Orioles Game Information • August 26, 2008
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BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Ed Smith Stadium 2700 12th Street Sarasota, FL 34237 BALTIMORE ORIOLES SPRING TRAINING NOTES Thursday, March 13, 2014 George M. Steinbrenner Field Tampa, FL BALTIMORE ORIOLES (9-4) vs. New York Yankees (7-5-2) 1:05 PM ET TODAY’S GAME GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE SLATE: The Orioles have 30 games scheduled this spring, with 15 in Sarasota The Orioles travel to Tampa to take on the and 15 on the road…The Orioles will wrap up Spring Training with an exhibition game in Norfolk, VA New York Yankees in the second of three against their Triple-A club on March 29. spring match-ups…RH Bud Norris will make his third spring start and face New GETTING STARTED: The Orioles opened the exhibition schedule with 61 players on their major league York RH Michael Pineda…The O’s camp roster (21 non-roster invitees)…24 players from the current 40-man roster were in major league camp earned a 3-2 win in their first visit to with the O’s last spring. Steinbrenner Field on March 4. VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN: Ed Smith Stadium is among the leading vote getters in a USA Today poll YESTERDAY’S GAME ranking the top Spring Training stadiums in the US…Voting concludes March 24…Fans can vote by visiting http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-spring-training-facility/. For the second consecutive game, the Orioles’ attempted comeback fell short COACHING STAFF: Over the off-season, the Orioles hired Dave Wallace as pitching coach and Dom and resulted in a 6-5 loss…Ubaldo Chiti as bullpen coach…Bobby Dickerson (third base) and Einar Diaz (assistant hitting) return for their Jimenez surrendered four runs on four second years, while Wayne Kirby (first base), Jim Presley (hitting) and John Russell (bench) return for hits and three walks in his two innings of their fourth years on the coaching staff. work…Trailing 6-3 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, INF Alex Gonzalez TOGETHER AGAIN: With the signing of free agent RH Ubaldo Jimenez and non-roster invitee INF knocked a two-run homer to trim the Alexi Casilla, the Orioles have reunited a pair of little league teammates…The pair played together in San deficit to one…OF Nolan Reimold went Cristobal, Dominican Republic from ages 11-14. 2-for-3, including a two-run home run of his own. WELCOME BACK: Pitchers on the 40-man that saw regular season action for Baltimore in 2013 (14): Belfiore, Britton, Chen, Gausman, Gonzalez, Hunter, Johnson, Matusz, McFarland, Norris, O’Day, Patton, THURSDAY’S PITCHERS @NYY Stinson and Tillman…Returning Baltimore position players on the 40-man roster that played for the O’s in ORIOLES: RH Bud Norris and RH 2013 (12): Clevenger, Davis, Flaherty, Hardy, Jones, Machado, Markakis, Pearce, Reimold, Schoop, Urrutia Kevin Gausman. and Wieters…Alexi Casilla is in camp as non-roster invitee. YANKEES: RH Michael Pineda, RH PROSPECTING: The Orioles have five of ESPN.com’s Top 100 prospects: RHP Kevin Gausman (23), David Robertson, LH Matt Thornton, RH RHP Dylan Bundy (31), RHP Hunter Harvey (38), Eduardo Rodriguez (43), and INF Jonathan Schoop Bruce Billings, RH Chase Whitley, and (86)…MLB.com has Bundy (20), Gausman (31) and Rodriguez (68) ranked in their Top 100…Baseball LH Cesar Cabral. America has the same trio on their list, with Bundy ranked 15th, Gausman ranked 20th and Rodriguez 65th. FRIDAY’S PITCHERS @MIN OFFSEASON ADDITIONS: Since the end of the 2013 season, the Orioles traded for four players (INF ORIOLES: LH Wei-Yin Chen. Jemile Weeks, OF David Lough, CA Johnny Monell and RHP Brad Brach)…The club signed seven TWINS: RH Mike Pelfrey. players as free agents (OF Nelson Cruz, LH Kelvin De La Cruz, RH Edgmer Escalona, RH Ubaldo Jimenez, OF Francisco Peguero, RH Ryan Webb and RH Suk-min Yoon)…The Birds selected INF SATURDAY’S PITCHERS vs. NYY Michael Almanzar in the Rule 5 draft from Boston…LH Tim Berry and CA Michael Ohlman had their ORIOLES: RH Chris Tillman. contracts selected. YANKEES: LH Vidal Nuno. UNITED NATIONS: The Orioles have players from nine different countries in camp: Cuba (Urrutia), Curacao (Schoop), Dominican Republic (Almanzar, Casilla, Castillo, Cruz, De La Cruz, Jimenez and SUNDAY’S PITCHERS @TOR Peguero), South Korea (Yoon), Mexico (Aceves and M. Gonzalez), Puerto Rico (DeJesus), Taiwan (Chen), ORIOLES: RH Miguel Gonzalez United States of America (several) and Venezuela (Escalona, Gonzalez and Rodriguez). BLUE JAYS: TBA WELCOME TO THE SHOW: LHP Tim Berry is the only pitcher on the 40-man roster in camp that pitched in the organization last year but did not see major league action (Dylan Bundy was injured)…CA GO TO THE MONITOR Michael Ohlman is the lone position player in camp that was in the organization but did not play for the O’s Five Orioles spring training games will in 2013. have instant replay: March 5 @MIN, March 7 vs. PHI, March 8 vs. BOS, March NEW FACES: Pitchers in camp that were not with the organization in 2013: (6) Yoon, Jimenez, Brach, 14 @MIN and March 25 @MIN. Webb, Escalona and De La Cruz in addition to (6) non-roster invitees: Aceves, Additon, Alderson, Castillo, Huntzinger and Meek…Position players new to the organization (6): Almanzar, Cruz, Lough, Monell, O’s ON THE TUBE Peguero and Weeks in addition to (8) non-roster invitees: Berry, Borbon, DeJesus, Gonzalez, Marrero, Paul, The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network Phelps and Young. (MASN) will broadcast seven Spring Training games (March 1, 7, 8, 15, 17, 19 THE SKIPPER: Buck Showalter, a two-time Manager of the Year (1994 and 2004), returns for his fifth and 24)…MLB Network will carry three season as Orioles manager…He has a 1163-1095 (.515) record in 15 seasons as manager of the Yankees additional games (March 2, 4 and 26). (313-268; 1992-95), Diamondbacks (250-236; 1998-2000), Rangers (319-329; 2003-2006) and Orioles (281- 262, August 2010-current)…On May 10, 2013, Showalter became the 49th manager in MLB history to win O’s ON THE AIR 1,100 games…His 281 wins as Orioles manager are fifth-most in club history behind Earl Weaver (1480), WBAL Radio (1090 AM) will broadcast Paul Richards (517), Hank Bauer (407) and Johnny Oates (291). 14 games this spring (full schedule on back of notes)…WBAL will air all 162 LAST SPRING: In their fourth season in Sarasota, the Orioles drew a franchise and Sarasota spring training O’s regular season games, with Joe Angel attendance record 120,455 fans for 17 home games (average of 7,086)…The old record was the 115,506 fans and Fred Manfra calling the action. in 16 dates in 2011…The Orioles sold out nine of their 17 home games in 2013…The 7,086 average was the third-highest average in club history…The Birds went 19-9-4 during the exhibition schedule, including a 10- BREAKDOWN vs. OPPONENTS 4-3 record at Ed Smith Stadium…The 19 wins tied for the second-most wins in a spring for the Birds (also OPP. HOME ROAD TOT. 1969), one win behind the 20 spring wins by the 2002 Orioles…Entering 2014, the O’s are 806-787-17 all- ATL (1) 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 time in Spring Training, with a home attendance total of 3,803,253. BOS (6) 1-1-0 1-1-0 2-2-0 MIN (5) 0-1-0 1-0-0 1-1-0 SPRING TRAINING IN SARASOTA: The Orioles are the sixth major league team to train in Sarasota NYY (3) 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 since the New York Giants began training in the Sun Coast city in 1924…The Giants called Sarasota home PHI (3) 1-1-0 0-0-0 1-1-0 from 1924-1927 and the Boston Red Sox trained in Sarasota from 1933-58 (with the exception of four years PIT (4) 1-0-0 1-0-0 2-0-0 during World War II)…The Los Angeles Dodgers came to Sarasota for the 1959 season before the Chicago TB (6) 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 White Sox began a 28-year run here (1960-97)…The Cincinnati Reds trained at Ed Smith Stadium from TOR (2) 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 1998-2009...Ed Smith Stadium was built in 1989 and renovated prior to the 2011 spring season. TOTAL (30) 4-3-0 5-1-0 9-4-0 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: 20 years ago, Ed Smith Stadium was the site of Michael Jordan’s transition from the NBA to professional baseball with the White Sox in 1994…That fall, Orioles Assistant Athletic Trainer Brian Ebel served as the trainer for Jordan’s Scottsdale Scorpions club in the Arizona Fall League. THURSDAY, MARCH 13 FRIDAY, MARCH 14 SATURDAY, MARCH 15 SUNDAY, MARCH 16 At Yankees – 1:05 At Minnesota – 1:05 Vs. Yankees – 1:05 At Toronto – 1:05 BAL starter: RH Bud Norris BAL starter: LH Wei-Yin Chen BAL starter: RH Chris Tillman BAL starter: RH Miguel Gonzalez NYY starter: RH Michael Pineda MIN starter: RH Mike Pelfrey NYY starter: LH Vidal Nuno TOR starter: TBA CLUBHOUSE OPEN TO MEDIA: CLUBHOUSE OPEN TO MEDIA: CLUBHOUSE OPEN TO MEDIA: CLUBHOUSE OPEN TO MEDIA: 8:15-9:15 a.m. in Sarasota, post-game 8:15-9:15 a.m. in Sarasota, post-game 8:15-9:15 a.m.