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BALTIMORE O RIOLES

Nick Markakis - RF

Steve Pearce - 1B

Adam Jones - CF

Nelson Cruz - DH

Delmon Young - LF

James Jerry Hardy - SS

Chris Davis - 3B

Caleb Joseph - C

Jonathan Schoop - 2B

Miguel Angel Gonzalez - RHP (6-7, 3.75 ERA)

MINNESOTA TWINS

Danny Santana - CF

Brian Dozier - 2B

Joe Mauer - DH

Kennys Vargas - 1B

Oswaldo Arcia - RF

Trevor Plouffe - 3B

Eduardo Escobar - SS

Eric Fryer - C

Jordan Schafer - LF

Trevor May - RHP (0-3, 8.79 ERA)

http://www.baseballpress.com/lineups

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Per Roch:

Twins rookie Trevor May is 0-3 with an 8.79 ERA this season. He hasn't allowed a home run in 14 1/3 innings.

Right-handers are batting .425 against May and left-handers are hitting .318.

None of the Orioles have faced May.

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Two players moved up from the Gulf Coast League to short-season Single-A Aberdeen: Nick Merullo, son of IronBirds manager Matt Merullo, and Derek Peterson, son of Orioles director of pitching development Rick Peterson.
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Absolute nightmare getting to the park tonight. The light rail was running on a single track and one was disabled. We already paid for light rail tickets. Figured it could be an hour or more so we tried to drive. Very stressful drive because of all the dipping and diving all over the God damn place, bumpy road, $15 parking... And then we got to the place where we wanted to eat on Eutaw St. And they don't actually serve the veggie burger I wanted so I'm getting a crummy Caesar salad. And the TV has football on it. Who the heck cares about football when the O's are playing across the street??? :angryfire:

Rant done. I hope the game goes better than my evening. Baltimore's infrastructure is so bad it's embarrassing.

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Absolute nightmare getting to the park tonight. The light rail was running on a single track and one was disabled. We already paid for light rail tickets. Figured it could be an hour or more so we tried to drive. Very stressful drive because of all the dipping and diving all over the God damn place, bumpy road, $15 parking... And then we got to the place where we wanted to eat on Eutaw St. And they don't actually serve the veggie burger I wanted so I'm getting a crummy Caesar salad. And the TV has football on it. Who the heck cares about football when the O's are playing across the street??? :angryfire:

Rant done. I hope the game goes better than my evening. Baltimore's infrastructure is so bad it's embarrassing.

You're a vegetarian? My condolences. :(

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