Red Sox 11 Orioles 0: Change We Can't Believe In
Welcome to the Juan Samuel Era. New manager, same old Orioles. Nothing like welcoming in the new boss with an 11-0 blowout. But look on the bright side, at least it wasn't 30-3. Game was hardly worth recapping, but here goes....
Five game notes (one for each O's hit):
1. The Orioles managed just five hits tonight. FIVE. Need I say more? The Red Sox tripled that number and (get this!) scored runs! Buchholz needed just 101 pitches to shut them out.
2. These are not the same Red Sox we swept earlier in the season. They can actually hit now. Six of nine starters had multiple hits and only one player, David Ortiz, was held without a hit. Clearly not a recipe for success.
3. Chris Tillman really needs to find some control. He was all over the place, issuing two walks (both scored) and throwing 57 pitches (22 of them balls) in less than 2 innings of work.
4. We still have to burn through the entire bullpen to get through the game. Four relievers were needed and they weren't even remotely good. Seven of the eleven runs in the game did not come off of Tillman. Mark Hendrickson wasn't awful, but he still gave up the three-run shot to Kevin Youklis that sealed the game (not that we were going to score 4 runs with only 5 hits anyways). Alberto Castillo was just plain terrible.
5. We play nine straight games against teams in top 5 for game length. Yowsah. As long as we can draw out the pain as long as possible........
Normally I'd include a little blow-by-blow recap of the action, but, given the outcome, that would be too painful. The O's and Sox will go at it again tomorrow night with Jeremy Guthrie up against Jon Lester. Stacey will be in attendance, so I'm sure she'll have lots of fun.
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Just a few things of note from a long time O's fan ...
-please play better fundamentals guys. It sucks to see you guys acting like little leaguers. (and sometimes acting like them). (Calling for balls in the air is a great start point.)
-please throw strikes. I know its a new concept and a many stats revolve around it but it’s what you get paid to do.
-Hot dogs are meant to be eaten in the stands, not displayed on the field.
-I love you guys and have been a fan since a boy but you’re making my life miserable. I believe most of the Oriole faithful can attest to this.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. - Earl Wilson
i'd love a hot dog right now
i’m moving out of my apartment tomorrow and have nothing around here except a few clif bars and other random assorted crap.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jun 4, 2010 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Taste the difference quality makes.
I'm ready for a straight jacket. - Joe Angel, 4/17/10 (O's record: 1-11)
by Eat More Esskay on Jun 4, 2010 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions
esskay oriole dogs!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jun 4, 2010 11:34 PM EDT up reply actions
esskay was there
AND THEY’LL NEVER LET YOU FORGET IT
"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
the orioles have officially been labeled detrimental to my health.
this is a level of suck i don’t think we’ve ever seen, i can’t stand it. it’s actually kind of unreal considering how high our expectations were. stop me if you’ve heard this before, but i actually turned down amazing seats to tomorrow’s game.
"Being an Orioles fan is like having very painful genital warts."
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
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Hello folks
i have a question for you all (and i would hope that you know by now that i am not a gloating fan) the question is this do you feel or think that the majority of red sox fans that show up at camden yard for a game are transient people who are from N E that work for a branch of the gov.and liveing in the area ? or are they fans that come down just for the games?. i have to say i would hold some resentment towards people if half of fenway was full of the other teams fans .i have to laugh i just thought of the first game i went to at fenway in 66 we played the yankees and yaz hit a foul ball and this old guy in a yankee hat got the ball i was pissed ! when the game was over he gave me the ball .
by RED SOX are #1 in my heart on Jun 5, 2010 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions
I dont resent them because theyre fans of the other team
I resent them because they come to town and act like they own the place. I resent the red sox fans who come down and try to drown out the home fans, the ones that gloat and act like jackasses because they can beat up on the pitiful Orioles. And if i go to a Red Sox game at Camden Yards in the near future and hear one asshole refer to it as Fenway South I can’t be responsible for my actions.
I hope one day we can sell out games with just Oriole fans, but until then visitors are welcome. But do not come into our home and not act like it.
