So many quoes...
Meanwhile, on the other end of the clubhouse, Machado, wearing his emotions on the very sleeve of his navy All-Star 2015 T-shirt, gave every indication that Sunday’s loss -- the Orioles’ fourth straight to a Twins club that came to Baltimore two games under .500 but has now leapfrogged Baltimore in the American League wild-card race -- was not just any loss. “Bloop hits. Little ground balls. I mean, it’s just … s--- ain’t going our way.”
When asked about his 12th-inning error that put the eventual winning run on base, Machado seemed to get visibly agitated.
“I missed the ball,” he said. “Plain and simple. I mean there’s no excuses here. I missed the f---ing goddamn ball and that’s it. You know, it’s just part of the game. It’s just, three days in a row, four days in a row, I don’t how many days it’s been and they haven’t even got the ball out of the infield off of [britton], and he’s blown a couple saves that he shouldn’t have and …”
Then Machado paused, took a deep breath, and exhaled. Of all the choice words that he spewed in those 3 minutes, 40 seconds in front of his locker -- and there were quite a few -- it was the sigh that perhaps spoke the loudest and most tellingly conveyed the pent up frustration of another golden opportunity lost in an up-and-down season that, in the space of just four short days, seems to have gone off the rails.
“I missed on it. I whiffed on it. It’s just plain and simple,” said Machado, his emotions resuming their journey. “I know you guys want to write all this stat [stuff] and velocity of the ball and all that. Man, this s---; it’s baseball. It’s f---ing baseball. We gotta go out there and make plays and catch the goddamn ball, and that’s it. There’s nothing really to it.”