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 25, 2013 Game #158 Home Game #77 Baltimore Orioles (81-76) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (72-85) RH Bud Norris (10-12, 4.12) vs. RH Esmil Rogers (5-8, 4.52) TONIGHT’S GAME: The Orioles and Blue Jays meet in game two of their three-game series and the second ODDS & ENDS game of a six game homestand to wrap up the 2013 season…The Birds are coming off a 4-6 road trip to Toronto Home 42-34 (2-1), Boston (2-1) and Tampa Bay (0-4)…With their next win, the Orioles will ensure back-to-back winning Away 39-42 seasons for the first time since 1996-97…The Orioles have lost six straight games for the second time this Day 26-29 season (also May 14-20)… The last time the Birds lost seven in a row was a July 4-15, 2011 as part of a nine Night 55-47 game losing streak. vs. LHP 25-26 vs. RHP 56-50 VS. TORONTO: The Orioles trail in the season series, 8-9, with the Birds going 4-3 in Baltimore and 4-6 in Toronto…The Orioles trail in the all-time series, 250-291 (141-130 in Baltimore and 109-161 in Toronto)…Since Series Record 27-18-4 First game of series 30-21 the start of the 2012 season, the Orioles are 11-5 at home against Toronto…The O’s are 11-15 in their last 26 Last game of a series 27-23 games in Toronto. Last 10 games 3-7 BASH BROTHERS: Chris Davis and Adam Jones have each hit at least seven home runs against Toronto in Win/Loss streak L6 2012 and 2013 (the most by a Toronto opponent)…According to STATS and the Society for American Baseball Longest win streak 5 (7/14-22) Research, the only other teammates to each hit seven or more home runs against an opponent in consecutive Longest losing streak 6 (5/14-20, 9/19-current) seasons are Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who did it in three straight seasons against the Philadelphia A’s (1930- Most games + .500 14 (57-43) 32) and in two against the Cleveland Indians (1930-31). Most games - .500 1 (3-4) POUNDING THE JAYS: Chris Davis (16) and Adam Jones (14) have the most homers against the Jays since Extra innings 8-7 the start of the 2012 season (only players in double figures)…Davis hit nine home runs against Toronto in 2012, Shutouts 6-6 tying Manny Ramirez (2001) for the most in a season against the Blue Jays in their history and he homered in One-run games 17-31 Two-run games 20-11 four straight against them July 12-September 13 of this year…Jones homered against the Jays in four straight games May 23-26 in Toronto and in three straight July 12-14 in Baltimore (per STATS, the only other player in Lead after 7 innings 65-9 O’s history to have two separate streaks of three-plus straight games with a homer against the same team within a Tied after 7 innings 12-10 single season was Boog Powell, who did it in 1969 against the White Sox). Trail after 7 innings 4-57 th Lead after 8 innings 69-9 ANOTHER BIRD IN THE NEST: Jason Pridie will be the 54 player to wear an Orioles uniform this year, Tied after 8 innings 9-11 tying the 1955 Orioles club for the most different players in a season (the 2012 Orioles had 53 different players in Trail after 8 innings 3-56 uniform)…The Birds have made 176 roster moves in 2013 after making 178 in 2012…23 players have made, or are looking to make, their Orioles debut this year (32 did so in 2012)…Four Orioles (Clark, Gausman, McFarland Orioles score first 48-28 Opponent scores first 33-48 and Urrutia) have made their MLB debuts, while Belfiore and Schoop are looking to make their MLB debuts. Score four or more runs 66-31 THE DROUGHT: The Orioles have not scored more than five runs in their last 21 contests (since September Score fewer than four runs 15-45 2)…Per STATS, that streak is tied for the fifth-longest in club history behind a pair of 26-game streaks and a pair Orioles homer 65-56 of 24-game streaks…The 26-game streaks were from 8/32/54-4/17/55 and 7/11-8/5/59, while the 24-game streaks Out-hit opponents 53-24 were from 8/3-28/54 and 4/17-5/18/58…The last 21-game streak was from 9/5-27/92…The Orioles have scored Equal hit total 9-3 four or fewer runs in seven straight games, their third such streak of the year (also June 30-July 7 and September Out-hit by opponents 19-49 3-9) and their longest of the year…They have scored four or fewer runs in 17 of their last 