Post-game Notes: O's rally in the 9th to win
The Orioles scored five runs in the 9th Wednesday afternoon to rally for a 5-3 win over the Mariners. The O's take the series, two wins to one.
The Birds are now 3-43 when trailing after eight innings.
The O's improve to 7-21 in series finale games and are now 2-11 in road series finales. They are 4-8 when they have a chance to win the series in its last game. The O's had lost six straight series vs. AL West opponents.
The O's have outscored their opponents 38-21 in the 9th inning this year.
The Orioles went 0 for 11 at bat with runners in scoring position through the first eight innings. They went 3 for 7 at bat in those situations during the five-run ninth.
Ty Wigginton's two-run single in the 9th gave the O's the 4-3 lead. Wigginton was 1 for 3 on the day. Over his last 15 games he is batting .370 (20 for 54) with three homers and 10 RBI.
Amber interviews Ty Wigginton about the O's 5-3 comeback victory over Seattle
Adam Jones had two hits and is 10 for 25 with 3 RBI over his last six games. Nolan Reimold went hitless and has just three hits over his last 28 at bats.
Luke Scott singled in his last at bat, in the 9th and that extends his hitting streak to nine games. During the streak he is batting .364 with three homers and 12 RBI.
Melvin Mora, who had been 3 for 28 the past nine games, came up with two doubles in four at bats today. His double began the five-run rally in the ninth.
The O's won for just the third time in eight games and fifth time in 16 games. The O's improve to 14-27 on the road, 3-5 in July and 8-17 vs. AL West opponents.
In the last two games of this series, the O's bullpen gave up just one earned run over 8 2/3 innings.
The first seven times the Orioles played Seattle this year the O's scored 12 runs total. In the last two games they scored 17 runs vs. M's pitching.
Ichiro Suzuki's single in the ninth extended his batting streak vs. the Orioles to 17 games. He is 23 for 75 (.306) during that streak.
Seattle had won nine of its last 11 series before losing two of three to the O's. The Mariners are still 13-8 over their last 21 games.
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Would you like to see the Orioles sign Chone Figgins? I hope that we don't trade Oscar
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He should be an attractive free agent to many teams. I'm sure the O's will take a look. - Steve
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God I hope that the O's don't go after Figgins. He is the most frustrating streaky player in MLB. Just because he kills us doesn't make him worth what he is gonna want.
Anyway,.....Is it just me or, where I see that Bergy will probably be the most reliable of the kids we have seen so far (like a Scott Erickson or Kevin Millwood type sinker baller workhorse 200+ Innings guy), but Hernandez to me looks like he has the best stuff. He seems to be able to go up and down in the zone so effectively it realy confuses hitters. Has he really had a "bad" start at all? I mean, that 1 game he gave up 4 in 4 innings, but, it wasn't like 9 ER in 2/3's or whatever.
I just think he is the type pitcher that will flirt with many a no-no's. Once Tillman gets here, I think we really might se some progress as far as the Rotation is concerned, and when you think that Matusz and Jake are waiting in the wings for next year,.....ooooooo boy. I could almost pee my pants.
p.s. if I was Macphail, I would really be looking at Garret Atkins.
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Hernandez has been very impressive these last two starts. He has a real oppurtunity now that Koji is out. I knew he had the big fastball, but his curve and change have been better than than he was getting credit for. - Steve