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Orioles fans’ grounds for optimism

For a dozen consecutive seasons, the Orioles have offered more of the same to a frustrated fan base: high-paid veterans and lightly regarded youngsters fighting and failing in the ultracompetitive American League East.

As the Orioles’ season opens today in St. Petersburg, Fla., and kicks off at home Friday at Camden Yards, most national prognosticators don’t give the club much chance to rise above fourth, which would be a step up from the fifth-place basement in 2009.

Yet in talking to fans, management and players, there’s a slightly different feeling this year – that the optimism that exists every spring has a little more merit. For the first time in recent memory, the Orioles have a young core with major league baseball experience.

“The years in the past, we’ve been waiting to get the guys up here. We’ve been mixing and matching guys here and there,” said Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis, 26. “I think we’re at the point now where it’s about winning.”

Click here to read the full article – By Dan Connolly of The Baltimore Sun

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O’s end season with four-game winning streak

Team closes book on tough 2009 campaign on high note, sweeping away Blue Jays

A walk-off win was the best possible way for the Orioles to end an otherwise disappointing 2009 season.

But in typical Orioles fashion, the circumstances made it hard to get overly excited about the victory. There was no game-ending home run or even a game-winning single. The Orioles’ 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday was achieved when reliever Brandon League made back-to-back throwing errors on sacrifice bunt attempts in the 11th inning.

“It was certainly a strange final day,” Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts said. “You don’t expect to play extra innings, and you certainly don’t expect to end it on back-to-back bunt throwing errors. It’s good for us to end with four wins, and to end on a positive note and let everybody kind of go out of here with a smile on their face.”

Click here to read the full article – By Jeff Zrebiec of Baltimoresun.com

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Orioles end losing streak, road trip

For about 15 seconds, Orioles manager Dave Trembley felt as if time were standing still. It had been far too long since he last experienced the feeling; there had been far too much heartache since he last witnessed his players gather for the handshake line.

It didn’t come easily, but nothing ever does for Trembley and the Orioles. When struggling closer Jim Johnson gloved Akinori Iwamura’s comebacker and threw to first baseman Michael Aubrey for the game’s final out, the Orioles had a 3-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays, and a 13-game losing streak and the most trying stretch of Trembley’s career had mercifully ended.

“Oh my, I can’t explain it to you. We’ve got the music on in the clubhouse and I’m drinking something other than a diet soda,” Trembley said. “I can tell you that right now. It’s unbelievable. I’m just glad this thing is over. I can’t think of anything [else] that has been as challenging.”

The 13-game skid, which demoralized the club and brought more attention to Trembley’s tenuous job security, was the longest in the major leagues this season and the third-longest in franchise history. It ended one game shy of the 14-game losing streak that the organization suffered through Aug. 11-25, 1954, and eight games behind the 21 consecutive contests the 1988 team lost to begin that year.

With the victory in their road finale this season, the Orioles escaped the first winless road trip of seven games or more in franchise history and kept alive their chances of avoiding another dubious distinction accomplished by the 1988 squad.

Click here to read the full article – By Jeff Zrebiec of Baltimoresun.com

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