ORIOLES POSTGAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards  333 West Camden Street  Baltimore, MD 21201

Saturday  September 29, 2018  Game #161  Home Game #80  G2 Houston Astros (103-58) vs. (46-115)

R H E LOB WP: Peacock (3-4) TIME: 2:53 ASTROS 5 9 0 8 LP: Ramírez (1-8) ORIOLES 2 6 1 6 SV: Pressly (2)

GETTING STARTED: Tonight’s first pitch was at 7:38 p.m.…Game-time temperature was 74 degrees.

TONIGHT’S ATTENDANCE was 26,020…The 77-date (80 game) season total is 1,539,275…Average attendance is 19,990.

ORIOLES NOTES

VS. HOUSTON: The Orioles were swept in today’s doubleheader after falling by a score of 5-2 in game two…Have dropped three-straight games and are now 6-20 in the month of September; have lost 20 games in three different months this season…Are now 0-6 against Houston on the year, and 6-26 against AL West opponents…Drop to 27-53 at Oriole Park.

STARTER NOTES: RHP Yefry Ramírez suffered his eighth loss of the season after allowing three runs on five hits, two home runs, with three walks and four strikeouts in 6.0 innings of work…Tonight marked his first career Quality Start and a career-high in innings pitched (previously 5.2 innings, September 15 vs. Chicago-AL)…Went 0-2 with a 3.20 ERA (16 ER/45.0 IP) in 10 appearances at Oriole Park (seven starts), as opposed to going 0-4 with a 11.95 ERA (27 ER/20.1 IP) in seven road games (five starts).

MVO: RF went 2-for-3 with a pair of singles and a walk, his team-leading 44th multi-hit game of the season…Entered today’s game eighth in multi-hit games among AL outfielders…Has hit safely in four-straight games, batting .500 (7-for-14) in that stretch…In six games against Houston this season, he is batting .391 (9-for-23).

HOME IS WHERE THE HITS ARE: CF Cedric Mullins has hit safely in 16 of 23 home games, and is hitting .301 (25-for-83) at Oriole Park.

ODDS & ENDS: SS Tim Beckham has collected a hit and scored a run in each of his last five games, batting .348 (8-for-23) with seven runs scored and three RBI over this stretch…Hitting .295 (18-for-61) with two doubles, three home runs, seven RBI, and 11 runs scored in 17 September games…C tied the game at 1-1 with an RBI single in the second inning…Has hit safely in four consecutive games, batting .333 (4-for-12) over that stretch…Is hitting .274 (23-for-84) with 12 runs scored and 10 RBI in 32 games since the All-Star Break.

ASTROS NOTES

VS. BALTIMORE: The Astros swept the Orioles in today’s doubleheader with a 5-2 victory in game two…Are now 6-0 against Baltimore this season; have gone 17-2 against the Orioles since the beginning of 2016…Was their 103rd victory this season, marking a new franchise record for wins (previously 102 by the 1998 Astros)…Are now 45 games above .500, also a franchise-best…Have gone 56-23 on the road this season, the second-best road record in the Majors dating back to 1961 when the schedule expanded to 162 games…Have gone 21-5 in the month of September.

STARTER NOTES: LHP Dallas Keuchel did not factor into the decision after working 3.0 innings, allowing one run on five hits with one walk and two strikeouts…Tonight’s start was his 34th and final of the regular season, marking a new single-season career-high (33 in 2015)…Finished the season with a record of 12-11 and a 3.74 ERA…Finished the season with 204.2 innings pitched; entered today as fourth-most in the American League…Is his third season with 200-or-more innings pitched, becoming the 15th pitcher in franchise history to log three seasons of 200+ innings pitched, and the fourth left-hander...Last Astros pitcher with three seasons of 200+ innings was Roy Oswalt, who did so in six seasons from 2002-08.

WELCOME TO THE SHOW: LF Myles Straw gave the Astros an early 1-0 lead with a one-out in the first inning, the first home run of his Major League career (eighth career game)…Also marked his first career RBI.

STREAKING: 3B Yuli Gurriel extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a two-out single in the first inning…Went 2-for-5, his 43rd multi-hit game of the season…The 13-game streak matches his career-high set earlier this season (7/2-30) and tied for the second-longest active streak in the majors behind Whit Merrifield’s 19-game streak…In eight career games against Baltimore, he is averaging .324 (11-for-34) with two doubles, two home runs, four runs scored, and six RBI.

CANNON BALL: C Brian McCann extended Houston’s lead to 3-1 with a two-out solo shot in the sixth inning, his seventh home run of the season.

EXTENDING IT: CF Jake Marisnick put the Astros ahead 5-2 with a two-run homer in the eighth inning, his 10th home run of the season…The homer extended his hitting streak to a season-high five games; he is batting .417 (5-for-12) in this stretch…Tallied three RBI on the night, matching a season- high (done two other times, last: June 26 vs. Toronto).

SPOTLESS: RHP Ryan Pressly worked a scoreless ninth inning, issuing one walk with two strikeouts…Has not allowed a run in a career-long 21 straight games (18.0 innings); entered today’s game with the third-longest active scoreless streak in the majors.