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Boston is too good to not take advantage of those opportunities. Several smaller mistakes added up to a big loss for Los Angeles in Game 1."The Dodgers showed plenty of fight in Game 1 of the World Series. They battled back from behind multiple times and were in the game late. It was a series of small mishaps that led to the undoing of their hopes Tuesday night at Fenway Park.It didn’t take much to give the Red Sox extra opportunities but when Boston was given the slightest bit http://www.chicagocubsteamshop.com/authentic-david-ross-jersey , they busted down the door to seize the lead in the series.Two pitches into Clayton Kershaw’s night, his defense let him down. Mookie Betts popped up into foul territory down the first base line and David Freese looked like he would make the catch. But the ball dropped about four feet behind Freese as he overran it.Yasiel Puig was playing deep and to pull for the right-handed hitting Betts, while Brian Dozier was playing up the middle. It would’ve been a difficult ask for either of them to make the play.Sure enough, Betts would bang a base hit into center just three pitches later to get the Red Sox started on offense. After Betts stole second on the first pitch, Andrew Benintendi singled on the ground into right field. Enter mistake number two.Puig comes up throwing home and it sails past everybody straight to Austin Barnes. The problem is that Betts was going to score no matter how good the throw was. That costly mental error allowed Benintendi to take second base, where he would stay until J.D Martinez drove him home two batters later on a single.There is no second run on this play if the Puig throw doesn't happen.“It was just for me the defense, uncharacteristic tonight from our club,” said manager Dave Roberts to the media after the loss. “And I don’t think the pitching line is reflective of the way the guys threw. To beat a club like that, you’ve got to play a cleaner game defensively.”The Red Sox avoided two big double plays that prolonged innings and put runs on the scoreboard. Steve Pearce barely legged it out to beat the throw by a half-second in the third, bringing Martinez to the plate. Martinez crushed a ball to dead center to bring Pearce in from first.With the bases loaded and nobody out, Ryan Madson attempted to wiggle out of jam against the heart of the Red Sox lineup. The right-hander was successful in striking out Martinez, but the Dodgers couldn’t turn the double play by getting Xander Bogaerts at first.Both double plays were extremely close and could’ve prevented a run.In spots the team has regularly pinch hit for Freese or Kemp, they refused on Tuesday. Freese struck out against right-hander Matt Barnes with two aboard and no outs in the fifth, while Kemp’s only good at-bat came in the second inning when he hit a solo homer. The platoon advantage that worked out more times than not in the NLCS went away in these situations.“Well, at that point you have three guys on the bench and you’ve got to figure out who -- in the fifth inning to deplete your entire bench,” Roberts said. “I like David’s at-bats. And you look at (Matt) Barnes, he’s sort of neutral. He’s got a good fastball. He’s got a cutter that gets lefties out. “So I just felt that first and second base, you’ve got Machado behind him and you have a chance to hit for the next guy after that. But in the fifth inning you start to hitting for guys, you’re going to have nobody left in the game.”And then there was the seventh inning when the game unraveled for the Dodgers. Benintendi hit a pop fly to short left field to start the frame. Pederson got to the spot but had the ball hit his glove and go in the stands for a ground-rule double.This is where Dodger manager Dave Roberts made the decision to bring Pedro Baez in from the bullpen. Baez was filthy in striking out Mitch Moreland and Bogaerts but would be lifted for Alex Wood when Rafael Devers walked to the plate with runners on first and second with two outs.Red Sox skipper Alex Cora countered with Eduardo Nunez off the bench as a right-handed batter to face the lefty Wood. The decision backfired for the Dodgers two pitches in when I still liked Alex in that spot.”This was one case where the matchup on paper outweighs the decision that looks like Baez may be the correct call. It looks like second-guessing now but Wood hasn’t exactly been lights out to prove he would’ve been better suited to get that final out. Baez has been one of the best relievers in baseball over the last couple months. The big righty deserved the chance to get Devers.The good thing is that Tuesday only counted for one loss and the Dodgers can get a win on Wednesday to even the series before heading to Los Angeles. But the big takeaway is that the Dodgers can’t afford to give a team like the Red Sox any extra outs to work with.The margin for error is so small. The Orioles will be playing real baseball in two weeks, and fake baseball on TV today."Hello, friends.There are 14 days remaining until the next Orioles game that counts. Opening Day is just two weeks away! It’ll be here before we know it. As of yesterday, we know who will be the starting pitcher for Opening Day. It’s Alex Cobb. Let there be much rejoicing across Birdland. (Yay.)The Orioles are now 10-8-2 in their Grapefruit League schedule. On Wednesday, they added to