A recap of the Orioles' 9-4 loss to the Angels yesterday:
OLSON COMES UNDONE
The Orioles received several strong starting pitching performances on the nine-game road trip, but Garrett Olson's outing yesterday certainly didn't qualify. Unable to build off his previous performance, in which he came just two outs shy of a complete-game shutout, Olson allowed six earned runs, lasting just 2 2/3 innings, tying his shortest start of the season. Olson surrendered seven hits, including two home runs, walked two and threw a run-scoring wild pitch. He threw 65 pitches, and many of them were either hit hard or missed the strike zone.
QUITE A DEBUT
A day after Chris Waters pitched eight shutout innings and allowed just one hit to beat the Angels in his major league debut, outfielder Lou Montanez had a memorable first start of his own. In his first major league at-bat in the third inning and on just the second pitch he saw, Montanez took Ervin Santana over the left-center-field wall. He became the first Orioles position player to hit a home run in his first major league at-bat. The only other Oriole to do it was pitcher Buster Narum in 1963 at Detroit. Montanez also singled in the fifth and finished 2-for-4.