You wonder if Sox are better with Rios in CF and De Aza in LF with Viciedo in RF? De Aza is a triples machine at the plate and in the field.

 

 

Rios seems to be hitting about as well as he has been in a long time, you have to be scared that moving him back to CF could mess that up.

 

He does seem really comfortable in RF, out of the limelight a little bit.

 

But he did play CF very well in 2010.

 

 

That was an almost impossible ball to catch, and the runner wasn't even that far off the base.

 

Typical Floyd outing, exasperating, taxes the bullpen, so much ability, but doesn't get Daryll Kyle results.

Adam Jones HR, 5-2 O's.

Nice throw Gavin

What an awful pitch.

Why did we even give Jones something to hit there?

goddamn...1B open and he throws a floater right over the plate. nice.

We just have to live with the fact that Floyd will never, ever pitch as well on a consistent basis as he did in 2008.

 

He is what he is....but he's not a building block for the future.

 

Challenging their best hitter when Nick Johnson's coming after him is just idiotic.

What an awful pitch.

My first disagreement with Robin. With firstbase open, why pitch to Jones when an automatic out is on deck?

What is that pitch? on a 3-2 pitch with a guy who is 0-18 up next. Can't happen. There is no way they should have thrown Jones a strike there.

Edited April 19, 201213 yr by jeffro2525

Hey Blue Jays can you take Gavin please?

Can't believe you gave such a hot hitter a good pitch to hit when there's an open base and NICK JOHNSON is up next. Sox doing a lot of really bad things today that help lose a ball game.

And he's going to destroy our bullpen in the process.

 

Zach Stewart will get his last chance to stay on the big league roster.

 

We still have a chance in this game, but we had 3 winnable games in this series and lost all three of them, in all likelihood.

Oh look Johnson gets out. Should be 3-2.

 

Between the defensive lapses, runners left on-base and THAT pitch to Jones...I won't lose sleep over this loss. It's well deserved.

Can't believe you gave such a hot hitter a good pitch to hit when there's an open base and NICK JOHNSON is up next. Sox doing a lot of really bad things today that help lose a ball game.

 

 

Harrelson's right about the approach of our hitters, too.

 

Beckham, Morel, Dunn and now Viciedo are completely in between.

 

You have to be looking dead red and dare the pitcher to beat you with 3 offspeed pitches in the zone.

 

Gavin's proving how hard that is to do against the Orioles, no matter how good your curveball CAN be (at times).

 

Johnson was 0-20. Mental midgets. It used to be Alexei that we always criticized for this, but Gavin's the worst offender, overall. Not too much better than Javy.

Edited April 19, 201213 yr by caulfield12

9 of 13 outs via strike outs. How in the hell is a team with very few power hitters striking out so much?

No Harrelson, not when the temperature has gone from nearly 70 in the morning to below 50.

 

Floyd got lucky, actually, because he had another ball that should have gone out, forgot who hit it.

9 of 13 outs via strike outs. How in the hell is a team with very few power hitters striking out so much?

Somehow I'm sure its Greg Walker's fault.

10Ks is 5 innings...GMAFB.

It's really gonna be a relief to see the Mariner and A's orders coming up after dealing with Baltimore and Detroit...this has been an unfun series. Baltimore's line-up is annoying.

Edited April 19, 201213 yr by jeffro2525

97 K's in 11.5 games.

 

8.43 per game.

 

Unbelieveable.

 

I'm not sure what is more amazing...the fact that we're a 6-6 team or that we could easily be 8-4 or at least 7-5.

No Harrelson, not when the temperature has gone from nearly 70 in the morning to below 50.

 

Floyd got lucky, actually, because he had another ball that should have gone out, forgot who hit it.

Floyd is always pretty bad in April and May, then outstanding a couple of months before he usually limps to the finish line. Getting lit up his first 8-10 starts should not shock anyone.

I would march Floyd back out there. I don't care if he has thrown 107 pitches.

It's really gonna be a real relief to see the Mariner and A's order coming up after dealing with Baltimore and Detroit...this has been an unfun series. Baltimore's line-up is annoying.

 

 

And then we'll all be overconfident about how good our pitching staff is until we face another real major league line-up, like the Red Sox (despite no Ellsbury and Crawford).

Edited April 19, 201213 yr by caulfield12

Somehow I'm sure its Greg Walker's fault.

 

Still wish we hired someone outside the organization to be hitting coach. Seeing how awful our minor leaguers have looked in the majors, I never thought hiring our minor league hitting instructor was a good idea.

Still wish we hired someone outside the organization to be hitting coach. Seeing how awful our minor leaguers have looked in the majors, I never thought hiring our minor league hitting instructor was a good idea.

I wish they hired better hitters.