Orioles 4, Yankees 2: Even Gregg can't ruin Guthrie's day

…I wonder if I am the only one who has lost tons of respect for Buck that he has kept using Gregg as a closer and has continued to bat Vlad cleanup. I just have a difficult time seeing how any manager who does this can be very good.

He should have walked to load the bases; the ump made a terrible call.

Also, yes, I’d be pissed too if I struck out versus Kevin Gregg and I was a major league player.

Norfolk lost to Toledo 5-2. Ryan Adams went 1-4. Jake Fox went 0-4 with a K. Brandon Snyder went 2-4. Rick VandenHurk went 7.2 innings, striking out 11, walking none but giving up 3 homers amongst 7 hits with 5 earned runs with a GB/FB of 6/5.

Bowie lost 2 in New Britain. In the game 1 4-3 loss, Oliver Drake went six innings, giving up 4 earned runs on 7 hits and 3 walks while striking out 2 with a GB/FB of 8/2. Xavier Avery went 1-3 with a K. LJ Hoes went 3-3 with 2 homers (!) and a walk. Joe Mahoney went 1-4 with 2 Ks. Caleb Joseph went 0-3 with a K. Ronnie Welty went 0-1 with 2 walks and a K.

The Baysox lost game 2 3-1. Xavier Avery went 1-2 with a walk and a K. LJ Hoes went 0-2 with a walk. Joseph Mahoney went 1-3 with a double and 2 Ks. Ronnie Welty went 0-2 with a strikeout.

Frederick beat Potomac 4-0. Bobby Bundy continues to move his way up prospect charts, going 7 scoreless, giving up 3 hits and 1 walk and while striking out 3 and a GB/FB of 8/6. Jonathan Schoop went 1-4 with a K. Manny Machado went 1-4. Kipp Schutz went 0-4 with a K.

Delmarva beat Hagerstown 8-7. Ty Kelly went 1-4 with a double and a walk. Michael Ohlman went 0-3 with 2 walks. Tim Berry had an interesting night, giving up 1 hit in 5 innings, however he walked 2 and the 1 hit was a homer, so he gave up 3 earned runs. While he struck out 6, his GB/FB of was 2/5. Randy Henry went 1 inning, giving up 1 earned run on 2 hits and did not record a walk or a strikeout.

Aberdeen lost to Jamestown 5-0. Parker Bridwell went 4 innings, giving up 3 earned on 7 hits and 2 walks while striking out 4 and posting a GB/FB of 3/3.. Ryan Berry struggled as well, giving up 5 hits in 2 innings, allowing only 1 earned via a solo homer and striking out 2 without walking anyone. Glynn Davis went 2-4 with a CS. Mychal Givens went 1-4 with a K. Joe Velleggia went 0-4. Wynston Sawyer went 0-4 with 2 Ks.

The GCL Orioles beat the GCL Rays 5-1. Rod Bernadina went 1-2 but was removed for a pinch runner. Jaime Esquivel went 4 and a third, giving up 5 hits and 1 earned run, while striking out 5 and walking 2.

The DSL Orioles beat the DSL White Sox 4-1. Byron Capellan went 0-4 with a walk and a K. Hector Veloz went 1-2 with 2 walks.

For plunking future hall of famer Vlad Guerrero? No? Didn’t think so. Fuck you douchebag.

on their way down to the game on my 1hr45m train down from CT to NYC yesterday afternoon. Did not move my bag off the seat for them, and wishes I had my O’s cap with me. Nice to see that they didn’t get what they wanted at the game. (Though, as CT Yankees fans, they probably gave up before the game started what with the rain.)

And today we get a rare day/night two-all-beef-patties filler for our now-a-buildin’ Sweep Sandwich. The first one’s pretty much a foregone concussion, i.e. we bang our heads repeatedly during the Colonoscopy that Tillman will have to defeat using…a larger large intestine? Better anesthetics? Orioles Magic Mushrooms?

Then we got Zach. And it might as well be Braff, since our Zach hasn’t pitched up top since July 8. And the Yuckees will be all cheesed off, having just dropped two to the REAL greatest franchise (1957-97), now regrettably swimming in sucktitude.

MLB.tv, meanwhile, has once again demonstrated its own heinous sucktitude by blacking me out, presumably b/c my billing address is Rochester, NY— a quick 8-hr drive from Yucklebee Stadium, so I’m s’posed attend this game in person, I guess. Sorry, I have to attend the Titov Family Reunion Extravaganza, which will have some good pitching and better concession food, actually.

Well, at least Joe is back from vacation. Listen closely and you can check his remarkable skill for yourself: after the latest Foot-in-Mouth Ferd Fact (e.g. “Six runs scored, both of them earned”), you’ll note that Joe is the only announcer in MLB whose eyes you can actually HEAR rolling.

Go O’s!

Sure, the free strike call at the end was nice (and inaccurate), but I know for a fact that there was an Oriole strikeout a couple of innings earlier thanks to an equally terrible call.

I can’t fully explain the panic I had upon seeing Gregg in person on the mound entering the 9th inning. I said to myself “there is no way they can take out Koji, c’mon he can pitch two innings”, nope.

The yankee kids behind me yelling their useless banter, shouldn’t they be in bed by now?
I digress

The Gregg appearance almost ruined the victory entirely since I was in an endless state of panic and disgust as ball after ball was being thrown. Could this guy ever find the strikezone? This is what I posed in my internal dialogue as my gf had almost fallen asleep (it was midnight or close to it at the stadium) and I was surrounded by Yankee fans cheering at the top of their lungs.

I said no, not this time, not again, as the last Yanks O’s game I went to the Orioles lost in extra innings.

I cannot be let down yet again, and after a two hour rain delay no less. I have already disposed of my souvenir cups, I wanted to burn them but it was too wet.

Then it happened, the Orioles won, it wasn’t pretty, but it was a mother f-in W baby.

Goodnight.