2002 Baltimore Orioles season

The 2002 Baltimore Orioles season was the 102nd season in Baltimore Orioles franchise history, the 49th in Baltimore, and the 11th at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. They slightly improved on their 63–98 (.391) record from the previous year, but missed the postseason for the 5th straight season.

2002 Baltimore Orioles
League	American League
Division	East
Ballpark	Oriole Park at Camden Yards
City	Baltimore, Maryland
Record	67–95 (.414)
Divisional place	4th
Owners	Peter Angelos
General managers	Syd Thrift
Managers	Mike Hargrove
Television	WJZ-TV WNUV Comcast SportsNet (Jim Palmer, Michael Reghi, Mike Flanagan)
Radio	WBAL (AM) (Fred Manfra, Jim Hunter, Chuck Thompson)
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The Orioles had a record of 63–63 at the conclusion of play on August 23, but then proceeded to lose 32 of their last 36 games of the season, including their final 12 in a row, and suffered their 5th straight losing season.

Offseason

• October 3, 2001: Tim Raines was sent to the Baltimore Orioles by the Montreal Expos as part of a conditional deal.^[1]
• November 20, 2001: Izzy Molina was signed as a free agent with the Baltimore Orioles.^[2]

Transactions

• June 4, 2002: Adam Loewen was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1st round (4th pick) of the 2002 amateur draft. Player signed May 26, 2003.^[3]

Regular season

Season standings

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AL East

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
New York Yankees	103	58	.640	—	52‍–‍28	51‍–‍30
Boston Red Sox	93	69	.574	10½	42‍–‍39	51‍–‍30
Toronto Blue Jays	78	84	.481	25½	42‍–‍39	36‍–‍45
Baltimore Orioles	67	95	.414	36½	34‍–‍47	33‍–‍48
Tampa Bay Devil Rays	55	106	.342	48	30‍–‍51	25‍–‍55

American League Wild Card

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Division leaders

Team	W	L	Pct.
New York Yankees	103	58	.640
Minnesota Twins	94	67	.584
Oakland Athletics	103	59	.636

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Wild Card team
(Top team qualifies for postseason)

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB
Anaheim Angels	99	63	.611	—
Boston Red Sox	93	69	.574	6
Seattle Mariners	93	69	.574	6
Chicago White Sox	81	81	.500	18
Toronto Blue Jays	78	84	.481	21
Cleveland Indians	74	88	.457	25
Texas Rangers	72	90	.444	27
Baltimore Orioles	67	95	.414	32
Kansas City Royals	62	100	.383	37
Detroit Tigers	55	106	.342	43½
Tampa Bay Devil Rays	55	106	.342	43½

Record vs. opponents

2002 American League record Source: MLB Standings Grid – 2002 v t e
Team	ANA	BAL	BOS	CWS	CLE	DET	KC	MIN	NYY	OAK	SEA	TB	TEX	TOR	NL
Anaheim	—	7–2	3–4	6–3	6–3	8–1	6–3	4–5	3–4	9–11	9–10	8–1	12–7	7–2	11–7
Baltimore	2–7	—	6–13	3–4	1–5	2–4	7–0	5–1	6–13	4–5	5–4	10–9	3–6	4–15	9–9
Boston	4–3	13–6	—	2–4	5–4	5–4	4–2	3–3	9–10	6–3	4–5	16–3	4–3	13–6	5–13
Chicago	3–6	4–3	4–2	—	9–10	12–7	11–8	8–11	2–4	2–7	5–4	4–3	5–4	4–2	8–10
Cleveland	3–6	5–1	4–5	10–9	—	10–9	9–10	8–11	3–6	2–5	3–4	4–2	4–5	3–3	6–12
Detroit	1–8	4–2	4–5	7–12	9–10	—	9–10	4–14	1–8	1–6	2–5	2–4	5–4	0–6	6–12
Kansas City	3–6	0–7	2–4	8–11	10–9	10–9	—	5–14	1–5	1–8	3–6	4–2	7–2	3–4	5–13
Minnesota	5–4	1–5	3–3	11–8	11–8	14–4	14–5	—	0–6	3–6	5–4	5–2	6–3	6–1	10–8
New York	4–3	13–6	10–9	4–2	6–3	8–1	5–1	6–0	—	5–4	4–5	13–5	4–3	10–9	11–7
Oakland	11–9	5–4	3–6	7–2	5–2	6–1	8–1	6–3	4–5	—	8–11	8–1	13–6	3–6	16–2
Seattle	10–9	4–5	5–4	4–5	4–3	5–2	6–3	4–5	5–4	11–8	—	5–4	13–7	6–3	11–7
Tampa Bay	1–8	9–10	3–16	3–4	2–4	4–2	2–4	2–5	5–13	1–8	4–5	—	4–5	8–11	7–11
Texas	7–12	6–3	3–4	4–5	5–4	4–5	2–7	3–6	3–4	6–13	7–13	5–4	—	8–1	9–9
Toronto	2–7	15–4	6–13	2–4	3–3	6–0	4–3	1–6	9–10	6–3	3–6	11–8	1–8	—	9–9

