Orioles Farm Teams Pregame Info, 8/12/11

[Gulfbird44]

AAA Norfolk Tides (44-74) last place
Game time/location/TV-audio: 7:15/away/MiLB-TV
Tides probable starter: RHP Mitch Atkins (2-5, 5.20 ERA)
Opponent: Charlotte Knights *White Sox affiliate*(56-63), 1st of a four game series
2011 record against Charlotte: 4-7
Tides last 10 games: 5-5
Next series: four game home series against Charlotte

AA Bowie Baysox (66-51) 1st place
Game time/location/audio: 7:05/home
Baysox probable starter: RHP Zach Clark (7-7, 4.94 ERA)
Opponent: New Britain Rock Cats *Twins affiliate*(57-60), 1st of a four game series
2011 record against New Britain: 5-4
Baysox last 10 games: 7-3
Next series: Monday off, three game away series against Richmond

A+ Frederick Keys (69-46) 1st place
Game time/location/audio: 7:00/home
Keys probable starter: RHP Ryohei Tanaka (7-4, 3.67 ERA)
Opponent: Winston-Salem Dash *White Sox affiliate*(58-57), 2nd of four game series
2011 record against Winston-Salem: 10-7
Keys last 10 games: 4-6
Next series: three game home series against Wilmington

A Delmarva Shorebirds (52-64) last place
Game time/location/audio: 7:05/home
Shorebirds probable starter: RHP David Baker (2-2, 3.27 ERA)
Opponent: Hagerstown Suns *Nationals affiliate*(63-52), 3rd of a four game series
2011 record against Hagerstown: 7-10
Shorebirds last 10 games: 3-7
Next series: four game away series against Lakewood

SS A Aberdeen Ironbirds (19-34) last place
Game time/location/audio: 7:35/home/MiLB-TV
Ironbirds probable starter: RHP Matt Hobgood (0-3, 11.02 ERA)
Opponent: Williamsport Crosscutters *Phillies affiliate*(30-23), 1st of a three game series
2011 record against Williamsport: 0-0
Ironbirds last 10 games: 6-4
Next series: Monday-Tuesday All-Star Break, three game away series against Auburn

Rookie Gulf Coast League Orioles (28-18) 1st place
Game time/location: 12:00/away
GCL Orioles probable starter: RHP Miguel Chalas (4-2, 2.65 ERA)
Opponent: GCL Rays (21-24)
2011 record against GCL Rays: 7-7
GCL Orioles last 10 games: 6-4
Next game: home against GCL Rays (12:00)

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MiLB-TV link: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/multimedia/milbtv.jsp

*Radio and Internet Broadcasts

Tides - Radio: ESPN 1310 AM; Internet: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/multimedia/audio.jsp
Baysox – Radio: 1430 WNAV; Internet: www.1430wnav.com/listen.html *see WNAV website for list of games broadcast ** Also see Baysox website for audio links
Keys - Radio: 1450 WTHU AM & 1520 WTRI AM; Internet: http://wthu.org.
Shorebirds - Radio: Sports talk 960 AM; Internet: http://www.sportstalk960.com/main.html
Ironbirds - Radio: see internet; Internet: www.ironbirdsbaseball.com

[Gulfbird44]

Source: www.weather.com

Your first pitch weather forecast for today is current as of 9:45am EDT

Charlotte, NC: ScatTstorms/81F/40% chance of precip/winds SE at 6mph
Bowie, MD: Sunny/81F/0% chance of precip/winds ENE at 3mph
Frederick, MD: Sunny/84F/0% chance of precip/winds NNE at 4mph
Salisbury, MD: Sunny/79F/0% chance of precip/winds ESE at 5mph
Aberdeen, MD: Sunny/81F/0% chance of precip/winds NE at 3mph
Port Charlotte, FL: PC/89F/15% chance of precip/winds WSW at 5mph

[aggie]

What happened to Matt starting for IronBirds tonight???

[eb45]

Pushed back a day. He'll start tomorrow.

[bobmc]

Pushed back a day. He'll start tomorrow.

By "tomorrow" I ass-ume that you mean today right eb? You posted after midnight. Any known reason for pushing him back?

[eb45]

The report is just to get him an extra day of rest. He had an extra day before his last start due to a rainout, and he was very good that night. I don't think it's anything injury-related.