Round of Applause for Garrett Olson

(from the Washington Post)
Final line for Garrett Olson
6.2 Innings 2 Earned Runs 4 Hits, 6 K’s, and 5 BB
Really good start for him tonight. He left with two one and two out in the 7th and then Randor Bierd came in and coughed up some hits, which hurt Olson. For Olson, I was very happy [...]

Roster Moves

 
 Two tickets for Norfolk please. (Photo: Charles Sarjeant)
 Some changes went down today.
Greg Acquino got DFA’ed. If he gets claimed, he’s gone. If no claims him, he can go play at Norfolk.
Brandon Fahey also gets to join Greg at Norfolk.
In their places, Garrett Olson and Bob McCrory come up. Olson makes the start tonight and McCrory [...]

O’s and White Sox..to be continued

Daniel Cabrera handed free passes out like candy today.
The O’s and White Sox waited the rain out for 2 hours for their day game to start and then 11 innings later, the game was suspended for rain. Until the game is resumed, which it won’t be in Chicago…the O’s don’t go there to play the [...]

Burres….8 innings…wow.

Brian Burres apparently scoffs at the idea of going back to long relief. Today he shutdown the Chi-Sox with a mighty mighty outing.
8 innings, 3 hits, 0 runs, 0 BB, and 4 K’s and all in a mere 98 pitches (66 for strikes)
The O’s won 5-1.
Matt Albers loaded them up in the 9th and then [...]

I love ESPN

I do in this case. I can’t watch the first game today thanks to FOX’s ironhanded strangle hold on Saturday day games and I hadn’t thought about checking the score. While I was watching so NFL pre-Draft talk, they cut in saying “The Chicago White Sox’s John Danks has a no-hitter…and a perfect game through [...]

Loewen on 15 Day DL

(photo from SI.com)
The day after Trembley called out Adam Loewen and said the reason the team has 13 pitchers and a 3 man bench is to cover for Loewen, Adam tells the team that he’s been pitching hurt. Turns out his shoulder that was operated on is giving him some pain. He’s now on the [...]

What have you done with Daniel Cabrera?

My expectations for Daniel Cabrera this season was nothing. I expected the same old song and dance from him. 5 innings of work, a few runs, 5 or 6 walks, and some strikeouts. This is the season where I throw the towel in on the hype. I wasn’t supposed to care about his electric arm [...]

In Game Thoughts- O’s at M’s

A few things before I go to bed and turn off this nonsense.

Home plate umpire Brian Runge’s strike zone is a joke. Markakis struck out on a ball that was 4 or 5 inches outside of the plate.
Luis Hernandez might have met his end tonight. He, Luke Scott, and Adam Jones were all in the [...]

Trembley pulls a reverse Perlozzo

I didn’t watch the whole game last night and because of that, I feel almost like I shouldn’t jump in on this. I hate it when someone criticizes or second guesses you and they weren’t there when you screwed up….they heard it second hand. But I guess I’m going to be hypocrite here and do [...]

West Coast Games

The O’s start up 3 against the Mariners tonight at 10:10. I hate the West Coast trips. I’m not one to be in bed and be asleep by 10, but during the week I like to be asleep by 11:30 or 12. With my sleep schedule in mind, chances are that I’m not going to [...]