Kyle Gibson
Staff report
Seeking his fifth win of the season, Greenfield’s Kyle Gibson got a no-decision in his last start with the Baltimore Orioles.
The 35-year old right-hander, in his first season with the O’s, went 4 1/3 innings pitched in his Thursday, April 27 start in Detroit.
Led by a five-run seventh inning, the Orioles went on to defeat the Tigers 7-4.
In his outing, Gibson gave up eight hits, three earned runs, two walks, and struck out three.
There are just four pitchers in the majors with five wins. Gibson is one of nine with four victories.
On the season, Gibson is 4-0 with a 3.93 ERA.
His next scheduled start is Wednesday at the Kansas City Royals when he’ll go up against another veteran major leaguer in Zach Greinke.
The Orioles are 19-9 and in second place in the American League East Division.
Greenfield’s Drey Jameson was recently sent down to the minor leagues by the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The 2017 Greenfield-Central grad had a rough outing in his Sunday, April 23 start against the San Diego Padres.
Jameson, who started the season in the D-backs bullpen, went just one inning in a 7-5 loss. He gave up three earned runs, three hits, walked three and had one strikeout. It was his third start.
He had gone 2-0 with one save before being moved back into the starting rotation, where he finished the 2022 season.
A 25-year old right-hander, Jameson, in six appearances, is 2-1 with a 3.71 ERA. The loss against the Padres was the first of his major league career. He is 5-1 with a 2.40 ERA since being called up in September of last season.
ArizonaSports.com called the move to send Jameson to Triple-A Reno a surprising move by the D-backs.
In the website’s article on Jameson being sent down, Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said, “It was just the lack of fastball consistency, his inability to command secondary stuff.
“…These are hard pills for young players to swallow. All they want to do is get here and learn and continue to pitch here and I get that, but we’re a competitive team. We’ve got a lot of competitive understudies and we feel like the best thing for Drey at this point in time would be to go down, get his timing, get his rhythm, and find his stuff.”
Lovullo added, ““He took it good. I think he’s disappointed, as he should be … But we had a good conversation and the things that stands out most to me is that in some of the questions that I asked him – I asked him to speak up – he was accountable and sometimes players will run from the truth. He does not and that’s one of those great gifts.”
The Diamondbacks are tied with the Los Angeles Dodgers — both teams are 16-13 — for first place in the National League West Division.
