Tagged: Baltimore Orioles
9/27 – Hold Your Breath
The American League Wild Card race is getting real interesting right now. With a Baltimore win over the Red Sox and the Rays downing the Yankees, the Rays and Sox are now tied atop the AL Wild Card standings. It looked for a while like the Red Sox may be able to hold their ground and continue this dominant season but the Rays have really come on strong and can smell the playoffs.
Josh Beckett pitched well against the Orioles last night but the Baltimore offense has decided to play the role of Major Spoiler and give the Rays some help. Chris Davis and Robert Andino were the unlikely heroes in Baltimore’s 6-3 victory over Boston, Davis driving in a pair and Andino scattering three RBI throughout the game. Tonight the Red Sox will send veteran southpaw Erik Bedard (1-2, 3.63 ERA) to the mound against rookie and fellow left-hander Zach Britton (11-10, 4.44 ERA).
The Rays needed a big inning to bust through against the Yankees and that’s what they got in the bottom of the third. With the score at 2-0 Yankees, a two-run double off the bat of B.J. Upton and a Johnny Damon RBI single put the Rays up for good. Having James Shields on the mound gave the Rays that extra boost of confidence to overcome the Yankees as Shields pitched eight and two thirds innings of six-hit, two-run baseball. Kyle Farnsworth recorded his twenty-fourth save of the year. Tonight young righty Jeremy Hellickson (13-10, 2.90 ERA) will go against journeyman righty Bartolo Colon (8-10, 4.02 ERA) in a chance for the Rays to hop into first place in the Wild Card.
It’s Veteran vs. Youngster for the Sox and Youngster vs. Veteran for the Rays in what could be the biggest game of the season for both of these two playoff-bound teams.
5/2 – Game 4 vs. Orioles
Of course! The night I’m at an awesome concert and miss the game the Sox have to win.
5/1 – Game 3 vs. Orioles
So that first month of the season was kinda like in Spiderman 3 when Harry takes a pumpkin bomb, throws it at Peter, Peter grabs the pumpkin bomb out of the air with some web, spins around, throws it back at Harry, and the pumpkin bomb blows up in Harry’s face. Harry was all like “Yeah, man! Look what I can do while you aren’t looking!” but Peter was totally “Oh yeah? Check this out.” and Harry was all “OW! My most of my face! And my pride and my confidence and stuff…”
4/30 – Game 2 vs. Orioles
It looked pretty good for a while there until our defense once again handed the ballgame over on a silver platter.
4/29 – Game 1 vs. Orioles
I’m so glad we’re home. That long road trip felt too long and I really missed our home white uniforms with the black pinstripes. I also missed hearing the sounds of the fans at The Cell getting up from their seats and leaving in the seventh inning when the stinking Baltimore Orioles score five runs because Alexei Ramirez decided to hold on to a ground ball that would’ve been a sure inning-ending groundout. Didn’t you miss that?