BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards 333 West Camden Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Thursday, July 10, 2014 Game #91 Home Game #46 Baltimore Orioles (49-41) vs. Washington Nationals (49-40) LH Wei-Yin Chen (8-3, 4.12) vs. LH Gio Gonzalez (6-4, 3.52) TONIGHT’S GAME: The Orioles and Nationals meet in the last game of their two-game set in Baltimore…The ODDS & ENDS Birds lost last night, 6-2, after winning Monday in Washington D.C. (Tuesday’s game was rained out and will be Home 23-22 made up August 4 at 7:05 p.m. at Nationals Park)…The Orioles were 3-1 on their road trip and have won seven of Away 26-19 their last nine since June 30 (4-0 vs. Texas, 2-1 at Boston, and 1-1 against Washington). Day 14-18 Night 35-23 VS. WASHINGTON: The season series is tied, 1-1…The O’s won the 2013 series, 3-1, going 2-0 in Baltimore vs. LHP 12-13 and 1-1 in Washington, D.C…The Orioles lead the all-time series, 27-21, going 15-9 in Baltimore and 12-12 in vs. RHP 37-28 Washington (3-3 at RFK Stadium and 9-9 at Nationals Park) since the franchise was relocated from Montreal in 2005…Baltimore went 6-9 against the Expos from 1997-2001 (6-3 in Baltimore and 0-6 in Montreal). Series Record 14-9-6 First game of series 16-14 Last game of a series 16-13 AN IMPRESSIVE RUN: Zach Britton’s stretch of 29.1 consecutive scoreless innings at home is an Orioles club Last 10 games 7-3 record…His stretch of 21 straight scoreless home appearances is the second-longest streak in club history, trailing only Brian Matusz (27 appearances - June 16, 2013-May 25, 2014; 19.0 scoreless innings). Win/Loss streak L1 Longest win streak 5 (5/6-10) STREAKER: Manny Machado has recorded multiple hits in four straight games, the second longest streak of Longest losing streak 4 (last 5/27-30) his career…Machado posted five straight multi-hit games June 12-16, 2013…In his last 32 games since May 31, Most games over .500 9 (49-40) Machado is batting .318/.358/.543, raising his season average from .210 to .269. Most games under .500 3 (last 2-5) Extra innings 8-3 OFF THE SCHNEID: Chris Davis went 2-for-4 in last night’s game, his first multi-hit game since June 11…He Shutouts 7-6 had gone 23 games between multi-hit efforts. One-run games 15-13 Two-run games 10-9 MAKING THEM COUNT: Chris Davis and Nelson Cruz each hit go-ahead home runs Monday…Cruz leads the club with eight go-ahead homers this season, while Davis is third with five (Jones is second with Lead after 7 innings 37-5 seven)…Overall, 39 of the team’s 112 homers this season have been go-ahead blasts. Tied after 7 innings 9-3 Trail after 7 innings 3-33 O’DEALING: Darren O’Day has struck out at least one batter in each of his last seven outings, matching a Lead after 8 innings 41-3 season-high for an Orioles reliever…He has not allowed a run in his last nine outings (10.0IP), striking out 13, Tied after 8 innings 6-4 while walking just one…His 1.13 ERA is the lowest among American League relievers. Trail after 8 innings 2-34 Orioles score first 34-9 HE KNOWS HOW TO CELEBRATE: Manny Machado collected a career-high five hits Monday after Opponent scores first 15-32 turning 22 on Sunday…He is the youngest Oriole with a five hit game since Cal Ripken, Jr., who did it on Score four or more runs 39-12 August 22, 1982 when he was 21 years, 363 days old…Machado is 12-for-21 (.571) in his last four games. Score fewer than four runs 10-29 MILESTONE NIGHT: Last night was the 1,300th game of Nick Markakis’ major league career and the 1,200th Orioles homer 41-22 game for J.J. Hardy…Markakis is 11th on the Orioles’ all-time games played list (Brian Roberts 10th - 1,327). Outhit opponents 36-8 Equal hit total 6-5 EXTRA, EXTRA: Per Elias, on Monday, Chris Davis and J.J. Hardy became the first O’s teammates to hit Outhit by opponents 7-28 back-to-back homers in extra innings since Frank Robinson and Boog Powell did it in the 11th inning on June 3, Most hits in a game 20 (4/8) Fewest hits in a game 2 (6/10) 1969 at Oakland…Davis has been