Today's game and the story behind Reimold's home run bat

Can Chris Tillman extend his streak of quality starts to four?

Tillman closes out the series and the homestand with his ERA down to 2.81. He's allowed three runs in his last 19 2/3 innings.

Tillman is coming off back-to-back nine-strikeout games to tie his career high.

In five career starts against the Athletics, Tillman has gone 2-0 with a 2.25 ERA and 1.063 WHIP in 32 innings. The current group is batting .203 against him.

Former Oriole Danny Valencia is 3-for-10 with a double and home run. Khris Davis is 2-for-2 with a double and home run. Mark Canha is 2-for-3 with a home run.

For everyone asking if Khris Davis and Chris Davis appeared in the same game before yesterday's doubleheader, it also happened in Milwaukee in 2014.

Perhaps you recall Yovani Gallardo's pinch-hit walk-off double in the 10th inning off T.J. McFarland that gave the Brewers a 7-6 victory.

The A's are sending right-hander Kendall Graveman to the mound this afternoon. He's 1-3 with a 4.40 ERA in five starts this season. In the last two, he's surrendered a combined 10 runs and 20 hits over 11 innings versus the Tigers and Mariners.

Graveman is 0-1 with a 7.59 ERA in four career games (two starts) against the Orioles. He's allowed nine runs and 15 hits in 10 2/3 innings.

Two of Graveman's appearances have come at Camden Yards, where he's permitted six runs and eight hits in four innings. In his only start, he allowed six runs and eight hits in 3 1/3 innings in an 18-2 loss to the Orioles on Aug. 16, 2015.

Graveman tossed six scoreless innings in his next start against the Rays, his final game with the Athletics.

Adam Jones and Gerardo Parra homered off Graveman during the blowout. Jones is 1-for-6 against him. Jonathan Schoop is 2-for-3 with a double.

The current group is 8-for-27 (.296).

Nolan Reimold started Game 1 yesterday in left field and reached base three times. He wasn't using the same bat that produced a tie-breaking three-run homer on April 27 against the White Sox.

Reimold cleared the out-of-town scoreboard in right field in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Orioles a 6-3 win. He borrowed a bat that previously belonged to Luke Scott, which led me to wonder why the former Oriole still had lumber at The Yard.

Vice president of baseball operations Brady Anderson passed it along to Reimold in the middle of the game after hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh suggested that they meet up.

"The bat I was using, it was raining and it was an ash bat and I didn't want to get it all wet because it doesn't have a finish on it," Reimold explained. "I came into the dugout and Coolbaugh told me to go see Brady because he wanted to fix something with my swing. I went to see Brady and the first thing I said was, 'I don't want the bat I'm using.' "

How convenient that Anderson has a bag filled with bats next to his locker in the clubhouse. Just like any other baseball executive, right?

"He whipped out a Luke Scott bat," Reimold said. "I grabbed it, we went to the cage and I took a few swings off the tee and went out and had my at-bat."

So why isn't he still using the Scott model?

"I went 0-for-2 to start the next game, so I switched and got a single," Reimold said. "So no loyalty."