Tuesday 4/2

Its first pitch as Daniel Cabrera starts with a ball (surprise), not doing a live blog but wanted to mention a few things O’s related and MLB related.
-I expected the thinness of the Mets rotation to bite them this season, but not on the season day of the season. I was watching the Mets and [...]

30-3

The Rangers embarrassed the O’s in the first of two games tonight. 30 unanswered runs. It’s a reccord night…literally. It’s been 110 years since this happened. Great….ugh.
Your list of offenders

Pitcher
IP
H
R
ER
BB
K
HR
NP-ST
ERA

Cabrera                                     5        9        6        6         1        4         2       96-62   5.10
Burres                     a meager 0.2      8       8         8         1        1         1        34-22   5.24
Bell                                            1.1       5       7         7         3        1         1        54-32   6.14
Shuey                                        2.0       7      9         [...]

Chris Ray

If Jeremy Guthrie goes Carlos Zambrano on Chris Ray, I’m going to give him a pass. Yesterday was at least the second time, there may be a third in there, Ray’s cost him a win.
I’m not going to blame Sam for this loss. It’s easy to with Guthrie being at only 88 pitches after 8 [...]

@#$#*&##@!@*#!!!!!

Man, I hate this team sometimes.
Today is one of team.
Jeremy Guthrie, thanks for your 8.1 innings of shutout ball. To bad our 100 trillion dollar bullpen can’t get 2 dang outs. I’m staring right at you Chris Ray.
Sam Perlozzo, you haven’t earned much love either by yanking Guthrie out after Ramon dropped the pop-out. But [...]

Whadda I say?

Last week at this time the O’s had just swept the Blue Jays and were a red hot winning 8 of 9. This past week?
Monday: Loss to Oakland 6-5
Tuesday: Loss to Oakland 5-2
Wednesday: Loss to Boston 6-1
Thursday: Loss to Boston 5-2
Friday: Loss to Cleveland 5-4
Saturday: Win over Cleveland 7-4
Today: Loss to Cleveland 6-1
Was our early [...]

Notes

The O’s blew two games they should have won against Oakland. Bad defense, an impromptu bunt by Melvin Mora, and more bad defense resulted in a two game sweep.
At least Jeremy Guthrie pitched great yesterday, and hey, Aubrey Huff had a nice series. Glad to see that since here lately I’ve been dreading his at bats. [...]

Losses like this…

Really rips out your heart.
I’m going to question Perlozzo here.
-Why take out Huff? I know the logic, but I don’t like it. Freddie Bynum was only there to run and it didn’t matter. The game went on and all though Gomez, who took Bynum’s spot after that inning, never got an at bat, he was [...]

I went to ballgame and saw a massacre…teaser.

How fitting on Bat Day at Turner Field, the Mets used their bats and spanked the Bravos. El Duque gave up 3 hits over 8 innings and drove in two runs. Meanwhile, Tim Hudson looked a lot like the same Tim Hudson when I saw him pitch against the O’s. Carlos Beltran hit a pair [...]