Throwing Another Game Away, But It Happens!

When I got home from dinner I couldn’t bear to watch the O’s game, knowing full well the outcome. So I turned on Baseball Tonight to see David Price blowing Blue Jays away and the D-Rays (they’ll always be the D-Rays to me!) reeling off another impressive victory, further cementing MLB’s best record. Next up were the Yanks v. O’s highlights, and as they began to show them, the disastrous 6th inning to be exact, with an error and a failed DP (or more, I have tried to block it out), John Kruk says “Orioles baseball at its finest!”
Poor defense and not making plays has been one of many things this team has consistently done at a little league level for years now. It's an absolute disgrace! Fundamental baseball should be ALL this team talks about but it can't even get out of its own way! This quote from Wigginton, describes perfectly why the O’s are by far the worst team in MLB.

"Tillman did his job," Orioles first baseman Ty Wigginton said. "You have an inning like that, it happens. But at the same time, we have to find a way to get the job done."

Talk about a defeatist attitude. It just seems like this team simply accepts losing. “It happens”? It doesn’t just happen Wigginton, you players make it happen by seemingly not caring! There is no fight at ALL on this team, top to bottom. There is no leader. This team is disgraceful, and I still think there is a ton more talent than their record indicates, but until they prove me right, we will remain the laughingstock of MLB. Tillman pitched a pretty damn good game under the circumstances, and this is how our defense plays behind one of our young pitchers? It happens? I just want to scream! And Lugo’s error was inexcusable too. Actually, I just looked at the play by play on ESPN and it was actually ruled a hit! OMG I am going to have a coronary. Anyway, real baseball people know it was an error. He let the ball play him on Teixeira’s grounder and it hit the edge of the infield grass so Lugo didn’t make the play. THINK!!!!! Maybe that’s the problem, these players don’t have their respective heads in the game and don’t think about what they need to do if a ball is hit to them. They don’t think about what happens when they are on the base paths, and a ball is hit to RF, do I go halfway, tag up, what do I do?? This has to be one of the dumbest teams I have ever seen in my life. And, it’s as much or more the veterans than the young guys, but when young guys see veterans make these types of plays, it doesn’t help the youth movement and their professional baseball growth. I can’t write any more about this, it’s far too upsetting and downright depressing. Go Jake Arrieta (that means get out of the organization ASAP!) Go O’s!