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[fishteacher]

actually a good "out" call on Manny stealing there.  He was out by a nut hair.

[BSLChrisStoner]

Carlos finds the LF seats, O's down 1.

[fishteacher]

Yep, middle of the plate...Quentin goes deeeeepppp!

[BSLChrisStoner]

Alonso to Hardy. 1 out in the 2nd.

[BSLChrisStoner]

Kotsay's out. 2 away..

[BSLChrisStoner]

Gyorko with a nice approach, lining into RCF.

[SBTarheel]

This Gyorko looks like he'll be a nice player...

[BSLChrisStoner]

Another good swing, as Denorfia singles. Now runners on the corners, with Hundley - the 9th hitter up with 2 out.

[fishteacher]

Looks like Tilly has good stuff tonight...Not getting the calls on the corner, and not getting enough movement on his FB, but his breaking ball is NARSTY!

[BSLChrisStoner]

Tillman looking rattled, hits Hundley. Top of the order up.. huge early moment.

[BSLChrisStoner]

Nice 1-1 pitch to Cabrera. Come on finish him...

[BSLChrisStoner]

He went! O's out of it with only the 1 run allowed.

[fishteacher]

Nice "get out" of the inning there by Tilly...maybe he'll NUT UP and throw the fastball more!

[You Play to Win the Game]

Well, glad he got out of it without any further damage, but he's up to 45 pitches already.

[SammyBirdland]

Does anyone here have any musical ability?  I'm thinking about making a parody of The Monkees - I'm a Believer for Manny Machado

 

Then I saw third base

Now I'm a believer

[SammyBirdland]

Nice "get out" of the inning there by Tilly...maybe he'll NUT UP and throw the fastball more!

 

I just got in, is he still dropping the 87mph fastball?

[BSLChrisStoner]

I just got in, is he still dropping the 87mph fastball?

89-92.

 

Jones grounds out to start the O's 2nd.

[Russ]

Does anyone here have any musical ability? I'm thinking about making a parody of The Monkees - I'm a Believer for Manny Machado Then I saw third base Now I'm a believer

I usually sing Whole Milk in a Bottle when I'm making a drink for my son to the tune of Message in a Bottle.

[JeremyStrain]

One other semi-related note about Cashner... I recently read on Baseball-Prospectus that there is a strong correlation with FB velocity > 93 MPH and the most effective change-ups. I noticed with Cashner, his FB is 95.0 MPH (Probably more like 94 now that he's starting and not in the pen exclusively), and he throws a change up that's 9.1 MPH slower than his fastball, 23.3% of the time. It'll be interesting to see if we see this correlation today.

General rule when scouting is you want about a 10mph difference between the fb and the ch. Problem is when the fb gets below 90 they are both ch. I think strasburg has/had a 15 mph difference which was part of why he was so filthy.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Rack up another double for Crush.