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 13, 2013 Game #147 Home Game #76 Baltimore Orioles (77-69) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (67-79) RH Jason Hammel (7-8, 5.11) vs. RH Todd Redmond (3-2, 4.40) TONIGHT’S GAME: The Orioles and Blue Jays meet in the first game of their three-game series and the start of ODDS & ENDS the O’s final road trip of the season, a 10-game, 11-day trip that will also take them to Boston and Tampa Home 42-33 Bay…The Orioles are looking for their first road series win against an AL East opponent since April 8-11, when Away 35-36 they took two of three at Fenway Park. Day 25-25 Night 52-44 VS. TORONTO: The Orioles trail in the season series, 6-7, with the Birds going 4-2 in Baltimore and 2-5 in vs. LHP 24-24 Toronto…The Orioles won the season series, 11-7, in 2012, going 7-2 in Baltimore and 4-5 in Toronto…It was vs. RHP 53-45 their first season series win over Toronto since 2004 (11-8)…The Orioles trail in the all-time series, 248-289 (141- 129 in Baltimore and 107-160 in Toronto)…Since the start of the 2012 season, the Orioles are 11-4 at home Series Record 25-17-4 First game of series 28-19 against Toronto…The O’s are 9-14 in their last 23 games in Toronto. Last game of a series 26-21 FEASTING ON THE JAYS: Adam Jones has hit a home run in each of his last three games against the Blue Last 10 games 4-6 Jays (July 12-14)…Earlier this season (May 23-26), Jones hit a home run in four straight games versus Win/Loss streak L3 Toronto…According to STATS, the only other player in Orioles history to have two separate streaks of three-plus Longest win streak 5 (7/14-22) straight games with a home run against the same team within a single season was Boog Powell, who did it in 1969 Longest losing streak 6 (5/14-20) against the Chicago White Sox. Most games + .500 14 (57-43) Most games - .500 1 (3-4) HOME RUN DERBY: Chris Davis (15) and Adam Jones (14) have the most homers against the Jays since the start of the 2012 season…Jones (7) and Davis (6) are first and tied for second, respectively, in home runs by a Extra innings 7-5 Toronto opponent this season…Davis hit nine home runs against Toronto in 2012, tying Manny Ramirez (2001 Shutouts 6-6 for Boston) for the most by an opponent in a season since the Blue Jays franchise began in 1977…Edwin One-run games 16-27 Two-run games 17-9 Encarnacion has 14 homers against the Birds since the start of 2012, the most by an opponent and four more than the next-highest total (Curtis Granderson, 10)…Encarnacion has homered in three straight games against the Lead after 7 innings 64-8 Birds twice this year (April 23-May 23 and June 23-July 13). Tied after 7 innings 9-8 Trail after 7 innings 4-53 ANOTHER SLUGFEST?: In their seven games at Rogers Centre this season, the Orioles are averaging 5.7 runs Lead after 8 innings 67-9 per game, over a full run (4.5) higher than their average in their other 64 road games…The Birds have batted .295 Tied after 8 innings 7-8 (74-251) in those seven games and .261 (594-2271) in their other 64 games on the road. Trail after 8 innings 3-52 HOT BAT: In his last 12 games (since August 4), Danny Valencia has nine multi-hit games (including six in a Orioles score first 48-27 row from August 4-September 1)…He is 23-for-42 (.547) in his last 12 games with seven doubles, four homers Opponent scores first 29-42 and 10 RBI. Score four or more runs 64-29 Score fewer than four runs 13-40 SELECT COMPANY: With his next home run, Chris Davis will become the third player in major league history to hit 50 homers and 40 doubles in a season, joining Babe Ruth (59 homers/44 doubles in 152 games in Orioles homer 63-52 Out-hit opponents 51-21 1921) and Albert Belle (52 homers/50 doubles for Cleveland in 143 games in 1995). Equal hit total 9-3 40/40 CLUB: With his double Wednesday, Chris Davis became the first player in Orioles history to hit 40 Out-hit by opponents 17-45 doubles and 40 homers in the same season…It was the 36th 40 double/40 homer season in MLB history and Davis Most hits in a game 18 (5/10, 7/22) th th Fewest hits in a game 2 (6/7) is the 26 player to accomplish the feat…Davis is the 11 