ANIMATED: Orioles Game Ending Strike ‘Em Out, Throw ‘Em Out Double Play
With one pitch, the Orioles once again proved that 695 was greater than 495 and that the American League East is still better than the National League East. Jim Johnson struck out Danny Espinosa and Matt Wieters gunned out Ian Desmond for outs two and three in the finale of the Battle of the Beltways.
Baltimore took two out of three in each series, continuing their reign of Mid-Atlantic dominance.
O-U-T!
You would think Davey would have learned about running on Wieters by now. If the Nats had a fan base, they would be pissed today. How do you end a game like that? How does the mighty NL East leading Nats with all of their pitching, lose 4 out of 6 to the Orioles?
You end a game like that because Johnson thinks he is smarter than everyone else. No one expected him to try a steal there. Why take the chance? Johnson is only two steps above Valentine. The game has passed him by. The Nats are doing it with great pitching despite Johnson.
Hard to believe that in The Sun newspaper today there were reports of the Orioles-Nationals game by three staffers covering more than two full pages of space. There was all kind of ruckus about Wieters’ homer, but nowhere was there a single word about his terrific peg to end the game. Maybe the three guys just didn’t stay ’til the end.
He was safe,,,it was a blown caLL…………