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BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards  333 West Camden Street  Baltimore, MD 21201 BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards 333 West Camden Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Sunday, April 6, 2014 Game #6 Road Game #3 Baltimore Orioles (1-4) vs. Detroit Tigers (4-0) RH Chris Tillman (0-0, 1.80) vs. RH Justin Verlander (0-0, 3.00) TODAY’S GAME: The Orioles and Tigers meet in the finale of their three-game series in the Motor City…The ODDS & ENDS Birds have dropped the first two games of the series…RH’s Chris Tillman and Justin Verlander will make their Home 1-2 second starts of the season, after both pitching Opening Day. Away 0-2 th Day 1-1 YESTERDAY: The Orioles dropped their fourth consecutive game despite a five-run 9 inning, 7-6 to Night 0-1 Detroit…Bud Norris made his first start of the season and took the loss (5.0IP, 5ER)…The O’s set season-highs vs. LHP 1-1 with six runs on 10 hits. vs. RHP 0-3 VS. DETROIT: The Tigers lead the season series, 2-0…In 2013, the O’s won the season series, 4-2, going 2-1 in Series Record 0-2-0 Baltimore and 2-1 in Detroit…The O’s lead the all-time series 436-398 (225-191 in BAL and 211-207 in First game of series 1-1 DET)…The Orioles are 59-39 against the Tigers at Oriole Park (since 1992) and 25-25 at Comerica Park (since Last game of a series 0-1 2000)…In 30 career games vs. BAL, new Tigers manager Brad Ausmus hit .313 (31-99; 2nd best vs. any team). Last 10 games 1-4 th NINTH LIFE: The Birds plated five runs in the 9 inning in yesterday’s game, their highest single-frame output Win/Loss streak L4 th th in 2014…It was the highest-scoring 9 inning for the O’s since they also scored five in the 9 on April 10, 2013 at Longest win streak 1 (3/31) BOS (Davis HR, Casilla scored on wild pitch, Machado three-run HR off Hanrahan) in an 8-5 comeback Longest losing streak 4 (4/2-current) win…The O’s batted in the 9th inning a total of 122 times in 2013, scoring 53 runs (0.44 runs per game in the Most games over .500 1 (1-0) 9th)…In 2014, the O’s have come to bat in the 9th four times, scoring seven runs (1.75 runs per game in the 9th). Most games under .500 3 (1-4) RUSTY WITH RISP: The Orioles went 3-for-10 with runners in scoring position in the season-opening series Extra innings 0-0 against the Red Sox…In the first two games of the series vs. Detroit, the Birds are 5-for-23 (.217) with RISP. Shutouts 0-0 One-run games 1-2 HITS IN BUNCHES: After allowing nine hits to Boston on Opening Day, the O’s have allowed 10 or more hits Two-run games 0-0 (54 total) in each of the last four games…Last season, the Birds had two streaks of four or more games allowing 10+ hits in each game: 5 games, April 27-May 1 (vs. OAK & SEA) and 4 games, May 23-26 (vs. TOR). Lead after 7 innings 1-0 Tied after 7 innings 0-0 GOOD COMPANY: In 2013, J.J. Hardy became the fourth player to hit three or more HR in one season off of Trail after 7 innings 0-4 Justin Verlander, joining Jim Thome (4 in ’06), Victor Martinez (4 in ’07) and Jermaine Dye (3 in ’06). Lead after 8 innings 1-0 Tied after 8 innings 0-0 FUN IN THE SUN: The Birds are in the midst of five consecutive day games…It is their longest stretch of Trail after 8 innings 0-4 consecutive day games this season…Per Elias, the O’s last played five straight day games April 9-14, 1994…The Birds will play three straight day games on August 22-24 at the Cubs. Orioles score first 1-2 Opponent scores first 0-2 TIGER HUNTER: In his last 10 games against the Tigers, dating back to August 18, 2012, Chris Davis is Score four or more runs 0-2 batting .390 (16-41) with three doubles, six homers, nine runs scored and 15 RBI. Score fewer than four runs 1-2 ON THE ROAD AGAIN: The Orioles begin their first road trip of the season with a three game set against the Orioles homer 1-1 Tigers…Last season the Orioles were 39-42 in games outside of Baltimore…Chris Davis ranked second in the Outhit opponents 0-0 major leagues with 25 road home runs…Manny Machado was tied for second in the bigs with 26 road Equal hit total 0-0 doubles…In 2013, Adam Jones led all current Orioles in road batting average with a .279 mark (95- Outhit by opponents 1-4 341)…Darren O’Day led the Orioles in road ERA, posting a 1.60 ERA (33.2IP, 6ER) in away games last season. Most hits in a game 10 (4/5) Fewest hits in a game 6 (3/31, 4/2) WHOA NELLIE: Nelson Cruz homered in his first two games as an Oriole…According to Elias, he is the fifth Oriole to do so, joining Frank Robinson (1966), Rafael Palmeiro (1994), Pete Incaviglia (1996) and Sal No errors 1-3 Fasano (2005)…Cruz became the 25th 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 1-4 Classic: 1B Chris Davis, 3B Manny Machado, SS J.J. Hardy, CF Adam Jones & RHP Chris Tillman. vs. AL East 1-2 vs. AL Central 0-2 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 – recovering from left knee surgery), OF Francisco vs. NL 0-0 Peguero (retro to 3/21 – right wrist tendinitis), and OF Nolan Reimold (retro to 3/26 – cervical spine fusion surgery)…RHP Edgmer Escalona was placed on the 60-day DL (right shoulder impingement). Largest home crowd *46,685 (3/31) Largest road crowd 32,041 (4/5) 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 0-2 with a .991 fielding percentage, setting a major league record for highest fielding percentage in baseball history, Team Average .243 (17-70) topping the 2007 Rockies’ .989 mark…The Orioles were the first team in MLB history to post 100 errorless Runs per Game 5.0 (10R/2G) 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 9.56 (16.0IP, 17ER) won his second Gold Glove (also 2012), while Jones won his third (also 2009 and 2012) and Machado claimed his Starters W-L 0-2 first…The Birds became the first AL team since the 2002-03 Mariners to win at least three Gold Gloves in Starters ERA 12.96 (8.1IP, 12ER) consecutive seasons and Jones and Hardy became the first set of AL teammates to win in back-to-back years since th Adrian Beltre and Ichiro Suzuki for the Mariners in 2007-08…2013 was the 19 time the Orioles had multiple Bullpen W-L-S 0-0-0 Gold Glove winners in the same season…Machado is the 17th different Oriole to win a Gold Glove. Bullpen ERA 5.87 (7.2IP, 5ER) Saves/Opps 0/0 SILVER SLUGGERS: The Orioles led the majors with three Silver Slugger Award winners in 2013 as Chris Davis, J.J. Hardy and Adam Jones each received their first awards…The three winners were the most in a single Best 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 Worst homestand 1-2 (3/31-4/3) claim a Silver Slugger Award, while Hardy is the third shortstop (Cal Ripken, Jr. eight times and Miguel Tejada Best road trip 0-2 (current) twice) and Davis is the third first baseman (Eddie Murray twice and Rafael Palmeiro once)…The Orioles have Worst road trip 0-2 (current) 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.
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