Orioles Silenced by Yankees

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May 22, 12:48 PM

by Pete Sabatini, Baltimore O's Examiner

 

 

LaTroy Hawkins has been suspended three games for his pitch at Luke Scott's head on Tuesday night.  (Jump to the story)  A fine will accompany the suspension, but that has not been released.

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The Orioles followed up their Tuesday night Yankee beat-down with a sorry looking loss of their own.

Garrett Olson took his first loss of the season (now 3-1) credited with 6 runs and 8 hits on 2 2/3 innings looking overwhelmed by Yankee stadium and the patience of the Yankee hitters.

In the bottom of the third, score 4-0 and Olson on the ropes, Daniel Cabrera’s buddy Melvin Mora blew a perfect Markakis throw from right that would have nailed Matsui keeping a runner off third and recording a second out. 

Mora misjudged the ball badly as it came in allowing it to get by, which let the sitting duck runner arrive safely. 

Miraculously, the horrible miss wasn’t scored an error.  This would have been Mora’s second consecutive game with an error.

These kinds of plays are completely unacceptable from the veteran third baseman, especially when he’s batting .250.  This guy is supposed to be a rock at third and consistent at the plate and so far this season he has been far from either.

To add injury to insult, Mora then dropped his right hand into Matsui’s path taking an impact from the Yankees’ spikes on his right ring finger.  Melvin was then unable to throw with plenty of bleeding for decoration.  Cintron came in to hold down the corner.  Mora is day-to-day.

Cintron then stole a hard short-hop down the line and threw out Chad Moeller on the very next play, but Olson continued to meltdown to the tune of 6 runs.

I don’t understand why Trembley waited until his team was in a 6-run hole before pulling the obviously shaky Olson.  A grounder in the right place would have gotten him out of the inning, but he was clearly not hitting his spots and there were plenty of arms in the bullpen. 

The young starter was floating the ball too high for all 3 innings – just ask Alex Rodriguez who tattooed a high changeup into deep left-center for his second homer in as many games after coming back from the quad strain. 

The Baltimore offense was unable to make any progress against Darryl Rasner who went 7 innings and allowed only 5 hits.  Luck was no better against Chamberlain who shut the O’s down over 2 innings with 3 Ks.

Orioles pitchers gave up 8 runs in all and the lineup was shutout by the Yankee team they took batting practice against on Wednesday night.

The rubber match of this three game series is Thursday night with the steady Brian Burres (4-4) going up against the struggling but much-hyped youngster Ian Kennedy (0-3).

(Wednesday Box Score)

(Photo: AP)

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