An already wild game Thursday in Seattle got even crazier when two fans jumped over the center-field wall at Safeco Field and ran onto the field while Orioles reliever George Sherrill was warming up before the bottom of the ninth inning. One of the fans ran behind Jay Payton and waved his hands, but didn't make contact with the Orioles left fielder.
"I'm not that guy you sneak up on and scare," Payton said. "If the guy would have bumped me or ran into me, then yeah, it could have gotten real ugly. And it would have been even uglier for him because our bullpen was right there."
Trembley yelled at both fans as they were being led away in handcuffs past the Orioles dugout, and he was still angry about the incident yesterday.
"That's embarrassing to baseball," Trembley said. "I'm a big proponent of respect, and that's probably the epitome of disrespect when two idiots run out on the field like that. And what really bothered me is that they come up from behind two of my players, which ought to tell you a little about their backbone. Weak. Very weak. ... I wish I could have taken them in the back room. I would have kicked the snot out of both of them."
Walker not worried
The two-run, game-tying home run that Orioles reliever Jamie Walker surrendered in the seventh inning to Ichiro Suzuki on Thursday marked the third time in Walker's past six outings that he has served up a late-inning, game-tying home run.
"I hung a pitch," Walker said. "I made one bad pitch out of the eight or nine pitches I [threw]. That's the life of a reliever. You can't take it back. I wish I could. Those situations, the worse thing you can do is make a bad pitch, and I did it. Late in the game, it seems that every pitch that you do make that is bad comes back to haunt you."
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