Jul 20-22: The long march resumes - The historically lame @ the merely lame

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Baltimore at Toronto

Dead Birds vs Lame Birds

The Marcus Stroman "WE STINK" series (Think of it, if Stroman thinks the Jays suck, what does a Baltimore fan think of one of the worst teams in baseball, perhaps baseball history.

Welcome to AAAA baseball, or in the case of the Machado-less O's, AA baseball.


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For some reason these two teams haven't even sorted out pitching assignments for Saturday/Sunday. Will update (as if any of you still give a flying fadoo)

Friday, July 20, 7:07p
Dylan Bundy, (6-9 4.35 ERA) @ Sam Gaviglio (2-3, 4.58 ERA)

Saturday, July 21,1:07p
TBA

Sunday, July 22, 1:07p
Andrew Cashner (2-9, 4.56 ERA) vs Jay Happ (10-6, 4.29 ERA)

[Lateral Quicks]

Cy Gaviglio leads the intrepid Blue Jays into the second half. Watch free on MLB.TV!

[vaff87]

Pat Tabler just called Adam Jones a superstar.

[Lateral Quicks]

It's hard to put into words just how bad the Orioles are. 97 games in, they're on pace for ~46 wins. Looks like today's game will not be one of them.

[vaff87]

Lol, Clippard.

[Lateral Quicks]

One must not underestimate just how bad the Blue Jays are, too.

[Lateral Quicks]

Diaz doubles to lead off the inning - didn't run thinking it was a homer, should have been an easy triple.
Teoscar strikes out with Diaz at 3B and one out.

More great fundamental baseball. Gibbons should be proud - good to see his emphasis/insistence on fundamental baseball is really paying off. Oh wait...

[BigLeagueChew]

Celebrate.

[vaff87]

Apparently you can’t out inept the Orioles.

[rotty]

Soooo is anyone going to get moved or what

[BigLeagueChew]

RF C. Granderson (L)
CF Randal Grichuk (R)
1B Justin Smoak (S)
DH Kendrys Morales (S)
3B Y. Solarte (S)
C Russell Martin (R)
LF Dwight Smith (L)
SS Aledmys Diaz (R)
2B Lourdes Gurriel (R)

[Schad]

Really unconvinced that Gurriel is going to stick at the major league level. Has a bit of pop, but not enough to offset the horrible OBP, and he's a long way from being the finished product in the field.

[BigLeagueChew]

Really unconvinced that Gurriel is going to stick at the major league level. Has a bit of pop, but not enough to offset the horrible OBP, and he's a long way from being the finished product in the field.

2 walks in 115ish PAs

[vaff87]

Orioles are incredibly bad.

[BigLeagueChew]

Lol.

[TOStateofMind]

This o’s team is one of the worst teams of all time

[Schad]

The O's were annoyingly winnery when we were good, and now they're annoyingly losery when we're bad. I mean, their expected record on the year is 53-109, and they're underperforming even that by several games.

At 43-119, the 2003 Tigers were the worst team of the past half-century. The Orioles are on pace for a 45-117 mark, have managed to be even worse over the past 30 days, they have a tough schedule remaining and will be selling off anything that moves. History awaits.

[Lateral Quicks]

Cashner is going to implode after the game. LOL.

These O's are incredibly good at losing.

[phillipmike]

Bregman, Judge, Lindor, Ramirez, Trout, Betts, Bauer, de Grom, Verlander and Sale all have a higher WAR than the ENTIRE O's cumulative WAR of 4.3 (not including today).

Indians have 3 players. Red Sox and Astros have 2 individual players higher than the the entire O's team.

If Schrezer wins today then he will have 13 wins. Severino and Schrezer would have a combined 27 wins. The O's have 28 wins.

That is terrible in case anyone is wondering.

[JaysRule15]

Surprised that the Orioles are this bad, considering they still have superstar Adam Jones.