Thome crushes number 610, O's crush Indians!

The Baltimore Orioles coming off a 4 game trip to Minnesota earning them a split by winning the last 2 games before heading to Cleveland to take on the Indians. The O's jumped right on Derek Lowe and the tribe getting a run in the 1st on a wild pitch that the tribe would match in the bottom half. The flood gates would open in the top of the 3rd as the O's would put a 6 spot on the board. 2 coming across the plate on Mark Reynolds deep double and 3 more on Ryan Flaherty 3rd home-run of the season. This pushing the lead to 7-1.

The O's would getting 2 more in the 4th with one of those coming off Jim Thome's 610th career home-run in to the right field bleachers. The O's wouldn't look back and that is all the run support Miguel Gonzalez would need. Gonzalez would go 6.2 innings allowing 2 runs while striking out 5 and the O's bullpen would hold on for the win.

Thome with his home-run passes Sammy Sosa on the all-time home-run list and moved to #7 all-time by himself. Thome trails Ken Griffey Jr by 20 for 6th all-time. O's and Indians will square off in game #2 of 4 tonight at Progressive Field with the first pitch comingat 7:05 pm. The O's will have Chris Tillman going against Zach McAllister for the Indians. Tillman will look to perform better than his last start in which he lasted .2 innings while allowing 1 earned runs and 7 runs in total. Bad fielding led to 6 unearned runs for Chris and he couldn't get himself composed and out of the 1st. McAllister on the other hand is coming off 6 innings of 1 run ball while striking out 5 and walking 4 in a win against the Tampa Bay Rays!

O's can't get it done against tribe, lose another series.

The Baltimore Orioles haven't won many series this year but had a chance to win one at home against the Cleveland Indians today but the lack of clutch hits and a solid pitching outing for Jake Westbrook. The lone run came on a Luke Scott home-run in the bottom of the 9th and thats all the O's would get as Westbrook completed the game. The O's started Mark Hendrickson after David Hernandez complained of shoulder pain and though he pitched solid the O's hitters could not put the runs on the board.

The Orioles will look to bounce back in a 2 game series verse the Kansas City Royals starting tomorrow while the Indians will face the Tampa Bay Rays on monday in a game series!

Simon, Meredith get rocked, O's fall!

Brian Matusz came out and threw his best outing of the season and showed the O's fan what he has. The only thing is he only pitched 7 innings and that meant the bullpen would have to come in and try and wrap it up for him. The problem is the O's bullpen has had trouble closing out games this season and that was also the case Saturday.  The O's lead 2-0 both runs coming on solo home-runs off the bat of Ty Wigginton going in to the 9th. That coming after the O's used 3 pitchers to get through a scoreless 8th inning. The O's turned to Alfredo Simon to close it out but that wasn't the case as he allowed 4 earned runs. Trembley called for Meredith and the same result 4 earned runs and that 2-0 lead was squashed. The O's wouldn't get any in the 9th and fell to the Indians 8-2. Another solid start ruined by a terrible bullpen outing.

O's will now look to win the series sunday afternoon as Mark Hendrickson will pitch against Jake Westbrook.

O's look to Guthrie as Cleveland Indians come to town!

The Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians share the same success this season as both clubs have been on the end of a lot of losses. Between the two clubs they combined to lose 43 games while just winning 24. In all reality thats two clubs playing bad baseball. The O's will look to the former ace of the staff and veteran Jeremy Guthrie to lead them to a third straight victory and tie there season long win streak. Guthrie has a 1-4 record but has pitched 6 plus innings in all 6 of his 7 starts. In those 6 starts he has pitched well enough to pick up a win but lack of runs did not allow that to happen. The team has managed to score him a total of 18 runs in the 6 solid starts with 7 of them coming in his last start which he allowed 3 runs and picked up his first win of the season. Look for another solid start from Guthrie and if the O's can get a few key hits a win at home tonight could happen.