I’ve got to admit, when Nick Markakis hit a 383 foot bomb off of Nationals reliever Ryan Mattheus in the 11th inning, I went nuts.
So did the other Orioles fans in attendance at Nationals Park last night.
My eyes followed the ball as it traveled out of the park and hit the second the deck, but I was informed that Markakis might have watched the homer for a bit too long.
Right off the bat Nick Markakis knew it was gone, but did he watch it just a bit too long?
The next two Orioles batters, Adam Jones and Matt Wieters, didn’t receive any pitches to the ribs, but I have to wonder if Markakis will before this series is over. It just seems like the gritty Davey Johnson baseball we all fell in love with in Baltimore.
Nationals phenom Bryce Harper learned the hard way last night that you never run on Matt Wieters, the best catcher in baseball.
After drawing a walk in the bottom of the fourth inning, Harper decided to take off on Jake Arrieta. The result was Matt Wieters first runner caught stealing of the night.
The Orioles catcher gunned out Jesus Flores in the bottom of the fifth as well.
Caps PR guy Sergey Kocharov tweeted the news to fans in the DMV of both teams.
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Washington Center Mathieu Perrault was spotted sporting a Yankees hat at the D.C. United game this week. Kocharov told fans not to worry about Perrault, “I don’t think he can name 3 players on that team.”
It’s time once again for interleague baseball, which usually means that it’s time for the boring baseball purists to complain and tell you why AL teams shouldn’t face NL teams.
Here in Baltimore, it means it’s time for the Orioles to head to our nation’s capitol to face the Nationals in the Battle of the Beltways, the MASN Cup, the DMV Championship or whatever clever name you’ve decided to give the series.
For the first time in the history of this local series, both the O’s and Nats find themselves in first and second place in their respective divisions.
Tonight Jake Arrieta takes the bump/the plate against Edwin Jackson. Arrieta has struggled over his last two starts (0-2, 11.70 ERA, .388 OPP AVG), but the soft hitting Nationals could be just the cure. Jason Hammel faces Ross Detwiler in tomorrow’s nationally televised game and Wei-Yin Chen faces Stephen Strasburg in the finale on Sunday.
To get you ready to make fun of the Nationals, here’s Nuts About The Nats. See you in D.C. Go O’s!
Xavier Avery, Nick Markakis and Adam Jones celebrate the sweep in KC.
With their two-game sweep in Kansas City, the Baltimore Orioles have become the first team this season in Major League Baseball to win 25 games.
As the graphic in the image above points out, Baltimore have won seven straight road games for the first time since 1999. They did so against the Yankees, Red Sox and Royals.
Hopefully that streak will continue during interleague play tomorrow in D.C.
It’s May, which means it’s the time of year for Ed Reed to say something concerning about his future with the Ravens. Today he told SiriusXM that he’s “not 100 percent committed right now to playing this year.”
According to Rich Gannon, Reed is concerned about his health and long term future.
After Reed’s comments hit air, the local Ravens beat writers quickly extinguished the fire. ”Reed has also said this offseason that he’d like to play four or five more years,” The Sun’s Jeff Zrebiec tweeted.
Yesterday we determined that “yes, in fact it is still okay for Baltimore fans to boo Mark Teixeira.” Today we pose another question to the boo birds of Camden Yards.
Is it time to cut Kevin Gregg some slack and stop booing him?
In Gregg’s last six outings for the O’s he’s surrendered zero runs on just three hits in 8 1/3 innings of work and has walked three and struckout eight. Oh, and he recorded the win in the Orioles fifteen inning Marathon against the Royals last night.
Yet somehow, every time Gregg gets up in the pen, Baltimore breaks the internet with #KevinGreggSucks tweets.
Yes, I know he blew seven saves last season, lost the closer’s role and wasn’t happy with the demotion. But that was 2011, a season in which the Orioles were 19-21 on May 17. They’re 24-14 now, this is clearly a different team.
All I’m saying is, there are plenty of guys in pinstripes and red socks that deserve heckling. Gregg has proven to be no longer deserving of the grief.
Adam Jones and Bill Hall strangely celebrate AJ's go-ahead homer in the top of the 15th.
Adam Jones should get used to hitting bombs at Kauffman Stadium. The American League is going to need that power when he’s starting in centerfield during the All-Star Game.
After going 0-for-6 with two strikeouts during the first fourteen innings of play, Adam Jones came up big again for the Orioles with a solo homer in the fifteenth that ultimately secured the Orioles 4-3 victory over the Royals.
Try to argue against fan interference on this one...
While DC has ignited their Natitudeinitiative to clean their ballpark of Phillies fans, Baltimore is still working on their own evil scheme.
Last night a Yankees fan spoiled a shutout for Wei-Yin Chen by interfering with a ball in play at the wall in left field. As rookie Xavier Avery leaped to make the catch on a Curtis Granderson fly ball, a fan snatched it from him. ”Hell yeah I had a shot,” Avery told reporters after the game. ”But they had that tenth man out there helping them out.”
Avery was clearly upset with the fan. ”I think (the fan) raised up his beer can or something to taunt me a little bit and I just turned around, went back to playing,” Avery said.
The Twitterverse exploded with Jeffrey Maier memories and many questioned why Buck Showalter didn’t argue the home run or request a review.