their win total with a comeback 6-4 victory over the Blue Jays. The bad news is they needed the comeback because Andrew Cashner gave up three runs in 3.2 innings. The O’s have yet to have a starter finish four innings this spring. Mark Trumbo made his spring debut and went 0-2. Joey Rickard drove in two runs. Tanner Scott walked two batters in one inning of work.The team still has 13 spring games left to play before they head north to begin the season. That includes this afternoon, when they take on the Twins in a 1:05 contest. MASN will actually be carrying the game, so if your professional life allows it, you’ll be able to tune in and watch the action. Dylan Bundy is the scheduled starter, with Pedro Araujo, Paul Fry, Branden Kline, and Jimmy Yacabonis expected to pitch as well.We’re close enough to Opening Day where it would be nice if some of these struggling guys start pitching or hitting well. Bundy and Cashner haven’t had great spring results. Neither have a number of the fifth starter candidates, including Yefry Ramirez, who gave up a run in 2.1 innings yesterday. Jonathan Villar, Trey Mancini, Cedric Mullins, and Renato Nunez haven’t hit much yet. Neither has Chris Davis http://www.chicagocubsteamshop.com/authentic-david-ross-jersey , who’s in his own category while giving quotes like what he told Orioles reporters after Tuesday’s game, as relayed by MASN’s Steve Melewski:Weird things happen in spring training, so I don’t know, maybe Davis came out of Tuesday’s game because the bottom of the fourth inning went on for too long. But it’s not hard to read that above segment and come away with the impression that Davis may be in denial. Keep in mind that he gave the above answer after missing over a week of games due to his sore hip! We’re two weeks away from starting to find out what he’s going to look like when every pitcher he faces is MLB caliber and the games start to count. Maybe something will happen that, based on what I might have assumed from last year’s performance, seems miraculous. Or maybe what’s going to happen is exactly what everyone “knows” is going to happen, only some people receive paychecks for jobs that require them to try to pretend otherwise.Mike Mussina was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame 51 days ago. The Orioles have not yet announced any plans to retire his jersey number or add his statue to Camden Yards.Around the blogO’sphereCobb relishes Opening Day assignment (School of Roch)The amusing part of this story to me is that it seems like several of the pitchers, including Alex Cobb himself, had figured out from the pitching charts that Cobb would be the Opening Day starter long before the announcement.Trumbo has encouraging return to lineup (Orioles.com)The encouraging part is apparently that he didn’t just strike out so he was able to test his knee out by running to first base. Really.O’s top prospects reflect on time in big league camp as minor league schedule begins (Baltimore Sun)Seems like everybody feels good about what they were able to accomplish in big league camp before getting optioned or reassigned.After walk-off homer, Branden Kline came back strong (Steve Melewski)Everywhere you look, players are full of praise for the new coaching staff.Seven hopefully not-terrible spring trade ideas (Fangraphs)Two of Dan Szymborski’s seven trade ideas touch on Orioles players. I can’t say whether the proposed trades are fair or not, but I can say that either one would bum me out if they ended up happening.Birthdays and anniversariesThere are a few former Orioles with birthdays today. They are: 2013-14 pitcher Josh Stinson, 2008 reliever Randor Bierd, and 1995 starter Kevin Brown, no relation to this writer.Is today your birthday? Happy birthday! Your birthday buddies for today include: baroque painter Giuseppi Crespi (1665), Italian uniter Victor Emmanuel II (1820), physicist Albert Einstein (1879), actor Billy Crystal (1948), Ben & Jerry’s Jerry Greenfeld (1951), Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov (1956) Andre Dawson Jersey , basketballer Stephen Curry (1988), and gold medal gymnast Simone Biles (1997).On this day in history...In 44 BC, two of the soon-to-be assassins of Julius Caesar, Cassius and Casca, were talked out of also assassinating Marc Antony by Brutus. This turned out to be a poor decision for those gentlemen, as Marc Antony whipped up public support and seized power in a speech famously dramatized by William Shakespeare. Antony defeated Cassius, Casca, and Brutus in the ensuing civil war, after which all three plotters committed suicide.In 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.In 1900,the Gold Standard Act was signed into law by President William McKinley, which ended the previous bimetallism system under which both silver and gold backed currency.In 1951, during the Korean War, United Nations forces regained control of Seoul for the second time in the war. The North did not recapture the city again.In 1964, Jack Ruby was found guilty by a Dallas jury in the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald. On appeal, Ruby was granted a new trial, but he died of a pulmonary embolism before the second trial date was set.**And that’s the way it is in Birdland on March 14 - or at least, until something happens later in Florida. Have a safe Thursday.
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