The Oriole Killer Hall of Fame

[weams]

20 minutes ago, Camden_yardbird said:

I remember Ricky Henderson beating the Orioles pretty bad.  And there was one season where an angels player destroyed them....forget who it was.  I want to say it was Erstad.

I think it was Salmon. 

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2006

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.474

.522

.842

1.364

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.471

232

229

 

[tntoriole]

Two guys that came to my mind have been mentioned...Harmon Killebrew and Rickey Henderson

i have not looked up the splits on those two or these that I am going to mention, but I will go look them up after posting..

Bert Campaneris, Rod Carew,  Jim Rice and Joe Rudi...

[foxfield]

4 hours ago, Frobby said:

Jeter wasn’t particularly tough on the O’s — .793 OPS compared to his career .817 OPS vs. everyone.   

Maier was very tough on us.

I agree with the numbers for Jeter, it just seemed like every time he did something it hurt.  Even his last at bat won a game against us.

[25 Nuggets]

This is a great idea; we should go through with this, voting and all.

Need more older players - guys that trashed the Orioles even while they were championship caliber.

[tntoriole]

18 minutes ago, tntoriole said:

Two guys that came to my mind have been mentioned...Harmon Killebrew and Rickey Henderson

i have not looked up the splits on those two or these that I am going to mention, but I will go look them up after posting..

Bert Campaneris, Rod Carew,  Jim Rice and Joe Rudi...

The only one I was right about was Jim Rice who hit 38 career homers, more than against any other team and ops of .948 compared to lifetime.850...all the others were career avg against us.  

[tntoriole]

Frank Howard was another one that came to mind...he did hit more career homers 35 in 144 games against us than any other team...

[tntoriole]

Tony Oliva hit .331 lifetime against us..157 games with 190 hits....better than his .304 lifetime career...though he destroyed the Red Sox....357 lifetime in 160 games...

[linedrive]

I hated facing Scott Brosius when he was with the Yankees.

[Aristotelian]

12 hours ago, JR Oriole said:

 

As a member of the break our heart 1989 Blue Jays, I was not surprised when Tony Fernandez hit that homer against us.  It was devastating, as was the Grissom homerun in Game 2 that changed the entire series.  And the Sandy Alomar walkoff in Game 4.  All of which came against Armando Benitez, who just crushed us in that series with his unclutch awfulness. 

The only consolation was that Tony Fernandez committed a horrible error in extra innings of Game 7 of the World Series, which ultimately led to Florida winning the series.  He drove in the only Cleveland runs much earlier in that game, but his error is how he was/is remembered. 

+1, Benitez was a big time Oriole Killer.

I will throw out Ben Zobrist as a guy who raised his game against us and seemed to get the big hit. .890 career OPS vs the O's, over 100 points higher than his career average.