Well, I didn't expect to sweep a series on the road against the defending World Series champs. While I give plenty of credit to the O's entire team, we caught the Phils at a particularly difficult time, and took advantage of it. More than the five game winning streak though, it looks like this team is starting to understand how to win, and that's encouraging, to say the least (it's been a long 11+ years). The comeback win against K-Rod seemed to get things going, and the BR 2-run homer on Saturday night helped continue a great run. But if you've been watching the games, the O's are also getting breaks, and in some cases, several of them (see phantom tag on Jimmy Rollin's infield grounder yesterday), but you have to in order to get on a roll. It remains to be seen how the young players continue to develop, but I've been very impressed with the poise and effectiveness from the young pitchers (Berken and Bergesen, in particular), and Reimold, and hope things continue to go well in Florida.
Good luck to the Phillies the rest of the way and go O's!
Earl
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Are you wishing the best to a team from Philly???
ReplyDeleteTough loss against Florida after tying it up in the ninth.
ReplyDeletePhilly is so harmless it doesn't bother me a bit to wish ANY of their teams good luck. Maybe if we hadn't swept them I'd feel differently, but I feel sorta bad for them, sorta...
ReplyDeleteWe appreciate the thought, Ed. Not that we need it from someone whose team hasn't won anything in forever. Go Phillies!
ReplyDeletePruner - Mind your own business!
You are absolutely right Brian, we haven't won anything since we won the World Series in '83. If only I could remember who we beat....
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