Matt Moore has certainly turned a corner, as he allowed just two runs on a homer by J.J. Hardy in the third inning over 7 1/3 innings, extending his career-best streak to eight straight starts with at least six innings completed. However, he posted one of his best outings of the season against the O’s on April 25, allowing just five hits over 6.2 shutout innings with zero walks and ten K’s in a 2-0 win.
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The Orioles’ only other run came on Pedro Alvarez’s solo homer in the sixth, his second homer of the three-game series.
“It stinks when you lose a ballgame on one pitch”, Rays manager Kevin Cash said. He leads the American League and is one of five Orioles pitchers ever to reach 100 career saves.
“Just a good start to the second half, and keep going from here”, Odorizzi said. Only Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox has more wins (14) among AL pitchers.
Zach Britton pitched a ideal ninth, striking out two, for his 29th save of the season and his second in as many nights.
Manager Buck Showalter can probably manage through that, but Dan Duquette could help a lot by picking up a veteran such as Scott Feldman (2.50 ERA in a swing role for the Astros) to provide a spot starter and some more depth in the bullpen, which may have just lost Bundy.
“It’s easy to look at things that are going wrong and put your finger on them”.
Time will tell on who eventually gets the start for the Orioles on Sunday, but we, along with most Orioles’ fans really hope that Ubaldo Jimenez does not get the nod.
The Tampa Bay Rays have been struggling at the plate and the wins have been hard to come by. “We can’t do anything about what’s already happened”. Mark Trumbo followed with a weak ground ball that Evan Longoria attempted to make an incredible play that his throw pulled Morrison off the bag, but was ruled a hit. Steven Souza Jr. then drove in Morrison with a single, the final hit of the game for the Rays.
Baltimore announced Friday that Bundy, 23, will make his first Major League Baseball start Sunday against the Rays at Tropicana Field.
The lone good 2016 Orioles starter takes the carpet on Saturday evening against the Rays.
Each of their last 45 games is in the Eastern time zone, and 31 of them are against the AL East. “Every win is a big win especially second half of the season”.
Orioles: Showalter said OF Hyun Soo Kim, who was out of the lineup for the third straight game due to a strained right hamstring, is “getting close”.
Rays RHP Alex Cobb (Tommy John surgery) will have a bullpen session Sunday instead of making his third rehab start for Class A Charlotte. OF Desmond Jennings (strained left hamstring) continued taking batting practice and has started a running program.
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Bundy, the fourth overall pick in the 2011 draft, has thrown 38 innings in 22 relief appearances this season. Jepsen could immediately be activated right from the start of the second half or could wait a day or so before he can pitch for the Rays once again.
