Orioles 16, Angels 6: Who ordered the Pie?

dayzed has already overthrown the voters and unilaterally named Pie MBP

I went to the game (had to get my 1989 Orioles autographs!), and I just enjoyed the hell out of it. I’m ashamed to admit that I lost track of Felix’s hits (I thought the double was another single) and that my friend Geoff had to tell me it was a cycle. But if there’s anyone on this team who needed a night like that, it’s Pie. Good for him. He was the last one to take the field the next inning; I’m convinced he was milking the moment.

Driving home listening to 105.7, Tom Davis said that Scioscia was pissed off and that Felix actually apologized when he found out. Dave Johnson flew into an entertaining rant about how Pie is fighting for his baseball life and just did something rare and historic and was excited and the Angels are a first place team so why the hell do they care and if they care so much why don’t they just go ahead and stop him from legging out a triple and he was disappointed in Scioscia and Felix shouldn’t have to apologize. Um, that was the gist of it anyhow.

Then I’ll REALLY be ecstatic. In the meantime, bigtime congrats to Pie on the career game— now let’s get another dozen or so tonight, whaddayasay?

Go O’s!

As soon as I saw him rounding third, I was just thinking “hey wait a minute…” , and I just started cheering loud for the triple, you know. But it took only a fraction-second glance at the scorecard. Man, that was awesome.

My buddy asked me a couple days ago to come down to centra NJ for some charity event and I figured what they hell, i’ll just be missing an angels game. No big loss. Then I called 1800 555 tell to find out the score on the way home and I was pissed that I missed a 16 run game. Then I turned on the Yankee game on the radio and they mentioned Pie’s cycle and I was realllllly pissed I missed it (but still happy he hit for the cycle). The to cap it off, right before I got home Tex hits a 9th inning shot to break the tie. Argh.

because if they do, they better not be happy about it.

I turned this game on in the 7th, just in time for Pie’s triple… I was kinda sad I’d missed all the runs up to that point, but thanks Stacey for this write-up, I felt I got to relive it.

I’m so glad Pie got a night like this. He’s so sweet, and his interview with Amber was great, and Scioscia can suck it.

We had a sellout in Bowie with the Navy Plebes class of 2013 in attendance. I made a quick check of the O’s score and almost fainted. Bowie never bothered to give any of the Os scores over the PA last night for some reason. But it was a great night for Felix Pie. He has shown flashes of of raw talent all season long and tonight he put it all together. The season is over. I have no problem with Nolan and Felix platooning in left and DHing when the opportunity presents itself. We know what we have with Scott and Huff. Let’s see what we have with Pie. And special shout out to Brian Roberts. I have voiced my desire to trade him in the past. Because of the position he plays I am of the opinion now that he stays and finishes his solid career as an Oriole. We as fans needed this type of game to get a lot of frustration out of our system. Sometimes we disagree in the direction of the club but the crew at CC loves the Orioles. No question about that.

PS-Folks you are going to love our possible future third baseman Josh Bell. This kid is nice to watch play. He has a presence even at this level that I can not explain. When he comes to bat every one pays attention and he always seems to drive the ball from both sides of the plate. He is presently hitting around .380, drove in our only run last night and on Wed hit the longest HR anyone has seen at Prince Georges Stadium since Calvin Pickering (as told to me by a 17 years of service usher).

No Andino? Not even for the post pie pieing of Pie in the hallway with Amber?

I live in South Florida and only get the chance to see the O’s live at the Trop every once and a while. But Friday I was in my home town of Baltimore visiting some family before I start college next week. Obviously, we would have to see O’s game before I went home. I picked Friday’s game a while back and was very excited to see the Future with Chris Tillman on the mound. My uncle treated me to easily the best seats I’ve had at at MLB game…1st base, three rows back.

After the leadoff walk and ensuing steal lead to Wieters easily throwing out Figgins, we teased the Angels first base coach Griffin for even thinking of stealing on Wieters…he just shook his head in awe (seriously). A funny note: later in the game the O’s had a man on second and Aubrey Huff at first and my uncle yells at T-Bone, “Send them! Aubrey has Blazing speed!”…he turned around and gave us a quick chuckle. The 1st inning for the O’s was extremely exciting, but we didn’t even know what was coming later. Me and my uncle were joking about how Roberts was going to hit for the cycle after his second hit (a single) in the first.

Tillman continued to light it up as the game went on, hitting 96 mph frequently. He looked really good in person. We had a 9-3 lead after two outs in the seventh, when Tillman walked (or gave up a single to a hitter). Trembley or course decided bringing in Matt Albers would be a good idea. Ha! The crowd was not very pleased to say the least.

After Pie hustled out a single right in front of us we knew all he had left to get for the cycle was a triple…I explained to my uncle where exactly Pie had hit a triple earlier in the season. We joked around about how cool It’d be if Pie, our fourth outfielder, joined the likes of Cal and Brooks as the few O’s to have accomplished the feat. When he came up at-bat there were very few of us that realized he needed a triple for the cycle…me, my uncle and about 4 fans in the section over were yelling “hit a triple!”. As soon as the ball hit he gap I knew he had done it (that’s the same spot he hit his triple previously). WOW!

Another cool thing was that for the last few innings Amber from MASN sat right next to me. She was filling out a scorecard and would occasionally turn on her microphone and say some words. As soon as the game was over she ran on the field and we could see Pie get Pie’d twice : ) !

This was defiantly one of my coolest experiences in recent memory.