BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards · 333 West Camden Street · Baltimore, MD 21201 Tuesday, August 16, 2011 · Game #120 · Road Game #56 Baltimore Orioles (47-72) vs. Oakland Athletics (53-68) LH Brian Matusz (1-4, 8.77) vs. RH Guillermo Moscoso (5-6, 3.52) TONIGHT’S GAME: The Orioles and Athletics meet in game two of their three-game set and the second game ODDS & ENDS of a 10-game, 11-day road trip that will also take the O’s to Anaheim and Minneapolis (four games)...The Orioles Home 29-35 have won consecutive games for the first time since July 16-17 and are in search of their first three-game winning Away 18-37 streak since June 6-10, when they won four straight…Brian Matusz looks to snap a four-game losing streak. Day 16-19 Night 31-53 VS. OAKLAND: The Orioles lead the season series, 4-3, with the Birds going 1-3 in Oakland and 3-0 in vs. LHP 11-26 Baltimore…The Orioles lost the season series 3-7 in 2010 as they went 2-4 in Baltimore and 1-3 in Oakland…The vs. RHP 36-46 Orioles trail in the all-time series 241-242, going 116-122 in Baltimore and 125-120 in Oakland…In the June 6-8 Series Record 10-27-2 series, the O’s completed their first three-game sweep of the A’s in Baltimore since July 21-23, 1998…Since the First game of series 15-25 start of the 2008 season, the Orioles are 8-20 against the Athletics, including a 2-12 mark in Oakland and Last game of a series 14-25 have been outscored 68-42 in those 14 games, scoring two or fewer runs in eight of the 14 contests. Last 10 games 4-6 JUST DO IT: A win in either of the remaining two games of this series would clinch the Orioles’ first season Win/Loss streak W2 series win over Oakland since 1998 (O’s went 8-3). Longest win streak 5 (5/21-26) Longest losing streak 9 (7/4-15) FINISH THEM OFF: In the last six series where the Orioles won the series opener, the Orioles have gone just 1- Most games over .500 5 (6-1) 12 in the remaining games of those six series…The Orioles have won seven series openers on the road this year, Most games under .500 27 (45-72) including their last four in a row (includes last night)…The Orioles have won just two of the six road series after Extra innings 5-6 claiming the series opener (April 1-3 at Tampa Bay and April 29-May 2 at Chicago). Shutouts 5-6 ABOUT LAST NIGHT…: The Orioles won for the second time on the road when being out-hit (now 2-27) and One-run games 14-14 Two-run games 9-11 are now 5-58 overall when being out-hit…It was the second road win of the year when allowing 10 or more hits (also July 3 at Atlanta). Lead after 7 innings 38-4 Tied after 7 innings 7-3 HARDY’S HEROICS: J.J. Hardy has been named AL Player of the Week for the week ending August Trail after 7 innings 2-65 14…Hardy batted .323 (10-31) with two doubles, four homers and 10 RBI in the seven games…He is the second Lead after 8 innings 41-3 Oriole to win Player of the Week honors this year as Nick Markakis won the award for the week of July 14- Tied after 8 innings 5-2 17…Hardy has homered five times in his last nine games…He has three multi-homer games since July 26 and Trail after 8 innings 1-67 Friday marked his seventh career multi-homer game…In addition to signing a three-year extension on July 18, he: Orioles score first 32-19 · Leads AL shortstops with a .988 fielding percentage. Opponent scores first 15-53 · Leads MLB in homers since June 1 (21), one ahead of Albert Pujols, Mark Reynolds and Dan Uggla. Score four or more runs 40-29 · His 10 homers since the All-Star break (July 13) are third behind Uggla (12) and Pujols (11). Score fewer than four runs 7-43 · Is second behind Colorado’s Troy Tulowitzki (24) for the most home runs by a shortstop in the majors Orioles homer 40-46 (Hardy has 23) despite playing in 28 fewer games than Tulowitzki. Outhit opponents 35-8 · Has the most homers (23) by an AL East shortstop since Miguel Tejada hit 24 for the Orioles in 2006. Equal hit total 7-6 · Has 13 