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BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards 333 West Camden Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Wednesday, July 5, 2017 Game #84 Road Game #43 Baltimore Orioles (40-43) at Milwaukee Brewers (46-40) LHP Jayson Aquino (1-1, 9.00) vs. RHP Matt Garza (3-4, 4.36) WINNING WAYS HEY NOW, YOU’RE AN ALL-STAR: 2B Jonathan Schoop was named an American League All-Star on Sunday...He is making first career All-Star appearance...The 88th Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be Most wins since 2012 among AL clubs: played on Tuesday, July 11 at Marlins Park in Miami. 1. BALTIMORE ORIOLES 484 2. New York Yankees 479 BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The Orioles have had 21 All-Stars over the last six seasons (since 2012)...According to 3. Texas Rangers 474 STATS, LLC., the 21 Baltimore All-Stars since 2012 lead the American League and rank second in the majors 4. Detroit Tigers 468 behind the St. Louis Cardinals (26)...The O’s are one of six teams with at least 20 All-Stars over the last six seasons. 5. Los Angeles Angels 467 SCORING CHANGE: The official scorer has made a scoring change to Tuesday's game...In the top of the seventh HOME GOODS inning, Adam Jones reached on a fielder's choice and advanced on what was originally scored a throwing error by Best home records in the AL: 3B Travis Shaw...The error is now charged to 1B Eric Thames. 1. New York Yankees 25-14 (.641) Boston Red Sox 25-14 (.641) RISP-Y BUSINESS: Orioles hitters lead the American League and rank third in the majors with a batting average 3. BALTIMORE ORIOLES 25-16 (.610) of .290 (165-for-568) with runners in scoring position…INF/OF Trey Mancini leads the AL and ranks third in the 4. Houston Astros 27-18 (.600) majors with a .404 (19-for-47) batting average with runners in scoring position…OF Adam Jones is tied for fourth 5. Tampa Bay Rays 24-18 (.571) in the AL and is tied for 11th in the majors at .370 (20-for-54) with runners in scoring position…2B Jonathan th THE GAME OF RISP Schoop ranks sixth in the AL and 13 in the majors with a .368 (21-for-57) mark with runners in scoring position. Top team batting averages with runners in 25-MAN-NY: 3B Manny Machado will turn 25 years old on Thursday, July 6...According to STATS, LLC., he scoring position in the majors: ranks among leaders in Orioles history (since 1954) prior to turning 25 years old...With 158 doubles, Machado owns 1. Colorado Rockies .304 th the most in Orioles history before turning 25...Machado owns 287 extra-base hits before his 25 birthday, most in 2. Washington Nationals .298 Orioles history…With 121 home runs, Machado ranks second in Orioles history before turning 25 (Boog Powell, 3. BALTIMORE ORIOLES .290 127)...Machado's 352 RBI are the fourth-most in Orioles history before turning 25…Machado is one of eight players 4. Houston Astros .287 in Major League history with at least 150 doubles, 120 home runs, and 30 stolen bases before turning 25...He is also 5. Arizona Diamondbacks .285 one of 12 players all-time to notch at least 120 home runs, 350 RBI, and 30 stolen bases before turning 25. RISP MANAGEMENT INTERLEAGUE INFO: The Orioles will play a total of 20 games against National League opponents this season Top batting averages with runners in scoring position in the AL (qualifying only): (currently 8-6) including Cincinnati (2-1), Washington (2-2), Pittsburgh (2-0, 9/26-27), St. Louis (2-1), Milwaukee (0-2), and Chicago (7/14-16)…Since Interleague Play began in 1997, the Orioles are 183-194…The Orioles went 1. TREY MANCINI, BAL .404 14-6 in Interleague Play last season…Baltimore’s 14 Interleague victories last season were the most in club 2. Justin Upton, DET .394 history...The Orioles notched 12 Interleague wins in 2014 and 2015. 3. Mookie Betts, BOS .388 4. ADAM JONES, BAL .370 VS. MILWAUKEE: The Orioles and Brewers play the final game of three matchups between the two clubs this Marwin Gonzalez, HOU .370 6. JONATHAN SCHOOP, BAL .368 season…The two teams last met in 2014 and the Brewers won the season series, 2-1…Baltimore leads Milwaukee in the all-time series, 220-165, with the Orioles leading 111-75 at home and leading 109-90 at Milwaukee...The JUST A LITTLE CRUSH Brewers franchise began as the Seattle Pilots in 1969 and moved to Milwaukee in 1970...The Brewers joined the Active Major League home run leaders since 2012: National League in 1998, after playing in the American League from 1969-97. 