O's game blog: It's Chen against Farmer as O's host Detroit (Delmarva no-hitter)

As an active day for the Orioles winds down, they still have a game to play tonight. They host the Detroit Tigers in the second game of a four-game series.

The Orioles' comeback from seven runs down fell one short last night in a 9-8 loss to the Tigers. They are 51-50 and had a five-game win streak snapped with that loss. Over a longer stretch, the Orioles have lost 11-of-19 and 16 of their last 26 games. They are 2-2 versus Detroit and 30-19 at home.

Matt Wieters was a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning last night and went 2-for-2 with an RBI single. Over his last three games, he is 6-for-10 after going through a 2-for-23 stretch.

J.J. Hardy begins tonight with a 13-game hitting streak. It is his longest streak since a 13-gamer from May 3-18, 2013 and the longest streak by an Oriole this year. During the streak, Hardy is batting .298/.320/.468.

Chris Davis homered and drove in four runs last night. Over his last nine games, Davis is 10-for-33 (.303) with six homers and 16 RBIs.

On the mound tonight, Wei-Yin Chen (5-6, 2.88 ERA) pitches against 24-year-old right-hander Buck Farmer (0-2, 9.22 ERA).

Chen has allowed two earned runs or less in eight of his last nine starts. In that span, he is 4-2 with a 2.55 ERA, with 11 walks and 48 strikeouts over 60 innings. The Orioles are 6-3 in those games and 11-8 in Chen's 19 starts in 2015.

Orioles starting pitchers went 4-0 with a 1.25 ERA over their last six games going into last night, but then Miguel Gonzalez allowed five runs and 10 hits in 3 1/3 innings against Detroit.

Farmer made 16 starts this year for Triple-A Toledo, going 7-3 with a 4.15 ERA. In three games and 13 2/3 big league innings, he has allowed 22 hits and 14 runs, with four homers allowed and a .373 average against. Left-handed batters have hit .438 off him (14-for-32), with a .688 slugging percentage in that small sample size.

Delmarva no-hitter: In Game 1 of a doubleheader today, Single-A Delmarva left-hander John Means threw a no-hitter in a 4-0 win over Charleston at Perdue Stadium. It was a seven-inning no-hitter as that is the length of doubleheaders in the minors. Means walked one and fanned six, throwing just 78 pitches.

An 11th-round draft pick last June out of the University of West Virginia, he is now 8-7 with an ERA of 3.48 for the Shorebirds. Over his last three starts, the 22-year-old Means has allowed just one earned run over 17 1/3 innings.