Trembley's post-game remarks come fast and furious
Some losses are harder to swallow than others. Orioles manager Dave Trembley needed the Heimlich Maneuver after tonight's game.
He would have spit it so far across the room, it might have broken a window at the warehouse.
Trembley was agitated that his starting pitcher, Brian Bass, once again ran out of gas after the fourth inning, though it seems pretty reasonable to me, given that he's a middle reliever. But as Trembley pointed out, Bass started at Triple-A Rochester and should be able to go further than he's traveled in his three starts with the Orioles.
Trembley was furious that Luke Scott didn't advance from first to third on Ramon Hernandez's single with no outs in the fifth inning. The Orioles loaded the bases when Lou Montanez followed with another single, which should have scored a run.
Trembley was ready to boil over just talking about Hernandez's fly ball with one out in the sixth that resulted in a double play because Aubrey Huff and Oscar Salazar, who were in motion on a double steal, didn't bother to stop and check its flight. Huff was doubled off second (though Trembley called out Salazar in his post-game comments, because Salazar was at second base on the play).
Upon taking a seat behind the MASN microphone, Trembley said, "I guess we can talk about this one for a while." Four out of five doctors wouldn't advise it.
"We had two crucial baserunning mistakes," Trembley said.
The first one was more subtle, the second inexcusable in Trembley's eyes.
"It's three balls and two strikes and you're running, and it's a fly ball. Don't you stop?" Trembley asked. "It's not Kamikaze baseball. You don't just run until you're out. To me, that's just a total mental breakdown on his (Salazar's) part. Total. And to be honest to you, that's embarrassing to me and the club and the people who are watching the game. And I'm not burying him, but that's not right."
As for Scott's failure to take the extra base, Trembley said, "When we got them loaded, they shouldn't have been loaded. You've got to go from first to third like that (snaps fingers)."
Bass has gone 4 1/3, 4 1/3 and 4 2/3 innings in his three starts for the Orioles. In the most recent one before last night, he gave up five runs in the fifth in Toronto after holding a 6-0 lead.
"For three starts, Bass has shown very good movement, very good life and very good location, but then he seems to hit the wall," Trembley said. "Pehaps he's just not accustomed to going that long. For three innings, each time he's pitched, he's been very good, but after that, it's been a struggle for him to get over that barrier."
Bass actually took a no-hitter into the fifth and got the first two outs before walking the bases loaded. Trembley took him out, knowing Bass wasn't going to flirt with history, let alone seal the deal.
"It's not like he was just missing off the plate," Trembley said. "He was done, he was out of gas. When Kranitz went to the mound, Kranitz came back and said, 'He's done.' He had lost it. If you're watching the game, you saw it. He's a great kid, he has a good arm, but if he's telling me that he's going to be a starting pitcher, we've got a ways to go to do something to get him to that point. He seems more like a two- or three-inning guy. He's got good stuff. He pounds it down, late, movement, boom. Then all of a sudden, the switch goes off.
"In all sincerity, people who think he should have stayed in because he's got a no-hitter and he just walked the ballpark, I don't buy that. I don't buy that at all. The guy was done. Look at his legs, look at his face, look at his arm angle. He's underneath pitches. He was done. Done. Cooked. I leave him out there and let him get hurt, then what's that?"
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“Sammons didn’t get in front of the plate or the guy’s an easy out,” Braves manager Bobby Cox said.
Why does DT reserve all of his venom for rookies or journeymen middle relievers??? I know a few vets that could use a ripping (the quote above is a hint).
Let's face it-- we all despise the play of Ramon but he plays on. For what? The respectable offense isn't contributing enough to warrant his sorry defense.
By the way-- I was not expecting a legitimate Heimlich instructional video. :)
I have to admit that as one of the 14 people who watched the game on TV, the baserunning blunders were inexcusable. It was like they were in on it.
Great reporting Roch, Dave was livid, its really sad to see too. Because the team with it's bonehead mistakes and even that easy ball that Robert's botched are clearly not matching his intensity. Granted the travel schedule was a nighmare and it is hard to get up for these games once the season is long over, but I am glad at least one person is not phoning it in.
Look at his gills, done. Cooked. Trembley had to come with the hook.
Back in the clubhouse, Bass iced his flipper.
The guy hit some turbulent waters. No hits, but the Ray is a funny creature. Sometimes, it waits for the lure of a rocky cherry before it strikes. And then, if it doesn't like what it sees, it'll just swim away.
Trembley was not a happy camper...it's about time we saw some fire outta him!
It's a safe bet that Oscar won't be starting at first, tomorrow...
Bass started only twice this year at Rochester and didn't get past the fifth inning, even in a game where he yielded just one run. Last year, during an entire season at Rochester, he started only 10 times and seems to have been added to the rotation only at mid-season (who did the Twins call up then?) and then to have strained his shoulder after a brief run of 4 or so decent starts, effectively taking him out of the rotation until very late in the season. Nice to know D.T. still has some fire in him after all hope has been abandoned, but no amount of ranting will compensate for "the [26-yr-old] kid's" physiological unsuitability (or so it seems) to be anything but a middleman, and even then, the lucky team that owns him should monitor his appearances and guard against overuse (Not a problem for the Twins, obviously, who had no use for him at all). So D.T. at the very least should've done his homework on Bass's back story.
And what was with all the red-faced shots of Fahey after his miscues last night? Did the cameraman have a crush on him? (Sorry if someone already commented on this.)
Adam Jones was thrown out on a ground ball tonight to the shortstop where the shortstop bobbled the ball.
Had Jones actually ran to first base and not just a leisurely jog, he would've beat the throw. He was only out by one step.
Bench him tomorrow too!
This is why we've lost all these years. It's this kind of non-sense that drives the fan base bonkers