BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards 333 West Camden Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Wednesday, April 9, 2014 Game #9 Road Game #6 Baltimore Orioles (3-5) vs. New York Yankees (4-4) RH Miguel Gonzalez (0-1, 18.90) vs. RH Masahiro Tanaka (1-0, 2.57) TODAY’S GAME: The Orioles and Yankees meet in the rubber match of their three-game series in New York, ODDS & ENDS the first of six series between the clubs in 2014…Following tonight’s game, the Orioles have Thursday off before Home 1-2 beginning a six-game homestand against Toronto and Tampa Bay. Away 2-3 Day 3-3 YESTERDAY: The O’s offense, which had scored 15 runs in the first four games of the road trip, tallied 14 runs Night 0-2 in yesterday’s 14-5 win…The Birds collected 20 hits, their second-highest single game output in the Bronx in vs. LHP 1-1 franchise history (22 - June 8, 1986)…Ryan Flaherty and Delmon Young each collected their first three-hit vs. RHP 2-4 game since August 2, 2013 (Young with Philadelphia)…Matt Wieters homered and has now hit safely in all seven games in which he has played this season…Wei-Yin Chen (5.0IP, 4ER) earned his first win of the season. Series Record 0-2-0 First game of series 1-2 VS. NEW YORK: The 19-game season series is tied, 1-1…In 2013, the O’s dropped the season series, 10-9, Last game of a series 1-1 going 6-4 in Baltimore and 3-6 in New York…The Yankees lead the all-time series 543-443 (262-228 in BAL and Last 10 games 3-5 281-215 in NY)…The O’s snapped a four-game losing streak against New York with yesterday’s win. Win/Loss streak W1 BATS ALIVE!: Baltimore bats battered Bronx pitching yesterday: Longest win streak 1 (4/8) 20 hits represented the O’s most in a game since May 10, 2011 vs. SEA (20) Longest losing streak 4 (4/2-5) Most games over .500 1 (1-0) 14 runs were the most scored in a game since August 10, 2010 @CLE (14) Most games under .500 3 (last 2-5) The O’s plated multiple runs in four different innings for the first time since April 25, 2013 vs. OAK (Elias) Baltimore bopped three home runs, which matched the their longball total in the season’s first seven games Extra innings 0-0 Shutouts 0-0 OFFENSIVE: For all MLB games in 2014, yesterday’s offensive output included these single-game marks: the One-run games 1-2 first 20-hit game, the most total bases, and tied for most runs scored in a game by one club. Two-run games 1-1 EVERYONE HITS: Yesterday’s game represented the first game of the 2014 MLB season in which every starter Lead after 7 innings 2-0 recorded at least one hit for a team…According to Retrosheet, the last time the O’s had all nine starters record a Tied after 7 innings 1-0 hit was August 26, 2011 vs. NYY…Across MLB, this happened a total of 46 times from 2009-13, and the O’s did Trail after 7 innings 0-5 it twice (8/26/11 vs. NYY and 8/14/09 vs. LAA)…In the August 26, 2011 game vs. NYY, the O’s had every Lead after 8 innings 3-0 starter collect a hit and score a run, a feat they matched with yesterday’s performance. Tied after 8 innings 0-0 Trail after 8 innings 0-5 SPELLING RELIEF: In eight games this season, the O’s bullpen has turned in eight individual appearances of more than 1.0 inning: Zach Britton (three times, each 2.0IP), Josh Stinson (twice, 2.2 & 2.1), Ryan Webb Orioles score first 2-2 (twice, 1.2 & 1.1) & Evan Meek (1.1)…Overall, the bullpen has pitched to a 2.77 ERA (26.0IP, 8ER, 8BB, 21K). Opponent scores first 1-3 Score four or more runs 1-2 NINTH LIFE: The Birds plated five runs in the 9th inning in Saturday’s game, their highest single-frame output Score fewer than four runs 2-3 in 2014…It was the highest-scoring 9th inning for the O’s since scoring five in the 9th on April 10, 2013 at BOS. Orioles homer 3-1 FUN IN THE SUN: The Birds just completed a stretch of five consecutive day games…It is their longest stretch Outhit opponents 2-0 of consecutive day games this season…Per Elias, the O’s last played five straight day games April 9-14, Equal hit total 0-1 Outhit by opponents 1-4 1994…The Birds will play three straight day games on August 22-24 at the Cubs. Most hits in a game 20 (4/8) WHOA NELLIE: Nelson Cruz homered in his first two games as an Oriole…According to Elias, he