not a great performance, more so to me because he didn’t make it through five than because he gave up three bombs.

What I liked was that he made it very clear what he did wrong, relying almost entirely on just two pitches (though I thought the change was pretty darn good for the most part) and putting pitches up in the zone. He said, in so many words, that he’ll have a lot to draw from in his next outing, which is good since it will be against Boston.

I’m really excited to see him go against Boston, to see him work his breaking stuff more/better. If he improves, and by all accounts he’s going to, then they’ll be on their way to a legitimate 4 man rotation. That’s something that we haven’t said for a long, long time.

Besides the fact that it was so disgustingly humid that my hair was a giant hot mess, it was a fun game. Would have liked to see Tillman do a bit better but that’s cool. I was so annoyed that Wieters wasn’t starting. It made no sense! He caught Chris all of last year and the first part of this year, he’s hitting really well of late, AND he was just off on Sunday. It’s BS.

was either a strikeout or pop out? That’s, um, interesting… I guess.

hee! From the NY Post

Corey Patterson was recently put on outright waivers by the Nationals and the Yankees are considering signing him to fill in as the backup center fielder until Brett Gardner recuperates from his hand injury, the Post has learned.

The third overall pick in the 1998 draft, Patterson never developed the plate discipline necessary to capitalize on his elite speed and power potential. He hit just .133 in five games earlier this season with the Nationals. At Triple-A, he hit .274 with seven homers and 14 steals. The Yanks would view him as a 25th man who could spell Melky Cabrera plus run or play defense late in a game.

Apparently lower last night than on Tuesday. Guess no one knows about The Future.

PS-Greenday concert kind of sucked.

If you want to see something funny go check out the Giants blog’s reaction to the Freddy Sanchez trade. They have had over 3000 comments since the news was broken. Most of the comments are cursing at how dumb Sabean is.

http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/

obviously not on numbers (though he didnt pitch horribly IMO) but for being the 1st of the Big 3 to make the rotation. This is AWESOME! Vote Studio 54!

OPPOSING PLAYERS CAN’T BE MBP!

Ugh…

while i’m at it, 2 relievers cant make up 1 MBP either.

They did this thing between innings called “Advice from the Orioles.” This guy says, “I just met a new girl and I really want to impress her. What should I do for our first date?”

Adam Jones: Just take her to dinner and a movie. Sounds cliche, but it works. (especially if you’re Adam Jones)
Brian Roberts: Take her back to my place and impress her with my baseball card collection
Aubrey Huff: Melting Pot (Aubrey was hilarious when he said this. I can’t really explain. But Melting Pot?)
George Sherrill: Sno Cones!
Nick Markakis: Take her to the Orioles game. Maybe we’ll get on the kiss cam.

… as I’m out on the west coast, but the key was driving up Greinke’s pitch count early. First there was the 35-pitch first inning, but then again the pitcher always throws a lot of pitches if people are getting on base, and the Orioles sent eight batters to the plate that inning. More impressive was the inning where they went down 1-2-3, but still forced Greinke to throw 27 pitches, mostly because Huff and Reimold each took twelve pitches to strike out. Best consecutive strikeouts to open an inning ever.