With the O’s win tonight, the Birds will come-back tomorrow with the opportunity to sweep DC, and improve to 19-25 overall.
The O’s bullpen has pitched 12.1 innings in the first two games of this series, so it will take a sizeable effort from the Oriole starter Brad Bergesen for the sweep to occur.
Bergesen will be making his 7th Major League start of his young career.
So far, he has pitched 33.2 innings, allowing 43 hits, 12 bb’s, with just 16 k’s.
He has pitched at-least 5.2 innings in 5 of his 6 starts, and allowed 4 er or less five times.
He will be opposed by Shairon Martis, who is a 22 year old righty, that is 5-0 on the year.
He has pitched 47.2 innings, allowed 45 hits, 4 homers, 19 walks, with 23 k’s.
His era is 4.53… opposing hitters have a .713 OPS against, and he has a 0.74 Grounder to Flyball ratio.
Martis has pitched at least 6 innings in five of his eight 2009 starts, and allowed 3 er or less in six of his starts.
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