Orioles 5, Red Sox 2: Feisty!
by Stacey on Sep 1, 2010 12:55 AM EDT
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Great win tonight. Let's hear from Adam Jones via Twitter:
Fun game tonight. Love Pie. And Luke. Hurts when when slaps me in the chest. Strong bastard. Becoming fun around here!!!!!
It IS becoming fun around here, isn't it? How about some headlines?
Reeling Red Sox fall to lowly Orioles
Matusz leads Orioles past skidding Red Sox
Red Sox add insult to injury, just can't score runs in 5-2 loss to Orioles
Needing a win, Sox crumble against Orioles
Sox sink deeper with loss to O's
Tonight Brian Matusz made his sixth August start and turned in this fifth good performance. He's really starting to look like the Brian Matusz I expected to see this year. He pitched six innings (plus one batter in the 7th) and allowed just two runs on six hits. He struck out six and walked only one, that one being the one batter he faced in the 7th inning. The only time the Red Sox got to Matusz as in the fourth inning when Jed Lowrie homered with Mike Lowell on base. He found himself in trouble again in the sixth when singles by Darnell McDonald and Adrian Beltre put runners at the corners with two outs, but Matusz cooly struck out Mike Lowell to end the inning.
Jim Johnson relieved Matusz in the 7th with the Orioles up 3-2 and J.D. Drew at first base. After cheap single to right by Lowrie and a sacrifice bunt by Bill Hall, the Red Sox had runners at 2nd and 3rd with one out. Marco Scutaro then grounded a ball to third base that looked like it might go foul, but Josh Bell made a good play on the ball, looked Drew back to third, and threw Scutaro out by a step. JJ then engaged pinch hitter Daniel Nava in a nine pitch at-bat that ended in a backwards K.
JJ came back out for the 8th but after a leadoff single by Victor Martinez, Buck pulled him for Mike Gonzalez. Gonzo retired Ortiz and then Koji pitched 1.2 perfect innings to earn his fifth save of the year.
Offensively, the Orioles weren't able to do much against Josh Beckett, and what little they did do was with some help from Boston's defense. In the first inning Nick Markakis hit his 40th double of the season and scored on a single by Luke Scott. Then in the third inning Brian Roberts led off with a single and went to second on a wild pitch. He moved to third on a ground out by Nick Markakis. After Ty Wigginton hit a ground ball for the second out, Beckett pitched around Scott, giving him nothing close to the plate. Adam Jones hit a ground ball to Marco Scutaro that should have been the third out, but Scutaro whipped it towards second and it ended up in right field. Roberts and Scott scored on the error, and that would be the last time Beckett would allow any shenanigans from the Orioles. Becket allowed just two more hits and pitched through the seventh inning.
Felix Doubront relieved Beckett in the eighth inning and with one out Luke Scott gave the O's a little breathing room with a home run onto the flag court. It was Luke's 26th HR of the year, a new season high for him. After Adam Jones flew out to center field, Felix Pie stepped to the plate. Felix had his troubles tonight and just as some of us in the gamethread were lamenting his day at the plate, he crushed a change up to center field for his fifth home run of the year. Take a look at the replay, and I dare you not to feel all warm and gooey inside over Felix and Luke. Seriously, when are those two going to get a sitcom?
With the score 5-2, Koji did his thing and shut down the Red Sox, securing the Orioles' seventh win against them this year and closing out August on a high note. Tomorrow night Jake Arrieta will try to make the Red Sox feel even worse about themselves, but it won't be easy with Oriole killer Jon Lester opposing him.
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team stats before and after Buck
Team ERA before Buck: 5.18
Team ERA after Buck: 3.36.
Teams runs per game before Buck: 3.6
Team runs per game after Buck: 4.0
In terms of hitting and fielding, the team looks about the same. But pitching, man, I don’t know what Buck did, if anything, but the pitching has been a beast. And even the monthly splits show that the pitching wasn’t trending upwards before Buck took over.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.
I can't speak for all of them
but Bergesen was definitely trending upwards before Buck arrived. He’s changed his pitching profile (more 4 seamers) and that would have taken more than just a manger telling him to do it anyway, I’d imagine.
