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Game 11 - Orioles vs. Rays
By Jessica | April 13, 2008
The story of the day was Evan Longoria’s debut, complete with pregame interviews and shots of his family cheering him on. It was all pretty exciting until the Rays lost a downer of a game. Orioles 3 - Rays 2.
Here are some of my thoughts:
Rough first inning for Hammel. Roberts leads off with a double and then steals third easily. Hammel actually hits the batter and the catcher with one pitch. Tough start, but he holds them to one run.
Huff gets a double when BJ completely loses the ball? Hernandez triples to give the O’s a 2-0 lead. Ok it’s going to be a long night if they score every inning.
In the top of the 4th Pena makes a brilliant diving stop on a ball up the first base line. He saved a double for sure.
Longoria gets on base his second time up, but it’s ruled an error??
Bottom of the 6th - Pena grounds out. BJ walks. Hinske base hit, BJ to third. Longoria gets his first base hit and RBI! Then Haynes kills the buzz and hits into a double play. Dammit! 2-1 Orioles.
Hammel gets them in order in the seventh to finish with a nice performance. He settled down and held them to two runs. I think we’d all take that every time from him.
Howell pitches the eighth and besides hitting a batter he gets through it. Longoria looks great in the field by the way.
Bottom of the eighth - Pena ties it up! Love him! BJ lays down a nice bunt, but then gets caught in a run down. Not his fault the pitcher balked but no one called him on it. Hinske grounds out. Longoria walks, but we got to see a taste of his swing when he creamed a foul ball. Haynes strikes out.
And with one out left to go in the top of the ninth. Wheeler gets behind in the count and lays one in there and Hernandez hits it out. What a mood killer.
The Rays can’t get anything going in the bottom of the ninth. Game over. 3-2 Orioles.
The offense was quiet again today. I for one wasn’t a fan of the lineup but what do I know. Longoria had a nice debut. He looked comfortable in the field and at the plate.
Let’s hope the Rays can pick up their first series win tomorrow and stay at .500! Go Rays!!
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