The Orioles got a nice quality win to snap a three game losing streak, as Brad Bergesen pitched 7 2/3 innings of stellar baseball and both Adam Jones along with Luke Scott came through huge with excellent nights at the plate.
In the end, Baltimore beat Seattle, 5-2, on a rainy night at Camden Yards.
After a disastrous start to the 2010 season – is Bergesen regaining the form that made him a pitcher to watch in 2009?
Well, perhaps so, after only three starts since coming back from Norfolk.
Bergesen only gave up a run in his start, walked two and struck out three; however, he used his sinker to induce groundball after groundball and that made the difference.
Seattle did get two runs at towards the end of the game – once in the eighth and ninth, but Alfredo Simon came in closed out the game. Koji Uehara nearly opened up the flood gates for the Mariners as he was ineffective and allowed a run his 1/3 inning of work.
At the plate for Baltimore, Miguel Tejada had a two-run double to give them a 2-0 lead, and then in the fourth inning, Luke Scott hit his 5th homer of the year – a solo shot – to increase their lead to 3-0.
The Orioles got two more runs in the sixth off a Cesar Izturis sacrifice fly and a Jones RBI-single.
Jones had three hits and Scott had two (a homer and a double). Let’s hope they both have finally found the breakthrough they needed to start helping the offense out.
Corey Patterson, in his first game back as a member of the Orioles, was 1-for-5 with a strikeout.
Finally, yesterday the Chief Operating Officer of the Orioles, Andy MacPhail addressed the fanbase about the team’s start along with expectations in a video posted on the Baltimore Orioles MLB site.
In the two-plus-minute video, MacPhail looked a tad awkward; however, he spoke about what’s ailing the team, but maybe the presentation might have been made a lot more effective if he took a Q&A beforehand from the fans or the media.
I’m sure no one is happy about the team’s poor start in the front office, but I don’t know if the video really made fans feel a lot better about the Baltimore Orioles at this current time.
Honestly, there may not be much that anyone can do at the moment concerning the Baltimore Orioles. The players need to dig themselves out of the hole, or as noted with the Nolan Reimold demotion – they can be replaced.
