Just to show you how bad the Orioles have been this year, they were the very last team in all of baseball to have a four game winning streak. Not the hapless Royals or Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Our Orioles just finished their first four game winning streak in mid-August.
Kris Benson has been pretty sharp since coming off of the DL and Friday was no exception. He gave up two runs on only six hits with five strikeouts in seven innings of work. He’s now 10-9 on the season. Melvin Mora hit his 13th homerun of the season and he drove in four runs in the 7-2 win. Nick Markakis had three hits and he scored twice.
Yesterday was a nice game. Danny Cabrera pitched a five hit shutout in which he struck out ten batters. More importantly, he walked only two guys. In the meantime, the Orioles ran up the score on Shaun Marcum. The Orioles set the stage with seven runs in the first and never looked back. Final was 15-0. Markakis, Miguel Tejada and Brian Roberts all homered in the win. Kevin Millar drove in five runs and seven Orioles scored two runs a piece.
All good things come to an end though, and today our wall was Roy Halladay. Miguel Tejada hit a solo homerun and Markakis drove in a run on a ground out to account for the only runs for the Orioles. In the meantime, Erik Bedard was roughed up and he gave up seven runs (five earned) on seven hits in five innings.
Next up is three against the Twins. While the Orioles may not be in the mix, they can definitely play spoiler and the Twins are just a game back of Wild Card.
