Game 27: Orioles at White Sox
Orioles hit a 3-game win streak, pushing their record back to .500. They face the White Sox once more in this 4-game series before heading to KC.
White Sox:
| Batting | Fielding | fWAR | |
| Juan Pierre | .248/.306/.274 | -6 | -1.0 |
| Alexei Ramirez | .257/.322/.371 | -1 | 0.3 |
| Adam Dunn | .171/.308/.316 | -1 | -0.2 |
| Paul Konerko | .294/.361/.486 | 1 | 0.8 |
| Carlos Quentin | .290/.377/.579 | 0 | 1.2 |
| A.J. Pierzynski | .258/.287/.315 | -1 | 0.0 |
| Alex Rios | .155/.235/.223 | -1 | -0.6 |
| Mark Teahen | .275/.370/0.400 | -1 | 0.1 |
| Gordon Beckham | .208/.257/.317 | 1 | 0.0 |
The Orioles pitching has done very well this series against the White Sox main hitters. Konerko has dropped from a .316 average entering this series to a .294 avg, and Quentin entered with a .304 avg and now stands at .290. Not bad from the O's pitching staff (and defense).
Mark Buehrle:
| ERA | FIP | xFIP | K/9 | BB/9 | GB% | fWAR |
| 5.12 | 3.83 | 4.43 | 4.2 | 2.3 | 39.7% | 0.7 |
Buehrle has not been particularly sharp this year (his ERA is above his career average, and his K/9 and BB/9 are slightly worse than normal). He doesn't get many ground balls and has also been a victim to little run support (see last start).
Not overpowering stuff, but the change-up usually catches batters fishing, as does his curve (pretty good 12 MPH drop-off from fastball). However, doesn't really have that punch-out pitch that he needs.
Orioles:
| Batting | Fielding | fWAR | |
| Brian Roberts | .262/.310/.421 | -2 | 0.3 |
| Nick Markakis | .206/.274/.294 | 0 | -0.3 |
| Derrek Lee | .228/.304/.287 | -1 | -0.3 |
| Vladimir Guerrero | .269/.269/.398 | 0 | -0.2 |
| Luke Scott | .262/.324/.538 | 3 | 0.7 |
| Adam Jones | .207/.250/.402 | 3 | 0.4 |
| Mark Reynolds | .172/.253/.345 | -5 | -0.5 |
| Matt Wieters | .247/.318/.468 | 1 | 0.8 |
| Robert Andino | .333/.407/.417 | 2 | 0.7 |
The O's offense showed a little power yesterday, hitting two home runs (Reynolds, how about it?) and also getting a bases-clearing double from Nick. They did strike out 10 times compared to only 2 walks (ouch).
Jeremy Guthrie:
| ERA | FIP | xFIP | K/9 | BB/9 | GB% | fWAR |
| 2.53 | 3.57 | 4.11 | 5.3 | 1.1 | 35.2% | 0.6 |
Guthrie continues his very solid start to the season in every column--except wins. The hard-luck loser for the O's, Guthrie's ERA is a whole 2 points lower than his career average, yet he's only 1-3 on the year. He's keeping his walk count very low which has helped out tremendously. He just needs to be wary of the amount of fly balls he gives up tonight; good chance they could leave the yard.
Guthrie uses all of his pitches often and has two decent swing-and-miss pitches. A good sinker/change-up combo works to counteract his 92 MPH fastball. Just needs to work the ball down tonight as to make sure it stays in play.
Stats: UZR, WAR, ERA, FIP, xFIP, K/9 & BB/9, GB%, PitchFX
