by Chris Stoner | May 3, 2010 | Baltimore Orioles
The Baltimore Orioles completed their first 3 game sweep of the Boston Red Sox with their 2-1 extra-inning win yesterday.The win moved the O’s to just 7-18 overall, but gave Baltimore their 5th win in 7 games.A min-review of the three games:Friday:The O’s...
by Chris Stoner | Apr 29, 2010 | Baltimore Orioles
Oriole pitching prospects Jake Arrieta, and Zack Britton both took the mound tonight. Arrieta, pitching for AAA Norfolk, was coming off his last start where he had 11 k’s in 7 innings. Tonight the right-handed pitcher went 6 innings, allowing 5 hits, 3 er, 4...
by Chris Stoner | Apr 28, 2010 | Baltimore Orioles
As Mike Gonzalez and Koji Uehara (Uehara will have his 2nd rehab outing with AA Bowie tomorrow) inch closer to returning to the Baltimore Orioles, the complexion of the 12 man-staff with them has to be in question.I’ve argued before that Tillman, and Arrieta...
by Chris Stoner | Apr 28, 2010 | Baltimore Orioles
Chris Tillman has pitched a no-hitter for AAA Norfolk, with his complete game shutout of Gwinnett.He allowed just 1 walk, and had 6 k’s. This comes on the heals of his last outing, where he went 8 innings, and allowed 7 hits, 3 er, 0 bb’s, with 5...
by Chris Stoner | Apr 27, 2010 | Baltimore Orioles
As I wrote yesterday when he was promoted, while I hated seeing the O’s leave Spring Training in 2009 with Alfredo Simon as part of the rotation, I was happy to see he was coming back to Baltimore to join the pen here in 2010.Even though I felt he was miscast as...
by Chris Stoner | Apr 27, 2010 | Baltimore Orioles
Two years ago, I was openly very irritated by the arrival of Alberto Castillo to the Oriole bullpen. I saw a guy that was 32 years-old, had reached High A ball in 1998 and was in independent leagues for the following decade. I could read his stats, and see that he had...
