Homer

Chris Davis is a streaky hitter. We all know that. When he's seeing the ball well, he can take over a game with his bat. When he's slumping, he leaves you wondering how many holes he has in his bat. Then there are nights like Friday, when Davis made Camden Yards into his own personal launching pad, becoming the 19 th player in franchise history to hit three homers in a game. He peppered the Oriole Park stands with baseballs, one pulled to right onto Eutaw Street, his second into the right-center field stands and his last sliced the opposite way to left field.

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Second baseman Brian Roberts hit his first home run in a game in almost two years, and he also had a pair of singles in the Orioles' 6-5 victory over the Pirates on Friday. He pulled a ball over the right-field fence in the first inning and sprayed the two other hits to left field to finish 3-for-3. And he was very upbeat about it. “Every day is a fun day on the field," Roberts said. “I've spent too many days in the training room, so baseball is always fun when you can get out and play.

SEATTLE - Hitting his 30th home run of the season means something to Orioles center fielder Adam Jones, he's not going to lie. But what really matters is when it happened and what it means to this surprising season. Jones' career-best 30th home run came in the top of the 11th inning Wednesday, breaking a tie and securing the Orioles' 3-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners. It guaranteed a three-game sweep and preserved the club's streak of consecutive extra-inning victories, now at 15 and counting.

With the way the Orioles have mixed and matched this season, bringing in rookies and former All-Stars, once-weres and never-have-beens to form an eclectic group that keeps winning when it's supposed to fall back to reality, perhaps Wednesday's 12-2 pummeling of the Toronto Blue Jays shouldn't have been a surprise. But anytime a club hits three home runs in an inning - including two by players more than 20 years apart in age - and a franchise-tying seven in one game, it's noteworthy, even for this crazy season.

June 23, 1979: One night after Doug DeCinces' ninth-inning homer stunned Detroit and started "Orioles magic," Murray kept it going in the opener of a doubleheader. Trailing by a run in the ninth inning, the Orioles put two on with one out for Murray, who won it, 8-6, with a homer off the Tigers' John Hiller, against whom Murray had been 0-for-8 in his career.Oct. 4, 1979: Murray's first postseason homer was a three-run shot off California's Mark Clear in Game 2 of the 1979 playoffs. It gave the Orioles an 8-1 lead in the second inning, but it turned out they needed every run they could get. The Angels rallied with six runs in the last three innings before falling, 9-8.Oct.

HOMER ELI "Butch" Mc CREARY JR., age 51, of North East, MD died on Sunday, September 12, 2004 at Union Hospital in Elkton, MD. Mr. Mc Creary was born on December 24, 1952 in Baltimore, MD to the late Eleanor and Homer E. Mc Creary, Sr. He graduated from Sparrows Point in 1970, where he excelled in football and lacrosse. He began his career at Maryland National Corporation where he became a Vice President. He continued his banking career with MBNA from 1987 until his death. He managed, coached, and was actively involved with the Rising Sun Little League and the Cecil County Babe Ruth League.

The Orioles so badly needed to avoid the sting of another close loss that it wouldn't have mattered who got the game-winning hit. But it was particularly satisfying for them to gather around home plate in the 10th inning Wednesday night, awaiting Nolan Reimold's helmet-tossing arrival. Reimold, who has struggled since getting the opportunity to play virtually every day, slammed Jason Frasor's first pitch into the visitors' bullpen, the two-run shot ending the Orioles' 6-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox in front of an announced 18,747 at Camden Yards.

Dorothy C. Homer, a community volunteer, died Wednesday of a heart attack at Roland Park Place, where she had lived for the past three months. The former Federal Hill resident was 87. Born Dorothy C. Huddleson in Titusville, Pa., she attended Cooper Union college in New York City and later worked as a field clerk for National Fuel Co. in Addison, N.Y. Mrs. Homer painted oils and watercolors throughout her life. She was an avid traveler and toured mainly in Europe every few years. She was a Walters Art Museum volunteer for seven years and was a National Aquarium volunteer for a decade.

Homer Lewis Cook Sr., a civil engineer for 30 years at Edgewood Arsenal and a Boy Scout volunteer, died Saturday of cancer in his home in Perryville. He was 80.Before starting work at the arsenal in 1942, Mr. Cook worked for an army training camp in Aberdeen and at a naval boot camp in Bainbridge. Relatives said he and his wife spent at least eight months a year traveling across the United States in their motor home. From 1980 to 1990, Mr Cook was state director for the Maryland Good Sam Club, a recreational traveling club.

NEW YORK -- Let's get one thing straight: The phantom homer by Don Mattingly isn't the reason the Orioles lost, 1-0, to the New York Yankees yesterday -- not on a day when their most solid contact came on a two-strike bunt single.Let's get another thing straight: All the arguing in the world probably wouldn't have persuaded the umpires to disallow the homer -- not with 47,428 screaming New Yorkers in the stands, ready to riot.Still, who put the Orioles on tranquilizers? They've lost six straight games.