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 Friday, September 14, 2012 • Game #144 • Road Game #70 Baltimore Orioles (81-62) vs. Oakland Athletics (82-61) LH Joe Saunders (2-1, 4.24 in AL) vs. LH Tommy Milone (12-10, 3.90) TONIGHT’S GAME: The Orioles and Athletics meet in the opener of their three-game set and the first game of a ODDS & ENDS nine-game, 10-day road trip that will also take the Birds to Seattle and Boston…The Orioles are coming off a 5-2 Home 42-32 homestand against the Yankees (2-2) and Rays (3-0)…Birds have won 26 of their last 37 games…The Orioles’ 81 Away 39-30 wins in 2012 are their most since 1997 (won 98)…Since their loss July 17 at Minnesota which dropped their Day 27-14 record to 46-44, the Orioles are 35-18, with 19 of the 35 wins being decided by one (11) or two runs (eight). Night 53-48 vs. LHP 24-14 VS. OAKLAND: The season series is tied, 3-3, with all six games being played in Baltimore thus far…The Birds vs. RHP 57-48 dropped the season series in 2011, 4-5, as the Birds were 3-0 in Baltimore but just 1-5 in Oakland…The Orioles trail in the all-time series 244-247 (119-125 in Baltimore and 125-122 in Oakland)…The Orioles have not won a Series Record 27-15-4 First game of series 22-24 season series against the A’s since 1998 (8-3)…Since the start of the 2001 season, the Orioles are 17-33 at home Last game of a series 25-21 against Oakland. Last 10 games 7-3 RESTORE THE ORDER: With Thursday’s win over the Rays, the Orioles assured themselves of at least a .500 st Win/Loss streak W3 record in 2012…Their 81 win snapped a skid of 14 consecutive losing seasons…Prior to that skid, the O’s had 13 Longest win streak 5 (last 8/4-8) losing seasons in their first 44 seasons. Longest losing streak 6 (5/26-6/1) Most games over .500 19 (81-62) KRYPTONITE: In his 19 career starts against Oakland, Joe Saunders is 13-4 with a 3.34 ERA (116.0IP, 43ER) Most games under .500 0 (-) and 12 Quality Starts…Since 2005, his .765 winning percentage against the A’s is the best in baseball…In his last four starts against the A’s, Saunders is 4-0 with a 1.16 ERA (31.0IP, 4ER) and two complete games (one Extra innings 13-2 shutout)…In his seven career starts in Oakland, Saunders is 6-1 with a 2.47 ERA (47.1IP, 13ER) and five QS. Shutouts 9-8 One-run games 27-7 SOUTHPAW SHIFT: The Orioles are 24-14 in games where their opponent started a left-handed pitcher (16-6 at Two-run games 22-13 home)…The 24 wins are more than the O’s produced against lefties in 2011 (19-28) or 2010 (18-33)…The last Lead after 7 innings 64-0 year the O’s had a winning record when their opponent started lefties was in 1997 (33-19). Tied after 7 innings 9-4 Trail after 7 innings 8-58 THE WEST IS A PEST: The Orioles have posted a 12-16 record (.429) against the AL West this season, putting Lead after 8 innings 66-1 them on just a 69-win pace over 162 games…Baltimore is 69-46 (.600) against the rest of baseball, a 97-win Tied after 8 innings 12-2 pace over a full season. Trail after 8 innings 3-59 ROAD WARRIORS: The Orioles have 39 road wins this year, nine more than their total in 2011 (30) and their Orioles score first 50-19 most since 2004, when they won 40…The O’s have 12 road games left counting tonight…The 39 road wins are Opponent scores first 33-43 fourth in the AL behind Texas, New York and Oakland’s 40. Score four or more runs 62-16 Score fewer than four runs 19-46 EARNING IT: The Orioles have played the most innings in all of baseball (1303.0)…The Athletics have played the fourth-most in baseball (1296.0) and second-most in the AL…The Nationals (1302.0) are second in the majors. Orioles homer 69-34 Out-hit opponents 49-5 WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC QUALIFIERS: Two Orioles farmhands will be playing in qualifying Equal hit total 12-6 tournaments next week in hopes of reaching the 2013 World Baseball Classic…OF Robbie Widlansky will play Outhit by opponents 20-51 for Team Israel and OF Steven Bumbry, son of Orioles Hall of Famer Al Bumbry, will play for Team England. Most