Oriole Park at Camden Yards • 333 West Camden Street • Baltimore, md 21201

BALTIMORE ORIOLES POST-GAME NOTES

Oriole Park at Camden Yards  333 West Camden Street  Baltimore, MD 21201
Monday May 14, 2012  Game #36  Home Game #20

Baltimore Orioles (22-14) vs. New York Yankees (20-15)
R H E LOB WP: Phelps (1-1) TIME: 3:42

YANKEES 8 11 1 10 LP: Ayala (1-1)

ORIOLES 5 10 1 8 SV: Soriano (2)
YANKEES HR HR# Inn Count On Base Pitcher Made score Last Home Run

Curtis Granderson 12 5^th 2-1 0 Hammel 3-2 NYY 5/10 vs. TB

Mark Teixeira 5 7^th 1-2 1 Ayala 7-5 NYY 5/4 @ KC
ORIOLES HR HR# Inn Count On Base Pitcher Made score Last Home Run

J.J Hardy 9 5^th 2-1 1 Nova 5-3 BAL 5/10 vs. TEX

GETTING STARTED: Today’s first pitch was at 7:19 p.m…Game time temperature was 66 degrees…..first pitch was delayed 14 minutes because of rain.
TODAY’S ATTENDANCE was 16,492 …The 19-date season total is 426,339…Average attendance is 22,438.
HEAD TO HEAD: With the win tonight, the Yankees take a 5-2 lead in the season series and improve their record to 4-0 at Camden Yards this season…The Yankees won the 2011 season series 13-5 and went 6-3 at Camden Yards.
THERE’S A FIRST: With a lead-off double in the first, XAVIER AVERY collected his first major league base hit. Avery’s RBI triple in the 5^th was his first major league RBI.
CONSISTENCY: With an RBI single in the 1^st, J.J. HARDY has now reached base safely in 18 of his last 19 games.
JONES IS ROLLIN: With an RBI double in the 2^nd, ADAM JONES has now reached base safely in 33 of 36 games this year. The double gives him 19 extra base hits on the season, which leads the team. Jones entered the game tied for 5^th in the AL with 18.
HISTORIC HIT: With a single in the 3^rd, DEREK JETER now ranks 16^th on Baseball’s all-time hit list with 3,143.
STRUGGLING: CHRIS DAVIS is 3-for-28 in his last seven games. He had batted .400 with four home runs and 10 RBI in his previous 10 games.
THE GRANDY MAN CAN: CURTIS GRANDERSON’S home run in the 5^th was his 12^th of the year. He entered the game tied for 2^nd in the AL and tied for 4^th in the majors with 11. The homer landed on Eutaw Street, the 61^st home run to reach Eutaw Street in Camden Yards history. It is the 36^th Eutaw homer by an opposing player, the 3^rd by an opposing player this season, and the fourth Eutaw homer of the season. This is Granderson’s first Eutaw street homer and the first by a Yankee since NICK SWISHER on August 26, 2011.
STREAK SNAPPED: By allowing three earned runs tonight, JASON HAMMEL snapped his streak of allowing two or fewer runs in six straight starts. Only two other Orioles have started a season with six starts of two or fewer runs allowed: JAY TIBBS (May 24-June 21, 1989) and JIM PALMER (April 7-May 4, 1977)...No Oriole pitcher has ever started a season with seven straight outings allowing two or fewer runs…The seven hits Hammel allowed are a season-high.
HOMER HAPPY: The O’s lead the majors in home runs against right-handed pitching with 45. The O’s also lead the league with home runs in the month of May with 27, St. Louis entered the day ranked 2^nd with 22.
TABLE SETTERS: The Orioles first two hitters, XAVIER AVERY and J.J HARDY finished the day going a combined 4-for-10 with two doubles, a triple, a home run and four RBI.
ON FIRE: In his last eight games ROBINSON CANO is batting .483 (15-31) with four doubles, two home runs and 10 RBI.
A-ROD: ALEX RODRIGUEZ’S three singles marked his third three-hit game of the season, and his 13^th multi-hit performance of the year. His one run scored ties Craig Biggio (1,844) for 12^th place on Baseball’s all-time runs scored list.
HOBBLIN’: IVAN NOVA left the game in the 6^th with a contusion and sprain in his right foot and ankle, X-Rays were negative.
RELIABLE: With 0.2 innings of scoreless relief, BOONE LOGAN has held opponents scoreless in 16 of 19 appearances this season.
YANKEES PITCHING IP H R ER BB K HR WP HB PIT/STR 1^st Batter Inherited/Scored

Ivan Nova 5.1 7 5 5 3 4 1 0 0 92/55 n/a n/a

Clay Rapada 0.1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 12/6 1-1 n/a

David Phelps 1.0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 26/16 0-1 1/0

Boone Logan 1.0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 15/10 1-1 2/0

Cory Wade 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3/3 1-1 n/a

Rafael Soriano 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15/12 1-1 n/a

Total 9.0 10 5 5 4 10 1 0 0
ORIOLES PITCHING IP H R ER BB K HR WP HB PIT/STR 1^st Batter Inherited/Scored

Jason Hammel 5.0 7 5 4 3 3 1 0 0 95/60 n/a n/a

Luis Ayala 2.0 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 41/25 0-1 3/2

Dana Eveland 1.2 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 2 34/18 0-1 n/a

Darren O’Day 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6/3 1-1 2-0

Total 9.0 11 8 7 6 5 2 0 2