Mercy! That’s all that needed to be said about Avisail Garcia’s game-saving home run in the bottom of the 9th inning on Saturday. Rather surprising numbers for a team that leads the majors in team batting average with RISP (.306) and had scored 148 runs in June. Right-hander Darren O’Day relieved him and served up the double to Shuck. The right fielder jumped and reached behind him over the wall to steal a home run from Davis with one out in the ninth. It also gets the Orioles closer than they have been all season to being a complete team when it comes to it’s core players. Starter Chris Till man only allowed two runs but was in constant trouble with ten hits and a walk allowed over 4.2 innings. Not only did it keep the White Sox ahead, but it came on the heels of Zach Putnam blowing the lead in the top of the eighth and J.B.
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“Probably not, but don’t hold me to it”, Showalter said when asked if Machado would move to short. He last faced the Orioles in September of 2013, allowing four earned runs on seven hits in 5.1 innings, on his way to a loss.
With a completed first half-season of baseball (81 games) in the books for 2014, Jonathan Schoop returned to the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday in Chicago to incite a turnaround from their three-game losing streak. He hit the ball up the middle on Samardzija’s first pitch.
“He was just on”.
As soon as Garcia’s feet landed on the warning track with the ball in his mitt, he threw his hands in the air and let out a yell. Designated hitter Jose Abreu went 2-for-4 and scored each of the White Sox’s first two runs following extra-base hits.
CJ Cron, Los Angeles Angels: One game after driving in six runs, Cron was at it again. That was most of what the Orioles batters could put together against White Sox starter Carlos Rodon, who was the third pick in last year’s draft and features a wicked slider.
NATIONALS 9, GIANTS 3: In Washington, Bryce Harper homered, Tyler Moore drove in four runs and Washington defeated San Francisco despite Stephen Strasburg leaving in the fourth inning with an apparent injury. “Ubaldo tried to match him as much as he could. we had second and third, one out”.
Machado hit a two-run homer to tie it at 2 in the eighth.
“It was a grind”, Tillman said.
Good: Twins starting pitcher Ervin Santana returned to the mound for the first time since being handed an 80-game suspension for PED use.
“I know there’s a lot of stuff surrounding (us) that might be negative, but these guys are still pushing the right buttons and grinding and getting through it and not quitting”, Ventura said.
The win bumps the Orioles to 43-39 and drops the White Sox to 36-43. He threw 6 1/3 scoreless innings on Thursday against Texas and struck out seven. “He threw great. Even in the seventh he got in that jam and he’s got to go for a strikeout, and he gets it and he gets out of it”, said White Sox manager Robin Ventura.
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With Miguel Gonzalez set to toe the rubber for Baltimore against Chicago’s Carlos Rodon, the total now sits at 8.5 runs.
