O's Swing Past Nats

The Birds had the bats swingin again tonight although a little harder than usuasl as they blasted 3 round tripperes Zaughn a solo shot his third part of a 3 hit noight and backup catcher. Reimold blasted a 3 run shot high and deep for his 9th that gave the bIrds a 4-3 lead and Huff a solo shot to add another run and make it 5-3 his 10th. Roberts addded a sac fly to make uit 6-3 and that was the final. Guthriw got into a real jam but allowed 2 in the first but it could have been worse. He left after 5 due to a high pitch count allowed 3 runs and won the game now being 6-7 and on his way to a .500 record. Albers got 2 huge gorund ball outs after Bass loaded the bases without retiring anyone Mora fielded clumsily and threwq to home to reocrd an out and then a DP was turned no runs and that was amazing by Labers. Johnson 2 innings scorless and SAHerill the save in the ninth his 16th and the bullpen other than Baez and Bass has been on fire although Bass was really bailed out tonight by ALbers. if CHris Ray can rehaoin his once brilliant form this bullpen had a chance to be one of the best and Bass i like the guy but nothing positive for him in this one. O's take first 2 games of tehs eeries and go for a sweep Sunday with hernanfdez taking Koji spot who looks like he's headed back to the DL and for him that's negative although he has pitched well but when you say again and DL the guy is now struggling with injuries hey they throw more pitches in AMerica than in Japan and apparently it's rough on his arm. Birds now 34-40.

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