more home runs this year than the Orioles’ shortstops hit the last three years combined. Outhit by opponents 5-58 · His 23 homers are the 3rd-best single season total for an O’s SS since 2000 (Tejada: 34-‘04 and 26-‘05). Most hits in a game 18 (6/17), 20 (13 inn, 5/11) th Fewest hits in a game 1 (7/1) · Recorded an RBI in eight straight games from August 2-12, which tied for the 4 -longest streak in O’s history and longest since Miguel Tejada collected an RBI in nine straight from April 8-17, 2005. No errors 30-31 With one error 14-27 QUALITY CONTROL: Jo-Jo Reyes and Tommy Hunter have given the Orioles consecutive Quality Starts in With two errors 2-13 the last two games…The last time the Orioles had consecutive Quality Starts was July 19-24, when they had five With three or more errors 1-1 straight…The O’s played 19 games between consecutive Quality Starts. vs. AL 40-61 ROAD WOES: The O’s have lost 14 of their last 18 road games…The Birds are 18-37 on the road this year… vs. AL East 14-31 The Birds have not won a road series since May 13-15 at Tampa Bay (2-1). vs. AL Central 16-18 vs. AL West 10-12 ALL OR NOTHING: Since hitting the second ball to ever reach the second deck in left field at Camden Yards vs. NL 7-11 August 6, Mark Reynolds went 1-for-28 with 14 strikeouts before homering Monday off Trystan Magnuson. Largest home crowd 46,593 (4/4) PLAYING CATCH-UP: The Orioles have been outscored 87-40 in the first inning this year…The Birds have Largest road crowd 46,499 (7/29) been outscored by 80 runs in the first three innings this year. CURRENT ROAD TRIP RBI GUY: Adam Jones has hit 18 of his 21 home runs at home…In the AL, only Mark Teixeira (20) and Record 1-0 Curtis Granderson (19) have more home runs in their home park than Jones...Jones has driven in a career-high 72 runs in 119 games and is on pace for 98 RBI this year…Only two centerfielders in O’s history have driven in Team Average .212 (7-33) 100 runs in a season: Brady Anderson (110) in 1996 and Mike Devereaux (107) in 1992…In his last 23 games, Team Average w/ RISP .667 (2-3) Runs per Game 6.0 (6R/1G) Jones has 11 multi-hit games and has batted .333 (31-93) with six doubles and five homers…He has driven in 16 runs in those 23 games and has hit in 19 of them…Jones leads AL outfielders with 322 total chances and Fielding Errors 0 is tied for third in the AL with 11 outfield assists (first among MLB centerfielders)…Jones leads the AL in batting Team ERA 2.00 (9.0IP, 2ER) average with two outs (.353, 61-173) and his 21 homers are the second-most in the AL by a centerfielder (behind Curtis Granderson’s 33)…The 21 homers are the fourth-most among AL outfielders. Starters W-L 1-0 Starters ERA 2.70 (6.2IP, 2ER) RECORD PACE: 3B Mark Reynolds (27 homers) is on pace to hit 37 home runs this year which would set a Bullpen W-L-S 0-0-0 franchise record for homers by a third baseman (Tony Batista’s 31 in 2002 is the record)…Reynolds’ 23 errors at Bullpen ERA 0.00 (2.1IP, 0ER) the hot corner broke Brooks Robinson’s Orioles record for most errors by a third baseman (22 in 1958)…After Saves/Opportunities 0/0 making 20 errors in his first 79 games, Reynolds had made just one error in his next 37 games before a pair of Best homestand 5-3 (5/21-26) miscues on Sunday. Worst homestand 2-4 (6/24-30) THE BOMB SQUAD: Since June 1, the Orioles’ 94 home runs lead the majors (by eight over Boston) and Best road trip 3-0 (4/1-3) Worst road trip 0-5 (4/13-17) they have hit at least two homers in 30 of the 66 games since June 1…Additional home run notes: · The O’s have already hit more home runs in 2011 (142) than they hit the entire 2010 season (133)… The DISABLED LIST rd O’s hit their 133 homer of 2011 on August 10. INF Brian Roberts (60-day) – 5/17 · The Orioles were the first team in the major leagues this year (now joined by the Yankees and Cubs) to OF Luke Scott (60-day) – 7/23 have three players hit 20 or more home runs (Mark Reynolds-26, J.J.