1 out in the 6th. time to warm the bullpen, but no one is up???????

3-2 now. come on. it was obvious after the 1 1/2 batters in the 6th that the man was done!!! no one warming up, on leo coming to the mound...... oh, wait, finally birkins is up.... the lead will be gone before he gets in.

burres made some nice pitches there to get out of that mess. i understand there's not much in the bull pen but more possible losses, but i still think it was obvious burres had lost his command. and not for the first time. burres is good for about 6. and against the angels, colon and their bull pen you gotta go stronger for the win. at least have a few guys up quicker. i'm wondering why not??

And after 5 beautiful innings on 60 pitches, Burres runs out of gas. He's barely thrown more strikes than balls through the whole game, and it caught up with him in the 6th.

2 walks and 2 extra base hits and 29 pitches to get through the 6th inning. Not good.

48 Strikes, 41 Balls and a total of 89.

We really need a guy that can go more than 6 innings with this bullpen. A one-run lead just isn't enough.

I think Gibbons has pretty much clinched the Glenn Davis Award which goes to the Oriole hitter that stays as close to the Mendoza Line as possible without ever getting a meaningful hit. Why does he continue to play!!!

well roch, i've been sitting here wondering what i was going to have for dinner tonight, guess it's going to be crow!!! and not the batting coach. like the guy, just don't think it would sit so well..... gotta say, though, it would taste much better with two runs this inning!! another suggestion: take gibbons and patterson out for a night on the town in the cavalier. but them a beer and do your best frued on them!!!!!

RBF: I think you're missing the point about Rule 6.10. You quote the part of the rule that says "(t)he Designated Hitter is 'locked' into the batting order," but all that means is that if the manager begins the game with the DH as, say, the sixth spot in the batting order, he cannot move it to another spot should he make a multiple substitution.

Replacing Huff for Gibbons as DH doesn't effect the DH spot in the lineup, it simply means that Huff's been moved down to that slot and 6.10 does not prohibit such a move.

Wow...is Trembly agraid to go to the pen after the last 2 days or what???

116 pitches???

DBurley, can't agree with you more. Gibbons is still wrapping his bat, making his swing long
and making his timing late. Please Roch help this guy. The "crow" isn't and neither is Gibbons himself. I can see this on TV, no one sees this during a game?

Ken Frances,

Gotta admit, you've got me confuzzled...Are you saying that Trembly could move Huff from, say the 4th spot to the 6th, so he could be DH? If so, no he can't. You can not move hitters around the order.

If this isn't what you meant, please explain.

I was wondering about how the stats were treated for suspended games.

Thanks to the new rule, what would happen if, say, a player had a 30-game hitting streak heading into a game that was suspended in the 8th inning.

Let's say the player goes 0-for-3, but is due to bat in the 9th inning when the game is replayed -- maybe 2 months from now, when the teams meet again.

You know where I'm going with this, right? Now let's say that the player immediately begins another 25-game hitting streak the next day.

Would the player's streak be on the line 2 months later? A chance to tie DiMaggio's record after the fact?

A remote possibility, I realize...but hey, so was not having a winner at an All-Star Game.