When six runs aren't enough
Tampa Bay has scored seven unanswered runs, the last two coming on Akinori Iwamura's triple in the sixth that put the Rays ahead.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox and Indians are tied, 4-4, in the seventh.
Get that champagne on ice.
Radhames Liz gave us hope that he was erasing those doubts about whether he should be a major league starter. Then he went out tonight and pitched like a middle reliever. He gave the Orioles three scoreless innings before allowing five runs in the fourth, beginning when he walked the leadoff hitter and drilled the next one.
Brian Burres replaced Liz, who was charged with five runs (four earned) and five hits, and threw an unacceptable 95 pitches in five innings. Burres got the first out in the sixth before coughing up the lead. And he won't finish the inning. Manager Dave Trembley is bringing in Bob McCrory with two outs and runners on second and third.
At least McCrory didn't injure himself while warming up. Maybe the Orioles' luck is changing.
"If I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all."
Most of us didn't expect much this year and Trembley doesn't have much to work with but........
These last couple of weeks (Sept 1 onward) is a time to reward the guys who have done the job in the majors (however few there are) and the guys in the minors who were brought up. Instead we seem to see the same retreads over and over. Hernandez catching, Walker in relief, Payton, etc. This should be the time to reward the minor leaguers who are trying to prove themselves and get over some ML nerves and accustomed to ML pitchers and hitters.
I have no problem with continuing to play Huff, Markakis, Roberts and Jones since they have earned the time but a number of others I don't think have played hard enough or produced enough to continue get the playing time.
As for next year I wonder if Mora can be moved. He put up solid numbers but often his head seems to be somewhere else, like when he bunts when he shouldn't or make some other boneheaded plays. I just don't think Mora and Hernandez set very good examples for the players coming up.
Well thats my 1.5 cents.
Roch
I was listening to the post game show on the radio on the way home from the ballpark and told us some numbers we are better then Tampa bay in runs doubles homeruns hits etc pretty much every run producing stats.. Then comes pitching and we put 200 something more batters on base by walk a hit batters..