After a brutal road-trip, where the O’s lost their last 5 games, including all 4 games in Boston, the O’s return home to face the White Sox at Camden Yards for three games.
With the losing-streak, the overall record has moved to 6-7.
Perhaps returning home tomorrow, with Brad Bergesen making his Major League debut, things will improve.
The pitching match-ups for the 3 game series are:
4/21: Bergesen vs Contreas
4/22: Guthrie vs Danks
4/23: Eaton vs Colon
Chicago is 7 and 5, tied for first in the American League Central.
Contreas is 0-2, with a 6.97 era. In 10.1 innings, he has allowed 12 hits, 8er, 2 homers, 5 walks, with 7 k’s.
Hitters have a .851 OPS against the 37 year-old.
John Danks is coming off of a 2008 where he won 12 games… on April 15th, he turned 24… so far this year, he is 1-0, with a 0.75 era.
In 12 innings, he has allowed only 5 hits, 1 er, 1 homer, 7 walks, and has 13 k’s.
Hitters have a .460 OPS against Danks, and he has a Grounder to Fly Ball ratio of 1.15.
Former Cy Young winner Bartolo Colon will take the mound Thursday night against the Birds. Colon is 1-0, with a 3.86 era.
In 11.2 innings, he has allowed 9 hits, 5 er, 1 hr, 3 walks, and has 6 k’s.
With those 11.2 innings, Colon has already pitched 25% of his total 2008 innings.
The White Sox are featuring an interesting everyday lineup, led by OF Carlos Quentin. After a 36 homer season in 2008, Quentin already has 7 bombs in 2009.
Old mainstays of Dye, Konerko, Thome, and Pierzynski are still there… but there is some younger blood with Chris Getz at 2nd, and Josh Fields at 3rd.
After an impressive 2008, SS Alexi Ramirez is off to just a horrific start to 2009. The 27 year-old has just 5 hits in his first 40 at-bats, with no extra base-hits.
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