Mike Wright on his outing today; Paul Janish on being added by O's

Orioles starter Mike Wright did not give up too many hard-hit balls today, but he did give up a lot of hits. Wright allowed 10 hits and five runs in the Orioles' 8-4 loss to the Athletics in Game 1 of the day-night doubleheader.

"I felt like I was throwing really well," Wright said. "Just like the other games, I was executing pitches and felt my velo was pretty good. Felt pretty solid about it."

Oakland scored single runs off him in the second, third and fifth innings. Then he gave up an infield hit and walk to start the sixth, and Dylan Bundy came on. Those two runs went on to score during the A's three-run sixth inning.

Wright gave up some hits against the shift today in addition to some soft hits. That had to be frustrating.

"Not just because it was against the shift, but giving up 10 hits is always frustrating and pretty tough. It is part of the game. They did a good job getting the bat on the ball. I was in plenty of situations to get a lot of punchouts, but ultimately, they came out on top.

"I mean leadoff guy getting on, a guy gets on with two outs. They made stuff happen all day. It sucks getting the leadoff guy on, but it sucks getting people on and them scoring at any point in the inning. I felt like we had a good scouting report and executed it pretty well, and like I said, they just came out on top."

Wright gave up a career-high 10 hits today to fall to 1-3 with a 5.83 ERA, and the Orioles gave up a season-high 15 hits.

Infielder Paul Janish joined the Orioles today, called up from Triple-A Norfolk, starting at shortstop and going 0-for-4. It has been a crazy few days for Janish. He left the Tides to fly to Houston for the birth of his third child. Then he arrived here at Camden Yards today about two hours before first pitch.

"It's been pretty hectic," Janish said. "Fortunately, everything went about as well as it could have back home. Little bit of guessing what the team was going to do and also keeping them up to date on our time frame. The baby girl was born yesterday about 10:30 in the morning. Everyone is healthy and mom is doing well. We are a little short on sleep right now, running on fumes, but all in all, everything is good and it's good to be back here.

"It was a little weird having to leave the hospital (at) about 4:00 this morning. My wife is holding the baby and the baby is doing good, but it was a little bit of an emotional situation to say, 'See you later.' "

Janish has hardly had time to talk with manager Buck Showalter today and said he was not certain how he will be used.

"Whatever they decide to do. Up to this point, I've been playing ... had a good spring training and that rolled into the season. I'd played well up to this point in Norfolk, so I hope I get to play more than I don't, but we'll see how things unfold."

Janish was asked if he thought he would get called up when J.J. Hardy got hurt.

"It was kind of coincidental," Janish said. "I was sitting next to Flash (Ryan Flaherty) on the bus when that came out. It was a weird situation because everyone knew I was supposed to go home this week (for the delivery). We had scheduled the induction based on the schedule in Norfolk and then J.J. got hurt. My wife's due date wasn't actually until May 13th. There was some consideration about moving some stuff around based on what the team was going to do. I kind of offered that up.

"If they wanted to do something, we could be a little bit flexible. It worked out well. I was really glad that I was able to be there. I was there for the baby, which was great. I didn't want to give any leverage for the rest of my life by not being there. Very, very happy I was there for that and now I'm excited to be here."