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| Freddy Garcia |
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Posted his best start in the young season (and likely his best for the year) on Thursday vs. the Washington Nationals. Allowed just 3 hits over 8 shut out innings while striking out six. |
| Kevin Gausman |
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On the second day of Gausmas, we received....um....an outing we're not going to talk about. On the third day of Gausmas, we received just 1 run (a solo homer to Prince Fielder) on five hits and four strikeouts. Nobody really liked those turtle doves anyway. |
| Miguel Gonzalez |
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Walks and homers factored into a 5 ER, 7 hit performance over 6 innings Friday against Detroit. That makes back-to-back starts with 3+ free passes issued. |
| Jason Hammel |
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Walks and homers also factored into Hammel's three inning (5 ER, 3 HR allowed, 3 BB) disaster. He ended up getting ejected for hitting Matt Tuiasosopo in the shoulder. This start follows up a pretty solid week for Hammel, so maybe it was just a bad day. His next start should be Friday, so we'll see soon enough. |
| Chris Tillman |
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Walks and hom.....okay, just homers in this case. Tillman allowed 4 of them in less than 5 innings of work on Wednesday vs. the Nationals. Three of the four homers came from the bat of Ryan Zimmerman. Not the best of weeks for Oriole starters. |
| Bullpen |
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| Tommy Hunter |
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Showed no ill effects of a ground ball off of the hand, recording two scoreless innings of relief work. |
| Jim Johnson |
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Recovered from a disastrous two-week stretch with three saves, all scoreless innings. Only hit allowed was a single to Miguel Cabrera. |
| Steve Johnson |
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Sure stymied the Nationals in big-time mop up duty for a poor Tillman start. Ended up getting the win when Crush Davis did his thing. |
| Brian Matusz |
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Struggled some yesterday (albeit against the middle of a potent Tigers lineup), but already had one solid outing against the same team under his belt. |
| T.J. McFarland |
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Began his week with a solid mop up for the Goose against the Nationals, but ended his week with a pretty terrible mop up for Hammel. |
| Darren O'Day |
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Back to his scoreless ways, although this was just for 1.1 innings. Possible he gets some save looks if Johnson cannot regain his form. |
| Troy Patton |
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Saw the most time for any member of the bullpen this week (4.2 innings) and allowed a number of hits. He did, however, keep the damage to a minimum. |
| Lineup |
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| Alexi Casilla |
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Buck's (or possibly DD's) management of the 2B position in the absence of B-Rob has been beyond questionable. Casilla is the one consistent member of the platoon (the others have yo-yo'd back and forth to Norfolk), yet saw nothing but pinch hit duty all week. |
| Chris Davis |
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The stuff he's doing at the plate is absolutely incredible. This week, it was a mere 13-27 (.481) at the plate with 4 HR and a 2B. Hopefully that Triple Crown stuff doesn't go to his head. |
| Chris Dickerson |
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Only 3-12 this week, but his 9th inning homer on Friday keyed the Orioles victory. |
| Ryan Flaherty |
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4-15 is actually a solid week for Flaherty. Yeah, that's all I've got on that. |
| J.J. Hardy |
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James Jerry had a solid week of his own at the plate, including a multi-homer game. His OBP is still well below .300, but it's at least moving in the right direction. |
| Adam Jones |
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Week 9 was Adam's worst week at the plate so far this season. Yesterday's game included an 0-4 with 4 Ks. Ouch. |
| Manny Machado |
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Continues to impress with solid defense and another .300+ week at the plate. His OBP his now up to .363 after he walked 4 times and recorded another 8 hits. |
| Nick Markakis |
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Slumped a bit in the early goings, but now he's back to his usual "steady as she goes" way. This week included a 9-29 with 2 homers and 6 RBI. |
| Nate McLouth |
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Nate had a solid 9-26 week himself atop the Oriole lineup. The 1-2-3 punch of McLouth, Machado, and Markakis combined for 26 hits this week. |
| Yamaico Navarro |
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Back to AAA. |
| Steve Pearce |
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2-11, but one hit was a homer that assisted the O's to a big comeback victory in the 3 RyZim homer game. |
| Chris Snyder |
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0-3, although he caught a solid game for Gausman and made a good defensive play. |
| Danny Valencia |
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1-3 as a pinch hitter |
| Matt Wieters |
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Wieters' struggles at the plate continue, as a 3-18 (.167) week with one BB has his average down to .237 and his OBP down below .300 |
| Disabled List |
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| Wilson Betemit |
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He's started hitting at extended spring training. Hasn't seen live pitching yet, but he's moving in the right direction. |
| Wei-Yin Chen |
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He'll do some soft tossing this week as he works his way back from an oblique strain. |
| Nolan Reimold |
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Expected to begin a rehab assignment in the coming days. |
| Brian Roberts |
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Still a month away from returning to action |
| Pedro Strop |
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Any bets on whether or not he's actually injured? |
| Taylor Teagarden |
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Rehabbing at AAA Norfolk |
| Tsuyoshi Wada |
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Rehab starts have been pretty dismal |
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