“I knew what the answer was going to be,” Showalter said according to MASNSports.com’s Roch Kubatko. ”I don’t know if it was somebody in midnight blue or black and orange there. I’ve got an educated guess, so our goal was to play well enough so they can’t get a ticket.”
The Orioles finally cracked CC Sabathia. Last night Baltimore put up four runs on the Yankees ace and cruised to victory behind a dominant seven inning performance by 26-year-old Taiwanese stud Wei-Yin Chen.
The performance was not only enough to make Chen the AT&T Player of the Game (take that to arbitration), but it earned him a shaving cream pie from his teammates.
Last night, while listening to the radio broadcast, play by play announcer, Fred Manfra, made reference to the Orioles fans booing Mark Teixeira every time he made a plate appearance.
I know, I know. The guy betrayed Baltimore. He said he wanted to play closer to his home, and was allegedly offered a fairly lucrative deal to play for the Birds. He ended up taking the money ($30 million more) and the winning tradition in New York and betrayed his childhood team. We know it was a business decision, but then he had the nerve to talk about his love for the Yankees as a kid.
But really? That was over 3 years ago. Aren’t we bigger than this? Can’t we enjoy the Birds success without the hate? Can we just choose to move on?
NO FREAKING WAY! If he can live off the riches of his business decisions, he can face the consequences of being hated by another subset of fans. Keep it up O’s fans!
The 2011-12 Capitals were as frustrating as a hockey team can be. From night to night they vacillated between inspiring play and sheer disorganized chaos.
They were a team that played for two head coaches, three starting goaltenders, and were without two of their stars for long stretches of the campaign. And yet, they not only made the playoffs, but made enough noise in them to take the number one-seeded Rangers within a few minutes of an Eastern Conference final.
Yet, there are few who’d call the season successful by the measures set out in September. It was supposed to be cruise control until the playoffs, where things were supposed to go much differently than they had in the team’s four previous attempts to break through to a Stanley Cup final. Instead, we got the manic collection of talent that reached its apex for brief stretches and its nadir for much longer ones.
To a certain extent, every year in the modern NHL is a reset of sorts. But for Washington, 2012-13 will absolutely look more different than any Caps team has in five seasons. Here are twenty burning questions we have about next year’s team, and a few futile stabs at some answers.
Not many Ravens fans questioned Billy Cundiff’s ability until he shanked a potential game tying 32-yard field goal in the AFC Championship. I still blame head coach John Harbaugh, who failed to call a timeout while Cundiff raced to the field to kick the most important field goal of his career, but that’s beside the point.
This summer, Cundiff will receive some competition from undrafted rookie Justin Tucker and the early reports from rookie camp on the new kid are pretty good.
I can’t wait to head out to Westminster to check out this competition! …wait…
Tucker kicked a 55-yard field goal and almost made one from 60 out at Owings Mills according to Jason Butt of CBSSports.com. ”All I can say is I look forward to it, competing with a guy who’s had success,” Tucker said.
If you’re worried a rookie in a clutch situation, Tucker, from the University of Texas, is most famously known for hitting a game winning 40-yard field goal against Texas A&M during his senior year.
Last night Curtis Granderson became the fourth player to hit a home run to Eutaw Street in 2012. Of those four homers, only one has been hit by an Oriole.
Chris Davis’ 418 foot blast on April 28 is the O’s lone Eutaw Street slam of 2012.
Granderson’s homer in the 61st to reach Eutaw Street and he’s the first Yankee to hit one since Nick Swisher in August of 2010.
Shockingly, the Orioles lead all of baseball in home runs with 57, but they have hit 29 of them on the away from Camden Yards.
Raw begins with Triple H walking in the back. John Laurinaitis walks up to him. He says he had no idea that Brock Lesnar was going to attack him two weeks ago. He says it was embarrassing for him to watch Lesnar humiliate Triple H. Triple H says what he has to say he’s about to say in front of the world. The Raw intro video airs. Immediately I think that this segment could have been cut out since we have to watch Triple H in the ring in a few moments. I’m sure that 30 seconds could have been used to make the Diva’s match 1:30 instead of 1:00 later tonight…
WWE Monday Night Raw Results 5/14/12 from Pittsburgh, PA.
Triple H comes to the ring. His arm is in an arm contraption. Unlike when he was with Floyd Mayweather last week. So Triple H makes a joke about Lesnar trying to make the WWE legitimate. He says during his Wrestlemania match he was waiting for someone to come out and make it legitimate. #TimeToPlayTheGame and Triple H are trending on Twitter. He drops a bunch of legendary names and said that they are all offended by Lesnar. That gets a big pop from the Pittsburgh crowd. He puts Lesnar over by saying when he met him he knew he was “The Next Big Thing.” Then he takes a shot at him by saying that when it got too hard he quit and went to the UFC. And then he dominated UFC. But then someone kicked his ass and he quit again. And then he came back to the WWE, targeted Cena, lost, and quit. He says quitting is what Brock Lesnar always does. Lesnar’s music hits. READ MORE >>>
Last night, while listening to the radio broadcast, play by play announcer, 
The 2011-12 Capitals were as frustrating as a hockey team can be. From night to night they vacillated between inspiring play and sheer disorganized chaos.
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