This gives Gausman wins in three of his last five starts, a stretch in which he has allowed 10 earned runs and 28 hits while striking out 32. “That’s on me. I’ve got to set a better tempo than that”.
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Many of his teammates can say the same thing. Then, with two outs and the bases loaded, Lopez got J.J. Hardy to hit a hard grounder to Daniel Murphy at second.
Strasburg insisted he could have pitched through his elbow discomfort when he told Manager Dusty Baker about it Saturday, but the Nationals made a decision to play it safe with the pitcher they signed to a $175 million contract extension in May. “Obviously, we’re upset that his is happening, but hopefully he’ll take two starts off and hopefully he comes back ready to go”. And with 66 major league innings and 61 2/3 innings at Triple-A, Taillon is close to his professional career-high of 147 1/3 in 2013.
Cole appeared in three games a year ago.
The rep for this team is the same every year “if the O’s could get good consistent pitching they could win the World Series”. “We go home and regroup”.
CORRECTS UMPIRE ID TO ANGEL HERNANDEZ NOT TED BARRETT Baltimore Orioles’ Manny Machado (13) slides home to score past Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos, right, and home plate umpire Angel Hernandez, center, on a double by. The announcement came just hours before Strasburg was to take the mound in the series opener at Camden Yards. Making the result more maddening for Washington: Jayson Werth followed with a walk both times.
The trend continued in the bottom of the third, when replay determined that Adam Jones beat out an infield roller after initially being called out.
Anthony Rendon hit a solo home run in the top of the 4th inning to give Washington the lead right back, but it wouldn’t last for long. Jonathan Schoop hit a one out double to left that drove in Chris Davis.
Davis connected in the eighth against Yusmeiro Petit. Lopez (2-2) yielded six runs, four earned, and seven hits in 2 2/3 rocky innings. “I feel good, knock on wood, about the way he and Dylan [Bundy] feel right now this time of year”. Baker said. “I don’t know”. “We’re going to put him on the DL rather than pitch through some routine inflammation and soreness”. Ubaldo Jimenez will start in his place; the DL stint is backdated to Sunday, and Tillman will be eligible to come off the DL on September 5th. His last start for Texas was June 20.
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Orioles: Wade Miley (7-10, 5.58) makes his fifth start with Baltimore. He has a 3.17 ERA (2.98 FIP) and 1.094 WHIP over the course of his career.
