Orioles Lose to Rays, UMD-Duke, Is Matt Wieters Ready to Lead?

This afternoon, the Orioles again faced the Tampa Bay Rays -- this time on the road -- however, they ended the day with a 6-5 loss. Felix Pie, who has had rave reviews of his work in Florida, was 2-2 with a home run and triple before leaving the game with a minor injury. It looks as if he pulled his hamstring, but according to the Baltimore Sun's Pete Schmuck, he'll be fine.

Brian Matusz, who started the game for Baltimore, went 1 1/3 innings and looked solid on the mound. He did run into trouble as he gave up a two-run homer to Sean Rodriguez. Overall, he was impressed with the job he did as he was on the mound facing competition this Spring. He struck out the first three hitters in the opening inning. Mark Hendrickson -- who came in the game in the 4th inning -- gave up two runs. Lefty Mike Hinckley for Baltimore took the loss after Matt Joyce's RBI-single won the game for Tampa.

It's awesome to have real baseball back.

The Maryland-Duke game was awesome last night and it was good to see the Terps get a win on Senior Night over a heated rival, despite the carnage that seemingly took place in College Park after the action stopped on the court. Celebrating and showing passion for your team is nice, but it really behooves me -- STILL -- how people (alcohol-induced on not) think they have the right to act boorish, vandalize/destroy property and give their school a bad name. Just unreal.

Moving on...

This week, the Oriole Post along with several other prominent bloggers and writers were asked a question by the Hot Stove website about the Orioles. We were asked simply if catcher Matt Wieters was ready to step up become a leader for the team in 2010.

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