Recap: Baltimore vs. Toronto
Sports Network | September 26, 2008
Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) - Scott Richmond got his first big league win and Curtis Thigpen hit his first major league home run, as the Toronto Blue Jays downed Baltimore, 3-0, in the rain-shortened opener of both clubs' final series of the season.
Richmond (1-3) surrendered only four hits without issuing a walk and fanned three. Scott Rolen and Jose Bautista drove in a run apiece for Toronto, which had lost three of four coming into this three-game set at Camden Yards.
Chris Waters (3-5) took the loss and was charged with all three runs on nine hits and a pair of walks. The left-hander struck out six in his six-plus innings. The O's managed only four singles through six frames before the game was called in the top of the seventh with one out.
Baltimore is a brutal 5-27 since August 22 and dropped its 10th straight game for the first time since a 12-game slide in August 2004.
The Jays finally solved Waters in the sixth to break open a scoreless tie. Bautista led off with a single and Alex Rios reached with a walk. Vernon Wells grounded into a double play, but Adam Lind drew a walk to keep the inning alive and Rolen smoked a ground-rule double to center field for a 1-0 advantage.
Baltimore got two of its four hits in the form of back-to-back two-out singles in the home half, but Aubrey Huff fouled out to end the frame.
Thigpen made it a 2-0 game one inning later with a leadoff home run to left field. Back-to-back singles from John McDonald and Marco Scutaro chased Waters and put runners on the corners. Lance Cormier came on and allowed an RBI groundout to Bautista before Mother Nature's waters arrived and delayed the contest one hour and five minutes before it was finally called.
Toronto has won 11 of its 16 matchups with the O's this season, including five of seven at Camden Yards...Richmond threw only 79 pitches through his six frames, 52 for strikes.