Game Log

Past Games Legend
Orioles Win	Orioles Loss

2002 Game Log: 67–95 (Home: 27–54; Away: 25–56)

April: 12–14 (Home: 4–7; Away: 8–7) # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Attendance Record Streak/ Box 1 April 1 Yankees 10–3 Erickson Clemens — 48,058 1–0 W1 2 April 3 Yankees 0–1 Wells Johnson Rivera 32,142 1–1 L1 3 April 4 Yankees 1–4 Mussina Ponson Rivera 33,317 1–2 L2 4 April 5 Boston Red Sox 0–3 Lowe Towers Urbina 31,261 1–3 L3 5 April 6 Boston Red Sox 2–4 Fossum Erickson Urbina 34,978 1–4 L4 6 April 7 Boston Red Sox 1–4 Martinez Maduro Urbina 33,790 1–5 L5 7 April 10 Devil Rays 2–3 Wilson Johnson Yan 22,781 1–6 L6 8 April 11 Devil Rays 15–6 López Colomé 24,179 2–6 W1 9 April 12 @ White Sox 2–5 Buehrle Towers Foulke 41,128 2–7 L1 10 April 13 @ White Sox 7–3 Osuna Roberts Foulke 21,760 2–8 L2 11 April 14 @ White Sox 9–5 Maduro Wright 23,951 3–8 W1 12 April 15 @ White Sox 4–13 Garland Johnson 15,794 3–9 L1 13 April 16 @ Yankees 5–4 Bauer Mendoza Julio 33,721 4–9 L2 14 April 17 @ Yankees 1–7 Hernández Towers 27,912 4–10 L1 15 April 18 @ Yankees 7–0 Wells Erickson 35,212 4–11 L2 16 April 19 @ Devil Rays 6–5 (14) Julio Colomé 11,124 5–11 W1 17 April 20 @ Devil Rays 6–3 Johnson Wilson Roberts 11,402 6–11 W2 18 April 21 @ Devil Rays 1–2 Creek Ponson Yan 13,091 6–12 L1 19 April 23 Boston Red Sox 7–5 Erickson Castillo Julio 26,301 7–12 W1 20 April 24 Red Sox 5–3 López Oliver Julio 29,004 8–12 W2 21 April 25 Red Sox 0–7 Martinez Maduro 31,353 8–13 L1 22 April 26 @ Royals 10–5 (10) Groom Grimsley 12,372 9–13 W1 23 April 27 @ Royals 9–4 Ponson Byrd 16,850 10–13 W2 24 April 28 @ Royals 13–0 Erickson Rekar 15,643 11–13 W3 25 April 29 @ Boston Red Sox 5–3 López Castillo Julio 31,177 12–13 W4 26 April 30 @ Boston Red Sox 0–4 Oliver Maduro 31,751 12–14 L1

