Tuesday July 26 at Cleveland

Opponent: Cleveland Indians
Outcome: L
Score: 3-7
Streak: L2
Record: 31-67
Rank: 7th
GB: 26.5

The Orioles held their own against the Indians over first third of tonight's ballgame.  They got on the board in the top of the first when Joe Orsulak led off the game with a double and scored on next batter Bill Ripken's single but Cleveland tied it up in the bottom of the inning on back-to-back doubles by Terry Francona and Julio Franco and went ahead in the second on a solo home run by Cory Snyder.  The Orioles knotted the game back up at 2 when Orsulak scored on a Larry Sheets grounded out with the bases loaded.

The game got away from the Birds in the fourth.  Mel Hall led off the inning with a single and after Snyder flew out for the first out Willie Upshaw doubled.  The Tribe then got the bases loaded when Brook Jacoby walked and then Chris Bando partly unloaded them with a single that scored Hall and Upshaw.  Ron Washington followed with a single that scored Jacoby but Sheets threw out Bando trying to get to third on the play.  With Francona at the plate Washington stole second which allowed him to score the fourth run of the inning on Francona's single.  Orioles manager Frank Robinson replaced starter Jay Tibbs with Dave Schmidt at this point.  After walking the first batter he faced (Franco) Schmidt got Joe Carter to ground out to end the inning.

The O's got a run back in the fifth on a Sheets RBI single but the Indians got it back in bottom of the inning.  For the second inning in a row Hall led off with a single and moved to third on Snyder's single.  He then scored on a sacrifice fly by Upshaw but the Orioles threw out a base runner for the second straight inning when Orsulak nailed Snyder attempting to move up to second on the fly out.

That was pretty much the end of the ballgame.  The Orioles got a couple singles in the eighth that ended up chasing Indians' starter John Farrell but their closer Doug Jones came in and closed it out with a perfect inning and a third.