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Orioles’ Starting Pitching Worse This Season, But Bullpen Improves Over Last Year
Posted on 2 Oct 2011 by Alex Van Rees.
Expectations entering this season were very high for the Baltimore Orioles after they signed big name free agents like designated hitter Vladimir Guerrero, shortstop J.J. Hardy, third baseman Mark Reynolds and closer Kevin Gregg. Jake Arrieta was 10-8 with a 5.05 ERA in 22 games (67 earned runs in 119.1 innings). But, for a 14th consecutive season and the first full year in the Showalter era, t...
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Orioles’ Last Two Series Have Been Like Night and Day
Posted on 25 Aug 2011 by Alex Van Rees.
If you are an avid Orioles fans and follow them closely, you are used to the Birds playing a horrendous series and then turn around and look like a completely different team in the next series. It’s like day and night between series and yet again, they showed how inconsistent they can be. Mark Reynolds is 7 for his last 21 with 1 homerun and 4 RBI. The Birds lost two of three in Oakland to ...
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Orioles Mid-Season Review Part 2
Posted on 15 Jul 2011 by Alex Van Rees.
As I wrote in my previous article, this next post is a continuation of my critique of the Orioles first-half woes. I explained their offensive and starting pitching problems in the first article, and in this article, I’m going to talk about their bullpen, and the few bright spots, their struggling defense and our expectations for the 2011 season under Buck Showalter. The Birds have not won ...
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Orioles Woes Continue, Facing Ex-Oriole Tonight
Posted on 31 May 2011 by Alex Van Rees.
The Orioles five-game winning streak came to a screeching halt as the Birds were swept this past weekend by the Oakland Athletics. Oakland always present problems for Baltimore, no matter how well the A’s are playing but this one stung a bit. Orioles look to continue recent success against 24-27 Oakland A's. This season can be characterized as streaky for the Birds who began the seasonÂ...
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Something Old, Something New…
Posted on 13 May 2010 by Ron Burr.
I probably should have gotten back to work after the last post, since my lunch break was over. Â But I had the game on ESPN's GameCast, and so I flipped over after I finished my sandwich. When Corey Patterson homered to make it a 5-2 Seattle Mariners lead, I smiled. Â It was nice to see him contributing immediately, and it made the game look a little more respectable. Â When Adam Jones struck o...









