Baltimore Orioles 9 | Chicago White Sox 0
Record 1-21
Twenty-five days after the first loss, on the second manager, seventh leadoff hitter, and with a new addition to the starting rotation, for the first time in twenty-two games, the Baltimore Orioles walked off winners.
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Making his season debut, Pete Stanicek became the seventh leadoff hitter for the year and collected two hits and scored two runs, and even stole a base. Cal Ripkin raised his batting average thirty-nine points with his four-hit performance while scoring a season-high three runs. He also went deep marking the first game two Orioles had hit home runs in a game as Eddie Murray also homered.
Every regular but two got in the hit column and the bats provided eleven hits and nine runs support for the pitchers. The output was by far the most runs the team had scored in the first twenty-two games of the season.
Mark Williamson, who began the year in the bullpen and had given up a run in each of his five appearances prior to this start, was nearly untouchable. He scattered three hits over six innings and did not walk a batter.
Remarkably the first man out of the bullpen was Dave Schmidt. Schmidt had entered six games prior and had given up a run in each of those games. When the stars align, they align, and Schmidt pitched three innings allowing just one base runner and securing the save.
The worst start in modern baseball history ended right there, a 9-0 win at the expense of the Chicago White Sox.