Go for Vero Beach! Even if it needs some revamping, it can't hurt to lap up some bleeding Dodger blue. Who knows, this might be the way to bury the demons of Davey Johnson, Frank Robinson, Eddie Murray, Mike Morgan, Billy Ashley, Juan Bell, and maybe even Jason Johnson once and for all.

Full marks to the pitching tonight...but when you start a lineup that has everone everyone under the .260 mark in batting average...well it makes life as an Oriole fan pretty frunstrating. Cabrera had a nice bounce back tonight against a quality lineup.

Vero Beach sounds great. Its alot closer to my father in laws condo that Lauderdale...sweeeetttt

Nice work by Albers & the pen tonight....knock on wood

great to Millar not running out that grounder. maybe the sox can have him throw out another first pitch in the playoffs?

Why did Millar not run the ball out in the 12th inning?? Bases would have been loaded with 1 out - that could have been the game! Ridiculous. There is absolutely no excuse for that.

I think I'd rather see my grandmother at first base than kevin millar...now he decides that he doesn't run out ground balls

I can live with a loss if we play hard and make the routine plays, but this is ridiculous. What was Millar thinking? Is he only conditioned to sprint 80 feet? There is no excuse for not running any ground ball out let alone in that situation. Then Mora must have thought one of his kids was in the stands and was trying to throw them the ball when Ramirez was at the plate.

Errors, bad base running, heck make a star of Coco Crisp!!!

As frustrating as it is - at least the future of the orioles are performing...we currently have no future playing behind the plate, at 3rd or at 1st...in fact we may be weaker than any team in baseball at those spots...the youth in the pen was awesome as was Cabrera. For a young team it's supposed to be the vets showing the way (running out your ground balls and not getting cheated on a 2-0 count, not dropping a pop up, not throwing balls away - what else am I missing from the trio?)...these players aren't going anywhere anytime soon, so I try and take the positives...but boy can it get frustrating!

Well thats Millar, Hernandez, Mora, Bynum, Hernandez with errors. Its your turn Brian Roberts, lets see how creative you can be....

This is almost funny now - not only do we get treated to Millar deciding he doesn't need to run out ground balls, but then Hernandez drops a pop up behind the plate, Mora overthrows first, Sarafate forgets that pitching requires holding runners on, Bynum airmails a throw and then a wild pitch followed by a walk. Now I am just watching just to see what else can go wrong.

How can a major league baseball player not run out a groundball in that situation? It was one thing to watch Tejada and Ramon do it all year last season with no one on base, but this is inexcusable.

Ramon drops fly ball next inning. Melvin's bad throw could have been caught with just slightly more effort and why is Ramon not backing up first base on that play?

Now Freddy throws it away. Thank God I'm not at this game having to sit thru this with all the obnoxious Red Sox fans.

This team seems to play well when they win, but disturbingly can be very sloppy with defensive and base-running mistakes in losses. Maybe it's time for some fines and certainly time for Ramon and Millar to see more bench time. Last time we played the Sox with Quiroz catching both games and won both. Use him and get Moore, Cosstanzo, or Salazar up to play some first base.

Disgraceful performance in extra innings tonight. Millar not running out his grounder probably cost us the game. Errors by Mora and Bynum were like a knife in the heart. Cintron should get a shot to be the starting SS.

Ramon Hernandez is absolutely horrible. He was horrible all of last year and he's horrible again this year. Tonight alone, he allowed 6 baserunners to steal (on top of about 20 in the Yankee series) and he twice choked when he could have ended the game with a single or even a walk. He's hitting .215 on the season, he can't throw, he doesn't hustle.... Get this bum OUT of here!!

The worst part about Millar not running was it should have been a double play ball. There is no excuse for not running it out. Matt Wieters is better than Ramon Hernandez right now. Can we start thinking about "Jay Gibbonsing" Ramon? He is overpaid, never tries, can't hit and couldn't throw out a dead man trying to steal second base.

This is Tirdland!
The O's keep finding new ways to lose. If it's not enough that Millar didn't run the ball out, then Ramon will botch a foul ball out and Mora throws over Millars head.
I also don't like all these pitching changes. It's going to hurt if we need relieve help in the next two games.
The pitching tonight though has been awesome and again Huff kept us in the game.

Millar will not be around beyond this year and that's a good thing! He's a has been at best at this point in his career.

When will the Orioles acquire a legitimate major league shortstop? They have minor leaguers and utility players and that won't get it done.

