O's bats go from hot to cold over night!

The Baltimore Orioles were red hot on wednesday and ice cold on thursday as the fell to the Oakland A's 8-1. The bats were kept in line by Trevor Cahill and the lone run came on a Nick Markakis sac fly in the first inning. Jake Arrieta went 6 innings allowing 3 earned runs while striking out 2 and would give way to the bullpen that would allow 4 more runs to push the score to 8-1. That would be the final as the O's lose the series to the A's. 

Corey Patterson had 2 hits with one being a double and scored the lone run. While Nick Markakis, Adam Jones, Miguel Tejada, Matt Wieters and Josh Bell each added 1 hit a piece. 

Up next for the O's is a trip to Fenway Park in Boston to take on the Boston Red Sox. The O's will hand Brad Bergesen the ball against the veteran knuckleballer Tim Wakefield in game 1 tonight!

Orioles smash 5 home-runs to beat A's!

The Baltimore Orioles showed they have some power and did it all in the same game as the O's ride 5 long balls to victory to avoid back to back loses against the Oakland A's wednesday night! The Orioles got on the scoreboard first putting up 2 in the 2nd and 1 in the 3rd but Oakland would get 6 off of Kevin Millwood in the 4th to take a 6-3 lead. Thats all the A's would get and the O's would take advantage scoring runs in the bottom of the 4th, 7th and 8th to win 9-6.

The O's were lead by Adam Jones who had 3 hits with 1 double, 1 home-run & 3 rbi's. The team would get 4 more home-runs off the bats of Corey Patterson, Ty Wigginton, Miguel Tejada & Luke Scott to help the team come from behind late to win another ball game.

The O's & A's look to finish a 3 game series tonight at Orioles Park @ Camden Yards. Jake Arrieta will take the mound for the O's looking for win number 3 on the season while Trevor Cahill will get the ball for the A's.