Friday August 12 at the Brewers

Opponent: Milwaukee Brewers
Outcome: L
Score: 3-8
Streak: L5
Record: 37-77
Rank: 7th
GB: 31

The Orioles came out of the gate strong in this game.  Joe Orsulak led off the game with a double and Brady Anderson knocked him in with a single.  After Cal Ripken struck out Eddie Murray and Mickey Tettleton hit back-to-back RBI doubles.  The Birds were up 3-0 with only one out in the first inning.

Unfortunately that was the high point of the evening for the team.  They had opportunities to add more runs the rest of the game - they had six more hits and a walk after the first inning - but they left all seven runners on base.

The Brewers meanwhile started chipping away at the lead.  They picked up a couple runs in the bottom of the second.  Rob Deer led off with a single and then BJ Surhoff hit a ground ball to first baseman Murray that he couldn't handle.  Surhoff was safe at first on the error and Deer made it all the way to third.  Surhoff then stole second to put two runners into scoring position.  After Joey Meyer flew out Jim Gantner grounded out to first - Deer scored from third on the play and Surhoff moved up to third.  Dale Sveum drew a walk and Paul Molitor followed with a single that scored Surhoff and sent Sveum to third.  Molitor then stole second but Jeffrey Leonard flew out to end the inning.   The Brewers had scored two unearned runs on two hits, a walk, an error and two stolen bases.

The Brew Crew took the lead for good in the fourth.  With one out they loaded the bases on a walk to Meyer and singles by Gantner and Sveum.  Molitor drew a walk to force in Meyer with the tying run and a ground out by Leonard that forced Molitor at second scored Gantner to give the Brewers the lead.  Robin Yount followed with a double that scored Sveum and Leonard and knocked Orioles starter Oswaldo Peraza out of the game.  Gordon Dillard came in and got Greg Brock to fly out to end the inning.  But the Brewers now led 6-3.

Milwaukee added two more runs in the seventh on RBI singles by Deer and Meyer.

The loss was the Birds' fifth in a row.  This was their longest losing streak since the 21 game streak to open the season.