BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards 333 West Camden Street Baltimore, MD 21201
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BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards 333 West Camden Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Wednesday, September 4, 2013 Game #138 Road Game #71 Baltimore Orioles (73-64) vs. Cleveland Indians (73-65) LH Zach Britton (2-3, 4.76) vs. RH Zach McAllister (7-7, 3.51) TONIGHT’S GAME: The Orioles and Indians meet in the finale of their three-game set and the last game of a ODDS & ENDS nine-game road trip that began with the Birds dropping two of three in Boston and New York before splitting the Home 38-29 first two games in Cleveland. Away 35-35 Day 24-24 VS. CLEVELAND: The season series will be decided tonight as the clubs are tied, 3-3, with the Orioles going 2- Night 49-40 2 in Baltimore and 1-1 in Cleveland…The teams split the season series in 2012, 4-4, as the O’s went 1-3 in vs. LHP 20-23 Baltimore and 3-1 in Cleveland (the three wins in Cleveland were the most since 1998, also three)…The Orioles vs. RHP 53-41 trail in the all-time series, 392-427 (211-202 in Baltimore and 181-225 in Cleveland)…At Camden Yards against the Tribe, the O’s are 46-52 and at Progressive Field, the Birds are 24-52. Series Record 24-16-4 First game of series 26-19 MAKING A DIFFERENCE: The Casey Cares 5K race held August 3 at Oriole Park raised $69,642.65 for the Last game of a series 26-18 Casey Cares Foundation, more than doubling the amount raised at any of the previous three races…Nick Last 10 games 4-6 Markakis, and his wife, Christina, served as race ambassadors for Casey Cares, an organization that provides Win/Loss streak L1 ongoing, uplifting programs with a special touch to critically ill children and their families. Longest win streak 5 (7/14-22) Longest losing streak 6 (5/14-20) DOWN ON THE FARM: Double-A Bowie LH Eduardo Rodriguez was named Eastern League Pitcher of the Most games + .500 14 (57-43) Week for the week ending September 2…In two starts, Rodriguez worked 14 scoreless innings, allowing seven Most games - .500 1 (3-4) hits and a walk while striking out 11. Extra innings 6-5 IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS: In finales of three-game sets that have decided the winner of the series this Shutouts 5-6 year, the Orioles are 13-6, going 7-3 at home and 6-3 on the road…The Orioles are 26-18 in series finales (13-9 at One-run games 15-25 home and on the road)…The Birds have won their last five series finales (three at home, two on the road). Two-run games 15-6 LAUNCH MODE: Nate McLouth hit his 99th career homer Tuesday and has homered in consecutive games for Lead after 7 innings 61-7 the 11th time in his career and first since July 5-6, 2009 (at Washington and Chicago)…He has homered in three Tied after 7 innings 8-7 consecutive games twice (September 26-28, 2005 and April 26-29, 2008, when he hit four in a three-game span). Trail after 7 innings 4-50 Lead after 8 innings 64-9 WHAT DAY IS IT?: Chris Davis has hit 12 home runs on Wednesdays this year…In A.L. history, only Tino Tied after 8 innings 6-6 Martinez (14 in 1997 for New York) has hit more Wednesday homers in a season…Davis’ 12 are tied with Roger Trail after 8 innings 3-49 Maris (1961) and Frank Thomas (2000) for second…The MLB record for Wednesday homers is 19 by Jeff Orioles score first 45-27 Bagwell in 1999. (Courtesy STATS). Opponent scores first 28-37 TERRIFIC TRIO: With his 20th home run on Monday, Matt Wieters reached 20 for the third straight season… Score four or more runs 61-25 Score fewer than four runs 12-39 J.J. Hardy and Adam Jones have both already cracked the 20-homer plateau for a third straight year…According to STATS, the only team since 1921 to have a catcher, shortstop and centerfielder (based on primary position) Orioles homer 60-48 each hit 20+ homers in even two straight seasons was the 2007-08 Cleveland Indians (Jhonny Peralta, Grady Out-hit opponents 47-19 Sizemore and Victor Matinez in 2007 and Kelly Shoppach in 2008). Equal hit total 9-3 Out-hit by opponents 17-42 MR. SEPTEMBER: Matt Wieters tied his season and career-high with four hits Monday...It was his fifth career Most hits in a game 18 (5/10, 7/22) four-hit game…In his career in September, Wieters is a .304 (106-349) hitter with 17 homers and 60 RBI…The Fewest hits in a