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Orioles Win in Thirteen Innings For Jim Palmer 7/14

Written by Michael Williams and Wally Booth
It was a full house for Jim Palmer and his statue. Roy Firestone could not make it, Jim cried anyway.

Wei Yin Chen gave up his only run to the first batter of the game who walked.

The Orioles came back to tie the game in the bottom of the first on Nick Markakis and Jim Thome doubles.

A two run Robert ANdino Homer in the second and single run in the third put the O's safely ahead for the rest of the ball game.

Or did it.

Chen ran his pitch count up to prevent him from pitching the seventh giving up only two hits, but Darren O'Day handled that beautifully. Pedro Shop danced around a wee bit of difficulty , but handed the three run lead over to the ORioles All Star close Jim Johnson. If not for a fabulous throw to end the inning by Endy Chavex, the Oriole would have trailed going into the bottom of the 9th. Johnson's second blown save of the year.

A packed house was understandably upset that the certain victory was now going on to extra innings.

Miguel Scolovitch made his MLB debut and pitched well, but in his second inning of work Troy Patton came on to finish out a potential scoring opportunity for the Tigers and their hero AL Kaline in attendance. The mojo of Al, who never played a day in the minor leagues got to Troy and the Tigers took the lead.

Now I am making this all seem like an abridged version, and it is, but the game went on and on. With two out Adam Jones stroked a base hit off of Jose Valverde to once again knot the score both closer had blown there saves. The Orioles continued to trot out their bullpen, to varying degrees of success. Lindstrom handled the twelfth, but faltered in the unlucky thirteenth and again the Orioles trailed. If not for the Heroics of Kevin Gregg, the game would have gotten out of hand. But Kevin did not give in. Two outs on three pitches.

Eddie Murray appeared on the big screen to wave to the croud to counteract the Al Kaline curse, and to a rousing cheer of Eddie, Eddie, Eddie..there was slight hope that the Orioles could once again rally to tie this game up.

Nick Markakis tried to even the score, but he was unable, one away. J.J. Hardy who was mired in a 3 for 46 slump hit a majestic shot the left field seats to once again tie this game. Would it go on?

Chris Davis was no longer in the game so the thoughts of him coming in to pitch mightily were dashed. Jim Thome was not able to win the game. There were two away. Adam Jones valiantly tried to end it for the Good Guys, but he was struck with a pitch. With Adam on first, the game's fate rested on the shoulders of Talyor Teagargen, who had come on in his first game as an Oriole to catch when Matt Wieters was removed for a pinch runner in an earlier attempt to win the game. In his only previous at bat, he struck out to kill the Orioles best rally in extras. THis time he deposited a fastball on top of the Gardeners shed in right field to win the game for the Orioles and Jim Palmer 8-6.

A pie ensued.

O's From the Booth

Good evening Orioles fans and O what a evening it was. I was unable to write last night as some of my friends may tell you. I was not in good writing shape last night!!!!! I was lucky enough today to be at the game today with my buddy Will Polyniak (name creator of O's From the Booth) and his father in law Bob. What a great time it was. This game was a game of ups and downs. The O's take a 4-1 lead into the 9th inning and had a great pitched game by Wei-Yen Chen. He pitched 6 solid innings only giving up one run. Jim Johnson who has been lights out this year with 25 saves just did not have it today. He was hurt by a should be double play ball but Ryan Flaherty let the ball eat him up and gave the Tigers life. They went on to score 3 runs to tie the game and send it to extras. Nick Markakis supplied a lot of offense today with 3 doubles. This is the Nick Markakis we all know, a doubles machine. Adam Jones had three hits including a game tying single in the 11th inning. The Orioles have seemed to live and die by the long ball this year. Today they got homers from Andino, Hardy, and newcomer Taylor Teagarden. J.J. Hardy was 0-28 until the bottom of the 13th inning when he erased that with a bomb into the left field seats to tie the game at 6. Thome struck out, and then Adam Jones was hit by a pitch. This brought up Taylor Teagarden. After striking out in his first at bat, he drills a opposite field shot off the top of the grounds crew fence in right field for a home run. The O's sent the home crowd into a frenzy!!! Teagarden was greeted at the plate and mobbed by his team mates. He then got the shaving cream pie treatment from Jones, Andino, and Reynolds. This was a huge come back win for the Orioles as this would have been a devastating loss after being up 4-1 in the 9th.

That is one thing you can say about this team. They never quit. They have a lot of holes on this team and that is not going to go away until the Orioles can make some moves to fix them. The one thing that they do have is heart. They always believe they can win and that starts with Buck Showalter getting them to believe in themselves. Adam Jones also brings a lot of spirit to this team. In the top of the 11th when the Tigers took the lead Adam Jones was very fired up with frustration in center field. I don't know if you saw this on TV but he was yelling something and then slapped his glove. He then comes up in the bottom of the inning and gets the game tying hit. It is the fire like this that I love to see in a player. Let's see if the O's can carry this momentum into tomorrow's game. They are going to need to fire on all cylinders tomorrow as they will be facing Tiger ace, and maybe the best pitcher in baseball in Justin Verlander. Lets see of the O's can knock him around like he was in the all star game and win this series. This would be great for this team that has been struggling of late. Lets get this done tomorrow O's!!!!! Let's Go O's.

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