bOnanza!

terry crowley is redeemed. not just as result of last night's homerfest, but because he apparently

INSPIRED YOUNG SAVIOR

on monday as well.

also there was so much melmOsity in tuesday night/wednesday morning's game!! especially when our melmodramatic third baseman ROLLED OVER HOME PLATE IN 11th with TYING RUN!! Look at the pain! And the suffering:


melmOdrama!
and how many times must aubrey huff come up huge? he has carried team on back the last couple of ... well really since season began.

and how many times will you see a 4-2-5 double play? alex rodriguez said after game the brian roberts was "lucky" to snag his hot shot to second base. maybe, but he made the play. you know who didn't make a play? derek jeter. he was asleep between second and third and didn't get over in time.

as gary thorne said after alex cintron's winning hit, "an amazing night."


also we have a special diaspOra post to add to day's amazing news!


from the Daily News
name: fabOlous
location: miami
gear choice: looks like an orange ornithologically correct team cap
status: possible Os fan, though searches show he wears many hats
quote: unavailable
wayward o says: you know bird is ascendant when hipster rappers are getting on board!

mOre fun

"I slid for it and had it in my glove,
but my knee hit the glove and it came out"
- Dustin Pedroia

CHOKER! NO FLAG!!!




- AP

LUCKY CATCH! ONE FLAG!!!




- via Enchanting Sunshine

PUMMELED, BOOTED! TWO FLAGS!!!*




- Balt. Sun

GRAND SLAM! SIX FLAGS!!!





* though Wayward O does not personally engage in or condone such behavior, he can't deny sometimes it feels good see justice dispensed

sOme wild, wacky stuff

the baltimore baseball orioles are the kings!

they just came back on bobby jenks to tie, and then beat the white sox 6-5 in 10 innings. prior to getting owned just now by team jenks was 6-for-6 in saves with a 0.00 era for 2008! brian roberts and melvin mora had HUGE clutch hits in the bottom of the ninth.

adam jones came up with the big hit after kevin millar and luke scott walked in the 10th.

also in the batting lineup was closer george sherrill. that's because, after ramon hernandez batted for light-hitting short stop brandon fahey, huff moved from DH to 3rd and melvin mora moved from 3rd to short stop.

and team had no more position players because it's carrying 13 pitchers.

kevin millar scored a run in the bottom of the eighth when he legged it out to first after the catcher dropped the third strike....

"no one in the history of the game starts a two-out rally by striking out better than kevin millar," said joe angel after the game.



Check out the win probability thinger!
nutty i tell ya! nutty!

jeremy guthrie pitched his guts out and the young savior took gavin floyd into the flag court earlier in the game.

prOud

it's days like this that make wayward O proud to be fan of team.

millar sticks it to red bastards and gets icy hot shower with amber!

eat it boston!

tainted lOve

before wayward O goes into saga regarding last night's strange win over bostons, wayward O wants everyone to know that...

WAYWARD O IS FUGITIVE FROM LAW

that's right. when joyous moment of rick ankiel's home run came thursday night, wayward O put it up on the youtubinous whompers for all baseball fans to regard with joy. and many did. after just 12 hours more than 800 had view hideous-quality video of pitcher-turned-outfielder's unlikely comeback & home run.

but then a few hours later wayward O's corporate offices received following warning from youtubinous whompers:

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Rick Ankiel Goes Yardy Yard

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see how much trouble wayward O is in? at least they were nice and said, "sincerely."

now about last night... fans rip team -- yes this is everyday occurrence everywhere sports are played. but how often does team rip fans?

after not-so-memorable win last night versus boston red sox (win that brings yankees ever-closer to octOber wayward O might add) two key orioles called out fans, suggesting there is lack of love for team.

this is what manager dave trembO said:

"The only negative thing I can say is, shame on the people who left. They missed
one of the great comebacks that's been coming around here for a long time. Maybe these guys tonight earned a little bit respect, that maybe the people will stick around and watch them. I said all along that it'll take us to go the extra mile
to get people back on our side here, and I think tonight might have been a step
in the right direction for that to happen."

and this is what brian roberts said:

"I don't know why so many Red Sox fans want to be here and Oriole fans don't."

and he also said:

"You'd just like to have the support of our fans. We have a pretty darn good
team. When we win, I know people will come out. But it would nice if they came
out to support us when we're in the process of developing a winning team."

and he said and said and said some more. basically he went off. and you could read it all here.

wayward O should like to respond by saying to roberts and trembley that wayward O's yearning to watch only team wayward O has really ever cared about win borders on unhealthy and wayward O loves it when team wins very much.

if only there was more of it.

also, wayward O does not see fans as culprit here. he says this as the Evil One playing everyday joes against his own organization in stubborn effort to prove stupid point about Washington Nationals and new team's financial effect on Orioles.

wayward O should also like to say for shit's sake wayward O started entire fan blog and never ever leaves ballpark early when he travels 250 miles to watch ballgame. otherwise how would wayward O be able to say he saw team lose at home? wayward O should like to hear reader's opinions about what they think about roberts' and trembO's comments.

regarding the game itself here is what wayward O learned:

• matzusaka isn't all that
• gagne is terrible; rangers pulled wool over red sox eyes
• tike redman is kind of fun to watch
• erik bedard is crazy ill on the mound (this we knew)

wayward O guesses that's it.

tell 'em wayward O sent ya

orioles are battling hard!

ump made a bad call sunday as mora snuck under tag versus angels. but jay payton was probably late to base on bunt single. so wayward O supposes calls cancel out. anyway it was just latest bad call that went against team and cost them a win.

sunday's game at camden was exciting, fun and well-paced. not to mention beautiful; golden sunlight and blue sky; puffy clouds dancing over the land of pleasant living. and word is organization has dialed back beer prices slightly. not so much for dippin dots; tasty but pricey!