...a piece of V mail in which everything but the salutation "Dear Mary" had been blocked out and on which the censoring officer had written, "I long for you tragically. R. O. Shipman, Chaplain, U.S. Army."
Luke was Birdland tonight, no doubt.
He made a good win a fun win.
"If you’re not in with the Orioles, then you can ply your trade somewhere else." - Buck Showalter
fuck those people and their "falling to lowly orioles"
they don’t know shit.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
"Surging Orioles win against non-playoff contending Red Sox"
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
by daveh873 on Sep 1, 2010 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Honorable mention: B-Rob
2-4, 1R, induced a wild pitch, epic 10+ pitch at-bat
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
5 out saves are Birdland in my eyes.
KOJI!!!
Insert something witty here.
by Knubles and Bits on Sep 1, 2010 7:51 AM EDT reply actions
an infectious smile
is Birdland. Orioles baseball should be FUN to watch. Luke and Felix were a joy to watch last night. They pulled me out of my mean-spirited first reaction that their homers were vengeful stabs into the black heart of PHN and made me delight in the moment itself, regardless of the hateful opposition.
Luke and Felix are good for the soul.
Has there ever been a cooler Oriole than Eddie Murray? I mean, just straight up cool. Like a bad, suave dude. You know what I'm sayin'. COOL. SC 7/24/08
Indeed.
Though Guts(?) looks very angry for whatever reason…
(Image from Baltimore Sun recap)
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
It should definitely be a dual-MBP tonight
because that little diddy is most Birdland.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
There were so many good pictures from last night's game
It was hard to pick one for the recap. I liked this one a lot but I feel like we’ve been posting a lot of Koji pics lately (what can I say, the man takes a good picture):
Luke and Felix are good for the soul. -33
Double-post, I know.
But speaking of this, from Schmuck:
Buck Showalter said recently that one of the best things about the Orioles’ turnaround in August was seeing the players smiling again. He saw a lot of that again last night when Luke Scott and Felix Pie each homered in the eighth inning to give the O’s some important insurance at the end of a very tight game.
Scott and Pie have a special relationship, and they also have a special greeting at the dugout steps when either one of them hits a home run. They slap hands in several directions and then make a sweeping flourish with their arms in an expression of unfettered baseball joy. They got to do it twice in the eighth inning and Showalter enjoyed watching them enjoy themselves.
“I welcome that,‘’ he said. "I want guys to enjoy playing baseball. Enjoy what you’re getting an opportunity to do and when you get a return for doing things right, let it fly. I love the emotion. It’s an emotional game, though sometimes you have to make sure it’s funneled in the right direction."
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver
"I welcome that,‘’ he said. “I want guys to enjoy playing baseball. Enjoy what you’re getting an opportunity to do and when you get a return for doing things right, let it fly. I love the emotion…”
That’s make me want to cry… streaming tears of joy. But I’m a man and men aren’t allowed to cr… FUCK THAT…
Boo hoo.
Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."
Fantastic Game
Had the pleasure of being at the game last night. Crowd was extremely quiet(for both teams) until after the Lowrie HR, from then on the atmosphere was very entertaining. JJ striking out Nava felt like the biggest pitch/at-bat, and the 2 8th inning home runs and Koji’s awesomeness made the 9th inning a breeze.
Easily the best game I’ve been to this year.
The Nava strikeout may have been the game right there
"I got a good Christian raising and a 8th grade education / Ain't no need in y'all in treating me this way." - Billy Joe Shaver
Helluva K after a helluva battle.
Great AB by Nava. Great comeback by JJ to get him looking.
From the Land of Pleasant Living...
picked Scott but it could have been Uehara
or the pen altogether. Matusz was gassed in my opinion and the pen really helped out, but the big HRs by Scott and then Pie really took the pressure off, so that is why I picked Scott he gave him the 2 run lead
Any task BIG or small, Do it well or not at all
I can't decide
It’s been a long while since I’ve had such a hard time making a decision.
I feel like I learned more in eight major league starts than I did in three years of college," -- Brian Matusz
Congrats O's
Congrat’s O’s and Buck on a winning month of August its been awhile! Here is to a winning September and going out with a bang.
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