O’s woe is me
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Soccer Dad | Sunday, September 2, 2007 |
Ever wonder how much that 30 – 3 loss affected the Orioles?
Hardball times gives the Pythagorean effect for both teams.
Hardball Times also finds a reason that Erik Bedard has been more effective this year. Alas he’s now out indefinitely.
Allowing the other team 30 runs was historic. Now less than two weeks later the O’s are in the history books again. A pitcher no-hit them in only his second start. Who was the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in only his second start? Wilson Alvarez. In 1991. Against the Orioles.
(BTW that’s a great pun – Clay-nation!)
It’s quite often that baseball writers write about the importance good clubhouse chemistry. Well guess what, apparently the Orioles have it. Even after firing a manager and losing 9 straight.
Trachsel said. “I’ll keep all my doors open. You never say no to anything. I certainly enjoyed it and liked this clubhouse.”
That’s on a fourth place club fading fast.
Peter Schmuck is glad that Andy MacPhail got to see the real Orioles.
The Orioles’ record under Trembley at the time of his extension was 29-25, which was quite in contrast to the club’s 29-40 mark when Sam Perlozzo was fired. The difference also was apparent in the team’s demeanor between June 18 (when Trembley took over) and Aug. 22 (when the extension was announced). That’s all well and good, but the only fundamental change was the new manager’s increased emphasis on fundamentals.That 54-game span of modestly winning baseball is not some dynamic statistical anomaly. Over the course of a 162-game season, almost every team – no matter how hapless – has an extended run of respectability.
Want proof? The Kansas City Royals, the yardstick by which baseball measures pain, went 29-24 from June 1 through Aug. 1. The Washington Nationals, the other MASN partner that entered the weekend mired in a long losing streak, went 29-26 from June 6 through Aug. 7.
In other words, it happens. Don’t get carried away.
I’d write more but this is just getting depressing. There’s always next year. Or 2010.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
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