Blue Jays 6, Orioles 1: Ho-hum, we lose again
by Eat More Esskay on May 30, 2010 3:38 PM EDT
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PrintOne day after Roy Halladay pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory against the Florida Marlins, Orioles hitters must have thought to challenge starter Jeremy Guthrie to duplicate the feat by scoring a single run in the top of the first inning and then going silent for the duration of the game. With the way things have gone in this series, we should count ourselves lucky not to be on the wrong end of a perfect game instead.
Corey Patterson led off the game with a single, took second base on a balk, advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Julio Lugo, and scored on a single by Nick Markakis. That constituted the extent of the Orioles' offence for today's game. Only one other runner even reached second base in the game, and that was on a throwing error. The Orioles have had one extra-base hit in something like their last 41 innings. Playing the part of Cy Young today was Ricky Romero, who scattered six hits and two walks in a complete game effort where he struck out seven batters.
On the other side of the ledger, the Blue Jays jumped on Guthrie quickly, with Fred Lewis opening off with a double. Three runs scored in an inning which saw the Jays get three more hits and a walk before it was over. Characteristic of the 2010 Jays, they added solo home runs later on in the game, with Lyle Overbay teeing off on Guthrie in the 6th inning, and Jose Bautista and Alex Gonzalez going back-to-back off Will Ohman to start the 8th. The two runs were the first that were charged against Ohman on the season in his 26th apperance.
In this three-game sweep, the Orioles were outscored 16-3 by the Jays. With an off day tomorrow, the Orioles close out the first two months of the season with a 15-36 record, which is good for a whopping .294 winning percentage, the worst in the major leagues. The team travels next to New York for a three-game series starting on Tuesday, so things are not getting any easier from here.
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Pretty good series.
Blue Jays: Nine HR
Orioles: One XBH, an Izturis double
Also, just found out that Scott Moore was the 8th overall pick in ’02… holy shit.
That was also the draft where we picked Adam Loewen before Greinke, Saunders, Kazmir, Hamels, and Cain.
Ehhh that draft
Iirc loewens only comp was aumont. If you want to complain about a draft, rowell>lincecum would be the one. A lot of ppl in the org wanted Timmy too…
by GeoffreyA on May 30, 2010 4:21 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
how could they have passed on tim?
he won the gold spikes that year didn’t he?
"Being an Orioles fan is like having Erectile Dysfunction"
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
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by danielreese05 on May 30, 2010 5:38 PM EDT up reply actions
guys
what the fuck happened? weren’t we supposed to be better this year? like significantly better? this is the worst i’ve ever seen us in my 5 or so years of following consistently.
"Being an Orioles fan is like having Erectile Dysfunction"
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
The Signing Bonus: We're back in business.
Tankery happened
"I have seen the future and his name is Matt Wieters." Keith Law
by Reddrummer9187 on May 30, 2010 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions
don't you mean "tankeray"?
"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott
that is indeed what i meant
"I have seen the future and his name is Matt Wieters." Keith Law
by Reddrummer9187 on May 31, 2010 9:52 AM EDT up reply actions
You probably know all this, but: what happened?
Well, a few things happened.
a) The team was supposed to be better largely based on the high upside of the younger players (Jones, Wieters, Reimold), and they haven’t produced. There needn’t be an explanation, because there just hasn’t been enough time to tell what’s really going on. Maybe they’re busts, maybe they’re just slumping.
b) The Orioles’ most productive long-term player was injured, along with another of those promising prospects.
c) The veteran stop-gaps are a mixed bag, but overall have underperformed even the fairly low expectations (Atkins, fuck face, even Izturis, Tejada’s been streaky). The major exception of course has been the noble Wigginton, who is the most majestic and elegant player in the history of baseball and he should play all the positions in every game, including pitcher.
d) The bullpen is under-performing the placebo in a blind study on penicillin. It’s less productive than the economy of Somalia. The opposition could score off this bullpen with one hand tied behind their backs. Maybe with both hands.
"MONTANEZ: Alas! I cannot hit. Deal with it."
