Game 13 Recap
Baltimore Orioles 4- Toronto Blue Jays 3
The Orioles won the opener of the battle for first place tonight vs the Blue Jays at Camden Yards. Both starting pitchers pitched well but the difference was 1 pitch— a home run by Os clean up man Kevin Millar. The Os First baseman hit a shot to left making the score 3-1, a lead the home team did not give up.
RH Matt Albers made his 1st start for Os , he had done some relief work after his off season acquisition in the Miguel Tejeda trade. The former Astros starter was excellent allowing 1 earned run over 5 innings while allowing 5 hits, 1 walk and striking out 1 Blue Jay. His mound counterpart, promising Jays RH Dustin McGowan was also very good. Over 6 innings he gave up 3 earned runs, walked 1 and k-ed 5. He also gave up the big homer to Millar in the 5th.
The game was tied after 1 frame with the Jays scoring on an rbi single by CF Vernon Wells, Millar countered with his own rbi hit to make it 1-1. The game stayed tied until Millar’s homer in the 6th, the Os added a single run in the 8th on a sac fly by C Ramon Hernandez to make it 4-1.
The Orioles relief corps, one of the keys to the teams early success, continued their solid work tonight with RH Jim Johnson taking over for the young Albers for 2 1/3 strong innings. LH Jamie Walker and RH Chad Bradford followed to get thru the 8th and get the game to promising closer LH George Sherrill. George,unfortunately, learned what a lot of AL fans have learned over the past 4-5 years, Alex Rios is pretty good! The talented Jays OF hit a tremendous 2 run homer to make it interesting at 4-3. However, George settled down, getting a strike out and line out to earn his 6th save and secure the Oriole victory!
Star of the Game–Millar with 3 big RBI
Unsung hero-Young RH middle man Jim Johnson for getting the pen set up in order with his strong 2 1/3 innings
Orioles Notes-
Millar and CF Adam Jones led the way with 3 hits, LF Luke Scott, 2b Brian Roberts and 3b Melvin Mora all added two…. Team stole 4 bases tonight
Next Game-
Tuesday-7:05
RH Steve Traschel (1-1) vs Jays RH Shaun Marcum(1-0)