We know this team can't hit, when it can't even make routine defensive plays....
I'm tired of Mora and Bynum and Hernandez. Bynum's throw missed the bag by 6 feet.Mora has 9 errors in 50 games. Hernandez might have trouble throwing out my speedy brother, and when he doesn't hit, he has become just a major liability behind the plate. And he couldn't hit it off a tee right now.
MacPhail will soon be hanging out the "Pitching for Sale" sign. And the "Take these players, please". I'll be glad to see them all on the next bus out of town.

Wow, we just fell apart. If Millar runs out that ground ball, we win. I'm convinced. Three errors in the inning, and a couple of boneheaded moves. But they never would have happened if Millar had just run full speed to first.

Disappointing.....very disappointing.

Would going to Vero Beach include both minors and majors clubs? Now minors spring training is in Sarasota.

I'm officially a Kevin Millar hater.

I want to read Dave's comments tomorrow about preaching fundamentals and why we regularly see guys trotting toward first sometimes failing to even make it that far, just like tonight with Millar. Gee, who would have thought that would bite our ass?

I dare Dave to send a message by sitting Millar tomorrow night.

What was positive tonight? Matt Albers was excellent. I like his rolly-polly, no worry look out there, with his hat pulled down low. My nickname for Albers—Pig Pen.

Albers had superb rhythm going after hitters with a good sinking fastball and sharp breaking curve. Very impressive.

The negative? The Birds blew a game against the Red Sox. How did they do it? The Red Sox served it up to them on a platter by bringing in Timlin to start the 12th. But Melvin chased a 3-2 pitch way out of the zone, and after Markakis doubled, Millar stopped running hard to first on a grounder to short that Lugo bobbled. The Birds would have had the bases loaded with one out and then a sac fly would have won the game.

Then the wheels fell off the cart as Melvin took his frustration out onto the field and threw away a routine ground ball. Ramon Hernandez, after failing to deliver the game-winning hit a couple times, let a routine foul pop drop out of his mitt in the 13th. Bynum couldn’t make a shortstop’s play on Crisp’s ground ball, winging it past Millar.

Three sloppy errors in the 13th inning. After battling all night, the Birds threw the game away.

No clutch hitting by the Birds all night. And, at the end, a weird effort lapse by Millar on going to first, and no composure making routine plays in the 13th inning.

A lousy, frustrating loss.

easily one of the worst and most demoralizing O's games I've witnessed in some time. and that says A LOT!

gotta be a scar on this team's psyche after that.

remember mother's day massacre? can't even put a name to this debacle.

Being that I was AT the game tonight I can completely understand the frustration over the errors and sloppy play as things progressed, but let's not go overboard here guys.

Yes, I'm very dissapointed that Kevin - for whatever reason - didn't run out that grounder...but I didn't hear anyone complaining when he hit two homers Tuesday night to keep us in that awesome game with the Yanks when our starting pitching was the one who let us down. Same thing goes for Melvin...it's always easier to blame when they do something wrong than to give credit for the times they do better than they should. (I wish I could help Ramon out here...but I just can't really find much saving grace in the last two seasons with him, so he's pretty much on his own)

Again, I know it's frustrating and I know that we WANT them to be perfect...especially since the way this team is built we NEED guys to be perfect in order to win more than we lose...but there are going to be times when the brain farts happen and end up costing us games. Better for everyone to have their flub ups on the same night every couple of weeks than to have a different guy completely blow the game each night (as has happened with past O's teams).

Now...if I could please ask the guys that if they are going to flub up that they please do so in regulation 9?!? It hurts a little less that way.

The way we played the last couple of innings made me sick. At least T-Bone didn't high five Millar for running hard 80 feet. Maybe he needed to encourage him to run through the bag. And then Thorne and Palmer sounded like they were hoping Manny would hit his 500th tater. I don't like announcers being homers, but jeez at least don't root for the wrong team. Luckily for the O's I knocked on wood after each reference to his 500th. But what if I wasn't there to do that. I guess Millar wouldn't have been the goat....

Are we still taking infield practice at the beginning of each series? Really!?

Mark Butler- yes , Vero Beach facilty large enough for both O's major and minor squads .
And its hard to believe O's are only major league club that doesnt have combined major/minor spring training facilty. Potter , dont worry about Lauderdale , you have Vero Beach waiting for your O's with open arms .

After last night's disheartening loss to Red Sox, that July Trade deadline cant come fast enough.
e is for ERRORS

Stay in Fort Lauderdale!!!!

Roch 7 weeks in Zero Beach is gonna seem like 7 years...

why not move them up here to my neck of the woods/state?