BALTIMORE — The young Miami Marlins are coming off a tough 16-inning loss to the San Francisco Giants on Thursday. However
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But the Baltimore Orioles have been on another skid. They’ve lost seven in a row, and the Boston Red Sox swept a three-game series in Baltimore this week.
The Orioles had a day off Thursday but will somehow need to find some offense
when they face Miami to begin a weekend series at Camden Yards Friday.
Jose Urena (1-8, 4.59 ERA) starts for Miami. Urena won 14 games last year but dropped his first seven this season despite not pitching too badly.
This will be the right-hander’s first career appearance versus the Orioles.
Kevin Gausman starts for Baltimore. He is 3-5 with a 4.58 ERA this season and has been very effective on several occasions. Home runs have hurt the
right-hander this year, though, as Gausman has allowed 14 homers in 76 2/3
innings.
This will also be Gausman’s first appearance against Miami in his career.
The biggest problem for Baltimore right now is that anemic offense. After Wednesday’s 5-1 loss to the Red Sox, the Orioles ranked last in the American
League — and next-to-last in the majors — with a .226 batting average.
Chris Davis is hitting .150 with four homers and just 15 RBIs so far this season for Baltimore, and has been getting more and more time off
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To make things worse, even though the Orioles just got back closer Zach Britton — he had been sidelined following Achilles tendon surgery in the
offseason — the team has just lost Richard Bleier. The left-hander has been one
of the most consistent pitchers coming out of the bullpen but suffered what
might be an injury to the latissimus dorsi muscle. And those take a long time to
heal. Bleier was scheduled for a Thursday MRI.
“It’s got the characteristics of a lat, so we’ll see,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said in The Baltimore Sun on Wednesday. “Hope for the best. Obviously,
he was in a lot of discomfort, so we’ll see. He never had anything like that
before. I didn’t get a chance to talk to him for very long. He was pretty down
as you can imagine.”
Miami will be coming to town after that nearly five-hour loss to the Giants on Thursday. The Marlins tied it in the ninth but the Giants got three in the
16th for a 6-3 win.
The Marlins played tough while winning the first three games of that series against San Francisco. Manager Bruce Bochy joked to the media that he was very
happy to get his Giants out of Miami.
“For four straight games we’ve been fighting
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weren’t able to win that one.”
Also, for the Marlins, pitcher Caleb Smith has left the team because of a funeral and will apparently go on bereavement list.
Randall Liu, the former NFL director of football communications
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Liu, who employed by the NFL for 18 years and recently joined CBS Sports, is the eighth person who has worked for the league to receive the honor. The
Horrigan Award is given to the league or club official for displaying qualities
and professional style in helping the pro football writers do their job. It is
named the sports writer for UPI and the Buffalo Evening News, public relations
director for the American Football League (1963-66), and vice president of
public relations for the Buffalo Bills (1966-73).
Liu was cited for the Horrigan Award for his professionalism, promptness, candor and effectiveness in coordinating media access at the NFL's major
events
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Other 2018 nominees were Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, NFL communications vice president Brian
McCarthy, and Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead.
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