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Nationals – 6
Orioles – 7 WP: Josh “McEasy” McEachin (7-1) 3B: Tim Hanan 2B: Matt Garrabrants Orioles score early, hang on late to beat a depleted Nationals team 7-6 to move within half a game of 1st place. Josh “McEasy” McEachin got the start to go after his 7th win on the year. Josh has been the staff ace of the league this year, though the first batter didn’t exactly give him the respect he deserves. After just missing on a 2-2 pitch, the lead-off batter took McEasy deep for the first run of the game. After not giving up any homeruns on the year, O’s pitchers have given up bombs in the first inning in back to back games. McEasy did settle back down to retire the next three batters in quick order, leaving the damage at one run. The O’s responded quickly with Hanan, Coppedge, and Garrabrants getting base hits back to back to back. After the Hanan single, he stole second and score on Coppedge’s single up the middle to tie the game. Garrabrants doubled to put runners at 2nd and 3rd and McEasy brought in Coppedge on a groundout to give the O’s the lead at 2-1. As McEasy settled in for the next couple of innings, the O’s went back to work offensively. The second inning led off with hits from Kurt “Special K” Karnowski and Preston “PCB” Cole. With runners at the corners, Kevin Simmons hit a sac fly to score Karnowski. After another single from Carlos Colon, Cody “QB1” Gladney singled to score PCB and push the score to 4-1. The Nationals did manage to close the gap in the top of the 4th, scoring 3 runs with two outs to within one at 5-4. The O’s increased their lead in the bottom of the inning, starting off with another hit from PCB and Simmons reaching on an error. Colon also had his 2nd hit of the game, scoring PCB and moving Simmons to 3rd. Gladney followed up with the second sac fly of the day for the O’s to score Simmons and the O’s lead 7-4. McEasy was still throwing into the 6th and had two one with two out when the 9-hole hitter hit a bloop single to score both runners and get the lead back down to one. Leadoff batter came up with an opportunity to tie up the game for the Nats and flew out to right field to end the inning. With six in the books, enter our own version of Aroldis Chapman: Matt Garrabrants. Garrabrants has been crazy efficient on the mound this year, vastly different from year’s past, and just shredded the Nationals 2-3-4 hitters in order in only 8 pitches to end the game. The “woodchipper” was in full effect. News and Notes: With the win, the O’s have taken the season series from every team in their division but they are still half a game behind the Nats for first place overall. The O’s are 15-3-1 which is their best mark in the regular season in the past five years. The Nationals will play the 3rd place Pelicans in a double header on Tuesday which will determine 1-3 place in the playoffs. With an O’s win over the Indians and one Pelicans win over the Nationals, the O’s would take 1st place overall due to the head to head tiebreaker. Next Game: Tuesday, 7:00 PM, Home vs Indians Probable Starter: A. Faught
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March 2019
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