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Well, the season held a lot of promise for a few months but things have been dreadful since the All-Star Break.
I repeat my oft spoken lament: Wait 'til next year!
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Their pitching this year has been completely dreadful. In 2 of the 3 series in New York this year they basically threw the Yankees batting practice for 8 innings. Since Machado likely isn't resigning I'd capitalize on that and try to recoup some pitching assets. Britton would help in that regard too.
Only the Orioles have been less productive so far this season than the Rays. Rays have faced several Cy Young winners as well as runners up - at least that's their excuse.
Adam Jones turned hard on a Justin Verlander pitch a couple nights ago. That was a mammoth, Albert Pujols 2005 playoff shot. Jonathan Schoop had a big game after struggling the first four games.
But through six games now, the O's have been outscored 34-14. Not good. Chris Davis is 1-for-24. Only Jones and Schoop have an OPS over .700 in the lineup. And in Tuesday's game, Josh Reddick drove in more runs for the Astros than anyone on the O's has so far this season.
Orioles lose the first game of a 3 game series to the Jays.
"Jays 7 @ Orioles 1.
Curtis Granderson walked to begin the 3rd inning, Dylan Bundy would get Josh Donaldson & Justin Smoak to strike out but Steve Pearce put the Jays on the board with a 2 run homer, but Manny Machado would open the bottom half with a solo home run to cut the Jays lead to 2-1. J.A. Happ loaded the bases in the 5th but got Adam Jones to ground into a 1-2-3 double play to end that threat with Jones getting called out for running out of the baseline. Blue Jays would load the bases with 0 outs in the 8th on 2 singles and a walk, but Smoak would fly into a double play when Aledmys Diaz got thrown out at home trying to score on a sac fly and then Pearce flied out. Yangervis Solarte started the 9th with a walk, Russell Martin struck out and Kevin Pillar would follow with a single and Devon Travis got hit by a pitch to load the bases for the 2nd straight inning. After Diaz popped up to the catcher it looked like the Jays might get shut out of another bases loaded opportunity, but that was not meant to be. Granderson walked on 5 pitches to bring in a big insurance run and Donaldson would put the game on ice with a grand slam. Happ (2-1) allowed 1 run on 5 hits (1 homer) with 3 walks and 9 strikeouts. Danny Barnes (2nd hold) and Ryan Tepera (4th hold) allowed 3 hits through 2 innings with 1 strikeout. Bundy (0-1) allowed 2 runs on 4 hits (1 homer) with 2 walks and 10 strikeouts in 7 innings. Game 2 of the series takes place Tuesday evening. Aaron Sanchez (0-1, 5.40) starts for the Jays against Andrew Cashner (1-1, 4.09) with game time scheduled for 7:05."
"Justin Smoak walked with 1 out and Yangervis Solarte followed with a base hit to RF which Orioles RF Anthony Santander threw into the dugout to allow Smoak to score. After throwing 7 hitless innings, Aaron Sanchez would allow a leadoff double to Tim Beckham to begin the 8th which was followed up by a Santender single which put runners on the corner. Chace Sisco would double home the tying run and after Trey Mancini flied out to shallow center Manny Machado was intentionally walked to load the bases and Jonathan Schoop ended the threat with a double play ball. After surviving the 2nd & 3rd 0 out opportunity the Orioles had, as what usually happens the team scored in the next half inning as Curtis Granderson hit a 2 out homer off of Darren O’Day to give the Jays the win. Sanchez (1-1) allowed 1 run on 3 hits with 5 walks but only 4 strikeouts and Roberto Osuna (5th save) had a 1-2-3 9th for the save. Andrew Cashner pitched 7 scoreless innings allowing 4 hits, 3 walks, and 6 strikeouts. O’Day (0-1) allowed 1 run on 2 hits (1 homer) with 1 walk. The final game of the series takes place on Wednesday. Marco Estrada (1-0, 2.77) takes the ball while Kevin Gausman (0-1, 8.00) will look to avoid the sweep for the O’s. Game time scheduled for 7:05."
Orioles get the final game of the series vs. the Jays:
"Kevin Pillar singled in the first to put the Jays up 1-0. Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop had back-to-back doubles to start the 4th to tie the game at 1, Chris Davis had a single to drive in Schoop and give the O’s the lead and move runners to the corners and Tim Beckham had a sac fly to make it 3-1. Yangervis Solarte had a single in the 5th to cut the O’s lead to 3-2, but the O’s would get the 2 run lead back on a Schoop single in the bottom half. Aledmys Diaz homered in the 6th, and Chace Sisco had a RBI single in the bottom half for the final scoring of the game. Marco Estrada (1-1) allowed 4 runs on 6 hits with 3 walks and 5 strikeouts in 6 innings. Kevin Gausman (1-1) allowed 3 runs on 6 hits (1 homer) with 3 walks and 7 strikeouts in 6 innings. Richard Bleier (2nd hold) and Darren O’Day (3rd hold) had 2 hitless innings with 2 strikeouts while Brad Brach (3rd save) allowed 1 hit in the 9th closing it out for the injured Zach Britton. Both teams have Thursday off. Orioles head to Boston to play a wrap-around 4 game series with the series culminating in the annual 11 AM Patriots game on Monday. Jays continue their 3 city, 3 division road trip with 3 games in Cleveland. Mike Clevinger (1-0, 0.71) starts for Cleveland while Marcus Stroman (0-1, 8.38) starts for the Jays, first pitch going at 7:10 Friday."
Steve Dalkowski, 80, passes from COVID-19. He pitched nine years in the minor leagues in the 1950s and ’60s, mostly in the Baltimore Orioles organization, without reaching the major leagues. He is remembered as perhaps the game’s greatest unharnessed talent, the hardest-throwing pitcher in history with a fastball as uncontrollable as it was unhittable.
Excerpts: "Radar guns were not in use when Mr. Dalkowski pitched, but his catcher in the Orioles system, Cal Ripken Sr., estimated his fastball was between 110 and 115 mph. ... In one game Ripken was catching, he called for a breaking pitch. Mr. Dalkowski missed the sign and threw his fastball instead. It hit the umpire in the mask, breaking it in three places. The umpire was knocked unconscious."
Though I grew in Baltimore as an O's fan, I don't remember the man. Those were the days....
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