Twins @ Orioles

[ThruTheEyesOfRuby]

Arrieta starting for the first home game. From ESPN.. Only three players in major league history have homered in four straight games to start the season: San Francisco's Willie Mays in 1971, St. Louis' Mark McGwire in 1998 and Texas' Nelson Cruz in 2011.

Starting lineup according to mlb.com

1. LF: Nate McLouth
2. 3B: Manny Machado
3. RF: Nick Markakis
4. CF: Adam Jones
5. 1B: Chris Davis
6. C: Matt Wieters
7. SS: J.J. Hardy
8. 2B: Ryan Flaherty
9. DH: Nolan Reimold

1. CF: Aaron Hicks
2. DH: Joe Mauer
3. LF: Josh Willingham
4. 1B: Justin Morneau
5. C: Ryan Doumit
6. 3B: Trevor Plouffe
7. RF: Chris Parmelee
8. 2B: Brian Dozier
9. SS: Eduardo Escobar

SP: Liam Hendriks for the Twins.

 

[powerchord86]

O's been swinging some big bats. Liam Chexmix will have to be careful.

 

[jeffro151]

<3 Chris Davis <3 lol

 

[ThruTheEyesOfRuby]

<3 Chris Davis <3 lol

From Elias: Chris Davis has 16 RBI this season, the highest total through 4 team games since RBI became official in 1920. The previous record was 12 RBI through 4 games, by Dolph Camilli (1935 Phillies), Mark McGwire (1998 Cardinals) and Charles Johnson (2000 Orioles).

 

[jrs21]

From Elias: Chris Davis has 16 RBI this season, the highest total through 4 team games since RBI became official in 1920. The previous record was 12 RBI through 4 games, by Dolph Camilli (1935 Phillies), Mark McGwire (1998 Cardinals) and Charles Johnson (2000 Orioles).

He's on pace for 648 for season!

 

[Shanemansj13]

Davis is on my fantasy team! His HR and RBI total is higher than my opponents' whole team for those categories, and I had him on the bench for one of those 3-run homer games.

Him being on fire is an understatement.

 

[ThruTheEyesOfRuby]

Welp, the Twins take the series 2 -1. Hopefully this is an early wakeup call for the O's that there are no 'easy' series. Gotta get Machado on track. I'm still waffling on the batting order. Nick is fine at leadoff, but I think McLouth should be hitting #2 and Machado hitting a little lower in the order.