Game 23 Recap-
The day after learning promising LH SP Adam Loewen might be out for a while, fellow LH SP Brian Burres picked up the Orioles with a huge performance in the 1st game of Saturday’s double header in Chicago. Burres worked 8 strong innings, allowing 3 hits, k-ing 4 versus one of the better hitting clubs in the AL, The White Sox.
The Orioles got all the runs they would need when backup C Guillermo Quiroz hit a 2 run homer off of White Sox LH SP John Danks in the 6th. That was the Chicago SP only mistake over his 6 1/3 innings,giving up only 4 hits, those 2 runs and striking out 4. Baltimore scored 3 more runs in the 9th with an error allowing one to score and 2b Brian Roberts hitting a run double to make it 5-0.
RH Matt Albers relieved Burres and allowed 2 hits and walk to load the bases. Orioles Closer George Sherrill entered the game and after hitting his 1st batter for the White Sox only run, got 3b Joe Crede to fly out to end the game and earn his 9th save.
Star of the Game-Burres- Huge performance and much needed with the bad news on Loewen and overuse of the pen
