Is it next year already?
The Orioles released some preliminary schedule information for the 2009 season, which will open at Camden Yards with a three-game series against the New York Yankees beginning April 6.
The Yankees also come to town for Mother's Day weekend (May 8-10) and make their final visit Aug. 31-Sept. 2. I'm sure Yankees fans all over the Eastern seaboard are marking their calendars at this very moment.
Two of the three home series with the Red Sox will be weekend series (July 31-Aug. 2 and Sept. 18-20).
Along with the Washington Nationals, the other National League East interleague opponents to visit Oriole Park will be the Atlanta Braves (June 12-14) and New York Mets (June 16-18). The O's go on the road during the interleague stretch to Philadelphia and Florida.
Pitching injury of the day: Following the diagnosis yesterday, the Orioles placed Dennis Sarfate on the 15-day disabled list today with a right distal clavicle fracture, a freak non-baseball injury he suffered in April. Club officials think he'll be fine by spring training.
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So is that why Sarfate started out so good and ended up performing terribly most of the year? Management needs to manage their players better. He should have gone on the DL when it happened and he probably would have been healthy past the all star break. Typical O's BS.
Lets just hope that this kind of stuff doesn't happen in the future.
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Pete's reply: Tough to speculate on that. I don't know if the team even knew about it at the time.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 17, 2008 2:17 PM
I realize that control has been an issue for Dennis Sarfate throughout his young career. However, it's hard to imagine that pitching with a broken collarbone has helped him in his first season with the Orioles.
Talk about a guy who was out there competing.
Posted by: Barry | September 17, 2008 3:21 PM
Yet another of those dreaded distal clavicle injuries we hear so much about these days. At least he didn't do damage to his cervicoxillary canal or the sternoclavicular joint. Now that would have been something.
Posted by: Chris Joseph | September 17, 2008 3:42 PM
When are they going to unveil the new road unis? I've been waiting for months to see "Baltimore" on the jersey.
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Pete's reply: Okay, I guess it isn't next year already.
Posted by: alphanumerics | September 17, 2008 10:07 PM