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

Friday  June 6, 2014  Game #59  Home Game #24 (30-29) vs. (38-23)

R H E LOB WP: Abad (1-2) TIME: 3:36 ATHLETICS 4 10 0 7 LP: MEEK (0-2) ORIOLES 3 13 1 7 SV: Doolittle (8)

ATHLETICS HR HR# Inn Count On Base Made score Last Home 17 1 1-0 0 Chen 1-0 6/4 at NYY Derek Norris 6 2 3-2 0 Chen 2-0 5/26 vs. DET

ORIOLES HR HR# Inn Count On Base Pitcher Made score Last Chris Davis 9 4 1-2 0 Milone 2-2 6/4 at TEX 4 5 0-1 0 Milone 3-2 6/1 at HOU

GETTING STARTED: Today’s first pitch was at 7:07 p.m.…Game-time temperature was 77 degrees.

TODAY’S ATTENDANCE was 27,076…The 23-date season total is 701,185…Average attendance is 30,486.

VS. OAKLAND: The Athletics lead the season series 1-0…The Orioles won last year’s season series, 5-2, going 2-1 in Baltimore and 3-1 in Oakland...The Orioles trail the all-time series 250-252…The Birds own a 121-127 record in Baltimore and a 129-125 in California…The Orioles are 8-5 against Oakland since 2011.

AGAINST THE WEST: The Orioles move to 6-5 against the AL West this season and 2-2 against the division at home.

FREE : The Orioles move to 5-3 in extra-inning games this season…The Athletics are now 7-3 in free baseball.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!: The Orioles challenged a play in which was ruled out at home plate in the bottom of the 10th inning…After a 1:12 second review, the call was confirmed…The Orioles are now 4-for-8 (50%) on reviews this season.

OPEN SERIES: The Orioles move to 11-9 in series openers and 4-5 in series openers at home.

WEI TO GO!: Wei-Yin Chen Made his fifth career start against the Athletics…Moves to 3-0 with a 1.00 ERA (27.0IP, 3ER) against Oakland…Made his sixth start this season at OPACY and is now 2-1 with a 3.69 ERA (39.0IP, 16ER)….Notched his first Quality Start since May 9 vs. Houston…Did not walk a batter for the fifth time this season…Chen has allowed three earned runs two outings in June, a total of 11.2 innings.

TROUBLE WITH THE LONGBALL: Chen allowed two solo home runs in the game...Eight of the nine home runs served up by Chen have been solo shots…Of the 55 career homers allowed by Chen, 33 have been solo blasts…Derek Norris led off with a solo homer in the second...Seven of the nine home runs allowed by Chen have been to the leadoff batter.

STREAKING: Markakis went 2-for-5 tonight, extending his hitting-streak to 11 games…He is batting .375 (18-48) with eight runs, four doubles, two home runs, seven RBI, and six walks.

PEARCED: Steve Pearce snapped an 0-for-10 skid with a single in the second inning…Notched his fourth multi- game of the season.

CRUSH DAVIS: Chris Davis hit his ninth home run of the season, a solo shot to lead off the fourth, tying the game at 2-2…It was his second home run in his last three games…He is on a five-game hitting-streak, batting .333 (7-21) with three runs, two home runs, and three RBI.

MAKE IT SIX: With a single in the third inning, Manny Machado extended his to six games…He is batting .400 (10-25) with seven runs, two doubles, two home runs, and six RBI during that stretch…Was his eighth multi-hit game of the season.

TOMMY BOY: made his third start against the Orioles and his first at OPACY…Is now 1-1 with a 1.89 ERA (19.0IP, 4ER)…In his last six starts, Milone is 3-0 with a 2.35 ERA (38.1IP, 10ER)…Moves to 1-3 with a 5.40 ERA (33.1IP, 20ER) outside of Oakland.

ON THE BOARD: The Athletics are 23-4 when scoring first…It is the best record in the majors.

LONG BALL: The Athletics have homered in a season-high 14 consecutive games…They have hit a total of 25 home runs during that span.

JUST JOSHING: Josh Donaldson connected for his 17th home run in the first inning…It was his second home run in his last three games.

CUCKOO FOR COCO: Coco Crisp entered the game in the eighth inning…He singled in the 10th inning to extend his hitting-streak to a season-high 10 games…Is batting .343 (12-35) during that stretch.

15 OVER: With the win, the Athletics move to 38-23, 15 games over .500, a season-high, for the second time this season (June 4, 37-22).

MULTI-HIT: Derek Norris collected his 13th multi-hit game of the season…It was his first multi-hit game since May 16 at Cleveland.

BLANKED: With a single in the seventh inning, Kyle Blanks extended his hitting streak to seven games…He is batting .421 during the stretch (8-19) with four runs, a , two home runs, and four RBI.

ATHLETICS PITCHING IP H R ER BB K HR WP HB PIT/STR 1st Batter Inherited/Scored Tommy Milone 6.0 8 3 3 0 3 2 0 0 94/65 N/A N/A Ryan Cook 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6/3 1/1 N/A Luke Gregerson 2.0 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 18/15 1/1 N/A Fernando Abad (W) 1.0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 17/10 0/1 N/A Sean Doolittle (S) 1.0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1/1 N/A Totals 11.0 13 3 3 1 9 2 0 0 - - -

ORIOLES PITCHING IP H R ER BB K HR WP HB PIT/STR 1st Batter Inherited/Scored Wei-Yin Chen 6.1 5 2 2 0 4 2 0 1 102/64 N/A N/A Ryan Webb 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7/4 1/1 1-0 Darren O’Day 1.0 1 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 20/12 1/0 N/A Zach Britton 2.0 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 29/16 1/1 N/A Evan Meek (L) 1.0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 13/11 1/0 N/A Totals 11.0 10 4 3 2 11 0 0 1 - - -