Jason Berken had a strong outing against the Detroit Tigers today, but ended up taking a tough loss.
Jason Berken again pitched well for the Baltimore Orioles today, but he didn’t get any help from his teammates.The former West De Pere High School star left the game trailing Detroit 1-0 after seven innings of today’s game at Camden Yards in Baltimore. He wound up with the hard-luck loss after the Tigers’ 3-0 victory over the Orioles.
The only run Berken allowed came on a solo home run by the Tigers’ Curtis Granderson in the fourth.
“I made one mistake and left the ball up, and Granderson hit it out,” Berken said.
In seven innings, Berken (1-1) allowed four hits, one run, hit a batter, walked two and struck out two. He threw 102 pitches – 61 for strikes – and lowered his earned-run average to 2.25.
Berken was pleased with his performance, but conceded that he wasn’t quite as good as Tigers starter Edwin Jackson.
“Yeah, I mean he threw the ball outstanding, obviously,” Berken said. “Especially against the lineup we have. It’s one of the better lineups, and he threw the ball extremely well.”
He even earned the respect of a poster on Camden Chat with his strong performance.
Jason Berken made his second start of his major league career and pitched a hell of a game. Though he won his first game, he wasn’t that sharp, and I didn’t really have much hope that he’d have another effective outing. Jason, I’d like to apologize for that, because you were straight up awesome today.
One mistake. That’s really all he made. A 4th inning home run by Curtis Granderson put the Orioles in the hole 1-0 and they couldn’t recover. Berken finished with 7 strong innings, giving up just 4 hits and 2 walks. He did all he could do to keep his team in the game and I don’t think we could have asked for any more from him.
Check out Berken’s post-game comments to the media here.
Great job Jason!
Very great article. Honestly..