O's Notes 4/7/10 at Rays

Well, I had some hope there when Atkins got that double that scored Wieters.  Just couldn't finish that comeback.

Hitting:

Baltimore

	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	K	SB	LOB	Season Avg
B. Roberts 2b	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	.000
A. Jones cf	4	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	.444
N. Markakis rf	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.167
M. Tejada 3b	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.125
L. Scott dh	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	.143
M. Wieters c	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500
N. Reimold lf	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	.250
G. Atkins 1b	4	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	.250
F. Pie pr	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
C. Izturis ss	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.333
T. Wigginton ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Totals	34	3	6	2	0	2	9	0	10

Tampa Bay
	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	K	SB	LOB	Season Avg
J. Bartlett ss	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.375
C. Crawford lf	4	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	.250
B. Zobrist rf	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.375
E. Longoria 3b	4	1	2	3	1	0	0	0	1	.375
C. Pena 1b	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	.375
B.J. Upton cf	3	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	.286
P. Burrell dh	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	.143
K. Shoppach c	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	.250
R. Brignac 2b	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667
Totals	32	4	10	4	1	2	8	0	15

Nothing impressive there.  The O's got their 2 runs in the 1st (the 3rd in the 9th).  One run was because Zobrist didn't throw home when he could have gotten Jones out, and the other was because of the error when the throw was low to 1st on Wieter's ground ball to Rodriguez at 2nd.  The positive on that error besides that we got the run was how we got it.  Markakis was on 2nd at the beginning of the at bat, and when the ball was hit, he ran to 3rd.  They showed a replay of just him.  He got to 3rd and looked over, saw the error, and made the sprint home.  Brilliant baserunning.

The top 5, who should be leading this team with consistently racking up hits, got only 2 between them tonight, both in the 1st inning.  Looking at the Rays, their top 5 hit safely 7 times, so it shows that we just couldn't keep up.  The rest of the game, the only hitting that was positive was Wieters going 2-4, and then seeing Atkins bring his slugging side on with his ground rule double in the 9th.  Izturis 0-2 as expected.  Reimold got a hit which is good since he is back, but much negativity on him later.


Pitching:

Baltimore
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	WHIP	Season ERA
J. Guthrie	6.1	8	3	3	2	6	0	1.58	4.26
W. Ohman	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.00
C. Meredith	0.2	2	1	1	0	1	1	3.00	13.50
Tampa Bay
	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	WHIP	Season ERA
M. Garza	8.0	4	2	1	2	9	0	0.75	1.12
R. Soriano	1.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	2.50	4.50

Baltimore IP H R ER BB K HR WHIP Season ERA  J. Guthrie 6.1 8 3 3 2 6 0 1.58 4.26 W. Ohman 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 0.00 C. Meredith 0.2 2 1 1 0 1 1 3.00 13.50  Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB K HR WHIP Season ERA  M. Garza 8.0 4 2 1 2 9 0 0.75 1.12 R. Soriano 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 0 2.50 4.50 Looking at this, it shows no flukes in our staff.  Guthrie was solid; his stat line is not horrible.  The issue with him was not the number of hits he let (which of course would be nice if it went down a little) but more of the situational hitting he let up.  He was in 3 major jams in the game, 1 of which he truly got out of.  His two jams were 1) when he had men on 1 and 2 and he gave up a single to Upton which got Crawford to score and 2) when, in the same situation, he gave up a double to Longoria which scored both Brignac and Bartlett.  Otherwise, he got a nice chunk of K's, was still able to keep the walks down even in stressful times, and didn't look too off until the last inning he pitched where he was throwing too many hitter's pitches.