Abreu homers twice as LA tops Birds
Bobby Abreu, who had hit four homers all year, hit two tonight to lead the LA Angels to a 5-2 win over the Orioles. It was game one of a seven-game road trip for Baltimore.
Abreu hit a solo homer in the 4th and a three-run shot in the 5th. He tied his season-high with 4 RBI and produced his 14th career two-homer game.
Losing pitcher Jeremy Guthrie falls to 6-8, 5.20. He gave nine hits and five runs over seven innings, throwing 112 pitches.
Guthrie has allowed five runs or more six times this season. He has given up 19 homers on the year.
Winning pitcher John Lackey gave up just four hits over eight innings and is now 3-3. Brian Fuentes pitched the 9th to pick up his 23rd save.
The O's scored on a Matt Wieters RBI single in the 5th and Luke Scott's solo homer in the 6th. It's Scott's 16th home run.
The Orioles have lost seven of ten games. They are just 3-11 in their last 14 games in Anaheim.
The Angels improve to 3-0 on the season vs. the Orioles and they are 14-5 in their past 19 games.
Balt.....2-5-1
LAA....5-11-0
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Steve,
Orioles 1 thru 4 was 1 for 16 tonight with 5 strikeouts. Can't win hitting like that.
Guthrie pitches well overall, but he makes a couple mistakes which leave the park and prove costly. The beat goes on.
Steve, If I had to choose one Oriole as the biggest disappointment this season it would have to be Jeremy Guthrie. This was the year I had high hopes that he would take his game to another level.
Well, he has taken it to another level, but unfortunately that level is to somewhere south of where it was when he first signed with the O's. What makes his regression particularly painful to watch is how he teases us with some good innings, giving us false hope that he's found himself.
When the almost inevitable, one really bad inning arrives and cancels out all the others, we are abruptly jolted back into the realization that his struggles are nowhere near being resolved.
The O's offense didn't exactly do him any favors by scoring just two runs, but when he gives up five earned runs he has no one but himself to blame.
I cring at the thought of watching him being interviewed because it seems he's in denial about just how awful he's been pitching. Trying to find positives in a loss is okay, but, on the other hand, he should face facts and not try to sugarcoat bad outings. (That's one thing I liked about Jamie Walker; if he stunk, he said he stunk and didn't pretend otherwise.)
I hope Jeremy turns it around pretty soon, because it's getting pretty old watching the titular "ace" of the staff be more valuable to the team on the basepaths than on the mound.
Oops! A paragraph in my comment above should have begun, "I cringe at the thought...," not "I cring at the thought..." My bad.