Orioles....part 2?

Thanks! Regretting not getting ALDS game 1 tickets now, but I have game 2 and it is what it is! Sad the wild card can't be here, but I guess I saved some money this week :)

Yay Orioles! All decked out in orange and black today :)

Fox Sports:

Toronto is in the postseason for the second straight year, but the Blue Jays will have to start either J.A. Happ or Marcus Stroman in the American League Wild Card Game Tuesday because they burned their No. 1 starter, Aaron Sanchez, Sunday in the final game of the regular season.

The Baltimore Orioles might look unsuspecting ? Ubaldo Jimenez is the likely Wild Card starter ? but their bats are popping and anything less than spectacular is going to get hit.

Happ and Stroman both have the ability to be spectacular, but it won?t come through in a winner-take-all game ? Baltimore will advance to play the Rangers.

Nuke wrote:
Jim Johnson knocks out the Tigers.  How poetic.

Ubaldo time. 

That f'n guy.

Congrats to the O's, but thank God I don't have to try and sleep knowing my season rests on the shoulders of Ubaldo Jimenez.

Possible Sunday conflict if the O's win the WC game. 

Skins/Ravens at 1
Rangers/O's at 8

Nuke wrote:
Possible Sunday conflict if the O's win the WC game. 

Skins/Ravens at 1
Rangers/O's at 8

Baseball is all that matters.

Tillman gets the nod.  His velocity has been down, so we'll see.

Nuke wrote:
Tillman gets the nod.  His velocity has been down, so we'll see.

there arebig game pitchers andbiggmae pussies

vansmack wrote:

Nuke wrote:
Jim Johnson knocks out the Tigers.  How poetic.

Ubaldo time. 

That f'n guy.

Congrats to the O's, but thank God I don't have to try and sleep knowing my season rests on the shoulders of Ubaldo Jimenez.

Yup.

The Orioles have used seven pitchers. None of them is the guy who has allowed one earned run in his last 57 innings. This is interesting.

Pretty sure Buck was waiting until they got the lead to put Britton in, but it was dire there with 1st and 3rd and he should have made the move.  Of course it's hindsight.

Would have helped to score a few runs too.

Can understand holding off on Britton, sort of.  Don't understand bringing in Ubaldo who has a history of poor 1st innings pitched.  Should have gone with any other relief pitcher in the pen.  But that being said, you can't win if you don't hit.

jeffml wrote:
Can understand holding off on Britton, sort of.  Don't understand bringing in Ubaldo who has a history of poor 1st innings pitched.  Should have gone with any other relief pitcher in the pen.  But that being said, you can't win if you don't hit.

Did they have anybody else left in the pen other than Tommy Hunter?

Space wrote:

jeffml wrote:
Can understand holding off on Britton, sort of.  Don't understand bringing in Ubaldo who has a history of poor 1st innings pitched.  Should have gone with any other relief pitcher in the pen.  But that being said, you can't win if you don't hit.

Did they have anybody else left in the pen other than Tommy Hunter?

Bundy, Britton and Hunter

not a happy camper

hutch wrote:
not a happy camper

Well, there's still the Nats.

Space wrote:

hutch wrote:
not a happy camper

Well, there's still the Nats.

DO THEY PLAY IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE????

Sorry O's fans.  Tough one to swallow.  That was some Dusty Baker like management of a bullpen right there in the 11th.  I can see starting the inning with Ubaldo, but as soon as the first guy got on, it had to be Britton.  Then 1st and 3rd, also had to be Britton.

Buck is always so good at pulling the right card, as he did earlier, but this one is just beyond reasonable.  They'll talk about this for a while - well, until Dusty does a few scratch your head moments.

4 hits in 11 innings and none after the 6th.  That didn't help.

Nuke wrote:
4 hits in 11 innings and none after the 6th.  That didn't help.

Exactly… of course if Orioles starters had pitched a shutout through 38 innings there is the hope the hitters could have walked in a run but you got to do better than that..