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Mets blow. Prado hits a walkoff off a tired Clippard, and now the Nats are only 4 back of the Mets.. with a huge series coming up tomorrow.

Needs work.

Osuna in. And before you complain, he needs work. He hasn't pitched all series.

Man, today's game just drags on.. of course, the heat and the O's crappy pitching doesn't help.

Cabrera makes it a 1-run game in NY. 5-4 Yankees..

Betances coming in for Yanks again.. 62 times now. Girardi really needs to watch his usage..

Forsythe just made it 3-0 for the Rays.

We need to talk about Kevin(Kiermaier).. he just hit a 2-run shot to give the Rays a 2-0 lead. C'mon Tampa! We want to be 2.5 games up before Boston and New York..

O's lineup FWIW.. no Wieters, 7-8-9 look like automatic outs:

Seriously, **** the Yankees... 5-2 win over the Rays. Jays lead cut to 0.5 game. Reality is though, the Yanks were badly outhit.. 3 HRs pretty much saved them tonight. They basically were lucky the Rays don't hit well with RISP (0-7 tonight)

Here comes Jeff Francis in mop-up duty.. at least they're not using Osuna or Sanchez down 8.

Houston is destroying the Twins 7-0 right now. It's good news for the Jays, Yankees and Rangers...

Fair to say that this isn't the Jays night. Good thing Price goes tomorrow.. and Hutch pretty much may have lost his rotation spot after this clunker.

Get Hutch out of there!

Bad error for the O's there..

Nice bailout by Tulo! Anyone wanna guess who Stroman will likely replace in the rotation?

39 blasts for Davis now. He won't be back in Baltimore, you can bet on that.. he's going to get more money than Angelos will be willing to give..

And Bundy will likely be DFA'd if he shows no progress in Spring Training next year. O's burned his option years calling up in that playoff run in 2012, and then he blew his elbow out.

Also forgot to mention that the O's face a LONG offseason.. Chen, Wieters, Davis, O'Day, Parra and Pearce are free agents. And unfortunately, any freed up money will be eaten up by HUGE arb raises to Machado, Tillman, Britton, Gonzalez(if he isn't non-tendered), and Matusz. And Dylan Bundy's a DFA candidate, as he will be out of options after the 2015 season.

Got to agree with that. As of now, the likely projected standings for 2016 (including departures) stands as: Yankees Jays Red Sox Rays Orioles (The first 4 could be in any order.) But the O's will definitely be a last place team. Can't see Chris Davis returning.. Angelos is a cheapskate.

Our old friend Matt Boyd: 1.0+ IP, 7H, 6ER, 2BB, 1 HR, 0 K, ERA now up to 8.36. That David Price is looking much better for the Jays than the Tigers.. though it's still possible Daniel Norris may pan out down the road. Boyd looks less so.. he has long-relief/mop-up man in his future if he doesn't improve his command and cut down the HRs.

What's the over/under on how many runs the Braves pitching staff gives up vs. the Jays that series? I'm betting 30 at least.. and that might be a low number, the way their pitching staff is..

These Braves are so bad, it's still possible they help the Nats make the playoffs (if the Mets stumble and lose their matchups vs. the Nats).

Like in Milwaukee and Seattle, an outdoor stadium is unfeasible in Toronto due to cold weather in April and October, and being in higher latitudes. Remember why Skydome/Rogers Centre was built in the first place: Per Wikipedia: "The main impetus for building an enclosed sports venue came following the Grey Cup game in November 1982, held at the outdoor Exhibition Stadium. The game was played in a driving rainstorm that left most of the crowd drenched, leading the media to call it "the Rain Bowl". As many of the seats were completely exposed to the elements, thousands watched the game from the concession section. To make a bad experience even worse, the washrooms overflowed. In attendance that day was Bill Davis, the Premier of Ontario, and the poor conditions were seen by the largest TV audience ever in Canada (over 7,862,000 viewers) to that point. The following day, at a rally at Toronto City Hall, tens of thousands of people who attended the game began to chant, "We want a dome! We want a dome!"" At this point, a full blown renovation of the Rogers Centre (which is in the plans) is more likely than a new stadium. If you want a team that really needs a new stadium, try Tampa!

No, we don't miss Tillman at all. The scheduled starters are Jimenez, TBA(not Gonzalez, likely to be Mike Wright on short rest), and Tillman. Chen is being pushed to the Yankees series. http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bal-miguel-gonzalez-optimistic-hell-pitch-again-this-season-plus-more-orioles-notes-20150902-story.html