Tonight at Camden Yards, the Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Mets 6-4.
This game will be remembered as the game that had Matt Wieters’ 1st Major League HR (and RBI).
In the bottom of the 2nd, Wieters hit an opposite-field shot to left-field off of Tim Redding, that just cleared the wall.
The ball was not tagged all that well, but they all look the same in the boxscore.
O’s starter Koji Uehara went 5 innings, and 89 pitches in his 2nd start back from the DL.
Over the 5 innings, Uehara allowed 7 hits, 2 er, 0 bb’s, with 5 k’s.
This was Uehara’s 11 start of the 2009 season, and the 7th time he has pitched at-least 5 innings, and allowed 3 er or less.
For the most part, Uehara is doing a great job giving the team an opportunity to win the games he starts. However, the fact that he could not go more than 5 innings, and 89 pitches in a mid-June game – with game-time temperature around 62 degrees – is somewhat deflating.
Brian Bass relieved Uehara, and was ineffective.
Mark Hendrickson was able to get a bases-loaded double-play, but not before he walked in what was the tying run at 4.
Trembley clearly does not have confidence in Hendrickson, and it is getting harder to justify keeping him as part of the roster.
Adam Jones was not able to perform on Adam Jones Bobble-head night, as he went 0 for 4.
With the 0 for 4, Jones is just 3 for his last 29.
If Jones needs confidence to break-out of a pro-longed slump, he should find encouragement from Markakis tonight.
One night after ending his homer and rbi drought, Markakis pounded out 4 basehits in 4 at-bats.
Aubrey Huff also had 2 hits including his 9th homer to give the O’s the 6-4 lead.
Jim Johnson earned the win, with two shut-down innings.
Sherrill came in for the 9th, and was able to close the door for his 13th save.
Tomorrow, Jason Berken will take the mound for Baltimore against the Mets’ Livan Hernandez.
Berken has been touched-up for 13 er in his last-two starts, and has failed to reach the 5th.
Berken needs a strong outing tomorrow, or will start to be on the radar to possibly be sent back to Norfolk.
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