Matt Wieters rehabbing tonight at Bowie (updated)

BOWIE, Md. - Orioles catcher Matt Wieters, playing for Double-A Bowie tonight for the first time since the Eastern League playoffs in 2008, is 1-for-2 with a fourth-inning single.

Beginning a rehab assignment that he hopes will lead him back to the Orioles when he can be activated off the disabled list on June 4, Wieters flied out to shallow center field on a 2-0 pitch in the first inning against Erie right-hander Tommy Collier.

In the last of the fourth, after a one-out single by Mike Yastrzemski, he singled to right off the glove of second baseman Curt Powell, sending Yastrzemski to third.

The Baysox got just one run out of that rally on an RBI single by Brandon Snyder. They stranded the bases loaded when Garabez Rosa struck out and Michael Burgess lined out.

Wieters is batting third and catching tonight, and there have not been any Erie steal attempts through the fourth, with Bowie leading 1-0.

On the mound tonight for Bowie is 25-year-old left-hander Jhonathan Ramos from San Felipe, Venezuela. He was moved up today from Single-A Frederick, where he was 0-0 with a 2.18 ERA in four starts.

Through four innings, he has allowed just two hits. He pitched around a leadoff double in the first and pitched out of a bases loaded, one-out jam in the third, getting a strikeout and groundout. He has walked one and fanned five so far.

The Baysox were happy to get Snyder back off the DL today and add a bat to their scuffling lineup. Bowie went 3-4 on a seven-game road trip that ended Monday and scored 16 total runs.

Tonight Bowie (22-22), which has lost four of five and 12 of its last 17 games, is beginning a six-game homestand.

Update: Wieters hit a hard one-hopper to second for a groundout in the last of the sixth, and is 1-for-3 tonight.

Ramos pitched five scoreless innings for Bowie on three hits, with one walk and six strikeouts. Erie tied it 1-1 in the top of the sixth with a run off right-hander Marcel Prado, who entered this outing with a 0.90 ERA over 10 innings this season.

Wieters throws out a runner: Well, he did, but it appeared that runner overslid the bag and then was tagged out. Either way he gets credit for a 2-6 caught stealing in the top of the eighth, throwing out Erie's Curt Powell.

The Baysox took the lead in the last of the eighth, and Wieters and Snyder combined to get it done. Wieters singled off the glove of second baseman Powell - on a play he frankly probably should have made - and he scored on Snyder's two-run homer to left. That is Snyder's third homer in 11 games for the Baysox, who take a 4-2 lead to the top of the ninth.

Baysox hang on: Mychal Givens pitched out of a jam in the top of the ninth, as Bowie won 4-2, and picked up his eighth save.

I'll post some Wieters quotes in my next entry.