When the Baltimore Orioles came to Chicago to start a three game set with the White Sox, they brought along a pitcher in Jeremy Guthrie whose been on fire since the All-Star Break. Guthrie, who leads the Orioles with 16 Quality Starts on the season, came in with a 2.19 ERA and a 27:8 strikeout to walk ratio over his last seven starts.
He came to U.S. Cellular Field with a 2.70 ERA in three career starts at the Southside Chicago ballpark, his lowest ERA at any active road American League ballpark. Unfortunately for him and his Oriole teammates, the streak stopped Tuesday night when he surrendered six runs, all earned and ten hits in taking the loss.
“I actually got a lot of breaks, and then a few things that didn’t go my way. This is one of those games I executed for the most part, but I just really lost command after the home run (a seventh-inning, three-run homer by Sox second baseman Gordon Beckham, the difference in the ball game) and I just got tired after that,” Guthrie said after the game.
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