Game update and more from Showalter (Orioles lose 6-4)

LAKELAND, Fla. - The Tigers scored twice off Chris Tillman in the first three innings, but Delmon Young delivered a two-run triple to right-center field with one out in the fourth and Nolan Reimold lifted a sacrifice fly to center to give the Orioles a 3-2 lead.

Young, a former Tiger, is having quite a day. He also threw out J.D. Martinez at the plate on Nick Castellanos' single to end the second inning.

Young has a three-hit game, a home run and a two-run triple in his last three starts.

Left-hander David Price retired the first 10 Orioles before Dariel Alvarez singled with one out in the fourth. Jimmy Paredes also singled, his 15th hit in 36 spring at-bats, and Young followed with his game-tying triple.

Tillman has allowed two runs and five hits in four innings, including an RBI single in the third by Miguel Cabrera, who also lifted a sacrifice fly in the first. Tillman retired the side in order in the fourth with his first two strikeouts of the game. I've got him at 55 pitches, 32 for strikes.

Rajai Davis tripled with one out in third, the ball scooting past Alvarez in left-center field. It could have been scored a double and E-8.

Left fielder Yoenis Cespedes robbed Orioles first baseman Christian Walker of an extra-base hit with a leaping catch in the third inning. However, Walker lost track of the ball and hustled into second, paused, and trotted home. He never saw the catch, which came well short of the warning track.

Cespedes barely moved before jumping up and snaring the ball. Walker thought he had a double and then a home run. I'm sure he ended up with plenty of teasing in the dugout.

Here are some pregame quotes from manager Buck Showalter:

On J.P. Arencibia's strained right flexor mass:

"He was fine when I left this morning. He took BP, so something must have happened. He hit a home run yesterday and caught real well."

On having Arencibia, who's 2-for-17, catch at Twin Lakes Park:
"We'll let him catch as many days in a row as he can. The innings up here ... Where he was, it seemed like he was almost, you come to a new organization and he seemed to have some anxiety to his game. Just wanted him to go out there and catch. I sat down with him three or four days ago and said, 'Is there something we can do different?' Because I know he's so much better than he's shown. Yesterday I was reading the reports about him coming over and they were pretty effervescent.

"He's going to be a guy who if he ends up in Triple-A you're going to like him around the players. It's not like this guy is 40 years old. He likes to play. Good guy. For a guy who's played four or five years in the big leagues, nothing's beneath him. He and (Ryan) Lavarnway were both very intrigued by what they heard about John Russell and the catching program. First thing they did when they walked in was, 'Hey, can we try that?' Some footwork stuff that Caleb (Joseph) and the guys were doing. He's very receptive since Day One."

On David Lough:
"Better. Think he's a potential Friday but it doesn't look like the weather's going to cooperate. I know they've already cancelled the games tomorrow in Fort Myers with the Red Sox. They're going to try to play an intrasquad at 10 a.m. at Twin Lakes tomorrow. We're going to call Tampa and have them to hold their buses until we tell them to go. It doesn't look good.

On Matt Wieters:
"He's going to be ready for extended spring. Then when he does that, he will work out of our locker room with Bowie and Fredrick. I've got an idea of what he's targeted, but I'm not going to throw that date out there. Encouraging. I think he feels good about where it is."

On Travis Snider not being in the lineup again today:
"He wouldn't be playing against David Price anyway. We're at that time of the year. Physically he's ready to go. He'll play day after tomorrow in Tampa. We've got a left-hander again tomorrow, so it would be the day after tomorrow. But he's fine physically."

On Jonathan Schoop:
"Jon's telling me he'll be ready Friday but we'll see. The swelling's down and he's eating. He lost about six pounds. He's got a couple big holes over there. He's pretty sore today. J.J. asked him if he put the teeth under his pillow last night. Trying to explain to Jonathan Schoop who the tooth fairy is was pretty funny. He hadn't heard it. He goes, 'You get what?'"

Update: Tillman became the first Orioles starter this spring to work into the sixth. He allowed two runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings, with one walk and four strikeouts. He retired the last eight batters he faced, striking out four of them.

Tillman threw 70 pitches, 45 for strikes.

Tommy Hunter replaced Tillman, and Cabrera homered on the first pitch to tie the game 3-3.

Update II: Cespedes homered on Hunter's first pitch of the seventh inning, but Jayson Nix homered in the eighth to tie the game 4-4.