For the second time in as many weeks, the Orioles countered with the Rays and pitcher Matt Garza. Well, once again, the Rays got the Orioles’ number as their bats came alive later in the game and Garza once again pitched another gem. In the end, the Orioles lost to the Rays, 5-1.
I got home around 8:30 and turned on MASN and noticed the amount of open green seats to people actually seated. There were not a lot of people at Camden Yards on a surprisingly great night to watch a game in April.
Looking at the box score a few minutes ago, the paid attendance was only 9,129. Folks, that’s a historic low…
Sad. Oh yeah, the Orioles are now (1-6) to start the season and have lost all four games on their first homestand so far. Only the Houston Astros at 0-7 are worse than the Orioles in all of baseball.
Then again, it doesn’t help that the Orioles are the worst in the American League right now.
Felix Pie’s leadoff homer was the only run the Orioles had on Monday. Garza went eight innings, struck out five, walked three and allowed six hits.
On the other hand, Jeremy Guthrie once again had a solid outing, but took the loss – his second on the year. He went seven innings, allowed three runs, struck out five and walked none. It was a shame that the Oriole bats were once again asleep for evening, and they went 0-for-3 with runners in scoring position.
However, Guthrie did allow eight hits and the Rays started their attack against him in the third inning. Reid Brignac hit his first homer of the year – a solo shot – to tie the game at one. Tampa added two more in the sixth inning off a Ben Zobrist RBI-triple and an Evan Longoria sacrifice fly.
Tampa added two more runs – one more in the eighth via a Carl Crawfor solo homer (his first) and in the ninth off a Brignac infield hit with the bases loaded – off the Baltimore bullpen.
On Tuesday night, Brian Matusz will square off against Jeff Neimann on the mound. He’s got the only win so far for Baltimore.
Thoughts? Is it now time to make changes? If the losing continues, who knows what will come of Dave Trembley. When it comes down to it, it’s the players who makes things happen from night to night; however, you can’t fire 25 guys…
Trying not to push the panic button … yet. However, seeing what’s going on now, things are not looking good.