is the fifth Fewest hits in a game 6 (3/31, 4/2) Oriole to do so, joining Frank Robinson (1966), Rafael Palmeiro (1994), Pete Incaviglia (1996) and Sal th No errors 3-4 Fasano (2005)…Cruz became the 25 Oriole to hit a home run in his first game as an Oriole and the first to With one error 0-1 homer in his Birds debut on Opening Day since Cesar Izturis (April 6, 2009 vs. NYY). With two errors 0-0 With three or more errors 0-0 SEEING STARS: This off-season, the Birds added three former All-Stars in OF Nelson Cruz (TEX ’09 & ’13) and RHPs Ubaldo Jimenez (COL ’10) & Evan Meek (PIT ’10)…In 2013, the O’s sent five to the Midsummer vs. AL 3-5 Classic: 1B Chris Davis, 3B Manny Machado, SS J.J. Hardy, CF Adam Jones & RHP Chris Tillman. vs. AL East 2-3 vs. AL Central 1-2 DISABLED LIST: Four O’s began the season on the 15-day DL: INF Michael Almanzar (retroactive to 3/23 – vs. AL West 0-0 left patellar tendinitis), INF Manny Machado (retro to 3/21 – left knee surgery), OF Francisco Peguero (retro to vs. NL 0-0 3/21 – right wrist tendinitis), and OF Nolan Reimold (cervical spine fusion surgery…transferred to the 60-day DL on April 7)…RHP Edgmer Escalona was placed on the 60-day DL (right shoulder impingement). Largest home crowd *46,685 (3/31) Largest road crowd *48,142 (4/07) DE-FENSE: The O’s 119 errorless games last season set a ML record, surpassing the 2008 Houston Astros (113 CURRENT ROAD TRIP in 161 games) for most errorless games in a season since 1900…The Birds made 54 errors, also setting a ML record for fewest errors in a 162-game season (previous record – 65, 2003 Seattle Mariners)…The O’s led MLB Record 2-3 with a .991 fielding percentage, setting a major league record for highest fielding percentage in baseball history, Team Average .296 (53-179) topping the 2007 Rockies’ .989 mark…The Orioles were the first team in MLB history to post 100 errorless Runs per Game 5.8 (29R/5G) games by the end of August (they had 101)…The O’s previous season-low for team errors was 104 in 1998. Fielding Errors 0 AS GOOD AS GOLD: The Orioles had six finalists for the Rawlings Gold Glove Award in 2013: Chris Davis, J.J. Hardy, Adam Jones, Manny Machado, Nick Markakis and Matt Wieters, the most of any club…Hardy Team ERA 5.79 (42.0IP, 27ER) won his second Gold Glove (also 2012), while Jones won his third (also 2009 and 2012) and Machado claimed his Starters W-L 2-3 first…Machado also claimed the AL Platinum Glove Award, his first…The Birds became the first AL team since Starters ERA 7.18 (26.1IP, 21ER) the 2002-03 Mariners to win at least three Gold Gloves in consecutive seasons and Jones and Hardy became the first set of AL teammates to win in back-to-back years since Adrian Beltre and Ichiro Suzuki for the Mariners in Bullpen W-L-S 0-0-1 2007-08…2013 was the 19th time the Orioles had multiple Gold Glove winners in the same season…Machado is Bullpen ERA 3.45 (15.2IP, 6ER) the 17th different Oriole to win a Gold Glove. Saves/Opps 1/1 SILVER SLUGGERS: The Orioles led the majors with three Silver Slugger Award winners in 2013 as Chris Best homestand 1-2 (3/31-4/3) Davis, J.J. Hardy and Adam Jones each received their first awards…The three winners were the most in a single Worst homestand 1-2 (3/31-4/3) season in Orioles history and the first since DH Aubrey Huff in 2008…Jones is the first Orioles outfielder to Best road trip 2-3 (current) claim a Silver Slugger Award, while Hardy is the third shortstop (Cal Ripken, Jr. eight times and Miguel Tejada Worst road trip 2-3 (current) twice) and Davis is the third first baseman (Eddie Murray twice and Rafael Palmeiro once)…The Orioles have now had 11 players win Silver Sluggers (20 total awards) since the award began in 1980. THE SKIPPER: Buck Showalter, a two-time Manager of the Year (1994 and 2004), returns for his fifth season as Orioles manager…He was named 2012 AL Manager of the Year by the Sporting News…Showalter has a 1,163-1,095 (.515) record in 15 seasons as manager of the New York Yankees (313-268; 1992- 95), Arizona Diamondbacks (250-236; 1998-2000), Texas Rangers (319-329; 2003-2006) and Orioles (281-262, 2010-current)…On May 1, 2012 in New York, Showalter became the 58th manager in MLB history to win 1,000 games.