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Thursday, April 28, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Orioles tie record with loss to Twins
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — The winless Baltimore Orioles tied an American League record with their 20th straight loss Wednesday night, falling to the Minnesota Twins 7-6.
The Orioles began the game with a lot of promise by scoring three runs in the first inning, but they ended again in failure.
Baltimore players stood in stunned silence in the eighth innings when Kent Hrkeb and Tim Launder broke a 4-1 tie with leadoff hammers against reliever Bill Scherrer, 0-1. Walk, balk and throwing error by pitcher Doug Sisk added another run, along with insult.
The Orioles can set the league record for consecutive losses this afternoon against Minnesota. They matched the mark of 20 reached by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1916 and 1943 and by Boston in 1906.
The Orioles never quit, however, as they made two runs that were charged to Juan Berenguer, 3-2. Two-out RBI-singles by Cali Ripkin and Eddie Murray brought the score to 7-6, but reliever Keith Atherton, who allowed both run-scorning hits to Lynn to end the game on a grounder to second base with runners on first and third.
The modern major-league record is 23 straight losses by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1961.
Baltimore, the poorest-hitting team in the majors at .194, including
110 with runners in scoring position,
has been outscored 125-40 this season.
Scott McGregor, witness since last May 16, could not hold an early lead. The Orioles have lost six straight games at the Metrodome since McGregor decisioned Bert Blyleven last May 6.
Keith Hughes and Craig Worthington, promoted from Class AAA Rochester this week along with Scherrier, helped Baltimore take an early 4-2 lead. Hughes hit a two-out, two-run single in the first inning, and Worthington opened the second with a three-run center field, his first major league hit.
The Twins scored twice in the first on leoadoff singles by Dan Gladden, Tom Herr and Kirby Puckett and on Gary Taeger's sacrifice fly. Herr, recently traded from St Louis to Minnesota, got his first AL hit after scoring and scored his 500 major-league run before finishing with four hits.
Hrbek doubled in the second and later scored on Mark Davidson's ground out, making it #4. The Twins then tied it in the fourth when Launcher singled and came home on Al McGregor's single, which finished McGregor.
Baltimore started strong as Joseph Stone opened the game with a walk and Billy Ripkin followed with a hit-and-run single, ending a 2-for-30 slide. Cal Ripkin, 16-for-44 in his career against Blyleen, hit an RBI single that brought the Orioles to their feet in the dugout.
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