For his second straight start, Sidney Ponson gave up too many runs for the Orioles to recover from. Last week, Ponson gave up 4 early runs against the Phillies in 7 innings, and Ponson gave up 4 runs over 8 innings against the Tigers last night. He is carrying a 5.66 ERA and has allowed 4 homers over the last two games. This guy was suppose to be the Ace of the Orioles going into Spring Training. He was demoted to the #4 starter before the regular season started, and promoted to #3 starter when Eric Bedard went on the DL yesterday. Ponson threw to home run fastballs against the Detroit Tigers and they took advantage of it. Dmitri Young and Craig Monroe hit 2 run homers to give the Tigers the lead for the game. This game was another example of Ponson spotting the opposing team at least a 4 run lead. The Orioles batters always have to play catch up when he pitches. This time they failed because Ponson couldn't keep his control of his pitches.
The O's batters had their big chance to beat the Tigers in the 9th inning. They had the bases loaded with 2 outs when the rookie, Jeff Fiorentino, struck out. I am not going to get on his case because he is a rookie. Ugueth Urbina of the Tigers just made to good of pitches against Fiorentino for Jeff to have a chance. The O's pecked away from the 4 run lead in the 6th and 8th innings. But in the end, they just came up short.
To make matters worse, the "Yank-These" are now in 2nd place and only 3.5 games behind the O's after beating the "Red Sucks."
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