Saturday May 28 at the Angels

Opponent: California Angels
Outcome: L
Score: 0-5
Streak: L4
Record: 9-38
Rank: 7th
GB: 22.5

Another poor offensive showing for the team resulted in their second shutout loss in four games and their eighth on the season.  It was Jose Bautista's turn to have a short outing on the mound as he only lasted 2 2/3 innings.  The Angels led off the bottom of the first with back-to-back singles from Dick Schofield and Johnny Ray - who both got an extra base when right fielder Joe Orsulak misplayed Ray's single for an error.  Wally Joyner then knocked in Schofield with the Angels first run by grounding out to the first baseman.  Brian Downing then doubled to bring in Ray and the Angels were now up 2-0.  Bautista got Chili Davis to ground out and struck out George Hendrick to prevent any further damage.

Schofield led off the bottom of the third by hitting another single and then stole second with Ray at the plate.  He moved to third when Ray grounded out to first and then scored on Joyner's second RBI ground out of the game - once again a grounder to first.  Bautista then proceeded to hit Downing with a pitch and gave up a single to Davis at which point Baltimore manager Frank Robinson decided he'd seen enough.  Mike Morgan came in to relieve Bautista and got Hendrick to fly out to Orsulak in right to end the inning.  The game remained at 3-0 until the bottom of the eighth when Davis hit a two run home run off of Tom Neidenfuer to make it 5-0.

Meanwhile the Orioles weren't able to get much done against Angels starter Mike Witt although they did load the bases with nobody out in the top of third.  But Bill Ripken lined out to Ray at second for the first out and Cal Ripken grounded into a rally-killing and inning-ending double play.  The Orioles actually hit into three double plays on the evening with Cal hitting into two of them.  The team had seven hits on the evening - all singles except for Eddie Murray's double in the sixth.