The Orioles got to Dave Burba for three in the third, while through four the Indians had just two baserunners against Jose Mercedes. They scratched home a run in the fifth, then tied it in the sixth on back-to-back homers from Juan Gonzalez and Jim Thome. Burba finished a solid outing (7 IP, 6 H, 1 W, 9 K, 108 pitches) working around a Brooks Fordyce double in the seventh. In the bottom of the inning, the Indians got four walks (including a pinch-hit walk from Marty Cordova in his Tribe debut) off Mercedes, BJ Ryan, and Calvin Maduro to take a 4-3 lead. Paul Shuey and Bob Wickman made that hold up, with the only blemish a two-out walk to David Segui in the eighth.
There was a eight minute fog delay between the fifth and sixth because what’s early April baseball without a weather delay?
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