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Orioles sent Esteban Loaiza to face Jon Lieber in Baltimore.
We went 1-2-3 in 1st and after a leadoff single by that POS Chad Curtis, Lieber picked him off and the rest of the inning passed without a baserunner. It was scoreless through 3 when Frias hit a solo homer, his 5th of the postseason to give us a 1-0 lead.
Lieber sailed through 5 but in the 6th, Rolen singled with 2 outs and tried to score on a double to center by Larry Walker. They seemed to not have ever watched Darin Erstad, because he threw yet another runner out at hime, the 4th runner he has gunned out.
Seems that Leiber had lost it as in the 7th, Guerrero doubled to lead off the inning and Juan Gonzalez followed that with a 2 run bomb to left. We went out 1-2-3 in the 8th and we sent Pat Combs in to pitch the 8th and surrendered a 2-run shot to 12 time all star and 3 time MVP and we were down 4-1.
The Orioles brought in closer Todd Kopczynski and after Erstad led off the 9th with a single, he retired Frias and Williams but Baerga hit a 2-run homer and the score was 4-3. That Walker homer was huge as Carlsen flew out to end the game and we lost the 1st game of the series for the 3rd time this year
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