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Footwedge

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Jul 14, 2012 8:04pm

Well, Baltimore just tied the score in the 12th.

Crimson streak

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Jul 14, 2012 10:06pm

Good news is both the tigers and sox lost

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vball10set

Posts: 24,795

Jul 15, 2012 7:20am

Footwedge;1225591 wrote: He's an idiot, period. And for those that argue that Ubaldo "might have straightened it out' need to look at the boxscore and see what he'd done in the first 2 innings plus. Gawd awful. A 4-2 deficit is easily overcome. An 8-2 deficit isn't.

As for Ubaldo himself...his ERA ballooned and once again is above the pathetic Ubaldo line for the season.

Pathetic indeed.

21/3 IP
7 H
8 R
8 ER
4 BB
2 SO
64 NP
5.09 ERA

HitsRus

Posts: 9,206

Jul 15, 2012 10:55am

Well. I blame this loss on the incompetant manager. Instead of removing Ubaldo when it became 4-2, he lets the game get away at 8-2. Why? Especially since Toronto has one of the worst bullpens in baseball

Acta drives me nuts too. As said earlier in the thread....if he's throwing 90-92 MPH, you know it's going to be a loooong day (or a short outing). He needs to be hitting 94 -95 with his fastball....and he needs to be throwing it. When he's in the lower range, the pitch runs too much, and he can't control it like he needs to.
I had a hunch this was going to happen, as his last outing, when he was pretty effective, he started throwing a lot of breaking stuff towards the later innings and they made a big deal of it. He has got to put that stuff away and establish his fastball early.

I thought they had this stuff straightened out...Apparently not.

as for Acta...he and Radinsky need to get off their butts. They don't come out of the dugout until things are blown up. Same thing happenned in Perez's blown save before the All Star break.

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Footwedge

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Jul 15, 2012 1:32pm

The 220 hitter bats fifth and the 300 hitter bats sixth? It should be 2 nothing already. SMH.

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Footwedge

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Jul 15, 2012 1:33pm

Manny you don't play to win.

Crimson streak

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Jul 15, 2012 2:13pm

Nice job by Santana on that bunt. Hell if there leaving it open take it all day

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Footwedge

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Jul 15, 2012 2:29pm

Crimson streak;1225989 wrote:Nice job by Santana on that bunt. Hell if there leaving it open take it all day

I agree. First thing he's done right in over a month.

hoops23

Posts: 15,696

Jul 15, 2012 2:35pm

About to drop 2/3 to start the 2nd half. Nice.

BRF

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Jul 15, 2012 3:07pm

hoops23;1226004 wrote:About to drop 2/3 to start the 2nd half.

I was just thinking the same thing. I don't have much confidence in a comeback.

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vball10set

Posts: 24,795

Jul 15, 2012 3:38pm

Damn, we just can't seem to score runs--pretty much been the theme over the last six weeks

Crimson streak

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Jul 15, 2012 3:55pm

We suck

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Con_Alma

Posts: 12,198

Jul 15, 2012 4:48pm

Crimson streak;1226041 wrote:We suck

Been saying that since April even with the good start. This is a .500 team at best give or take a few games.

Glory Days

Posts: 7,809

Jul 15, 2012 5:05pm

hoops23;1226004 wrote:About to drop 2/3 to start the 2nd half. Nice.

welcome to third place and 4 games back.

IggyPride00

Posts: 6,482

Jul 15, 2012 5:08pm

Season high 4 games out of first as well as being in 3rd for the first time.

This team desperately needs hitting help, now.

They got shut out one game, had one run in another, and in the third were doing next to nothing offensively until scoring a bunch of meaningless runs only once they were down 10-2.

We need a bat now, not 2 weeks from now on the 31st deadline when we have fallen another 2-3 games out of first and are then in the hunt for nothing (division or any wildcards).

What does it take to get through to Antonetti?

BRF

Posts: 8,748

Jul 15, 2012 5:30pm

IggyPride00;1226080 wrote:
What does it take to get through to Antonetti?

The Fist of Footwedge?

like_that

Posts: 26,625

Jul 15, 2012 5:49pm

BRF;1226089 wrote:The Fist of Footwedge?

lol'd

BRF

Posts: 8,748

Jul 15, 2012 5:50pm

OK.....I have started the last 4 series threads with a record of 8-6.

I said that I would pass the baton to another poster for the next series thread.

If there are no takers, though, I will just keep going.

Ain't no thang.

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Footwedge

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Jul 15, 2012 6:18pm

BRF;1226089 wrote:The Fist of Footwedge?

Bwahahaha. But I broke it...on Kotchman's chin.

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Footwedge

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Jul 15, 2012 6:19pm

IggyPride00;1226080 wrote:Season high 4 games out of first as well as being in 3rd for the first time.

This team desperately needs hitting help, now.

They got shut out one game, had one run in another, and in the third were doing next to nothing offensively until scoring a bunch of meaningless runs only once they were down 10-2.

We need a bat now, not 2 weeks from now on the 31st deadline when we have fallen another 2-3 games out of first and are then in the hunt for nothing (division or any wildcards).

What does it take to get through to Antonetti?

Justin Upton. Solves problems.

Crimson streak

Posts: 9,002

Jul 15, 2012 6:30pm

Footwedge;1226104 wrote:Justin Upton. Solves problems.

I'd like Soriano right now the dude is killing it since may and then go after dempster,Greinke, or hamels

BRF

Posts: 8,748

Jul 15, 2012 6:39pm

We won't pick up anybody that can help.

Crimson streak

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Jul 15, 2012 6:56pm

Austin kearns is available I'm sure

dazedconfused

Posts: 2,662

Jul 16, 2012 2:39am

IggyPride00;1226080 wrote:We need a bat now, not 2 weeks from now on the 31st deadline when we have fallen another 2-3 games out of first and are then in the hunt for nothing (division or any wildcards).

What does it take to get through to Antonetti?

we've needed a bat since the off-season. instead of rectifying the problem, antonetti and shapiro decided to have a 12 million dollar bonfire in the center of the diamond

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vball10set

Posts: 24,795

Jul 16, 2012 7:51am

Derek Lowe 0-5 with a 7.97 era over his last six road starts...ouch!