Blue Jays 8, Orioles 2: 0-11

by Stacey on Jul 27, 2010 11:07 PM EDT in Post-Game

As predicted by everyone, the Orioles were unable to do any damage against Ricky Romero. Adam Jones had a very good night and Nick Markakis looked decent as well, but it wasn't close to enough to overcome the disaster that was Kevin Millwood this evening.

Millwood didn't waste any time tonight. The first two batters for Toronto, Fred Lewis and Yunel Escobar, singled to set the table for your Major League Home Run Leader Jose Bautista, who predictably put the ball over the fence for his 29th home run of the year. Millwood followed that calamity with two singles and two walks in the third, with the second walk forcing in a run.

Two more runs scored in the fourth inning as the top of the Blue Jays' order continued to manhandle Millwood. Lewis and Bautista singled and scored on an RBI double by Vernon Wells. Millwood slogged through the fifth inning without allowing a run but entered the sixth with 93 pitches. He retired Lewis but Escobar reached again. Bautista would be the last batter of the Millwood debacle, so appropriately, he walked. Mike Gonzalez retired both Wells and Adam Lind to end the inning and strand Millwood's baserunners.

Gonzalez returned for the seventh inning and despite having a delivery that gives me motion sickness, he was very effective. 13 of his 21 pitches were fastballs that he located well on the edges of the strike zone. His velocity looked good, too, at 93-94 mph on the fastball, with one touching 95. Given the complete exhaustion of the bullpen it'll be nice if he can keep it up.

Alfredo Simon was used in 8th despite it being a non-save situation. When you lose every game there aren't any save situations, and the kid hadn't pitched since Friday. The unstoppable Jose Bautista struck again with a two run home run to give the Blue Jays their final two runs of the game.

The only runs scored by the Orioles came in the 8th inning. Nick Markakis doubled in a run and Luke Scott hit a sacrifice fly, but Markakis tried to tag up to third and was thrown out by (of course) Jose Bautista. Adam Jones singled but the inning ended on a Matt Wieters ground out.

Jones ended the day with three hits, including a double. Nick Markakis continued to show signs of coming out of his slump with a single and a double, and Matt Wieters followed up his 2 HR night with a single in four at bats.

The O's try to avoid the sweep tomorrow against another lefty, rookie Brad Mills.

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today was game 100

and they’ve won only 31. that’s less than a third. that means, on the year, they average losing 2 out of every 3 games, plus a couple extra losses thrown in.

yeah. that’s bad.

by Luke E on Jul 27, 2010 11:31 PM EDT reply actions

Sometimes i wonder why this year’s team even shows up to games.

"Tragedy is what happens to me. Comedy is what happens to you." -Mel Brooks

by jobe on Jul 27, 2010 11:43 PM EDT reply actions

I dunno what's worse...

The fact that I went into DC early to make sure I got tickets to the gNats game to see Strasburg pitch, spent all day downtown and then he got scratched.

Or the fact that if I hadn’t gone to the gNats game I would’ve been home to watch the O’s lose for the 69th time in 100 games…

"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400." - Ted Williams

by Capsfan07 on Jul 28, 2010 12:17 AM EDT reply actions

Jose Bautista on the Orioles

“I’m sure somebody is going to beat up on us, so it’s nice to be able to beat somebody every time we play them.”

Eff that guy, especially it was the Orioles who gave him his first chance at the bigs.

Librarians are hiding something

by dfa on Jul 28, 2010 2:10 AM EDT reply actions

Yea

He should be more grateful for those 11 AB’s he had with us.

"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower

by daveh873 on Jul 28, 2010 8:16 AM EDT up reply actions

Mentor does not appear to want to leave Baltimore

When he had the chance to strut his stuff by trading deadline, he reached deep down and pulled out Suckitude.
Suck it up, Mentor. You’re here for the rest of the year. Pitch like you give a shit even if you don’t.

by Fred Sanford on Jul 28, 2010 8:51 AM EDT reply actions

I think the problem is

that he’s just fucking terrible at pitching.

Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck

by O'sFan21 on Jul 28, 2010 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions

You know...

I’d love for us to be that team that gets lucky with a guy like Jose Bautista every once in a while. Guts was a good pickup, but it isn’t like he ever had a real dominant season. The kid was in his age 24 season when we let him go, as we decided that this crew of corner outfielders between 2004-2007 were better options:

Larry Bigbie
Jay Gibbons
(Old) Sammy Sosa
(Old) Jeff Conine
Jay Payton

We’ve been full of suck for years now, why in the hell not just take an extended chance on one or two youngish position players? Also, I just realized we are currently not yet 3 full seasons removed from Jay Payton being the primary LF.

Additionally, looking at the above list, did we have a thing for guys on the juice or what? Three of the five plus throw in Grimsley, Segui, BRob and Tejada. Yikes.

by TerroristFistJab on Jul 28, 2010 9:27 AM EDT reply actions

Eh

I’m not convinced Jose Bautista is anything worth getting excited about. Lots of guys have had one good season. This is his fifth season of 400+ PAs and only the second time he’s been much above replacement level.

Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck

by O'sFan21 on Jul 28, 2010 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions