Jones reaches 20-home run mark again (we're tied)

Adam Jones homered off Angels starter Jered Weaver tonight with two outs in the bottom of the first inning to tie the game 1-1. Jones has hit 20-plus homers in four consecutive seasons. The Orioles weren't done. Nelson Cruz, walked, Delmon Young singled and J.J. Hardy followed with an RBI single to break the tie. Young entered the night batting .359 versus right-handers. Weaver was holding right-handed hitters to a .160 average. Jones, Cruz, Young and Hardy all bat from the right side, in case you're missing my point. Weaver threw 28 pitches in the first. He held the Orioles to two runs over eight innings in last week's start in Anaheim. Orioles starter Chris Tillman has now allowed 18 runs in the first inning this season after Mike Trout came home tonight on Josh Hamilton's ground ball. Trout walked with one out and moved to third base on Albert Pujols' ground rule double to right-center field. Nothing good happens after a walk, in case you forgot. Tillman threw 17 pitches in the inning. The Orioles drew 12 walks in their past two games, their highest two-game total this season. They added another one tonight. Buck Showalter is seeking his 1,222nd win as a major league manager. Among active skippers, he trails only San Francisco's Bruce Bochy (1,576) and Anaheim's Mike Scioscia (1,278). The Orioles have 26 outfield assists this season to rank second in the American League behind Oakland. Ubaldo Jimenez struck out two Tri-City batters in the first inning tonight at short-season Single-A Aberdeen. No runs, no hits, no walks. An early candidate for New York-Penn League MVP. Update: Tillman has allowed 17 runs in the second inning this season after the Angels scored twice to take a 3-2 lead. Howie Kendrick led off with a double and scored with one out on a fielder's choice bouncer from David Freese that resulted in a throwing error by Tillman, who fired the ball past catcher Nick Hundley. Freese scored with two outs on Kole Calhoun's double. Both runs off Tillman were unearned. He's up to 40 pitches in two innings. Update II: Who predicted a low-scoring game besides me? Manny Machado doubled in the second inning to plate Hundley and tie the game 3-3. All three Orioles runs have scored with two outs. Jimenez has tossed three scoreless innings at Aberdeen, though he's allowed three hits and walked one batter. He escaped a bases-loaded jam in the third with a double play.