# 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.
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.
* November 20, 2001: Izzy Molina was signed as a free agent with the Baltimore Orioles.

### 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.

## Regular season
### Season standings

vteAL 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

vteDivision leaders :
| Team | W | L | Pct. |
| New York Yankees | 103 | 58 | .640 |
| Minnesota Twins | 94 | 67 | .584 |
| Oakland Athletics | 103 | 59 | .636 |
vteWild 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 recordvte Sources: :
| 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)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecordStreak/ Box
1April 1Yankees10–3EricksonClemens—48,0581–0W1
2April 3Yankees0–1WellsJohnsonRivera32,1421–1L1
3April 4Yankees1–4MussinaPonsonRivera33,3171–2L2
4April 5Boston Red Sox0–3LoweTowersUrbina31,2611–3L3
5April 6Boston Red Sox2–4FossumEricksonUrbina34,9781–4L4
6April 7Boston Red Sox1–4MartinezMaduroUrbina33,7901–5L5
7April 10Devil Rays2–3WilsonJohnsonYan22,7811–6L6
8April 11Devil Rays15–6LópezColomé24,1792–6W1
9April 12@ White Sox2–5BuehrleTowersFoulke41,1282–7L1
10April 13@ White Sox7–3OsunaRobertsFoulke21,7602–8L2
11April 14@ White Sox9–5MaduroWright23,9513–8W1
12April 15@ White Sox4–13GarlandJohnson15,7943–9L1
13April 16@ Yankees5–4BauerMendozaJulio33,7214–9L2
14April 17@ Yankees1–7HernándezTowers27,9124–10L1
15April 18@ Yankees7–0WellsErickson35,2124–11L2
16April 19@ Devil Rays6–5 (14)JulioColomé11,1245–11W1
17April 20@ Devil Rays6–3JohnsonWilsonRoberts11,4026–11W2
18April 21@ Devil Rays1–2CreekPonsonYan13,0916–12L1
19April 23Boston Red Sox7–5EricksonCastilloJulio26,3017–12W1
20April 24Red Sox5–3LópezOliverJulio29,0048–12W2
21April 25Red Sox0–7MartinezMaduro31,3538–13L1
22April 26@ Royals10–5 (10)GroomGrimsley12,3729–13W1
23April 27@ Royals9–4PonsonByrd16,85010–13W2
24April 28@ Royals13–0EricksonRekar15,64311–13W3
25April 29@ Boston Red Sox5–3LópezCastilloJulio31,17712–13W4
26April 30@ Boston Red Sox0–4OliverMaduro31,75112–14L1 :

## 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 |