O's lose heartbreaker on an error

This may have been one of, if not, the most painful loss of the season for the Orioles. Brian Matusz pitched his tail off at Yankee Stadium Tuesday. He took the mound with confidence and showed tremendous poise on the toughest stage in baseball. He retired the 13 of the first 17 allowing just two walks and two hits before Curtis Granderson hit a solo home run to put the Yankees up 1-0.

"He controls the plate very well," Granderson said after the game. "Both up and down, in and out. He changes speeds really well. A lot of guys came into the dugout saying, 'man he's giving us good pitches to hit but we just can't get good wood on it.'  He's going to be a great pitcher for them and so far he's done really well against us every time."

Matusz would then leave the game in the seventh having thrown 108 pitches, 66 for strikes. The score was tied, 1-1 and with two outs he was set to face Alex Rodriguez who was 1-for-3 on the day.

Dave Trembley made the move to bring in David Hernandez to face ARod instead of walking ARod to load the bases and have Matusz face Cano.  Actually, the move worked. ARod grounded to third but Tejada threw the ball in the dirt and Wiggington couldn't recover it.

Two runs scored and the Yankees took the lead, 3-1. It would stay that way.

Matusz, the O's star of the game, took the loss.

Heartbreaker.