I'm loving this Luke Scott fella!

Lol-- great Ramon line.

Loewen has failed to impress-- again. The runs allowed really don't tell the story. It could have been ugly with a better hitting team. It is crucial for this team that he finds away to control that fastball.

Lately, we have really let teams off the hook by not capitalizing with runners in scoring position and less than 2 outs. It takes a team with no power so much more effort to put runs on the board.

Lastly, no way that Payton makes the throw that Scott made. Luke has solidified left-- very pleasant surprise.

JPA, forget the power, this team can't hit, period. The couple of guys who can hit have absolutely no protection in that lineup.Tonight's effort against 73 year old Contreras is laughable.

Did we forget that this team is suppose to be awful?
Enjoy baseball a little.
They are going in the right direction.
A lot of positives tonight.

Give the hitters a break tonight... Contreras is a top-level starter when he has his control. Loewen on the other hand has neither command, or very good stuff. Straight, 92 MPH fastballs with the occasional off-speed stuff isn't going to get it done, especially when he has no idea where it's headed.

Don't know why everyone's surprised about Scott. He's produced every time he's been given a chance to play regularly. Just too bad he had to play for the idiot Phil Garner for a few years.

Randy Marsh from South Park?

Roch, I hope while Harold Baines Sr.
is in town that he get's to see his son, who his playing terrific baseball
at McDaniel College,in Westminster.

Roch, Second try for me to get this message posted, which was - I hope,
while he's in town, one of my all time favorites, Harold Baines, gets to see his son, who is playing great baseball at McDaniel College in Westminster. Maybe we have another future Bird from St.Michaels, Md.

At southsidesox.com, bloggers saying nice things were:
The Wizard @ 6:49 pm "thome tried to run on markakis and paid."
From Cat Brains @ 7:37 pm, "OrCa thrown out at home on a good throw."
Sox Machine @ 7:33, "Nice throw by Scott."
And that's some White Sox fans giving props to our O's.

Dave, I totally agree with you.

Didn't see the game, but heard the recap on XM. Sounds like 'cakes is firming up into a star in right, AJ in center is putting his 5 tools to use, Scott is a solid, even good, left-fielder. Mora's playing well for an old man, Millar is Millar, Ramon needs to find his stick, but he can catch.

The staff is young, and yeah, Loewen needs to throw strikes. But he hung in, gave the team six innings and a chance, and the bullpen is still solid 10% of the way into the season.

We may not win 80 games, but they are fun to follow!

Go O's!

good effort by loewen tonight, who can only get better once he gets some consistency and arm strength back coming off the surgery. and johnson has been a nice surprise.
Perhaps trembley and kranny have a clue about coaching up these guys.

It might be enough to ask that this year they do nothing more at the major league level than assemble a respectable staff, and redeploy a bunch of their position players to other cities, or parts unknown.

Let's beat the ChiSox Thursday night with small ball, two Brian Roberts steals, a Ramon Hernandez sac fly, and a game-winning double by Nick Markakis.

Guthrie gets the win, Sherrill save number 7.

And if Luke Scott wants to go yard, to my good buddy Hawk -- "Put it on the board!"

It was nice to see Loewen calm down a little and pitch into the 7th tonight after such a bad first inning. I think it seems pretty obvious that he is not comfortable yet and pressing too much. I am starting to wonder if too much pressure was placed on this kid especially after the injury.

If he keeps this up, how much longer until he is sent down to the minors until he finds his comfort zone again?

Ramon is awful---automatic out