game 2 (6/7) .304 average is his highest monthly mark by .044 (he is a .260 hitter in April). No errors 58-46 ONE TO GO: With his next home run, J.J. Hardy will become the fourth active player and ninth player since With one error 13-13 1901 to record three or more seasons of 25 or more homers as a shortstop, joining Alex Rodriguez (seven), With two errors 2-5 With three or more errors 0-0 Miguel Tejada (six) and Troy Tulowitzki (three)…The five retired shortstops with three or more 25+ homer seasons since 1901 are Cal Ripken, Jr. (eight), Ernie Banks (seven), Nomar Garciaparra (four), Jose Valentin vs. AL 62-55 (three) and Vern Stephens (three)…Hardy is the third Oriole shortstop with three consecutive 20+ homer seasons, vs. AL East 27-29 joining Tejada (2004-06) and Ripken (10 straight from 1982-91)…Hardy’s 76 home runs and .989 fielding vs. AL Central 14-14 percentage since the start of 2011 (16 more homers than Tulowitzki) are tops among MLB shortstops. vs. AL West 21-12 vs. NL 11-9 ONE BIG FLY SHY: Of Matt Wieters’ 20 home runs this year, 19 have come as a catcher…With one more homer as a catcher this year, Wieters will become the first Orioles catcher since 1974 to have three consecutive Largest home crowd 46,653 (4/5) Largest road crowd 45,214 (6/23) 20+ homer seasons…The last Oriole with three 20+ homer seasons as a catcher was Chris Hoiles (1992-93, 1996). (STATS) CURRENT ROAD TRIP RAKING: Danny Valencia has recorded six straight multi-hit games dating back to August 4, batting .591 (14- Record 3-5 22) with four doubles, two homers, four runs scored and five RBI…The last Oriole to have six straight multi-hit Team Average .219 (61-278) games was J.J. Hardy from June 19-26, 2011…The last Oriole to post seven straight multi-hit games was Runs per Game 3.8 (30R/8G) Vladimir Guerrero from May 14-21, 2011. Fielding Errors 1 THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME?: The Orioles have made 40 errors in 137 games, a pace for 47 errors in 162 games…The major league record for fewest errors in a 162-game season is 65 by the 2003 Seattle Mariners…The Team ERA 5.10 (67.0IP, 38ER) 2013 Orioles lead the majors with a .992 fielding percentage, which, if maintained through the entire season, Starters W-L 2-4 would be the best fielding percentage in baseball history, topping the 2007 Rockies’ .989 mark…Per STATS, the Starters ERA 5.61 (43.1IP, 27ER) Orioles are the first team in MLB history to post 100 errorless games by the end of August (they had 101) and their 104 errorless games tied the club record set in 1998. Bullpen W-L-S 1-0-1 Bullpen ERA 4.18 (23.2IP, 11ER) CRUSH DAVIS: Chris Davis has 47 homers and is the third Oriole to hit 47+ homers in a season (Brady Saves/Opps 1/1 Anderson, 50 in 1996 and Frank Robinson, 49 in 1966)…Davis’ 44 home runs as a first baseman are the most by an American Leaguer since Carlos Pena blasted 46 for Tampa Bay in 2007…Davis has an MLB-leading 85 extra-base hits, 16 more than Miguel Cabrera…Per STATS, only two Orioles have led the majors in extra-base hits: Frank Robinson (85 in 1966) and Cal Ripken, Jr. (85 in 1991). HIT MAN(NY): Manny Machado has an MLB-leading 46 doubles on the year, which is one shy of Vada Pinson (47 for Cincinnati) for second-most by player in age-20 or younger season, behind Alex Rodriguez (54 in 1996)…Machado is tied for second in the majors with 173 hits and is tied for sixth with 50 multi-hit games…He is on pace for 54 doubles, which would be two shy of Brian Roberts’ club record 56 set in 2009. THE SAVE-IOR: Jim Johnson leads the AL with 41 saves…He is the first pitcher in Orioles history to post two 40-save seasons…He became the 21st pitcher in MLB history to record consecutive 40+ save seasons…Now has 92 saves over the last two seasons, becoming the 10th pitcher in major league history to record as many as 92 saves over a two season span, joining Eric Gagne, Francisco Rodriguez, John Smoltz, Mariano Rivera, Dennis Eckersley, Trevor Hoffman, Randy Myers, Bobby Thigpen and Jose Valverde. LIVE AND DIE WITH THE BIG FLY: The Orioles lead the majors in home runs hit (183) and lead with 173 home runs allowed…Per STATS, if the O’s finish in the lead in homers hit and allowed, they will be the first team in either league to do so since the 1950 Brooklyn Dodgers (194/163) and the first AL team to do so since the 1932 Philadelphia Athletics (172/112).