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Game 2 (10:05)

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Team Records

63-48 |=======| 49-63

T-1st, +2.5 |=======| 5th, -16.5

Streaks / L10

-1, Lost 3 of 5 / 5-5 |=======| +1, Lost 3 of 5 / 2-8

Team Offensive Rankings (AL)

BA: .264 (4th) |=======| BA: .249 (10th)

OPS: .775 (2nd) |=======| OPS: .705 (14th)

Runs: 522 (5th) |=======| Runs: 449 (12th)

HR: 168 (1st) |=======| HR: 121 (11th)

Last 7 Days

BA: .263 (4th) |=======| BA: .225 (12th)

OPS: .808 (4th) |=======| OPS: .657 (11th)

Runs: 36 (5th) |=======| Runs: 21 (12th)

HR: 15 (2nd) |=======| HR: 8 (12th)

Team Pitching Rankings (AL)

ERA: 4.20 (7th) |=======| ERA: 4.69 (14th)

WHIP: 1.37 (10th) |=======| WHIP: 1.40 (13th)

BAA: .258 (10th) |=======| BAA: .269 (13th)

TB: 1585 (6th) |=======| TB: 1762 (13th)

Last 7 Days

ERA: 2.91 (4th) |=======| ERA: 5.61 (12th)

WHIP: 1.06 (3rd) |=======| WHIP: 1.57 (14th)

BAA: .219 (5th) |=======| BAA: .219 (5th)

TB: 87 (1st) |=======| TB: 118 (10th)

Starters

ERA: 4.89 (13th) |=======| ERA: 5.22 (15th)

WHIP: 1.44 (13th) |=======| WHIP: 1.50 (15th)

BAA: .272 (12th) |=======| BAA: .285 (14th)

TB: 1071 (7th) |=======| TB: 1097 (11th)

Relievers

ERA: 3.08 (1st) |=======| ERA: 3.89 (9th)

WHIP: 1.27 (6th) |=======| WHIP: 1.26 (5th)

BAA: .235 (5th) |=======| BAA: .245 (7th)

TB: 514 (7th) |=======| TB: 575 (13th)

NEW: Quality Start minimum requirements

* - Game ERA must be 4.00 or less with at least six innings pitched

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Wade Miley

(7-9)

5.08 (1.36/.278)

87K / 34BB, 19HR

QS: 7

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Miley's first start as an Oriole was not a good one. He allowed four runs on eight hits in five innings, but no walks and five strikeouts. He will look to pitch more like he did in July going forward which was by far his best month. His first August start wasn't good and bumped his season ERA back up over five. His numbers against Oakland are good allowing only two runs in 14 IP, but Oakland's current lineup has way more than two runs against him. He has had a lot of problems with righties himself with 16 of his 19 home runs allowed to righties.

Splits & Sits

108 vs. left: .245/.287/.370, 3HR

384 vs. right: .287/.343/.443, 16HR

Bases Empty: .283

RISP: .295

RISP w/2 outs: .256

Men on w/2 outs: .275

Man on 3rd, < 2 outs: .238

Career @ Oakland Coliseum (1 starts)

(1-0) 6.2 IP, 5H, 4BB

Career vs. OAK (2 starts)

(2-0) 1.29 (1.14/.220), HR

vs. Batter

Yonder Alonso (14 AB) .286, HR, 3RBI

Billy Butler (11 AB) .273, HR, 3RBI

Marcus Semien 3/8, 3B, BB

Khris Davis 2/5, HR, 3RBI

Danny Valencia 2/5, RBI, BB

Coco Crisp 1/3, BB

Brett Eibner 1/2, 2B, BB

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Zach Neal

(1-1)

5.25 (1.25/.302)

10K / 1BB, 4HR

QS: 0

Neal has made one start and 10 relief appearances this season. The one start was bad back in May where he allowed seven runs on eight hits (2HR) in four innings. One impressive thing about Neal is he has walked only one batter in 24 innings, but only 10 K's which seems to indicate that he is more of a Paul Byrd type that pitches to contact. In his first five appearances of the season including the one start, Neal allowed 13 runs on 16 hits (4HR) in 12 innings. Since then, he has allowed only one run in 12 innings allowing only 11 hits and no home runs which is good enough to earn Neal another start here against the Orioles.

Splits & Sits

49 vs. left: .333/.347/.612, 4HR

48 vs. right: .271/.271/.354

Bases Empty: .250

RISP: .375

RISP w/2 outs: .500

Men on w/2 outs: .400

Man on 3rd, < 2 outs: .375

2016 Home (5 relief)

SV, 2.70 (0.90/.237), HR

Career vs Baltimore (0 starts)

NA

vs. Batter

NA

Leadoff walks kill the Orioles as Kendall Graveman was brilliant and outpitched Gausman who pitched well, but not good enough and gave Oakland the lead before departing after another sub-4/6+ start. Ondrusek, who seems like a decent arm, gave up another run in the seventh which turns out to be the winning run and the Orioles drop game one of this four game series against the struggling A's. Let's hope this doesn't ignite a fire under them to string some wins together and stop disgracing the noble duty of being a spoiler.

I don't know much about Neal, but he has been pitching very well out of the bullpen leading into this game while Miley struggled in his last start and may have lingering effects from being hit with that comebacker as well. Really don't know enough about Neal nor is Miley anything close to a sure thing, so who knows?

Boston had the off day yesterday, but Toronto beat the Rays which should be no surprise to anyone. Those pesky Twins beat Houston last night as well. The Twins are 19-12 over the last 31 games and the only team who is better is Toronto who is 21-10 after last night's win. Detroit, Colorado and the LAD are the only other teams who were 18-12 before last night's game. The Dodgers are the only team that won to stay with the Twins at 19-12. It's hard to believe, but the Twins are among the best teams in baseball since the beginning of July. Hisashi Iwakuma has now thrown back to back starts of at least seven innings and allowing no runs as he shut out the Tigers for seven to bring his ERA down to 3.79 and the bullpen did the rest. It looks like the M's have caught fire and will try to get into this thing with Detroit being the team they want to beat to do that. The Tigers will be hurt losing Castellanos to the DL with a fractured left hand which should keep him out for at least four weeks. Most teams had an off day Monday, so not much else going on.

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In regard to last night's unusual scoring of a runner on a tag-up on that long foul ball, does anybody else remember Game Five of the 1984 World Series when the Tigers scored the go-ahead run late in the game on a fly ball to very shallow right field ???

What happened was that there were 2 players that easily could have caught the ball ...... Tony Gwynn, the rightfielder and Alan Wiggins, the 2nd baseman. The run scored because Wiggins caught the ball instead of Gwynn. Wiggins (unlike Gwynn) had his back to home plate, so his ensuing throw home was much harder to make than if Gwynn had simply made the catch as the rightfielder who was charging toward (and was facing) home plate.

The difference between that play and the one last night was that the Padres had a choice as to who was going to catch the ball, and they obviously made a bad one. Last night, the Athletics' 1st baseman was the only player that was in the vicinity of the ball, so he had no choice but to catch it with his back to home plate before making the throw home.

The difficult decision comes, late in a time game, does Yonder Alonso have to let that ball drop?

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