O's / Rangers Aug. 20th game thread

[hector]

Seriously. Tonight, after hearing Tampa had won AGAIN, it struck me that the old paradigm everyone kind of takes for granted of Tampa and Baltimore fighting it out for AL 2nd place, (and, presumably, a wild card), behind a 1st place NY is quickly possibly becoming a flawed one. Tampa keeps playing like this, and they're going to be the division winner, not NY. In such a scenario, hopefully we can duke it out with the Yankees for 2nd. Hey, it could happen....

You are absolutely right.

[85Knight]

This might be stating the obvious but the O's have played their best baseball of the season over the last 2 weeks. They just look like a very confident team right now. Even our losses look like we should have won. We just have to make this last for atleast 6 more weeks.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/o...,2125938.story

This confirms what I saw in this team last night. We get a better pitching matchup tonight but the Rangers are our nemesis. More so than the Yanks or Boston. I'd settle for just getting one W and getting out of Texas because we just don't match up well with this team.