The problem was pretty simple. The O’s bats went silent again.
Though Chris Tillman struggled early, he wound up scattering eight hits and
surrendering three runs over seven innings. Tillman pitched well enough to win if the O's bats had responded.
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| Matt Wieters |
There is a buzz around the O’s organization regarding Matt
Wieters and it is not good. Wieters will be re-examined by his surgeon in Florida today
and is now expected to have Tommy John surgery recommended. Unable to throw
even lightly without discomfort, Wieters would be lost for the remainder of this
season and would be a longshot to return by opening day in 2015.
And so it seems that the O’s will have to carry on with backstops Nick Hundley
and Caleb Joseph. Joseph has been kept in Baltimore while Steve Clevenger, who
is pounding the baseball unmercifully at Norfolk, stays down at AAA. Clevenger was actually hitting a
hundred and fifty points higher than Joseph when he was sent down after the Hundley acquisition. It would
seem that Buck Showalter much prefers the defensive skills of Joseph to Clevenger's.
As is the nature of a long baseball season the O’s have no
time to cry in their beer over the lost opportunity weekend. They headed out to
Tampa, Florida and are set for a three game weekdays series against the
floundering Rays before a huge three day series over the weekend at Yankee
Stadium.
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