This last game between the Birds and the SOx turned out ot be a blowout simply because The O's starter Liz threw to many juicy pitches to home run hitters and then later could not find the strike zone. Definitley Liz's worst start of his professional career. The argument could be made that he didn't have enough time to mature in the minors and was brought up too quickly. However, their was no such feeling of paranoia before last night's game because the starter had pitched very well until last night's dud effort. In the first he gave up back to back shots to Ramirez and Drew which appeared to really rattle his confidence, outlook, and approach. Then the O's came back to cut it to two one when Ramon Hernandez hit a shot that not only left the ball park but left the stadium entirley and landed on the street adjacent to the stadium. However the O's would get no closer than that as the next inning proved to be one Liz could not escape from as he walked two hit one and then gave up a blast to Youkilis a grand slam which made the game 7-1. Liz lasted just 2 and 1/3 of an inning and got shelled. Hopefully the young starter can bounce back and start making quality starts again becasue the O's really would like to see their young heat thrower become a fantastic pitcher and I believe he has the arm and guts to be one. He throws fastballs at 98 but he needs to locate a lot better and his slider can be unhittable at times. I know he feels terrible about his last performance but look for Liz to really have some quality starts in the future and get on a roll in terms of good efforts on the mound. the game ended up at 12-1 an embarrasing loss for the O's. The rubber game is today at 1:30 to see who will get to win the series. Go O's!!!
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