21 games. Most hits in a game 18 (5/10, 7/22) Fewest hits in a game 2 (6/7, 9/19) NO BIG DEAL: Chris Davis’ next strikeout will set a club record with 197, topping Mark Reynolds’ 196 in 2011 …This year, Davis has 14 more doubles, 15 more homers, 18 more runs scored and 50 more RBI than No errors 64-54 Reynolds had in 2011. With one error 14-17 With two errors 2-5 GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS…: Chris Davis has hit 12 home runs on Wednesdays this year…In A.L. history, With three or more errors 1-0 only Tino Martinez (14 in 1997 for New York) has hit more Wednesday homers in a season…Davis’ 12 are tied with Roger Maris (1961) and Frank Thomas (2000) for second…The MLB record for Wednesday homers is 19 vs. AL 70-67 vs. AL East 32-39 by Jeff Bagwell in 1999. (STATS) vs. AL Central 17-16 CAMDEN CRUSHER: Chris Davis has 27 home runs at Oriole Park this year, setting a stadium record and vs. AL West 21-12 tying the franchise home record…Frank Robinson hit 27 homers at Memorial Stadium in 1966… vs. NL 11-9 THE BIG BOPPER: Chris Davis hit his 52nd home run Monday, extending his franchise record…His 52 homers Largest home crowd 46,653 (4/5) th Largest road crowd 45,214 (6/23) are tied for the 26 -most in baseball history and are the most in the majors since Jose Bautista hit 54 in 2010…He is the fifth player since 2003 to hit 52 or more, joining Bautista, Alex Rodriguez (54 in 2007), David Ortiz (54 in CURRENT HOMESTAND 2006) and Ryan Howard (58 in 2006)…Davis’ 49 home runs as a first baseman are the most in the AL since Record 1-0 1974 (the furthest back STATS LLC can search)…24 of Davis’ 52 home runs have either tied the game (five) or given the Orioles the lead (19). Team Average .250 (10-40) Runs per Game 2.0 (2R/1G) A GROUP OF GRINDERS: The Orioles have had seven players (Chris Davis, J.J. Hardy, Adam Jones, Manny Machado, Nick Markakis, Nate McLouth and Matt Wieters) appear in 140 or more games this Fielding Errors 0 year…According to STATS, that is the most in the majors this year (the Reds have six) and the most by an Orioles Team ERA 2.70 (10.0IP, 3ER) squad since the 1975 club had seven (Don Baylor, Mark Belanger, Paul Blair, Bobby Grich, Lee May, Brooks Robinson and Ken Singleton). Starters W-L 0-0 Starters ERA 1.29 (7.0IP, 1ER) CLOSE CALLS: 16 of the Orioles’ last 17 games and 19 of their last 21 have been decided by two runs or fewer, with the team posting 6-10 and 7-12 records in those games…On the year, 85 percent (133 of 157) of the Bullpen W-L-S 0-1-0 Orioles games have been decided by four or fewer runs (the most in the majors)…The O’s are 17-31 in one- Bullpen ERA 6.00 (3.0IP, 2ER) Saves/Opps 0/0 run games, 20-11 in two-run games, 19-10 in three-run games and 11-14 in games decided by four runs…The White Sox are the only other team to play in 130+ games decided by four or fewer runs (130 in 157 games). DOMINANT DEFENSE: The Orioles’ 118 errorless games this season are a new major league record, surpassing the 2008 Houston Astros (113 in 161 games) for most errorless games in a season since 1900…The Birds have made 48 errors in 157 games, a pace for 50 errors in 162 games…The major league record for fewest errors in a 162-game season is 65 by the 2003 Seattle Mariners…The 2013 Orioles lead the majors with a .992 fielding percentage, which, if maintained through the entire season, would be the best fielding percentage in baseball history, topping the 2007 Rockies’ .989 mark…Per STATS, the Orioles are the first team in MLB history to post 100 errorless games by the end of August (they had 101)…The O’s previous season-low for team errors was 104 in 1998. THE SAVE-IOR: Jim Johnson leads the AL with 47 saves…He is the first Oriole to post two 40-save seasons and became the 21st pitcher in MLB history to record consecutive 40+ save seasons…He now has 98 saves over the last two seasons, becoming the fourth pitcher in MLB history to record as many as 98 saves over a two season span, joining Eric Gagne (2x, 107 and 100), Francisco Rodriguez (102) and John Smoltz (100)…With his September 15 save, he became the fifth pitcher in baseball history with at least two consecutive seasons posting 45+ saves (Kimbrel, ATL (3x), 2011-13; Gagne, LAD (3x), 2002- 04; Rodriguez, LAA, 2005-06; and Smoltz, ATL, 2002-03).