Baltimore 9, Cleveland 8
When: 7:05 PM ET, Friday, June 29, 2012
Where: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland
Temperature:
100°
Umpires:
Home -
Sam Holbrook, 1B -
Mike Estabrook, 2B -
Rob Drake, 3B -
Joe West
Attendance:
24779
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Orioles 9, Indians 8: Ryan Flaherty’s two-out RBI single in the seventh inning broke a 7-7 tie and Matt Wieters hit a three-run homer as visiting Baltimore won for only the third time in 11 games.
Xavier Avery hit his first major league homer in the eighth inning and had two RBIs, Chris Davis snapped a 1-for-35 slump with two hits, an RBI and two runs scored and Wilson Betemit added two hits and an RBI for the Orioles.
Jason Kipnis and Shin-Soo Choo had three hits and two RBIs apiece and Asdrubal Cabrera homered for the second straight game as Cleveland lost for the sixth time in seven games.
Matt Lindstrom (1-0) recorded the final out in the seventh inning, Pedro Strop pitched a perfect eighth and Jim Johnson allowed an RBI single by Choo in the ninth before earning his 23rd save in 24 chances.
Baltimore starter Jake Arrieta yielded five runs and eight hits in 3 2/3 innings but avoided becoming baseball’s first 10-game loser.
Cleveland’s Derek Lowe allowed seven runs (four earned) and six hits in 5 1/3 innings. Joe Smith (5-2) took the loss.
The Orioles took a 3-1 lead with three unearned runs in the first inning as the Indians committed two errors. Betemit hit an RBI double and Davis had a run-scoring groundout.
Cabrera’s blast in the third inning brought the Indians to within 3-2.
Kipnis capped Cleveland’s three-run four inning with a two-run single through the legs of second base umpire Rob Drake to chase Arrieta and give the Indians a 5-3 lead.
After Betemit and Davis delivered one-out singles, Wieters hit his 11th home run – only the second in his last 20 games – to put the Orioles ahead 7-5.
Cleveland tied it 7-7 in the seventh inning on Shelley Duncan’s RBI double and Lou Marson’s double-play grounder.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Cleveland's Lonnie Chisenhall will miss 4-to-6 weeks with a broken bone in his right forearm after he was hit by a pitch in the fifth inning. ... The game time temperature was 102 degrees. … Indians C Carlos Santana (back) missed his second straight game. … Cabrera has hit four homers in his last six games against the Orioles and has 28 RBIs in 30 contests against them. … Baltimore’s Brian Roberts snapped a 0-for-16 slide with a single in the second inning. … The home runs by Wieters and Cabrera landed on Eutaw Street behind the right field wall, only the 63rd and 64th in the history of Camden Yards to do so.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Cleveland |
|
Baltimore |
|
Derek Lowe |
Player |
Jake Arrieta |
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
5.1 |
IP |
3.2 |
|
2 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
|
6 |
Hits |
8 |
|
6.75 |
ERA |
12.27 |
Hitting
| Cleveland |
|
Baltimore |
|
Shin-Soo Choo | Player |
Chris Davis |
|
3 |
Hits |
2 |
|
2 |
RBI |
1 |
|
0 |
HR |
0 |
|
3 |
TB |
2 |
|
.600 |
Avg |
.667 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Cleveland
|
16 |
1 |
21 |
.381 |
26 |
6 |
7 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
| Baltimore
|
10 |
2 |
17 |
.286 |
14 |
5 |
9 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
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