Chicago White Sox vs. Baltimore Orioles – 7/5/15 Major League Baseball Pick, Odds, and

Contributions from two bench players and a robbed home run by Avisail Garcia propelled the Chicago White Sox to a 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles Saturday afternoon at USA Cellular Field. Alexei Ramirez (4-for-9, .444) and Melky Cabrera (7-for-20, .350) have enjoyed success versus Tillman in their respective careers.Samardzija received his third no-decision in four outings on Sunday after allowing four runs on five hits in 7 1/3 innings against Detroit. They have won eight of 12, and six of their last seven have been decided by a run. Showalter said injured RHP Jason Garcia (right shoulder tendinitis) will make a rehab start July 6, but didn’t know for which of the Orioles’ minor league affiliates…. “They kept making plays”, said Jimenez. “I’ve had a couple of good games, but I’ve had some games blow up in my face, where I didn’t give us much of a chance to win, and had to kill the bullpen, at that”. Shuck drove him in with a double down the right-field line.

David Robertson earned his 18th save in 22 opportunities – with a huge assist from Garcia. “I was just trying to see that ball and catch it. That’s what happened – instinct”.

“We’ve got to clean our stuff up and go out there (Sunday) and start swinging”, said Machado, who is batting. “But he went out there and made a hell of a play”.

Zach Putnam came on in relief, and he gave up a two-run homer to Manny Machado that tied the game. Shuck pushed across Gordon Beckham, who had drawn a leadoff walk, with a one-out double to right.

Will Venable hit a pinch-hit two-run home run in the top of the 11th inning and the San Diego Padres snapped a three-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over the suddenly scuffling St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday…

– The Orioles’ postgame roster move Saturday to option infielder Ryan Flaherty to Triple-A Norfolk wasn’t a popular one in the Twitterverse, especially since Flaherty is hitting. Samardzija came back by striking out Wieters on a changeup so nasty that Wieters threw the bat toward the mound in a vain attempt to extend to the pitch.

The Baltimore Orioles are coming off of a very disappointing home series which saw them lose of three of four games to the Texas Rangers. Abreu led off the fifth with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly. Each one kept Orioles center fielder Adam Jones off the bases and allowed Samardzija to breeze through the first six innings. “But it was a walk, apparently”, Samardzija said. “But, hey, something was going on when the fans started getting all rowdy for popup outs”.

Norris pitched with a lot of chutzpah, and maybe some of it was rooted in an I’ll-show-you mentality after his relegation to the bullpen.

Orioles RHP Kevin Gausman (1-0, 3.09 ERA) will remain in the rotation and start Tuesday against Minnesota.

PIRATES 1, INDIANS 0: In Pittsburgh, Jeff Locke pitched eight innings of two-hit ball, retiring his last 19 batters, and Neil Walker had an RBI single to lift Pittsburgh over Cleveland.