AP photo shows determination on jay's face!

then last night bedard struggled and right after wayward O lost WHFS signal (all the way up in New Jersey, can you believe it?) Os fell behind chisox and wayward O wondered if all the bad calls were finally catching up with team again and demoralizing them.

it was not until a bit later when wayward brO sent text message that wayward O suspected something was up. and sure as you're hatched, Os finally finally made late-inning comeback and put one more nail in Ozzie's coffin on south side of chicago.

cOrey patterson has to be player of game last night. get on base and keep on running dood! wayward O just hopes somehow corey can pick up the pace enough to have Orioles keep him on team. he's really something in center field.

and the closer too ... capped off a great night monday night by bullpen. chris ray probably sat down, watched 'caddyshack', and found his eternal consciousness.

so he's got that going for him. which is nice.

c'mOn, sammy

streaky. temperamental. nO dh. still a good fightin' squad tho.



hOw come the manager didn't know the rules last nite?

(quoting AP:)

Indians outfielder Grady Sizemore made a diving catch. Markakis tagged up, headed for home and appeared to cross the plate before Tejada doubled off first. Plate umpire Marvin Hudson waved off the run.

Orioles bench coach Tom Trebelhorn disputed Hudson's call before the start of the fourth, and Hudson then conferred with Montague and the other umpires.

(...)

Baltimore manager Sam Perlozzo said Trebelhorn alerted him that the run should count.

"I told Sammy it's never too late," Trebelhorn said. "That's our run. I've seen runs put on the board after the game."

there you have it. if the evil one wants a reason. he has it. the young savior was nearly denied a run!!!!!! :(

cOmebacks & cOrey

who's got the most comeback wins in beisbol? say it with me ... Os!

last night they came back twice and held jays in the ninth ... setting the table for the yOung savior. wayward O doesn't understand why jays brought infield in, however. that was dumb. with bases loaded and one out in a tie game, wayward O says ... bring the outfield in but leave infield at regular depth or double play depth. had jays' manager done this, jays would have easily turned a DP on the young savior's ground ball. instead, the Os get an easy win (relatively speaking....)

wayward O is hearing more crazy talk. there are some who say: take cOrey out of of CF vs lefties and let jay payton play CF. stop smoking crack! corey is a terror on the bases and i hope everyone saw his sick catch in early part of last night's game, robbing lyle overbay of a home run trotsky.

patterson is the center fielder. vs. lefties. vs. righties. vs. ambidextries too.

shOwing a little fight

Os come from six runs down and beat tampa bay fish tacos by a score of 9-7. since the early massacre at twins, Os are 7 wins with 3 losses and pitching is looking good; bullpen is on lockdown tighter than at Jessup Correctional Facility. adam lOewen pitched ok and if Os didn't bungle in the field like a gaggle of mitten-wearing humptys it probably wouldn't have been as close as it was.

Wayward O says Aubrey Huff must have been nervous returning to the um Hallowed Confines of the Tropical Juice Stadium and that's why he committed more errors in one play than Dumbya has over six years as the Resident of the Wizzo Hizzo.

Os need to feast on Rays, Royals, Nats and hopefully also Texas and Cleveland. And that's just what they're doing right now; at least with respect to Rays and Royals.

memo to kevin millar: slow down on the chow buddy. you're getting awful damn fat.

finally Off the shnide

wayward O is pretty sure Orioles would have given last night's lead back without the free-agent cavalry in the bull-pen. danys baez's 1-2-3 eighth inning lasted about 3 minutes.

we have a twisted relationship with jay gibbons. on the one hand, we can't help think he's bound to end up out of baseball any nanOsecond. then after we've cursed his name and felt bad about it because he's such damn likeable person he hits a 2-ribby double and Os win by two. here's how he described his double:

"Hanging curveball. First pitch. Ambush. I don't have a clue at the plate, and I was looking for anything up. And he threw it."

well he popped up a curveball weakly in the prior at-bat so i'm sure mike mussina was going back to the well again.

jay, you're not supposed to admit you don't have a clue at the plate. and stop going around saying "ambush" --- it's not right.

adam loewen hit a-rod and i'm 87% sure it was on purpose. giambi is an easier out.

wayward O is off to ski in the sierras this week but he will have a laptop. he may go see dodgers visit giants at pac bell candlestick whatever it's called nowadays park. wayward o would probably say "blogging will be light" but he is so nerded out about baseball it would probably be a lie.

see you Out there. :)