I'm only following the Yahoo ticker tape, but am surprised that last night's strategy of issuing IBB with runners on base so that Hernandez can bat and make the 3rd out isn't in effect. Bottom of the 5th, Huff runs up a full count and gets on anyway. Was Lester just pussyfooting? Too early in the game to do an obvious IBB? As I write this, Ramon Ks, so whatever the B.O. Sox strategy is, it paid off.

Maybe next year we can wear our new Baltimore road jerseys against the Red Sox......at Camden Yards.

Roch, I'd agree that Olson didn't have his best stuff tonight, but he still only gave up 2 runs on solo shots in 5 innings. He threw 89 pitches, but he seemed like he'd be able to get through another inning.

I understand the Red Sox had Ramirez, Lowell, and Youkilis coming up -- all righties -- but what's with the short leash? I'm fine with Cormier getting some work tonight, but it seemed like Trembley really wanted to get him in the game.

Trembley is quoted as saying before the game how he needs Olson to go as many innings as possible- the bullpen is depleted, etc. but then yanks him after five and at 89 pitches. This continues to be indicative of Trembley's idiosyncratic managerial decisionmaking.
And can someone get Rick Kranitz to maybe instruct someone on this pitching staff how to at least look at someone on second base before letting them steal third.

Why doesn't Trembley believe in looking at past performances for matchups. He brings in Walker to face Ortiz. Ortiz eats him up, Manny is hitting .500 against Bradford so he brings him in. What is it w/his attitude about not looking at past history. He just looks to see if it's lefty vs lefty. Come on get with it man.

Who cares if Baltimore is on the road jerseys or not? This team, as it has been for the past decade, is an embarrassment to the city. Keep Baltimore off the jerseys. We're rebuilding, right, but we have our lineup filled with non-prospects? In tonight's starting lineup, Jones is 22 and Markakis is 24 and no one else is under 28. Cintron is 28 and Bynum is 29 and they are both awful. Where are the young players?

What's that noise you hear? Is it 1997 and people are chanting "Release Luis!"

No...it's the fans chanting "Send Home Ramon!"

Another bases loaded opportunity and AGAIN he CHOKES! He's been hitting better the last month, but too little, too late. Fork, meet our catcher.

how many more opportunities does this team need to score runs... bases loaded opportunities in the past two games have been plentiful and they have nothing to show for it...

Another very bad performance from Ramon tonight. I realize that we are trying to enhance his trade alue, but this has become silly!

Here's something Hernandez can be faulted for: Dropping the ball on a play at the plate that gave the Red Sox their go-ahead run. And leaving another 4 men on base as of the 8th inning.

roch,next year lets move all the home games against boston to boston so the red sox fans can save their money when gas is 7.50 per gallon.

Why is Ramon batting 6th or 7th? His nickname should be "Rally Killer", although I could think of a few other names that couldn't be printed here. I blame this on Trembley.

I'm trying to understand why lately Trembley is only letting Johnson pitch 1 inning at a time. Seems like his last 3 outings have been only 1 inning. last night's game didn't make sense to me that after retiring 3 of 3 in only 9 pitches (7 for strikes) that Johnson couldn't come back out for the 9th. Instead Sherill pitches the 9th in a tie and we're already running out of pitchers to go long in extra innings. If Johnson had pitched the 9th, Sherill the 10th, and Albers 11-13, we wouldn't have had to go to Bradford and Walker in the 13th. We still may have lost since we couldn't hit at all, but I'm hoping Johnson isn't being tagged now as the 8th inning-only guy when he can clearly do more.

Hoiles
Lopez
Hernandez
Who am I missing?
Why are the O's the team catchers come to and or sign long term contracts and proceed to end their catching careers?
Sigh.....

If i didn't see that the orioles had there home jersey's on , i would have thought that this game was being played at fenway park. It;s getting really old that the away team's fans make way more noise then the home team. With ramon catching it;s like watching a circus out there with teams running at will. It reminds me when my son was in little league and the other team had a bad catcher and all you did was steal base to base to base. This is the major leagues for god sake and this is starting to turn into a side show. I have always been in dave t's corner from the start but i must tell you that enough is enough when it comes to the base running mistakes night in and night out. It comes a time when the manager has to take all the blame. We are starting to really stick up the place with all the mental error's and the blame has to fall square on the manager. I am tired off listening to the tom davis show with him and dave johnson always sugar coating everything. You can certainly start to see the downward direction that this team is headed.

I am an Oriole fan living in Boca Raton, Florida. The Red Sox Nation is alive and well in South Florida. When I moved from Balamer in 1989. I thought I'd see Oriole fans down here. Wrong. Being from Boston is unlike anything I have ever seen. True, they are blessed with the best professional teams, however, their loyalty is second to none, even when they lose. Fenway South must have rocked tonight. More power to them.

The game last night was gross...worst time I've ever had at an Orioles game for an otherwise good game/good weather. That noise was deafening when manny hit the bomb. Basically it was the perfect storm that came together for the situation last night: Late May game on the weekend, 4 game series, Manny going for 500. Its like the Orioles have 10 less home games than the rest of the league, maybe they should move the games to puerto rico.

And Melvin Mora is a space cadet, when are people going to realize that. He is culprit #1 for all the mental errors. Missing signs, not knowing the situation on defense, playing umpire and not running balls out on linedrives that bounced. And then he pulls stupid stunts like diving into first base to make it look like he's hustline. Got news for you melvin, no one is buying it. And didn't anyone ever tell you that idiot move is no faster.

To - BB from Balt ..

Chris Hoiles (1991-97)
Charles Johnson (1998-99)
Brook Fordyce (2000-01)
Geronimo Gil (2002-03)
Javy Lopez (2004-05)
Ramon Hernandez (2006-Up)

A sad catching list