left-handed batter to go 40/40, joining Carlos Delgado, Lou Gehrig, Shawn Green, Todd Helton, Chuck Klein, David Ortiz, Babe Ruth, Willie Stargell, Hal Trosky No errors 61-49 and Larry Walker (Chipper Jones and Mark Teixeira did it as switch hitters). With one error 14-15 With two errors 2-5 CLOSE CALLS: 13 of the Orioles’ last 19 games have been decided by two or fewer runs (4-9 record), including With three or more errors 0-0 seven one run games (2-5 record). vs. AL 66-60 BOUNCING BACK: The Orioles are 40-28 (.588) in games following a loss (21-14 on the road). vs. AL East 28-32 vs. AL Central 17-16 CLOSING IN: With one more double by J.J. Hardy, the 2013 Orioles will become the fourth team in club vs. AL West 21-12 history to have three or more players hit 25+ doubles and 25+ homers in the same season…Hardy has 24 doubles vs. NL 11-9 and 25 homers, while Adam Jones (32-2B/31-HR) and Chris Davis (40-2B/49-HR) have already reached that mark…Jones and Hardy combined with Mark Reynolds in 2011, while Jay Gibbons, Miguel Tejada and Largest home crowd 46,653 (4/5) Largest road crowd 45,214 (6/23) Melvin Mora each went 25/25 in 2005…The club record is four, set by the 1996 club (Bobby Bonilla, Brady Anderson, Cal Ripken, Jr. and Rafael Palmeiro)…Matt Wieters (24-2B/21-HR) has a chance to give the 2013 LAST HOMESTAND Orioles a fourth 25/25 player. Record 4-4 SLUGGING SHORTSTOP: Since the All-Star break, J.J. Hardy is batting .295/.348/.497, posting the second- Team Average .264 (71-268) highest OPS (.845) among MLB shortstops, trailing only Hanley Ramirez (.931) of the Dodgers. Runs per Game 3.8 (31R/8G) GOLD GLOVES: The Orioles have made 43 errors in 146 games, a pace for 47 errors in 162 games…The major Fielding Errors 3 league record for fewest errors in a 162-game season is 65 by the 2003 Seattle Mariners…The 2013 Orioles lead Team ERA 3.32 (73.0IP, 27ER) the majors with a .992 fielding percentage, which, if maintained through the entire season, would be the best fielding percentage in baseball history, topping the 2007 Rockies’ .989 mark…Per STATS, the Orioles are the Starters W-L 3-1 first team in MLB history to post 100 errorless games by the end of August (they had 101)… Their 110 Starters ERA 3.37 (53.1IP, 20ER) errorless games this season are a new club record (previous mark was 104 in 1998) and according to Elias, Bullpen W-L-S 1-3-2 are three shy of the 2008 Houston Astros for most errorless games (113 in 161 games) in a season since Bullpen ERA 3.20 (19.2IP, 7ER) 1900…The 2003 Mariners had 112 errorless games. Saves/Opps 2/2 #49: Chris Davis hit his 49th homer Tuesday night, tying Frank Robinson (1966) for second place on the franchise home run list behind Brady Anderson’s 50 in 1996…Davis’ 46 home runs as a first baseman are the most in the AL since Carlos Pena hit 46 for Tampa Bay in 2007…Davis has an MLB-leading 89 extra-base hits, 20 more than Miguel Cabrera and three shy of Anderson’s club record (92 in 1996)…The only O’s to lead MLB in extra-base hits were Frak Robinson (85 in 1966) and Cal Ripken, Jr. (85 in 1991). DUCKS ON THE POND: The O’s went 13-for-63 (.206) with runners in scoring position on their just-completed eight-game homestand …The Birds have had one game in their last 11 (Wednesday, 4-for-9) with more than two hits with RISP…Over the last 19 games, they are batting .212 (30-141) with RISP and have an 8-11 record in that span. THE SAVE-IOR: Jim Johnson is tied for the AL lead with 43 saves…He is the first Oriole to post two 40-save seasons and became the 21st pitcher in MLB history to record consecutive 40+ save seasons…Now has 94 saves over the last two seasons, becoming the seventh pitcher in MLB history to record as many as 94 saves over a two season span, joining Eric Gagne, Francisco Rodriguez, John Smoltz, Mariano Rivera and Dennis Eckersley. HIT MAN(NY): Manny Machado leads the majors with 49 doubles, which are the second-most in MLB history by a player in his age-20 or younger season behind Alex Rodriguez (54 in 1996)…Machado is tied for the MLB lead with 181 hits (with Mike Trout)…He is on pace for 54 doubles, which would be one shy Brian Roberts’ club record set in 2009.