Guthrie's velocity was the highest it's been all season as he was clocked in the mid- to high 90s for much of the night. But that was one case in which it worked against him.
"[It's] something that I've been working on," Guthrie said of the velocity. "Tonight, it was there, but it goes in hard and goes out hard and [Rodriguez] showed us that."
Guthrie struck out Rodriguez, who was chided by fans waving Styrofoam syringes behind the plate, in his next two at-bats. Teixeira, the Maryland native, went 0-for-3 with three strikeouts and continued to hear the boos from Orioles fans. However, his struggles were little consolation to the Orioles (12-18), who had no answers for Sabathia.
