Dan Connolly
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September 16, 2016 at 7:00 am
Gallardo’s first-inning struggles: 21 runs in 21 innings
Yovani Gallardo certainly hasn’t acquitted himself well in the first year of his two-year, $22 million deal with the Orioles. You know that. After allowing six runs in 3 1/3 innings against the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday, Gallardo is 5-8 with a 5.77 ERA. He’s been good at times and awful...
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September 15, 2016 at 11:52 pm
Failing to hit with runners in scoring position sinks O’s
You want to know what the Orioles need to do to get to the playoffs? Forget about starting pitching for a second. It’s going to be inconsistent, but I think they have enough to give their offense and bullpen a chance to win most nights. What the Orioles need to do is...
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Miley likely to start Sunday; Pearce’s return seems unlikely; Rickard update
Wade Miley’s left arm lives to start another day this season. That’s basically what Orioles manager Buck Showalter said Thursday. Sunday’s starter against the Tampa Bay Rays had been listed as TBA since Miley’s disaster in Boston in which he allowed six runs and recorded just four outs to push his ERA...
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Around The Beat: Yahoo’s Tim Brown talks O’s, AL East, Wild Card race, Britton & Machado
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS ON ITUNES This is crunch time now. The Orioles begin their final homestand of the season Thursday night with the first of four games against a division foe, the Tampa Bay Rays. Then the big boys come to town, the division-leading Boston Red Sox for...
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September 14, 2016 at 2:04 pm
O’s 2017 schedule announced: Cubs, Cards, Pirates and Nats come to Camden Yards
The 2016 pennant race is a house afire, but we interrupt it for just a moment to bring you thoughts of next year. The Orioles’ 2017 schedule was announced today and there are some interesting tidbits. The season opens at Camden Yards – for the second straight year – this time on...
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Myriad O’s thoughts: Boston house money; Bundy’s escape; major relief; U.S. Ubaldo
You’re not gonna want to accept it. The Orioles certainly can’t think it. Maybe I’m shortsighted for presenting it. But the truth is this: The Orioles are now playing with house money on this road trip. A win Wednesday would be gravy; this three-city jaunt is already a success at 5-3 –...
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September 13, 2016 at 7:00 am
Orioles can’t afford to keep starting Miley this month
Let’s start with the obvious. Wade Miley can’t get another start for the Orioles this month while they have five healthy pitchers in the rotation. Not with Chris Tillman, Kevin Gausman, Dylan Bundy, Yovani Gallardo and Ubaldo Jimenez currently much better options. Yes, Miley is left-handed, the team’s only starting southpaw. Plus, he...
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September 11, 2016 at 7:00 am
Prepare for the hyperbole, Saturday’s win was one of the O’s most important in 2016
Over the last decade or so I’ve been critical of baseball fans — and Orioles’ fans in particular — for having a football mentality. It seems like many O’s fans live and die on one game or one series these days, and I try to explain that this is not football. There...
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September 10, 2016 at 7:00 am
As fans shake their heads at the Orioles’ offense, opposing teams cross their fingers
When we look hard at the Orioles’ offense, it’s often with a jaundiced eye. If you watch this team a lot, you’re exceptionally familiar with the lineup’s weaknesses. You know that these guys strike out too much, don’t make enough productive outs, don’t work counts often and strand too many runners in...
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September 9, 2016 at 7:00 am
Around The Beat: Beck says O’s-Tigers is ‘biggest series in Detroit in a couple years’
CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCASTS ON ITUNES Make no mistake about this. Yes, the Orioles face the Boston Red Sox for seven more games and the Toronto Blue Jays three more times this month. But the biggest series of September could end up being the one that starts tonight at...