involved in all three sets of back-to-back homers for the Birds this th year…Per STATS, the six-run 11 inning on Monday tied the O’s franchise record for most runs scored in a single No errors 33-20 extra inning, done three times previously (4/16/12 @CWS, 6/25/70 @BOS, and 7/19/60 @OAK)…Per home run With one error 16-16 historian David Vincent, the Orioles became just the fifth team in baseball history to hit three home runs in the With two errors 0-3 same extra inning (also KC 5/31/02, SF 8/7/01, MIL 6/8/65, and MIN 5/2/64). With three or more errors 0-2 INTERLEAGUE PLAY: The Orioles are 5-4 in Interleague Play in 2014…The Birds have a 142-170 record in vs. AL 44-37 vs. AL East 24-17 Interleague Play since its inception in 1997…The Birds went 11-9 against the National League in 2013, tying the vs. AL Central 9-14 club record for single season wins in Interleague Play (Baltimore went 11-7 in 2012, ’09, ’08, and 1999)…The vs. AL West 11-6 Orioles have finished over .500 vs. the NL four times in the last six seasons (‘08, ’09, ’12 and ’13 as referenced vs. NL 5-4 above), going 63-55 from 2008-14…Baltimore had a winning record against the Senior Circuit only twice in the first 11 years of Interleague Play (8-7 in ‘97 and 11-7 in ’99), going 79-114 (.409) from 1997-2007. Largest home crowd *46,685 (3/31) Largest road crowd *48,142 (4/07) OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE NL: Nick Markakis leads all active players (and ranks fourth all-time) with a CURRENT HOMESTAND .339 career average (191-563) in 138 Interleague games…In 2013, Chris Davis batted .427/.506/.920 with nine home runs and 18 RBI in 20 Interleague games, leading the majors with a 1.426 OPS, the second-highest single Record 0-1 season OPS in Interleague Play history (Albert Pujols, 1.680 in 15 games in 2009)…The nine homers by Davis Team Average .219 (7-32) were tied for second-most in a single season in Interleague history (Paul Konerko, 10 in 2002). Runs per Game 2.0 (2R/1G) BALTIMORE BOMB SQUAD: The Orioles have hit 112 home runs this season and trail only Toronto (116) for Fielding Errors 0 the major league lead…The Birds are on pace to hit 202 home runs, which would be the eighth-most in club Team ERA 6.00 (9.0IP, 6ER) history (the 2013 Birds hit 212 homers, good for fifth in club history)…From June 21-July 2, the Orioles homered in 12 consecutive games, their longest such streak since they homered in 13 straight games from August 1-16, Starters W-L 0-1 2013…The 12-game homer streak was the second-longest in the majors this year (Oakland, 16). Starters ERA 11.25 (4.0IP, 5ER) CRUZ CRUSHING: Nelson Cruz hit his 28th home run Monday, bypassing his season total from last season (27 Bullpen W-L-S 0-0-0 in 109 games) and is on pace for 50 longballs…His career high is 33 (2009)…Cruz’s 28 homers are the third-most Bullpen ERA 1.80 (5.0IP, 1ER) Saves/Opps 0/0 in Orioles history before the All-Star break behind Chris Davis (37 in 2013), Brady Anderson (30 in 1996). Best homestand 7-4 (6/23-7/3) SMALL BALL VS. LONG BALL: Two of the last four Oriole wins have come without the aid of a home Worst homestand 2-4 (5/9-14) run…Before that, their last win without a homer was April 26, as the Birds lost 11 straight without a homer in Best road trip 3-1 (7/4-7) between…From May 1-July 2, the O’s went deep in all 33 wins and, overall, have homered in 41 of 49 wins. Worst road trip 3-3 (4/4-9) WORTH THE WAIT: The Orioles are 8-3 in extra innings games this year after winning each of the last two games in extra frames…The Birds were 8-7 in extra innings in 2013 after going 16-2 in 2012…Since the start of the 2012 season, the Birds are 32-12 in extra innings contests…In games that have gone 12 or more innings since the start of 2012, the Orioles are 13-4 (14-5 including the 2012 postseason). SLUGGING STEVE: Steve Pearce has a career-high 10 homers and 30 RBI this season…It took Pearce 46 games (150 at-bats) to hit 10 homers this year…He needed 192 games (488 at-bats) to hit his first 10 big league homers.