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ORIOLES POST-GAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards  333 West Camden Street  , MD 21201

Wednesday  April 2, 2014  Game #2  Home Game #2 (1-1) vs. (1-1)

R H E LOB WP: (1-0) TIME: 2:43 RED SOX 6 10 1 7 LP: Ubaldo Jimenez (0-1) ORIOLES 2 6 1 6 SV: N/A

RED SOX HR HR# Inn Count On Base Made score Last Home 1 3 1-1 1 Jimenez 2-0 Boston 9/27/13 at BAL 1 5 0-2 1 Jimenez 4-2 Boston 9/18/13 vs. BAL

ORIOLES HR HR# Inn Count On Base Pitcher Made score Last 2 4 0-2 1 Lackey 2-2 Tie 3/31/14 at BAL

GETTING STARTED: Tonight’s first pitch was at 7:07pm…Game-time temperature was 61 degrees.

TODAY’S ATTENDANCE was 25,708…The two-date season total is 75,393…Average attendance is 36,197.

WELCOME TO UBALDOMORE: UBALDO JIMENEZ made his Orioles debut tonight…Is now 1-1 with a 10.47 ERA (23.2IP, 27ER) lifetime against Boston…His teams are now 2-3 when playing the Red Sox…He is now 1-0 with a 4.86 ERA (11.1IP, 6ER) in two career games at OPACY.

VS. BOSTON: The season series is now tied…The Orioles won the season series, 11-8, in 2013, the only team in the AL East to post a winning record against the Red Sox last year…The Birds went 6-4 at Oriole Park and 5-4 at Fenway…Since 2012, the O’s are 25-14 against Boston despite outscoring the Red Sox by a total of 10 runs (170-160).

MARKY, MARK: singled as the first Orioles batter of the game…It was his first of the season…Finished the game going 1-4 and is now and 19-57 with 4 2B, 1 3B, 4 RBI, and 5 BB lifetime hitter against Lackey.

HIT THEM HARDY: With a in the 7th inning, J.J. HARDY extended his current hitting-streak to five games, dating back to the 2013 season…He is batting 7-for-20 in that span with 1 2B, 2R, and 2RBI.

CRUZIN: In his second career game with Baltimore, Nelson Cruz hit his second home run…Was his first time hitting home runs in back-to-back games since July 5-6, 2013 with the Rangers...Became the ninth different Oriole (10th time) to hit a home run in each of the team’s first two games of a season…It is the third straight season in which an Oriole has homered in the first two games ( in 2013 and Nick Markakis in 2012)… is the only Oriole to do it twice, accomplishing the feat in consecutive seasons in 1966 and ’67…Brooks and each did it in 1966…Cruz becaome the 5th player to accomplish the feat since the team moved to Baltimore, joining Frank Robinson (1966), (1994), Pete Incaviglia (1996), and Sal Fasano (2005).

WHAT AN O’DAY: Since August 25, 2013, DARREN O’DAY has made 10 straight scoreless appearances (7.2IP), allowing just three hits…Since 2012, he is 6- 0 with a 1.20 ERA (60.2IP, 8ER) in 68 games in the division.

WIETERS IS COMING: After hitting a single in his second at-bat, is now on a three-game hitting-streak dating back to the 2013 regular season…He is batting 4-10 with 1BB, 1RBI during that streak.

STRANDED: BRIAN MATUSZ entered the game with 2 outs and 2 on in the top of the 7th…He got to pop up to short to end the inning…He has now retired seven of the eight batters he faced this season…He has 50 of 55 runners (90.9%) dating back to the 2012 season.

JOHN LACKEY: Made his first start of the season…Struck out six in the game and has now struck out at least five batters in each of his last three starts dating back to the 2013 regular season…Moves to 14-5 with a 3.34 ERA (164.2IP, 61ER) in his career against the Orioles…Is now 6-4 with a 3.66 ERA (81.2IP, 33ER) in 12 career starts at OPACY…Has pitched 5.0 innings in all, but one of his 24 career starts against the Orioles.

BOGAERTS: singled in his first trip to the plate…Has now hit safely back-to-back games…It was the third time in his young career that he reached base three times in a game.

PESKY PEDROIA: collected four hits in the game…Is his first four-hit game since August 23, 2012 vs. LAA…He extended his to four games dating back to 2013…Is batting 12-19 with 5R, RBI and a BB in that span…Pedroia has now collected multiple hits in each of his last four games, dating back to the 2013 season.

OH MY ORTIZ: David Ortiz hit his 432nd HR, moving him into sole possession of 45th place on the all-time list, surpassing CAL RIPKEN…Ortiz is now on a seven-game hitting-streak dating back to the 2013 regular season…He is hitting 10-28 with 7R, 2 2B, 3HR, and 8RBI in that span.

MIGHTY MIKE: On an 0-2 pitch, MIKE NAPOLI took Ubaldo Jimenez deep to CF in the 5th inning to give Boston a 4-2 lead…Napoli is now on a five-game hitting-streak dating back to the 2013 regular season…Is batting 7-18 with 2R, 3 2B, 6RBI, 1HR and 6BB during that stretch…He collected two more RBI in the 7th inning with a bases loaded single…It was his first 4RBI game since September 6, 2013 against the Yankees.

SNAPPED: The bases loaded single by Napoli in the 7th inning snapped an 0-for-12 streak with RISP to start the season by the Red Sox.

RED SOX PITCHING IP H R ER BB K HR WP HB PIT/STR 1st Batter Inherited/Scored John Lackey (W, 1-0) 6.0 3 2 2 1 6 1 0 0 90-68 n/a n/a Edward Mujica 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16-11 0/1 n/a 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15-9 0/1 n/a 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 18-14 0/1 n/a Totals 9.0 6 2 2 1 9 1 1 0 - - -

ORIOLES PITCHING IP H R ER BB K HR WP HB PIT/STR 1st Batter Inherited/Scored Ubaldo Jimenez (L, 0-1) 6.0 5 4 4 3 6 2 0 1 96-63 n/a n/a Ryan Webb 0.2 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 20-11 0/1 n/a Brian Matusz 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6-3 0/1 0/2 Darren O’Day 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10-7 0/1 n/a Josh Stinson 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15-8 0/1 n/a Totals 9.0 10 6 6 4 7 2 0 1 - - -