Baltimore Orioles at Houston Astros Gamethread: Buck Edition

Chris Davis is hilarious and was by far the best part of that Happy Birthday Buck Showalter montage.

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Indeed, beat out Flaherty's solo by a hair.

Good to see JJ again too. Been a long while since he went on the DL

Happy birdday Buck

I was only half watching it, what did Davis do? Saw Flash's. Also no Gary Thorne today...

Davis did a stone-faced Buck impersonation, chin resting on his forearms, leaning over the dugout railing.

please lose 4th placers ok thanks

You first.

>That first pitch
Is it gonna be THAT Tillman?
The one I thought got left in Arlington?

Nah, he looks alright. The fastball/changeup command usually isn't his problem. If he's missing badly with the curveball, then you should worry.

1-2-3, on 13 pitches, looks like his curve is there.
Yeah, he should be alright. Unless this is "Good 1st, fall apart" start

>jim hunter is doing the game

kill me

He hasn't had too many of those this year. It looks like he fixed whatever was ailing him last year.

Yeah, games without Gary are lame.

So, how Matusz getting traded and then immediately DFA'd?

it was the braves taking on a salary dump so they could get the 76th overall pick

Press F to...
Nevermind, fuck you Matusz

I know, but there's something really hilarious about the fact that Matusz is so bad that even the worst team in baseball doesn't want him.

Are those pitchers we got legit prospects?

Do the Astros even have fans, or is nothing but O's bros here?

And yet they still use Bud Norris and Jim Johnson

inb4 Falher-God Grand Slam

No

They're unknown quantities. They both have done pretty well at AA but scouts were never big on either of them so they haven't made any lists. Not the biggest chance of either making an impact, but not impossible.

no, they aren't even in the braves top 30

bravo Ryan

go away

Jesus RISPing Christ

They do, they usually quiet when the team is bottoming out.
Ken Giles likely chased the wagon away

>Dat Manny range

whew

>Jim: "When Chris Tillman gets that curveball over, that's when he gets on a roll.

Thank god I'm not the only one who sees this.

>the city of ryan flaherty

will he ever get his first career RBI?

thrillman

Rude

Wonder why the O's made the trade then? Surely that draft pick was worth more than some pitchers and some saved money

I want to imagine the two first career triples they were talking about earlier got runs in.

>Wonder why the O's made the trade then?
to dump a useless pitcher and replace him with a probably better one, who also has options

also for money, yeah

Probably because Matusz utterly sucks dick and they wanted an excuse to get rid of him.

It's a roster spot that can be filled by literally anyone else. Even if he isn't on the active roster, he's clogging it up.

WAY TO WORK THE COUNT YOU DICKS

True, I wasn't thinking about the rest of the roster

holy shit 28 pitches usually means the end of the 1st inning

tillman no-no incoming

The less time the organization wastes bouncing Matusz around, the more they can find a competent replacement. Doing it now in the season gives plenty of time to play with lefties in relief until one sticks.
He'd be out of a job when Papi retires this year, anyway

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Ah. Second time through the order shakeups

only happens against the orioles, never for them

GOTTA HIT DEM DINGERZ

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heeeyyyyy

pedro did a thing

DINGERZ FOR THE DINGER GOD

well how about that

WINS FOR THE WIN COLUMN

Ahaha another classic from the big strong Americans

Well the one positive thing of DINGERS mode is they'll actually hit them sometimes

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EY HOL IT ROIT HERE CAWNT
*drinks VB*
SO WUH YOU BE SAYIN IS
*smokes Winfield*
WUH YOU IS SAYIN
*drives 14 hours to the next town*
THET WE IS BEEN
*gets stabbed by an Abbo*
YOU SAYIN THET WE
*drinks vegemite*
THET WE IS
*waits an hour for 14kb image to load*
BOGANS
*hops in kangaroo pouch*
N SHEIT YA CAWNT
*dies of a spider bite*

oi m8 a dingo ate muh baybeh

Saved to my American banter folder

>mfw someone tried telling me that Mad Max wasn't set in modern Australia

Fury Road got robbed of a best documentary Oscar

Cheers m8.

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Ahaha can't wait to post these rippers on r/Sup Forums lads!

why is there an australian shitposting in a baseball thread

Never seen an Aussie in the wild here. Makes up for lack of Houston fans.

Top cunt. Not to hog your bandwidth, but here's a sheila with a dropbear

oh right, we scored, time for tillman to suck in the next inning

Just setting up that triple play, right?

I almost thought it was the 6th.
Don't worry. Their NL closer is good insurance

Heh

I think he just doesn't like pitching in Texas

The O's can't hit bad pitching, only good pitching.

Why has Tillman forsaken us?!

Isn't he from Texas

I'm going to have to argue with the Oakland and Twins series

JESUS

Everybody has hit them though, even the Yankees.

holy shit that ball was raped

holy shit that was far.

Manny loves hitting it out there.
I think that's where the salami went two years ago. If not the tracks, very close to them

steroids

Okay, Machado, you've proved to the world you can hit the ball 500 feet. Please stop swinging as hard as you possibly can at every pitch now.

Yes, but would that not technically be shit pitching? Or are the anomalies of T___'s, A's, Barfs, and Resd exempt?
Ken Giles might be in that camp too. Meme magic of NL closers. Look what happened to Kimbrel last month lol

damn the yanks won six in a row and their bp is unstoppable, they're back fuck..

mad

yankees fan

Shit teams though.

Still, fun April with them in 5th. Great times

Figures they'd be out of town when the weather gets nice... bought tickets last week for Memorial Day so it better not rain

The weather has been ridiculous this whole month. My first game this season isn't until next weekend though, against the Bankees.

I went to that first Friday game, worst mistake of my life. Had to be in the 20's and that was before the windchill

rasmus looks like a billy goat

>colby ass-piss

mad at the birds?

Wow
That toss was p bullshit

That Infiniti commercial was the gayest thing I've ever seen

>whole month
Whole season really
April and May have been real shitty this year all around the bay

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Oh hey, you got rid of a reliever too, didn't you?

this offense is p. putrid

shut up memelord, go lose

Shut up last placer

Who are you again? Some faggot?

lol dont ever talk to me again

>93 posts
>16 posters

KEK, nice """poomunity""" you've got here

How are the Indians? They're like the only real team we have this road trip.

And don't you have some other low end team after the Rockies?

>australian
>insulting a "community"

lol you fucking cunt, listen to me

no one respects """"australians"""" on this website

no one does

your fucking life is worth 0 (ZERO) to the people on this website (an american website btw, you fucking cuck LMAO)

go fucking swallow a funnel spider you fucking dumbass fucking fuckwit that can't appreciate an american pasttime

>How are the Indians? They're like the only real team we have this road trip.
They're a pretty legit team. Their offense is nothing to scoff at, and their pitching can be scary.

I mean, >we did rough up Bauer, but Kluber shoved a baseball up our ass and Salazar held his own, and this was all at Fenway.

I kind of expect you guys to take the series, but expect a loss in at least one of them they're pretty good.

>And don't you have some other low end team after the Rockies?
ya you guys