BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Oriole Park at Camden Yards 333 West Camden Street Baltimore, MD 21201 April 25, 2013 Game #22 Road Game #10 Baltimore Orioles (12-9) vs. Oakland Athletics (13-9) RH Jason Hammel (2-1, 4.74) vs. RH Jarrod Parker (0-3, 7.50) ODDS & ENDS TONIGHT’S GAME: The Orioles and Athletics meet in the opener of their four-game set and the first game of a three-city, 11-game road trip to Oakland, Seattle and Anaheim (four games in Oakland and Anaheim)…The Home 7-5 Orioles are coming off a 6-3 homestand where they took two of three from the Rays, Dodgers and Blue Jays. Away 5-4 Day 5-4 VS. OAKLAND: The A’s won the season series, 5-4, in 2012, going 3-3 in Baltimore and 1-2 in Oakland…The Night 7-5 Orioles trail in the all-time series 245-249 (119-125 in Baltimore and 126-124 in Oakland)…The Orioles have vs. LHP 4-3 not won a season series against the A’s since 1998 (8-3)…The September 14-16 series in Oakland last year vs. RHP 8-6 marked the first time the two clubs had both been over .500 when meeting in September since September 2, 1992. Series Record 5-2-0 HOUSE OF PAIN: The Orioles have lost 16 of their last 19 games at Oakland Coliseum dating back to May 5, First game of series 5-2 Last game of a series 3-4 2008..The Birds have been outscored 95-64 by the A’s in those contests…The Birds are 9-29 in Oakland since Last 10 games 6-4 July 11, 2003. Win/Loss streak L1 STREAK SNAPPED: The Orioles fell in 11 innings Wednesday in Baltimore snapping their streak of 17 Longest win streak 3 (4/18-20) consecutive extra innings games (11 on the road)…Their last regular season loss in extra innings was April 11, Longest losing streak 3 (4/6-8) 2012 against the Yankees…The Orioles also lost Game 3 of the 2012 ALDS at New York in 12 innings…The 17- Most games over .500 4 (12-8) game streak is tied with the 1949 Indians for the second-longest streak in major league history. Most games under .500 1 (3-4) NATE THE GREAT: Nate McLouth has reached base in 12 of his last 19 plate appearances…Over his last five Extra innings 1-1 games, McLouth is batting .462 (6-for-13) with six runs scored and six walks…In the leadoff spot, McLouth is Shutouts 0-1 One-run games 4-3 batting .321 (17-53) with 11 walks…McLouth is second in the AL in walks by a leadoff batter behind Oakland’s Two-run games 2-1 Coco Crisp (14), but Crisp has five more games played than McLouth. Lead after 7 innings 9-0 POWER OUTAGE: The Orioles did not homer in the three-game set against Toronto after having just three Tied after 7 innings 1-2 homerless games in their first 18 contests…In 2012, they went a season-long five straight games without a home Trail after 7 innings 2-7 run, June 15-19, and had three other streaks of three games (August 3-5, July 7-13 and June 5-7). Lead after 8 innings 8-0 Tied after 8 innings 1-2 SELECT COMPANY: Since August 22, 2011, the Orioles are tied with Reds and Nationals for the second-most Trail after 8 innings 1-7 wins in baseball with 127…Only the Rangers (130) have more wins…The Yankees have 126 wins…Since April 10, the Birds are 9-5 and tied with Boston for the best record in the American League. Orioles score first 8-6 Opponent scores first 4-3 KEEPING AN EYE ON COCO: The O’s have caught an MLB-best 62 percent (8-for-13) of attempted base Score four or more runs 10-4 Score fewer than four runs 2-5 stealers…Matt Wieters has thrown out seven of 11 potential thieves and Taylor Teagarden has nabbed one of two…Orioles catchers have thrown out as many runners as the Mariners (2), Rangers (2), Tigers (1), Orioles homer 10-5 Angels (1) Blue Jays (1) and Athletics (0) combined. Outhit opponents 9-4 Equal hit total 3-2 ROUGH DEBUT: RH Josh Stinson made his Orioles debut Wednesday against Toronto and allowed four home Outhit by opponents 0-3 runs, the most in Orioles history by a pitcher in his debut with the club…The last Oriole to allow three in his Most hits in a game 14 (last 4/18) club debut was Chris Tillman (July 29, 2009 against Kansas City)…The last Oriole to allow four homers in a Fewest hits in a game 5 (last 4/22) game was Jason Hammel on May 30, 2012 against Toronto…Following the game, Stinson was optioned