It was not a good night for the Orioles, especially for Brad Bergesen. We all know that the Yankees are always tough, but on Thursday they were brutal.
The record will show that the Baltimore Orioles got trashed by the New York Yankees, 13-2, over the course of nine innings; however, the game was over before it even began.
Baltimore is now 19-23 on the season and New York swept the brief two game series. They have now lost three in a row.
The Yankees who had trouble scoring on Wednesday, just had their way with Oriole pitching on Thursday.
Bergesen gave up five runs in a horrific first inning and the New York Yankees didn’t look back from there. His command was off, he could not hit his spots throughout his outing and the Bronx Bombers made him pay.
New York held a 5-0 lead even before the Baltimore got its first batter up. Everyone in attendance knew it would have taken a miracle for the Birds to even be a factor on the night.
The miracle never came. In fact, throughout the game you knew it was going to be downright horrible.
Things only got worse for the Orioles as Bergesen was taken out and Chris Jakubauskas was brought in the fifth inning.
Jakubauskas would serve up a monster homer to Mark Teixiera in the frame. New York built up a 9-0 lead by the bottom of the fourth, kept bringing on the pain and never looked back.
All things considered, Bergesen’s outing on Wednesday was a letdown especially after his work in Tampa Bay over the weekend. He was off badly and the Yankees just took advantage. Overall, he gave up eight runs in only 3 1/3 innings.
What will be in store for him in the weeks to come as Brian Matusz may be close to a return – who knows?
Meanwhile, Yankee starter C.C. Sabathia as was his typical self against Baltimore. He had his way with them, throwing eight shutout innings. The Orioles made things interesting in the ninth inning as they scored twice, but it didn’t matter much.
It was an ugly night and even uglier loss. There’s not much else more to say.
Finally, the Yankees perhaps got some payback for the 15th inning scary-hit-by-pitch on part of Mike Gonzalez, and Bergesen’s beaning of Robinson Cano’s leg in the first inning. Nick Markakis got drilled by Sabathia in the back during his at-bat and everyone knew it was pretty much intentional. Both sides got their warnings and life went on.
Ah, the good old unwritten rules of baseball…