My impression is that many of them really do come down from Boston. My methodology is really unscientific here, but my wife and I will occasionally do an overnight in Baltimore if there’s something we have to be at early the next morning (if one of us is running a race, usually).
I always hotwire.com because I care what area I stay in, but not particularly what hotel and I get good prices through them. It usually sticks me at the Sheraton or the Radisson. During the Red Sox series, it found a room at the Hotel Monaco that was 4x as much as much as hotwire’s Baltimore prices usually are.
If hotel rooms are that scarce and that much more expensive, I’m assuming its because a lot of people came down for the game.
that would make sense thanks :-)
by RED SOX are #1 in my heart on Jun 5, 2010 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions
and yet....
….there are also DEFINITELY a number of bandwagon fans working in the area.
"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
bandwagon fan's of RED SOX NATION never!..you must be talking about phn fans :-)
not happy about the green hats as well ! and i am IRISH !
by RED SOX are #1 in my heart on Jun 5, 2010 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Finally, a logical Red Sox fan.
not happy about the green hats as well ! and i am IRISH !
I don’t like any hat that goes away from the team’s colors, and the green hats are easily the worse. I don’t know why, but they are easily the most annoying.
"There's rock bottom, 50 feet of crap, then the Orioles."-Stacey
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Jun 5, 2010 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Here you go
http://www.camdenchat.com/2009/6/30/930372/here-we-go-again-the-misery-of-an
Isn't it almost impossible to believe that none of the perfect games this season have been thrown against us? -O'sFan21
Nice job stacey thanks for pointing it out :-)
and stacey my first game was in 66 the red sox were cellar dwellers and dream crushers for a very long time and i went to the games for the same reason’s you do……..because we love our teams! :-)
by RED SOX are #1 in my heart on Jun 5, 2010 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions
i don't hate them for being red sox fans
until they start trying to educate me as to why they own camden yards and wear shirts that actually say “fenway south” on them. then i resent them. i resent them because, in my mind, they’re all bandwagoners. i don’t really care if they’ve been fans for 50 years because i have a feeling that 50 years ago, they wouldn’t have made the journey to camden. of course, this is a ll in my head, but you have to agree that there are a…“fair” number of bandwagoners.
"Being an Orioles fan is like having very painful genital warts."
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
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by danielreese05 on Jun 5, 2010 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions
you know it! i was trying to be funny with zknower :-)
and WHEN not if the O’s turn thing’s around you will find the O’s will have them to!
by RED SOX are #1 in my heart on Jun 5, 2010 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions
definitely
being a slightly better than average team comes with it’s downsides.
"Being an Orioles fan is like having very painful genital warts."
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
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by danielreese05 on Jun 5, 2010 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions
went to
went to the game tonight set in section 10 row 3, this was the worse defeat i ever seen tillman was bad like really bad the sux fans are douchebags but theyre wasnt as many at the game as before i say it was maybe half filled no heart no hustle at all tonight new manager same results a loss
At first...
We were losing in a close and excruciating fashion. A few 9th inning leads blown here, a few too many stranded runners there, etc. But the games were interesting if often painful.
Then we actually played well for a few weeks. That was awesome.
But now we’re getting obliterated night after night. I mean, 11-0? Geez. It’s just ugly. Passed ball. Double play grounder off Tejada’s glove. Matt Wieters’ average dropping like a stone. Adam Jones’ complete lack of strike zone judgment. (He has 5 walks the entire season. Corey Patterson already has 8!). The games are over by the third inning.
It’s just awful. Beyond awful. They’re not even coming close.
So if Guts is pitching today, does that mean Matusz is pitching tomorrow?
"There's rock bottom, 50 feet of crap, then the Orioles."-Stacey
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Jun 5, 2010 6:17 AM EDT reply actions
Looks like the answer is yes.
Now I actually have a reason to not want to burn my ticket to Sunday’s game.
"There's rock bottom, 50 feet of crap, then the Orioles."-Stacey
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Jun 5, 2010 6:20 AM EDT up reply actions
cricket...cricket....

"Being an Orioles fan is like having very painful genital warts."
"harden the fuck up mike gonzalez."
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by danielreese05 on Jun 5, 2010 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions

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