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05-22-2003, 10:32 AM
Nice. :D
Sid pitched a fine game. :thumbsup: (Well, maybe he could have been better, but at least he didn't implode. :D ) He's looking really good now, as a matter of fact. I wonder if it was that whole being knighted business. :D The Chief raised his BA by knocking in 2 last night. :thumbsup: Grover showed some faith in Jorge Julio by bringing him in again, even though he's been struggling, and Buddy Groom is having an odd couple of weeks. Not like him at all. He's usually so solid.
Orioles 7, Angels 6
AP - May 22, 1:35 am ED
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Baltimore manager Mike Hargrove stubbornly gave the ball to closer Jorge Julio again in the ninth inning with the game on the line, hoping he wouldn't get tagged with his third loss in as many outings.
And this time, there was even less room for error.
Julio came in with one out and the tying run at the plate. He gave up an RBI single by pinch-hitter Shawn Wooten, but retired Tim Salmon on a double-play grounder to third as the Orioles escaped with a 7-6 victory over the Anaheim Angels on Wednesday night.
``He's your closer, and you have him for a reason,'' winning pitcher Sidney Ponson said. ``You're going to live and die with him. He's going to have his ups and downs so you've got to try and forget about games like the last two. He saved seven or eight in a row before that, so hopefully he has it back together and he'll go from there.''
Tony Batista drove in three runs and Geronimo Gil singled home two more, helping the Orioles end a six-game road losing streak. They also snapped a string of seven straight losses to the defending World Series champions, their longest skid in the series since the teams began playing in 1961.
Ponson (5-3) won for the fourth time in five starts, allowing four runs and nine hits in six innings after being staked to a 5-0 lead. The right-hander improved to 4-0 lifetime against the Angels, with all of the wins coming at Edison Field. Anaheim is the only AL team that has never defeated him.
``These guys don't strike out a lot. They make a lot of contact and they make you work hard,'' Ponson said. ``But I'm not happy with the way I pitched, and I have to get my act together for my next start.''
Buddy Groom followed B.J. Ryan out of the bullpen in the eighth and gave up a leadoff homer to Troy Glaus, his 10th this season and third in two games. Groom also was charged with Anaheim's final run.
Aaron Sele (1-2) was charged with five runs -- three earned -- and six hits over six innings in his third start since coming back from rotator cuff surgery in October.
After stranding a runner at second base twice in the first three innings, the Angels scored in the fourth on leadoff walk Salmon and a double by Glaus.
The Angels narrowed the gap to 5-3 in the fifth on Salmon's two-out, two-run double out of the reach of a diving Larry Bigbie near the left-field line.
Jeff DaVanon, trying to pick up some of the offensive slack for injured center fielder Darin Erstad, made it a one-run deficit with an RBI two-out single in sixth. DaVanon had three hits.
But World Series phenom Francisco Rodriguez, pitching for the first time since he was bumped out of the setup role by Brendan Donnelly, surrendered a bases-loaded, two-run single by Batista in the eighth for a 7-4 cushion.
Gil, the Orioles' No. 9 hitter, opened the scoring in the second with a two-run single.
``Aaron pitched a lot better than the linescore's going to show,'' manager Mike Scioscia said. ``Early in the game he was trying to feel his way, but I thought his stuff picked up and the game went on. But we didn't support him in the field.''
The Orioles increased the margin to 5-0 with three runs in the fourth, two of which were unearned because of shortstop David Eckstein's throwing error to the plate on a botched rundown play.
``I tried to throw it over the runner and throw it as quickly as possible, but I launched it,'' Eckstein said. ``I had to do a better job on that play.That's the difference in the game.''
Notes
Salmon scored his 889th run with the Angels, tying Brian Downing's franchise record. ... Orioles 2B and leadoff hitter Jerry Hairston returned to Baltimore after breaking a bone in his right foot in Tuesday night's loss. He is expected to be out four-to-eight weeks. ... The Orioles recalled 2B Brian Roberts from Triple-A Ottawa after Hairston was placed on the DL. Roberts was 1-for-5 in the leadoff spot. He was picked off at first base in the ninth by Ben Weber. ... Angels 1B Scott Spiezio and his wife, Amy, have donated 50 seats for Thursday night's Angels-Baltimore game to families of military personnelbased at Camp Pendleton.
