Camden Chat - The It's Close Enough To Friday Orioles game thread and Victory GIF PartyPut a bird on it!https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48285/camden-fave.png2014-07-03T23:20:36-04:00http://www.camdenchat.com/rss/stream/56340082014-07-03T23:20:36-04:002014-07-03T23:20:36-04:00It's Almost Friday & Almost 7/4 Victory GIF Party
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<p>It is not Friday night, but it's almost Friday, and more importantly, in the place from which America declared independence, it is both Friday and July 4.</p>
<p>The Orioles have swept the heck out of the Texas Rangers with a 5-2 victory in which Steve Pearce went 4-5. If Toronto loses, the Orioles will end the night in a tie for first place in the American League East.</p>
<p><b>YOU KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE.</b></p>
https://www.camdenchat.com/2014/7/3/5869979/its-almost-friday-and-almost-independence-day-victory-gif-partyMark Brown2014-07-03T18:30:03-04:002014-07-03T18:30:03-04:00Rangers @ Orioles. Yu won't want to miss this game
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<p>The Orioles play the Rangers on Thursday night, unless it rains a whole lot and they don't play. Yu Darvish was scheduled to start for Texas, but it may be Scott Baker instead. Wei-Yin Chen starts for the Orioles.</p> <p>The story of tonight's chances of playing a game in two tweets:</p>
<blockquote lang="en" class="twitter-tweet"> <p>This is ominous. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orioles?src=hash">#Orioles</a> <a href="http://t.co/VpuZfuZHt8">pic.twitter.com/VpuZfuZHt8</a></p>— Alejandro Zúñiga (@the_zuniga) <a href="https://twitter.com/the_zuniga/statuses/484807428228546560">July 3, 2014</a> </blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <p>And now. Yikes! <a href="http://t.co/KiFdsJZQrJ">pic.twitter.com/KiFdsJZQrJ</a></p>— Steve Melewski (@masnSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/masnSteve/statuses/484808566969499648">July 3, 2014</a> </blockquote>
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<p>As they say, that escalated quickly.</p>
<p>The good news about this rainy mess for the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.camdenchat.com/">Orioles</a> is that the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.lonestarball.com/">Rangers</a> have indicated that, if it's looking like a start that could be interrupted by rain delay, they will not be having <span>Yu Darvish</span> start the game, so as to save him for a game where he wouldn't be interrupted by weather. That would send <span>Scott Baker</span> to the mound instead. That sounds like the name of someone who sucks and yet inexplicably dominates the Orioles for five innings.</p>
<p>Baker has given up eight home runs in 40.1 innings, so there's that.</p>
<div class="pane sports_data_widget lineup clearfix"> <h3>Today's Lineups</h3> <div class="lineup"><table class="zebra" cellspacing="0"> <thead> <tr> <th align="left">TEXAS RANGERS</th> <th align="left">BALTIMORE ORIOLES</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name"> <span>Shin-Soo Choo</span> - DH</td> <td class="td-first td-name"> <span>Nick Markakis</span> - RF</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name"> <span>Elvis Andrus</span> - SS</td> <td class="td-first td-name"> <span>Steve Pearce</span> - LF</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name"> <span>Alex Rios</span> - RF</td> <td class="td-first td-name"> <span>Adam Jones</span> - CF</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name"> <span>Adrian Beltre</span> - 3B</td> <td class="td-first td-name"> <span>Nelson Cruz</span> - DH</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name"> <span>Leonys Martin</span> - CF</td> <td class="td-first td-name"> <span>Chris Davis</span> - 1B</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name"> <span>Chris Gimenez</span> - C</td> <td class="td-first td-name"> <span>J.J. Hardy</span> - SS</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name"> <span>Carlos Pena</span> - 1B</td> <td class="td-first td-name"> <span>Jonathan Schoop</span> - 2B</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name"> <span>Michael Choice</span> - LF</td> <td class="td-first td-name"> <span>Ryan Flaherty</span> - 3B</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name"> <span>Rougned Odor</span> - 2B</td> <td class="td-first td-name"> <span>Nick Hundley</span> - C</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name"></td> <td class="td-first td-name"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="td-last td-name">Yu Darvish - RHP</td> <td class="td-first td-name"> <span>Wei-Yin Chen</span> - LHP</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> </div>
https://www.camdenchat.com/2014/7/3/5869355/game-85-rangers-37-47-orioles-45-39-7-05Mark Brown