Roster

2002 Baltimore Orioles
Roster
Pitchers 30 Rick Bauer 51 Steve Bechler 45 Chris Brock 47 Sean Douglass 49 Travis Driskill 59 Eric DuBose 19 Scott Erickson 27 Buddy Groom 41 Pat Hentgen 16 Jason Johnson 50 Jorge Julio 13 Rodrigo Lopez 12 Calvin Maduro 39 Yorkis Pérez 43 Sidney Ponson 37 Willis Roberts 52 B. J. Ryan 28 John Stephens 35 Josh Towers		Catchers 57 Raul Casanova 26 Brook Fordyce 17 Gerónimo Gil 51 Fernando Lunar 31 Izzy Molina Infielders 10 Tony Batista 14 Mike Bordick 18 Jeff Conine 15 Jerry Hairston Jr. 31 José León  9 Luis López 28 Ryan McGuire 11 Mike Moriarty 38 Chris Richard  1 Brian Roberts 11 Ed Rogers 23 David Segui		Outfielders  3 Larry Bigbie 11 Howie Clark 40 Marty Cordova  9 Luis García 25 Jay Gibbons 32 Luis Matos 36 Gary Matthews Jr.  6 Melvin Mora 29 Chris Singleton		Manager 21 Mike Hargrove Coaches 48 Terry Crowley 24 Rick Dempsey 44 Elrod Hendricks  2 Sam Perlozzo 49 Tom Trebelhorn 34 Mark Wiley

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

• Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Gerónimo Gil	125	422	98	.232	12	45
1B	Jeff Conine	116	451	123	.273	15	63
2B	Jerry Hairston Jr.	122	426	114	.268	5	32
3B	Tony Batista	161	615	150	.244	31	87
SS	Mike Bordick	117	367	85	.232	8	36
LF	Marty Cordova	131	458	116	.253	18	64
CF	Chris Singleton	136	466	122	.262	9	50
RF	Jay Gibbons	136	490	121	.247	28	69
DH	Chris Richard	50	155	36	.232	4	21

Other batters

• Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Melvin Mora	149	557	130	.233	19	64
Gary Matthews Jr.	109	344	95	.276	7	38
Brook Fordyce	56	130	30	.231	1	8
Brian Roberts	38	128	29	.227	1	11
Luis López	52	109	23	.211	2	9
David Segui	26	95	25	.263	2	16
José León	36	89	22	.247	3	10
Howie Clark	14	53	16	.302	0	4
Larry Bigbie	16	34	6	.176	0	3
Luis Matos	17	31	4	.129	0	1
Ryan McGuire	17	26	2	.077	0	2
Mike Moriarty	8	16	3	.188	0	3
Izzy Molina	1	3	1	.333	0	0
Ed Rogers	5	3	0	.000	0	0
Luis García	6	3	1	.333	0	0
Raúl Casanova	2	1	0	.000	0	0
Fernando Lunar	2	0	0	----	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

• Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Rodrigo López	33	196.2	15	9	3.57	136
Sidney Ponson	28	176.0	7	9	4.09	120
Scott Erickson	29	160.2	5	12	5.55	74
Jason Johnson	22	131.1	5	14	4.59	97
John Stephens	12	65.0	2	5	6.09	56
Calvin Maduro	12	56.2	2	5	5.56	29
Pat Hentgen	4	22.0	0	4	7.77	11

Other pitchers

• Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Travis Driskill	29	132.2	8	8	4.95	78
Sean Douglass	15	53.1	0	5	6.08	44
Josh Towers	5	27.1	0	3	7.90	13

Relief pitchers

• Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Jorge Julio	67	5	6	25	1.99	55
Buddy Groom	70	3	2	2	1.60	48
B.J. Ryan	67	2	1	1	4.68	56
Willis Roberts	66	5	4	1	3.36	51
Rick Bauer	56	6	7	1	3.98	45
Yorkis Pérez	23	0	0	1	3.29	25
Chris Brock	22	2	1	0	4.70	21
Eric DuBose	4	0	0	0	3.00	4
Steve Bechler	3	0	0	0	13.50	3
Érik Bédard	2	0	0	0	13.50	1

Farm system

Level	Team	League	Manager
AAA	Rochester Red Wings	International League	Andy Etchebarren
AA	Bowie Baysox	Eastern League	Dave Cash and Dave Stockstill
A	Frederick Keys	Carolina League	Jack Voigt
A	Delmarva Shorebirds	South Atlantic League	Joe Ferguson
A-Short Season	Aberdeen IronBirds	New York–Penn League	Joe Almaraz
Rookie	Bluefield Orioles	Appalachian League	Don Buford
Rookie	GCL Orioles	Gulf Coast League	Jesus Alfaro

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