If the Orioles didn’t have bad luck, then they would not have any whatsoever.
Last night – again – the Orioles lost to the Mariners, 4-1, to be only be swept in their series out West and to fall to 2-14. The season so far has become a road to nowhere and as it is now, forget about .500 — there are some people who probably need to worry about keeping their jobs.
Baltimore manager Dave Trembley held a closed door meeting before the game and took his team to task; however, that did little good. I figure he should have done this all last week before the situation became absolutely heerendous.
I don’t think anyone ever thought the Orioles would be 2-14 after 16 games, but someone should have stepped up earlier to rally the troops and right this ship.
Like I said yesterday, I see a team that’s listless, has no plan or clue what to do at the plate, and at times lacks some serious fire. I mean seriously, by the time the Orioles come after playing in Boston, could they conceivably be 3-16? 2-17?
Moving on…
Kevin Millwood gave another solid effort on the mound in the loss, pitching a complete game and giving up four runs; however, the Mariners’ Felix Hernandez took advantage of a weak Oriole offense and went the distance as well, giving up a single run in nine innings for the victory.
Baltimore’s only run came in the first inning off a RBI-single and that was it. They mustered nine hits on the evening, but could not get anything much else going against Hernandez.
For Seattle, all their runs came off of Millwood in the fourth inning as Rob Johnson plated in a run with an infield single and then Jack Wilson had a three-run double to clear the bases. Other than that, Millwood was excellent and did what he could to help out.
Nick Markakis was 3-for-4 and both Garrett Atkins along with Lou Montanez were 2-for-4.
It’s gotten so bad with the Orioles that no cares anymore outside of the hardcore fans, and people have already moved onto football with the NFL Draft tonight.
As Kevin Millwood said about the losing via a post game interview….
“It’s not like we’ve played horrible and got our butts kicked every night, we actually haven’t played that bad. We just haven’t been able to put a full game together. It looks really bad, but I don’t think it’s as bad as it looks.”
The starting pitching – aside from Brad Bergesen – has been very good, it’s just about everything else that’s been awful (take away Wigginton at the plate, Berken and Wieters).