-Eat More Esskay
after last season i really thought it would be a given that reimold, wieters and jones had all made it
they seemed to have the right stuff that MLB players need. reimold had the injury so that’s obviously been a big problem. no explanation for wieters and jones though, they just look terrible this year (although it does seem as though jones may be breaking out of it, slowly but surely.
"Being an Orioles fan is like having Erectile Dysfunction"
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
The Signing Bonus: We're back in business.
by danielreese05 on May 30, 2010 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Slumps happen.
Sometimes slump seasons happen. There are so many examples, but just around the American League East right now look at B. J. Upton, Carlos Pena, Mark Texeira, and Lyle Overbay (these last two games excluded). These four players are all looking much weaker so far this year than they have in the past, and they’re all established players. Why? Baseball is a luck-based game in the short-term; it takes more than an entire season to get a decent read of a player’s abilities.
Reimold, Wieters and Jones are not nearly as established as the players named above. We have only a little more than a full season from all of them. It really shouldn’t be surprising for any one of them to have a poor couple of months. To get this performance from all three of them is obviously disappointing; it’s obviously shit luck; but it doesn’t obviously mean anything.
My own personal take, for what it’s worth, is this: Jones was massively overrated, and will probably provide no more than league-average production for a center fielder. Reimold never should have been on the field when it was determined that his Achilles tendon hadn’t fully healed—it’s impossible to say what effect that’s had on his performance, but it’s a truly stupid decision to put him out there and just hope for the best. And Wieters is just have a garden-variety slump. His walk rate and strike-out rate are about the same as last year, there aren’t any noticeable changes in his batted ball stuff (percentages of line drives, ground balls and fly balls)—but wow, he’s swinging at 58.5% of strikes, which is fairly average but down from 70.2 % last year. He’s making contact with a really good 90.3% of them, so he’s doing a-okay in that department. And his BABIP is an unexceptional .309. That is lower than his projections, but he isn’t getting unlucky there either.
There really doesn’t seem to be much of an explanation for Wieters’ slump. It’s a slump.
"MONTANEZ: Alas! I cannot hit. Deal with it."
-Eat More Esskay
yeah wieters started out the year looking pretty average which is about what i expected from him
i think jones can be better than we think he is, at least, i certainly hope so. reimold should never have played IMO. we should have just taken our lumps with lou out there until he was fully recovered so he could get right back into it.
"Being an Orioles fan is like having Erectile Dysfunction"
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
The Signing Bonus: We're back in business.
by danielreese05 on May 30, 2010 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions
off-topic: The Big Four, sort of like Oakland's Big Three except with more hair.
Duck just jizzed a bit.
I came to camdenchat and all I got was this lousy avatar.
ALL of the shows are in Europe
Every damn one of them. No plans for a US tour.
Fuckin’ Europeans get all the luck.
When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey
And those 3 opening bands are pretty damn good, too
When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey
Mastodon is pretty awesome actually
Don’t know the other two.
To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa
Stone Sour & BFMV
Strone Sour is a side project of the lead singer of SlipKnot, where he actually sings at times.
Best examples:
Bullet For My Valentine: Musically, some Metallica influences, some screamo, and some pop sensibility.
When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey
i like bullet for my valentine
never was in to stone sour but mastodon has a special place in my heart since “the wolf is loose” was my song during football.
"Being an Orioles fan is like having Erectile Dysfunction"
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
The Signing Bonus: We're back in business.
by danielreese05 on May 30, 2010 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions
anybody watching strasburg?
he hasn’t looked as dominant as usual.
"Being an Orioles fan is like having Erectile Dysfunction"
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
The Signing Bonus: We're back in business.
Fuck this fucking stupid ass piece of shit team.
I’m glad the cable hasn’t gotten hooked up at my new place yet and I’ve been too busy unpacking to listen to these assholes suck shit on the radio. What a fucking embarrassment.
Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck
by O'sFan21 on May 31, 2010 2:27 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Dear DDT,
Enjoy the day off, but don’t bother coming in to work on Tuesday.
by Philly O's on May 31, 2010 9:05 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
We're stuck with him until Friday
No way you name an interim manager going into NY. No way.
When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey
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