Wednesday, May 9, 2018

May 9 vs the White Sox

Opponent: Chicago White Sox
Outcome: L
Score: 0-3
Streak: L1
Record: 4-26
Rank: 7th
GB: 15.5

In a season this bad, you look for little victories.  After being shut out three times in their first 11 games, the Orioles had managed to score at least one run in each of their next 18 games.  That streak ended tonight.  Jerry Reuss, who had had some big years with the Pirates and Dodgers in the 1970's and early 1980's, and Bobby Thigpen combined to keep the Orioles off the board, holding their offense to just four hits and one walk.  It was Reuss's 200th career win, making him the second pitcher in MLB history (after former Oriole Milt Pappas) to win 200 games without ever winning 20 in a season.  Mike Boddicker took the loss, dropping his record to 0-7 in as many starts.  Dan Pasqua did all the damage for the White Sox this evening, driving in the first run of the game in the top of the second with a sacrifice fly that scored Greg Walker.  Two innings later Pasqua brought Walker in again as well as himself with a two run home run.

The only other significant thing about this game besides Reuss's 200th win was that it was the Oriole debut of catcher Mickey Tettleton.  Tettleton would take over the regular catching duties from Terry Kennedy for much of the rest of the season and would be a major contributor to the Orioles magical 1989 season.  But of course we didn't know that at the time.

I was at this game (it was "Three Buck Night" after all) and I remember almost nothing about it.  This was the fourth game I had gone to this season and it was the third one that I'd seen Boddicker start in - I was starting to notice a pattern.

Since I was at the game, I saved the game story from the next day's Washington Post:




The Orioles' woeful season had been going on long enough that they had time to make it to the comic's page.  Here's this day's Tank McNamara strip dedicated to the team:


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