O's Lose 1 WIn 1 Skins drope Reseason finale

O's only manged a run in the opner vs the Ranghers Bob singled it in but they lost 5-1 Tillman gave up 5 ER in 6 innings and they bullpen slammed the door but the O's couldn;t start the rally they needed to make thos one interesting. Castillo got an out Merdith 2 and ALbers went 2 scorless. The next game was alot better after Matusz struggled in the first allowing 3 his other run was not deserved as Nick lost a fly ball in the sun and it bounced away for a triple but should really have been an error anyway he went 7 allwoing the 4 ER and won the game and is now 4-2 so he's getting wins despite a high ERA of 5.26. SOme say the Birds plan on sghutting down there rookie starers but do they have enough people left to pitch big league games i understand that they havent pitched this manyt innings in ayear but i think they can handle it and id love to see these guys keep getting to start because they have for the most part pitched well in the last 23 weeks they have the 2nd best ERA for starters in the AL and thats a start. Reimold hit asolo shoit his 14th HR amnd Mora had asolo shot his 7th Markais hit asacx fly and almost had 2 infield hits but got one Mora hit one down the line that the d knocked down but could not get an out and withe bases being loaded a run scored but if that ball gets past 3 could have scored. Then Mora hit a single thats scored a run and gave the Birds the lead for good. Mora had 3 hits. Baez had a soclress inning as did Johnosn who got the save his 8th and the relivers did not allow a hit in 2 innings Matysz gave up just 6 and the O's manged 8 hits a Reimold double being one. O's win 5-4 and try to win the series vs a good Ranger's ballclub vying for the WIldcard. The stare's tommorow Holland 5.63 ERA 7-9 vs Guthire 9-133 5.18 ERA but has pitched real well as of late so let'ssee if the Birds can't win the series and maybe outscore Texas as they now trail in the socring over the 2 games 9-6. Skins lsoe to Jax 17-24 Colt looked good as did Dnauiel and the first team was barely used. a 400 game vs NY awaits next SUnday.

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