hits in a game 18 (9/4) Fewest hits in a game 1 (6/18) YESTERDAY: Manny Machado recorded his first career walk-off hit, a single in the 14th inning…The Orioles No errors 44-27 played their fourth game of 14 or more innings and improved to 4-0 in those games…Their only loss in a game of With one error 25-23 more than 10 innings was a 12-inning loss to the Yankees April 10 (8-1 in games lasting more than 10 innings). With two errors 10-7 With three or more errors 2-5 GIVE US SIX: The Orioles are 64-18 (.780) when their starting pitchers go 6.0 innings or more…The Birds are just 17-44 (.279) when the starters work fewer than 6.0 innings. vs. AL 70-55 vs. AL East 35-24 IMPACT GLOVE: From Opening Day through August 8, Orioles third basemen combined for 24 errors and vs. AL Central 23-15 were last in the majors with a .914 fielding percentage (the team had a .980 fielding percentage, the worst in the vs. AL West 12-16 majors)…Since the Orioles selected the contract of Manny Machado on August 9, he has played every inning vs. NL 11-7 at third base, making just two errors for the third-best fielding percentage among AL third basemen (.979) Largest home crowd 46,773 (4/6) and the Orioles as a team have made just 13 errors, for a .989 fielding percentage, which is second-best in Largest road crowd 46,501 (9/2) the AL behind Kansas City (.990)…Both of Machado’s errors were throwing errors. LAST HOMESTAND BUCK-BALL: Since the start of the 2011 season, the Orioles are 49-29 (.628) in one-run games, the highest winning percentage in baseball (Giants are second at .594 (60-41)…Since Buck Showalter took over as manager Record 5-2 Team Average .257 (65-253) on August 3, 2010, the Orioles are 61-34 (.642) in one-run games…With their 27-7 (.794) record in one run games Runs per Game 5.4 (38R/7G) this year, the Orioles are on pace to have the highest winning percentage in major league history in one-run games…The record is currently held by the 1981 Orioles, who were 21-7 (.750) in one-run affairs. Fielding Errors 2 GET IT DONE: A win today would put the Orioles 20 games over .500 for the first time since the end of the 1997 Team ERA 4.76 (68.0IP, 36ER) season…If the O’s win and Yankees lose, it would be the first time the O’s had sole possession of first place in the Starters W-L 1-2 AL East in the month of September since the end of the 1997 season, when the Birds went wire-to-wire in first Starters ERA 5.09 (35.1IP, 20ER) place, finishing 98-64…The ‘97 Birds made it to the ALCS, where they lost to Cleveland, four games to two. Bullpen W-L-S 4-0-1 A FAMILY AFFAIR: With his third win of the season September 11, Steve Johnson improved to 3-0 in his big Bullpen ERA 4.41 (32.2IP, 16ER) league career…Combined with his father Dave’s 22-25 career record, they are 25-25…According to Elias, the Saves/Opps 1/1 th Johnsons are just the 13 father-son duo in baseball history to combine for a .500 or better mark in their careers Best homestand 5-1 (3x, last: 8/24-30) with a minimum of 50 decisions…Other notable father-son tandems at or above .500 include Dizzy and Steve Worst homestand 3-6 (6/22-7/1) Trout, Mel and Todd Stottlemyre, Doug and Kyle Drabek and Pedro Borbon Sr and Jr. Best road trip 5-1 (4/30-5/6) Worst road trip 3-6 (5/28-6/7) EXTRA INNINGS: The Orioles have won their last 13 extra innings games, extending a franchise record…The Birds have played 46 extra innings this year and have outscored their opponents 26-5 in extra frames…The 13- ON THIS DATE IN game win streak in extra innings is tied with the 1995 Cleveland Indians for the longest extra innings win CAMDEN YARDS HISTORY streak in the last 27 seasons…The Orioles have played eight games that went 12 or more innings this year…The In 1992, the Orioles beat the Royals 2-1 Birds are 7-1 in those games (only loss was April 10 vs. New York)…According to Elias, the last time the O’s on solo home runs by Brady Anderson played more than eight games that went 12 or more innings was 1966 (10) and the all-time franchise record was set and Cal Ripken, Jr.