Lopez breaks out, beats Mariners

The Baltimore Orioles' Rodrigo Lopez has had a season to forget, going into Thursday's game with a 1-7 record and a 8.07 ERA. Lopez went 7 and a third innings giving up only two hits, no runs, and striking out 4. At one point Lopez retired 18 straight. Miguel Tejada and Jay Gibbons drove in the only runs of the game, scoring Brian Roberts, who had the only other 2 Oriole hits. Gil Meche took the hard luck loss for the Seattle Mariners. Meche went seven innings, giving up only 4 hits, 2 runs, 2 BB, and striking out 10. Raul Ibanez and Richie Sexson got the only 2 hits for Seattle. Chris Ray got the final 5 outs for Baltimore to get his 12th save.

Source

• MLB.com

Date

Fri 05/26/06, 7:25 am EST

Ben agm

1286 days ago

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Chris Ray is awesome. 12 out of 12 saves converted.

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Anonymous Fanatic #1

1286 days ago

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looks like they knew what they were doing by letting Ryan go

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Ben agm

1286 days ago

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actually, the front office tried to low ball Ryan. I think they balked at resigning him mid-season at 5 mil per (something like that I think). He obviously found better money in Toronto and the O's off season money was little too late then. After getting spurned by the like of Tom Gordon and Todd Jones, they decided that Ray was the future anyway. I'm glad it's worked out.

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