to No errors 9-5 Triple-A Norfolk. With one error 3-3 THE CLOSER: In his last nine appearances, Jim Johnson is 1-1 with six saves and a .161 batting average With two errors 0-1 With three or more errors 0-0 against (five singles in 31 at-bats)….He has converted a career-best 29 consecutive saves dating back to July 30, 2012, the second-longest streak in franchise history (Randy Myers, 34, May 6-September 27, 1997) and the vs. AL 10-8 longest active streak in the majors…Since September 7, 2011, he leads the major leagues with 66 saves (Craig vs. AL East 9-6 Kimbrel 54, Fernando Rodney 51, Rafael Soriano 49, Jason Motte 48 round out the top 5)…He has converted vs. AL Central 1-2 95.7% of his opportunities (66 of 69), the best percentage of any closer with at least 10 saves since Sept. 7, 2011. vs. AL West 0-0 vs. NL 2-1 SEVENTH HEAVEN: Per Elias, the Orioles have won a franchise-record 100 consecutive regular season games Largest home crowd 46,653 (4/5) when leading after seven innings (last loss was August 8, 2011)…It is the second-longest streak for any club Largest road crowd 41,851 (4/13) during the expansion era (since 1961), trailing just the 1998-99 Yankees (116). LAST HOME STAND GO FIGURE: The Orioles are third in the AL (fourth in MLB) in fielding (.991) and since April 14, they are Record 6-3 first in the AL (.997, one error)…The last fielding error by an Oriole was Adam Jones’ dropped fly ball April 12 at New York…The last two errors were throwing errors by J.J. Hardy…The Orioles’ three 2012 Gold Glove Team Average .242 (72-297) Award winners (Hardy, Jones and Matt Wieters) have made five of the Orioles’ seven errors (Wieters-2, Hardy- Runs per Game 5.0 (45R/9G) 2, Jones-1). Fielding Errors 1 SAVING THE (O’)DAY: In his last 23 appearances since September 18, 2012 (regular season and postseason Team ERA 4.07 (84.0IP, 38ER) included), Darren O’Day is 2-0 with a 0.36 ERA (25.0IP, 1ER) and the Orioles are 19-4 in those 23 games…Opponents are hitting just .111 (9-81) with one home run (James Loney on Thursday) and eight singles. Starters W-L 3-2 Starters ERA 5.04 (50.0IP, 28ER) CRUSH DAVIS: Chris Davis is 10-for-26 in his last seven games with three multi-hit games, three doubles, a Bullpen W-L-S 3-1-4 homer and three RBI…Over his last 28 regular season games (dating back to September 26, 2012), he has Bullpen ERA 2.65 (34.0IP, 10ER) separate home run streaks of six games, four games and two-games…Davis has a total of 14 homers in those 28 Saves/Opps 4/4 games and is batting .357/.430/.857 with 35 RBI over that stretch. Best homestand 6-3 (4/16-24) JONESIN’: Adam Jones has reached base safely in all but one (April 12 at NYY) of the Orioles’ 21 games this Worst homestand 1-2 (4/5-7) season and has at least one hit in 19 of those contests. Best road trip 2-1 (4/2-4) Worst road trip 3-3 (4/8-14) LOCKDOWN LEFTY: Since moving to the Orioles bullpen on August 24, 2012, Brian Matusz has stranded all 24 runners he has inherited, leaving all 14 on base in 2012 and all 10 in 2013. EARL IS LOVING THIS: The Orioles have had runners on base for 14 of their 25 home runs (56%) in 2013, leading the majors in multi-run HR…Last season, 92 of their 214 homers were of the multi-run variety (43%)…This season, 47 percent of the Orioles’ runs have scored via the longball (47 of 101; eight two-run homers, four three-run homers and two grand slams)…In 2012, 47.3% of the Orioles’ runs (337 of 712) scored directly on homers (122 solo, 64 two- run, 25 three-run and three grand slams)…Of the 25 home runs the Orioles have hit this season, 11 have given the Birds the lead, and three more have tied the game. TOMORROW’S STARTER: LH Wei-Yin Chen makes his fifth start of the year and fourth road start…It will be his first career start in Oakland…In two career starts against Oakland, Chen is 2-0 with a 0.71 ERA (12.2IP, 1ER) and one Quality Start…The only run Chen allowed against the Athletics was a solo home run by Jonny Gomes April 28, 2012 in Baltimore…Among AL hurlers with two or more starts against the A’s in 2012, Chen’s 0.71 ERA was fourth-best behind Jered Weaver (0.29 in four starts), Alex Cobb (0.56 in two starts) and Justin Verlander (0.69 in two starts).