Sid pitched a fine game. :thumbsup: (Well, maybe he could have been better, but at least he didn't implode. :D ) He's looking really good now, as a matter of fact. I wonder if it was that whole being knighted business. :D The Chief raised his BA by knocking in 2 last night. :thumbsup: Grover showed some faith in Jorge Julio by bringing him in again, even though he's been struggling, and Buddy Groom is having an odd couple of weeks. Not like him at all. He's usually so solid.
Orioles 7, Angels 6
AP - May 22, 1:35 am ED
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Baltimore manager Mike Hargrove stubbornly gave the ball to closer Jorge Julio again in the ninth inning with the game on the line, hoping he wouldn't get tagged with his third loss in as many outings.
And this time, there was even less room for error.
Julio came in with one out and the tying run at the plate. He gave up an RBI single by pinch-hitter Shawn Wooten, but retired Tim Salmon on a double-play grounder to third as the Orioles escaped with a 7-6 victory over the Anaheim Angels on Wednesday night.
``He's your closer, and you have him for a reason,'' winning pitcher Sidney Ponson said. ``You're going to live and die with him. He's going to have his ups and downs so you've got to try and forget about games like the last two. He saved seven or eight in a row before that, so hopefully he has it back together and he'll go from there.''
Tony Batista drove in three runs and Geronimo Gil singled home two more, helping the Orioles end a six-game road losing streak. They also snapped a string of seven straight losses to the defending World Series champions, their longest skid in the series since the teams began playing in 1961.
Ponson (5-3) won for the fourth time in five starts, allowing four runs and nine hits in six innings after being staked to a 5-0 lead. The right-hander improved to 4-0 lifetime against the Angels, with all of the wins coming at Edison Field. Anaheim is the only AL team that has never defeated him.
``These guys don't strike out a lot. They make a lot of contact and they make you work hard,'' Ponson said. ``But I'm not happy with the way I pitched, and I have to get my act together for my next start.''
Buddy Groom followed B.J. Ryan out of the bullpen in the eighth and gave up a leadoff homer to Troy Glaus, his 10th this season and third in two games. Groom also was charged with Anaheim's final run.
Aaron Sele (1-2) was charged with five runs -- three earned -- and six hits over six innings in his third start since coming back from rotator cuff surgery in October.
After stranding a runner at second base twice in the first three innings, the Angels scored in the fourth on leadoff walk Salmon and a double by Glaus.
The Angels narrowed the gap to 5-3 in the fifth on Salmon's two-out, two-run double out of the reach of a diving Larry Bigbie near the left-field line.
Jeff DaVanon, trying to pick up some of the offensive slack for injured center fielder Darin Erstad, made it a one-run deficit with an RBI two-out single in sixth. DaVanon had three hits.
But World Series phenom Francisco Rodriguez, pitching for the first time since he was bumped out of the setup role by Brendan Donnelly, surrendered a bases-loaded, two-run single by Batista in the eighth for a 7-4 cushion.
Gil, the Orioles' No. 9 hitter, opened the scoring in the second with a two-run single.
``Aaron pitched a lot better than the linescore's going to show,'' manager Mike Scioscia said. ``Early in the game he was trying to feel his way, but I thought his stuff picked up and the game went on. But we didn't support him in the field.''
The Orioles increased the margin to 5-0 with three runs in the fourth, two of which were unearned because of shortstop David Eckstein's throwing error to the plate on a botched rundown play.
``I tried to throw it over the runner and throw it as quickly as possible, but I launched it,'' Eckstein said. ``I had to do a better job on that play.That's the difference in the game.''
Notes
Salmon scored his 889th run with the Angels, tying Brian Downing's franchise record. ... Orioles 2B and leadoff hitter Jerry Hairston returned to Baltimore after breaking a bone in his right foot in Tuesday night's loss. He is expected to be out four-to-eight weeks. ... The Orioles recalled 2B Brian Roberts from Triple-A Ottawa after Hairston was placed on the DL. Roberts was 1-for-5 in the leadoff spot. He was picked off at first base in the ninth by Ben Weber. ... Angels 1B Scott Spiezio and his wife, Amy, have donated 50 seats for Thursday night's Angels-Baltimore game to families of military personnelbased at Camp Pendleton.