Monthly Archives: March 2012

I walked in last Wednesday in the middle innings, and Adam Jones hit a HR against the Toronto Blue Jays. The O’s would ultimately lose that game as the Jays squandered a 3 run lead late. Six days later and … Continue reading →

It’s like the first time you go to eat at a new restaurant, and have a bad experience. So it was with Tsuyoshi Wada’s first time against fellow big league hitters. Wada has labored through the first two here at … Continue reading →

What’s that old saying: “Hope springs eternal”? Well, like much larger and more important problems of poverty in our country, try telling that to someone who wakes up every morning living in blight. So it was with our baseball team, … Continue reading →

Maybe it was more like a TKO. But, the Orioles finally got to lefty Erik Bedard, who flashed a lot of the brilliance that he had at times in Baltimore. Wieters led off the inning with a line-drive double between … Continue reading →

After 4 innings, no score. Tommy Hunter has only thrown41 pitches through 4 innings. The only hit he has allowed so far, was a 3-0 pitch to Pirates 2B Neal Walker who hit it deep to CF. Adam Jones raced … Continue reading →

Not only are the two clubs scoreless after 3 1/2, but neither pitcher has allowed a hit. All kidding aside about Bedard’s personality issues, he looks great tonight. Tommy Hunter, incidentally with new uniform # 29 on is dueling goose-eggs.

When the Pirates come to bat in thier half of the first, they will face Tommy Hunter with this line-up:   Presley LF, Tabata RF, McCutcheon CF Walker 2B, Jones 1B, Barajas C Alvarez 3B, Barmes SS, Bedard P

I may not be tweeting and posting on Facebook as much as I usually like to-the working conditions are awful here. Stools instead of actual chairs, make it almost impossible for me to sit much. Okay, enough complaining…onto the line-ups: … Continue reading →

It’s part of the job description, but that didn’t make it any easier today for Orioles manager Buck Showalter to have to notify 7 players (pending an 8th) that, for now their big league dreams for 2012 have been denied. Obviously, there … Continue reading →

Pardon the pun, but just when it looked as if the Orioles were dead, OF prospect Trent Mummey lashed a two out RBI double off of established major league veteran Jose Contreras. The game ended as a tie by mutual … Continue reading →