I am surprised to see digs at Orioles fans like that. I agree the announcers are horrible. They have made so many errors out of ignorance this series it's laughable. It even said Gausman threw something like 27% breaking pitches and only 3% change up when it's the other way around in today's game. About the attendance; Detroit's didn't start picking up until they turned things around in 2006. From 2001-2005, Detroit attendance was pretty much exactly the same as it was in Baltimore from 1998-2010. Orioles fans refused to pay for an inferior product that we had watched PA slowly destroy, but despite that, the stadium hosted it's 50 millionth fan in only 17 seasons despite the low attendance and is the fastest stadium to do so in baseball history. Since opening in 1992, Camden Yards has hosted the third most number of fans in baseball behind only Dodger stadium and the original Yankee stadium. So, despite "sucking balls" for quite awhile, which we did, the fans still broke that record and got the stadium in the top three in most number of fans attending games. No need to insult Orioles fans especially when based on completely unfounded information.
Its not unfounded. Try looking at stadium capacity. You got to the playoffs and yet the following year your at 67% . That's not unfounded- its fact. Pick your spots . As recently as 2012 your 20th in attendance with one of the lowest percentages at capacity. Good for you that you got to some number overall, that's not a true refelction of anything other than you had the first nice stadium of the new era and the course of time
Also it wasn't the other way around on Gausman pitches. Are you telling me he throws a 97 mph changeup? Cmon man its simple for even the average fan. Tells you speed after every pitch. The broadcast sucked but those numbers weren't opposite. You obviously don't have a clue what a breaking ball is. Gausman only threw fastballs and a couple change ups. Please enlighten me in the breaking balls he threw
You're certainly right about that. Camden Yards is a gorgeous stadium. The fans weren't fickle, just hesitant to believe and made the team earn their trust back. Fans were calling for Angelos' head for many years and refused to support the team until the team showed they were serious about winning. It took a long time for Angelos to realize he didn't know crap about GM duties and start hiring people that at least kind of knew what they were doing. McPhail got the ball rolling and Duquette has gone a long way to restoring the franchise to what it once was. Fourteen consecutive losing seasons is enough to make any fan jaded. Attendance was low for awhile, not arguing with you about that, but 50 million fans in 17 seasons is an accomplishment.
No, no. When pitchers come into the game and are warming up, they show a percentage chart of what pitches they throw and how often over the course of the season. They had breaking pitches at 27% and change up at 3%. Gausman has made it through most of the season with nothing but fastballs and his change up. His slider is a work in progress and has gotten crushed many times this season, so he barely throws it. I'm saying it's more like 27% change ups and 3% sliders for the season, but they had it the other way around. I just meant they showed those stats during today's game.
the orioles had a play at the plate and executed. the tigers had a play at the plate and failed to execute - martinez didn't field it cleanly and then kinsler threw offline. when the orioles needed to make a play, they made it. turn those 2 plays around, and the tigers win by a run.
Kinsler has been nails defensively all year, the guy had like 8 errors all season. Kinsler is our best defesnive player and we wouldnt be where we are without him. I dont know which Martinez play your talking about but thats not why I feel we lost. It had so much more to do with bringing in the wrong pitchers at the wrong time. You dont bring in Joba who got shelled the night before and the Orioles already seen him. show them something different - ditto for Soria who to me seems like a head case right now. Hes sucked since we traded for him. The biggest problem to me was twice there are two strikes on a hitter and a ball is called when the ball was clearly over the plate. Now the hitters get an extra try and the first time it resulted in a homer and the second drove in more runs. If the right call by the plate ump is made the Orioles have atleast 3 less runs. You mix in Miggys bad baserunning and maybe its more. theres also no reason to pull Sanchez after 2 innings. the guy can throw over 200 in a season and its all or nothing here and he pulls him - terrible move again by Ausmus. either way if the ump was worth a sh*t the correct call wouldve been made and games over end of story. I blame the coach, Carrera and bad baserunning more than anything
i'm not saying kinsler is a crappy fielder. the play in question is delmon young's double. you're preaching to the choir about the pitching - that was the first thing i said. ditto the coaching, mentioned that too. yes, i agree sanchez should have stayed in - but he didn't, and the next guy has to do the job. but the orioles made their play at the plate, and we didn't. i'm not giving a pass to the other things. i am NOT gonna cry about the strike zone. it is what it is. the tigers lost, blame it on the ump if u want. u have no control over the umps/refs - all u can do is take care of the things u DO have control of. we didn't, the orioles deserve to be up 2-0.
we did have control over who came in for relief and when that player came in so thats my biggest problem. I agree, you can only have a say in the parts of the game but for a pitcher to not get calls that are obvious changes not only their gameplan but the other teams. I just dont believe fielding was the issue in the game. Ive already said good teams dont have to have the calls to win and I give credit to the Orioles and a very underrated manager in Showalter. Were down 0-2 and have a no room for error - which is very comforting with the decision making by the coach. I still have faith we can turn this around, Ausmus has to be smarter and the guys have to believe in themselves or this is already over Ive never obviously made it that far but I think you can appreciate my frustrations with the umps. When the ump makes bad calls like that it changes the whole complexion of the game. I think crying is a little strong here. Ive done my best not to overreact. My frustration level hasnt changed much since yesterday
The Orioles changed their starting pitcher for Game 3, opting to go with right-hander Bud Norris on Sunday.
I never guarantee anything but Im gonna give this the CG(cutter guarantee), no way in hell do we lose this game [video]http://youtu.be/btPJPFnesV4[/video]
If I still drank alki-hall. I would be half-way through a 5th by now and we just started the 2nd. *PARDON*
