When a team scores six runs, it should win. The Orioles offense scratched and clawed doing what it needed to do to score its runs, but the game came down to the closer doing his job and for the second time in three efforts, failed miserably. There was no second guessing, no close calls, just a horrendous, inexcusable performance. Mike Gonzalez took the mound with absolutely nothing blowing the save, losing the game, surrendering two earned runs with a walk, a base hit, a costly wild pitch, and not much else.
Starter, Brad Bergesen, did not have his stuff today. He struggled horribly in the first inning giving up three runs. Quickly, in the bottom of the first, the Orioles answered back with three runs.
A lousy closing effort covered up many positives. Given the starter did not have his stuff, the other relievers, Henderson and Johnson did not give up a run only yielding one walk, no hits in 3 1/3 innings to get the Orioles to the top of the 9th. Miguel Tejada returned to Baltimore and delivered exactly what was expected of him, 3 hits including a home run and 4 RBI’s.
One additional concern involved Brian Roberts in the first inning. The Orioles veteran all-star 2nd baseman, suffered an abdominal strain sliding hard into 2nd base in the first inning. Every mishap Roberts suffers in the early season will generate concern about the disc problem in his back.
For a a team's fans so desperately looking for a fresh start and some significant improvement from the 2010 Orioles, what they showed today was all too familiar, the same old same old and after just four games the O’s are just 1-4 in four one run games. A record opening day crowd goes home unhappy, and surely the doomsayers will be going wild when expectations demanded better for starting off the 2010 season.
Starter, Brad Bergesen, did not have his stuff today. He struggled horribly in the first inning giving up three runs. Quickly, in the bottom of the first, the Orioles answered back with three runs.
A lousy closing effort covered up many positives. Given the starter did not have his stuff, the other relievers, Henderson and Johnson did not give up a run only yielding one walk, no hits in 3 1/3 innings to get the Orioles to the top of the 9th. Miguel Tejada returned to Baltimore and delivered exactly what was expected of him, 3 hits including a home run and 4 RBI’s.
One additional concern involved Brian Roberts in the first inning. The Orioles veteran all-star 2nd baseman, suffered an abdominal strain sliding hard into 2nd base in the first inning. Every mishap Roberts suffers in the early season will generate concern about the disc problem in his back.
For a a team's fans so desperately looking for a fresh start and some significant improvement from the 2010 Orioles, what they showed today was all too familiar, the same old same old and after just four games the O’s are just 1-4 in four one run games. A record opening day crowd goes home unhappy, and surely the doomsayers will be going wild when expectations demanded better for starting off the 2010 season.
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