A day after snapping their losing streak at nine with a 7-1 victory over San Diego, the Orioles lost something else.
According to multiple reports, Joe Girardi will not become the club's new manager.
On Tuesday, team officials, including COO Andy MacPhail and Executive VP Mike Flanagan, met with Girardi and his agent in Chicago. Negotiations began, with the club making the offer.
"It's a great organization. There's a great history. It's a great sports town," Girardi said to FoxSports.com. "I was very impressed with Andy MacPhail and their front office. But at this time, it's not just right."
In just the same way as with the Nationals, Girardi turned down Baltimore, saying it just isn't right for his family.
The Orioles will now turn to the next people on their list. Rick Dempsey was scheduled for an interview Tuesday. Dempsey was a popular player with the Orioles during his playing career and was a coach with the club the past few seasons before moving to a broadcasting position with MASN, the Orioles media network.
Higher on the list are former skipper Davey Johnson, who was the last coach to lead this club to a winning record and former Cubs manager Dusty Baker, who was hired by MacPhail in Chicago. No word on when possible interviews are set.
Jeremy Guthrie led the Orioles to the win yesterday. He finally did it with run support, with the offense scoring three runs in the first before he even took the mound.
Brian Roberts led the game off with a double. He was hit in by a Nick Markakis RBI single. Kevin Millar hit Markakis in with a double off the left-field wall. He scored after Miguel Tejada knocked a double into left-field.
The Orioles only got one hit between the first and eighth. The bats exploded again during that inning. Melvin Mora had an RBI single. Jay Payton had a two-RBI triple and scored on a Paul Bako infield hit.
Guthrie was sharp, shutting out the Padres, who scored 12 runs the night before, into the eighth inning. However, he gave up a leadoff home run to Russell Branyan.
He pitched eight innings, struck out nine and gave up only four hits, improving to 4-1 with a 2.62 ERA. In nine starts, Guthrie has given up two or less in eight of them.
The Orioles were not without a scare, however. Also in the eighth inning, Tejada took a Doug Brocail fastball off the left wrist and dropped to the ground. Manager Dave Trembley and trainer Richie Bancells came out of the dugout to look at Tejada, who shook the hit off and walked to first-base. Trembley removed Tejada with Freddie Bynum after the team was retired in the eighth.
This marks the first win in Trembley's short time as interim manager. He is 1-1 so far and has his ace, Erik Bedard, pitching today against former Oriole David Wells.