Soon after the Orioles beat the Washington Nationals 8-1 on Tuesday night, manager Buck Showalter confirmed that ace Chris Tillman is likely to be sidelined with a sore right shoulder.
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BALTIMORE (AP) – Two rookie pitchers with plenty of hope for the future could end up playing big roles this year for the Orioles and Nationals. That’s bad. Well, the Orioles are going to need some surprises down the stretch and they pretty much need Miley to be one of those surprises. The scoring got started early. The next batter, Hyun Soo Kim, lined a single down the left field line. Wieters hit a three-run homer to straightaway center off Blake Treinen to make it 10-3.
The comeback fell short when Zimmerman hit a sharp grounder on the first pitch.
But the Nationals made the Orioles sweat in the ninth.
Bundy (7-4) gave up two runs, walked four and struck out four.
Strasburg’s right elbow has been a concern of the team – and the pitcher – since he underwent elbow ligament replacement surgery in September 2010.
The only player who had a great night on the Nats offense was Turner. 4-1, Orioles. However, Murphy was inexplicably sent home on the play and was out by 30 feet.
The Orioles jumped on Roark in the first. Jones would increase the lead to 3-0 on an infield single later in the inning.
Adrian Beltre hit a two-run double in the eighth inning, snapping a 5-5 tie. And 7-3 on an RBI single by Jonathan Schoop and 10-3 on a Matt Wieters’ homer and.
Orioles’ closer Zach Britton has completed a Major League record 43 consecutive relief appearances without allowing an earned run.
The performance kept the Nationals in the game, though, and Danny Espinosa smacked a solo home run, his 20th, just over the left-field wall to trim the fifth-inning deficit to three. The eight-year veteran has made 58 starts at third base and 26 at first base. Runners on second and third and none down and the tying run at the plate.
That came after an RBI single by Murphy had trimmed the margin to 5-3 in the seventh for the Nationals, who had 15 hits. He did all that on eleven (11!) pitches. But with one out, Bryce Harper struck out looking. Givens got Jayson Werth to pop out.
“It is a good lineup”, said Miley, who gave up two runs in five innings.
The 19-year-old met several Nationals before the game, including Harper, whom she called one of her favorites. “The game did not go the way I liked it to”.
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Wilson Ramos was next up, and he hit a comebacker to Britton. “And if there’s just something a little off and he thinks it’s off, and he starts to worry about maybe he’s going down a slippery slope, and he knows what he had to go through to get back here and that whole Tommy John thing, I don’t mind that at all, especially if it’s going to make him 97, 98 in October in the playoffs”. Chris Davis then doubled to right and Trumbo followed by launching his 38th homer to left-center, and the Orioles suddenly had a 4-2 lead.NOTES: The Orioles reinstated C Matt Wieters from the paternity list.
