Erik Bedard recieves the hard luck loss, his 7th.

The only runs Orioles pitching allowed to cross the plate yesterday came in the first inning. Adrian Beltre hit a 2-run homer off of Bedard in the top of the first to put the Mariners in the lead for good. Other than that Bedard pitched like his normal self. He went 5 and a third innings, giving up 4 hits, those 2 runs, and 3 walks. He had 5 strikeouts. Julio Manon, Chris Britton, Todd Williams, Tim Byrdak, and Chris Ray combined to pitch the other 3 and 2/3rds of the game without allowing a run. I think Erik Bedard deserved to get the win, but the offense couldn’t hold up their end of the deal.

We could only manage one run and six hits against the Seattle pitching corps yesterday. There were no multi hit games and only one extra base hit. Corey Patterson hit his second triple of the year. Melvin Mora went 1-2 with 2 walks and scored the only run of the game for us. Jay Gibbons knocked him in, he also had a walk. We were facing the pre-season rookie pitcher of the year, Felix Hernandez. He only went 5 innings and we couldn’t score any runs off their bullpen. It was extremely hot yesterday, so maybe that had something to do with it.

Markakis watch: 1-4 (.297)

Rumor has it that the Red Sox are making a move to trade for Javy Lopez if and when he clears waivers. If our front office don’t somehow mess this up, we should be able to get a pitcher from their minor leagues. I’m all for a trade.

Our next game is tomorrow night against the New York Yankees. This will be the closest we get to dreaming of Bobby Abreu playing right field at Camden Yards. The first pitching matchup of the series will be Bruce Chen (0-6, 7.07) against Randy Johnson (11-9, 5.07). I’m going to guess Chen gives up at least 2 homeruns and we lose something like 8-5. Heres to hoping I’m wrong. Go O’s.