1. CHRIS DAVIS, BAL 211 THREE’S COMPANY: Among Major League rookies with at least 200 at-bats, INF/OF Trey Mancini ranks 2. Edwin Encarnación, CLE 210 third in batting average (.305) and slugging percentage (.544), fourth in RBI (43) and on-base percentage (.351), 3. Nelson Cruz, SEA 192 4. Miguel Cabrera, DET 180 and sixth in home runs (14)…His 14 home runs this season before the All-Star break are the most by a rookie in 5. Mike Trout, LAA 179 Orioles history…Eddie Murray (1977) and Curt Blefary (1965) each had 13 before the break as rookies. 6. Giancarlo Stanton, MIA 173 7. José Bautista, TOR 166 CATCH THIS: Orioles catchers rank second in the American League and fourth in the majors with a .282 (87-for- 8. ADAM JONES, BAL 163 309) batting average...When catching, Welington Castillo, Caleb Joseph, and Francisco Peña have combined to 9. Jay Bruce, NYM 162 notch 15 doubles, one triple, 12 home runs, and 37 RBI. 10. MARK TRUMBO, BAL 161 HOME COOKIN’: The Orioles own the third-best home record in the American League and own the fifth-best CURRENT ROAD TRIP home record in the majors with a 25-16 (.610) mark. Record 0-2 HIGH FIVE: Since the beginning of the 2012 season, the Orioles lead American League clubs and rank fourth in Team Average .215 (14-for-65) Runs per Game 1.5 (3 R/2 G) the majors with 484 wins, finishing with a .500 or better record in each of the last five seasons...In that span, Orioles hitters lead the majors with 1,222 home runs and have committed the fewest number of errors (451). Fielding Errors 0 Team ERA 7.88 (14 ER/16.0 IP) HOMER HAPPY: Since the beginning of the 2012 season, three current Orioles rank among active Major League leaders in home runs...1B Chris Davis (211) leads the majors, while OF Adam Jones (163) ranks eighth and Starters W-L 0-2 DH/OF Mark Trumbo (161) ranks 10th. Starters ERA 16.20 (12 ER/6.2 IP) Bullpen W-L-S 0-0-0 NICEST PLACES IN AMERICA: Reader’s Digest has announced 10 finalists in its first ever “Nicest Place in Bullpen ERA 1.93 (2 ER/9.1 IP) America” contest, a national crowd-sourced hunt for exceptional places whose people exemplify friendly ways of Saves/Opps 0/0 life...Over 250 nominations for the “Nicest Place in America” were submitted and Oriole Park at Camden Yards Best homestand 5/5-9 (5-0, 1.000) made the cut...Readers can vote online at www.rd.com/nicest through July 7, the winner will be announced this fall. Worst homestand 6/30-7/2 (1-2, .333) Best road trip 4/11-20 (6-3, .667) THE FUTURE IS NOW: LHP Tanner Scott and C Chance Sisco have been chosen to participate in the 2017 Worst road trip 5/26-28 (0-3, .000) Sirius/XM All-Star Futures Game in Miami on July 9...Scott and Sisco will represent the O’s as members of the U.S. Roster...Scott was selected by the Orioles in the sixth round of the 2014 draft out of Howard College UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS th (TX)...Scott is currently with Double-A Bowie and entered the season as the 11 -best Orioles prospect by Baseball 3B Manny Machado Turns 25 on 7/6 America...Sisco was the O’s second round selection in the 2013 draft out of Santiago H.S. in Corona, CA...Sisco is INF Ryan Flaherty Turns 31 on 7/27 currently with Triple-A Norfolk and entered the season ranked as the No. 1 Orioles prospect by Baseball America. UPCOMING MILESTONES HOMER’S ODYSSEY: The Orioles led the majors with 253 home runs in 2016…OF Mark Trumbo led the Baltimore Orioles Need 40 HR for 10,000^ th majors with 47 homers…1B Chris Davis tied for 11 in the majors with 38 home runs and 3B Manny Machado Buck Showalter Needs 11 wins for 1,480* tied for 11th in the American League with 37 home runs…For the fourth consecutive season, the Major League Welington Castillo Needs 13 hits for 500 leader in home runs was an Oriole (also Chris Davis in 2013, Nelson Cruz in 2014, and Chris Davis in 2015). Kevin Gausman Needs 10 K for 500 Adam Jones Needs 1 RBI for 766 with BAL# Jonathan Schoop Needs 4 doubles for 100 DISABLED LIST: Six Orioles are on the disabled list...OF Anthony Santander (right forearm strain, retroactive to 3/30) and INF Ryan Flaherty (right shoulder strain, retroactive to 5/19) are on the 60-day DL, while INF Chris ^10,000 HR in O’s history (since 1954, reg.