Baltimore Orioles Baseball
Heading to Minnesota, with 23 games left in May
After being swept in New York City, the Baltimore Orioles will head west to visit the Minnesota Twins' new stadium for the first time. The scheduled pitching match-ups for this 4 game series at Target Field are: 5/6 Bergesen vs. Pavano5/7 Millwood vs. Liriano5/8...
Forget the lineup, improve the staff
Andy MacPhail caused a stir in Birdland today with his comments regarding some of the under-performing bats: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/2010/05/macphail_puts_hitters_on_notic.htmlWhile I appreciate the obvious sentiment that there has to be...
Josh Bell homers and doubles in Arrieta win
Josh Bell was 2 for 4 with a homer, and a double as Jake Arrieta improved to 3-1 for AAA Norfolk. In Bell's last 10 games, he has hit all 4 of his homers and has a .275 batting average, with a .951 OPS. Arrieta struggled with his control (5 walks in 5 innings) but was...
Reimold would stay in my lineup
After a poor 67 at-bats to start the 2010 season, there is growing sentiment within Baltimore that Nolan Reimold needs to return to the Minors. I understand that rationale, but that is the exact opposite of what I would do. I would continue to pencil Reimold's name in...
A familiar script
The Baltimore Orioles dropped another series, with their 4-1 loss tonight at the hands of the New York Yankees. Without a doubt, the most frustrating aspect of the game was the Top of the 3rd for the O's. Baltimore had already scored, and had runners on 2nd and 3rd...
O’s Sweep Boston
The Baltimore Orioles completed their first 3 game sweep of the Boston Red Sox with their 2-1 extra-inning win yesterday.The win moved the O's to just 7-18 overall, but gave Baltimore their 5th win in 7 games.A min-review of the three games:Friday:The O's gave up 10...
Arrieta & Britton
Oriole pitching prospects Jake Arrieta, and Zack Britton both took the mound tonight. Arrieta, pitching for AAA Norfolk, was coming off his last start where he had 11 k's in 7 innings. Tonight the right-handed pitcher went 6 innings, allowing 5 hits, 3 er, 4 walks,...
Best 12 man staff with Gonzalez, and Uehara?
As Mike Gonzalez and Koji Uehara (Uehara will have his 2nd rehab outing with AA Bowie tomorrow) inch closer to returning to the Baltimore Orioles, the complexion of the 12 man-staff with them has to be in question.I've argued before that Tillman, and Arrieta need to...