Orioles 9, Pirates 6

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Well, that stunk. The Bucs piled up a 6-1 lead early against O's starter Brian Burres , highlighted by a three-run homer by the suddenly-awesome Jason Michaels . But the Phil Dumatrait (who struggled with his control all night), Franquelis Osoria and the Pirates let the Orioles crawl back into the game and eventually take the lead. After Osoria left the game, the Pirates were only down by ... [link]

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Game 68: Orioles 9, Pirates 6
Published 6/14/2008 by UtesFan89 at Playing For Pride
... 9-6 Baltimore. For some odd reason, Freddy led off again. And he went 0-4 (though he did walk once). Nate batted 2nd… and was 0-5. Ryan Doumit, who had been on fire against the Nats, went 0-3 with 2 Ks. All in all… highly disappointing. The offense seemed to get it going early… and then just disappeared. Dumatrait ended up giving up 5 runs on 5 hits and 5 walks in 5 innings. The one thing I don’t get (also touched on over at Bucs Dugout & WHYGAVS)… it’s a close game. You need to go to the ...

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BALTIMORE (AP) -- Luke Scott homered, Melvin Mora had three hits and a key RBI, and the Baltimore Orioles rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-6 on Friday night. >