The O's closed out the month of April with a 6-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday night.
Chris Tillman picked up his first win of the season after allowing just one run on six hits and two walks over five innings of work. Tillman (1-2) started the sixth inning but was pulled after Chicago loaded the bases on two singles and a walk with none out and the Birds clinging to a 2-0 lead...
Michael Gonzalez came on in relief and turned in what is arguably his best performance in an Orioles' uniform. Gonzo escaped the inning virtually unscathed, allowing just one run to cross the plate (charged to Tillman)...had Jake Fox held on to the ball during a play at home the Sox would have been held scoreless until the ninth. Gonzalez went two hitless innings, striking out four batters. Koji Uehara went the final two frames, allowing a solo homer in the ninth...
Robert Andino has filled in nicely for J.J. Hardy and sparked the O's on both sides of the plate in the win...Andino slapped his first homer of the season in the third and scored the O's first run in a wild four-run eighth inning, as well as making several defensive plays that kept the Birds in the game. Andino finished the game going 2-for-4 and now leads the club with a .348 average.
The O's (12-13) have now taken two straight from Chicago and send Zach Britton to the mound Sunday afternoon for game three of the four-game series...a win would put the club back at .500.
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