The fastest goal allowed by the Blue Jackets

BALTIMORE -- A two-game series that was scheduled to end Wednesday stretched into early Friday morning before Matt Wieters finally put an end to the rain-marred interleague matchup between the Pirates and Orioles. Wieters led off the 10th inning with a home run off Stolmy Pimentel to give Baltimore a 6-5 victory and a doubleheader sweep Thursday night. In the opener, Steve Pearce had three hits and two RBIs in his return to the Orioles, who got a home run from Nick Markakis in a 5-1 win. The single-admission doubleheader followed consecutive rainouts Tuesday and Wednesday. The rain lingered long enough to delay the fifth inning of the opener by 21 minutes, and the start of the nightcap was stalled 46 minutes by rain. The second game lasted 3 hours, 57 minutes. By the time it ended, the clock had ticked well past midnight. "Its not a late night, its an early morning," said Orioles reliever Darren ODay, who pitched in both games. As ODay spoke, the team had 30 minutes to get ready for a trip to Minnesota for a three-game series that was to begin Friday night. "It will be a happy flight," ODay said, "so that will make it a little easier." The second game marked the season debut of Orioles third baseman Manny Machado, who had left knee surgery in October. After sitting out the opener, Machado received a warm ovation from the crowd of 28,290 before the second game and went 0 for 5. Baltimore trailed 4-0 in the nightcap before rallying with a four-run sixth. Adam Jones doubled in a run and scored on a single by Wieters before Pearce chased starter Brandon Cumpton with a double to right. Bryan Morris entered and yielded a two-run double to J.J. Hardy. Starling Marte countered with an RBI single in the seventh for Pittsburgh, but Markakis tied it in the bottom half with a solo shot off Morris. Wieters won it in the 10th with a drive to right off Pimentel (2-1) that soared just inside the foul pole. Tommy Hunter (1-0) got two outs for the win. Earlier, Baltimore ace Chris Tillman struggled through a 49-pitch first inning that could be attributed in part to a seven-day layoff. The right-hander issued three walks, two with the bases loaded, before getting three outs. Pittsburgh ended Tillmans outing in the fifth when Andrew McCutchen doubled and scored on a triple by Gaby Sanchez for a 3-0 lead. Pedro Alvarez had four hits for the Pirates, finishing a home run short of the cycle. But Pittsburgh stranded 15 and went 5 for 16 with runners in scoring position and lost for the 15th time in 19 games. "We keep fighting and fighting, and we put ourselves in scoring position and we havent been able to cash in the way we need to," manager Clint Hurdle said. "But we keep showing up. The bats were better throughout the series. ... We had men on base throughout the game, and still looking for that big hit." The first game was all about Pearce, designated for assignment by Baltimore on April 22 and released five days later. After turning down an offer from Toronto, the first baseman was re-signed Monday after Chris Davis went on the 15-day disabled list. Pearce singled in the third, fifth and sixth innings of the opener and was solid in the field. "Stevie gave us a real lift," manager Buck Showalter said. Alvarez had two hits and an RBI for the Pirates, who stranded 13 and went 1 for 14 with runners in scoring position. The defeat ended Pittsburghs nine-game road winning streak in interleague play. Trailing 1-0 when the rain stopped play, Baltimore regrouped during the break and sent nine batters to the plate in a three-run fifth. After a single, walk and an error loaded the bases against Charlie Morton (0-4), Pearce hit an RBI single and Ryan Flaherty grounded an opposite-field, two-run single to left field. Pearce singled in a run in the sixth, and Markakis hit his first homer of the season in the seventh for a 5-1 lead. Orioles starter Bud Norris (2-2) allowed one run in 5 1-3 innings, and Hunter got the last out with runners on second and third for his seventh save. Morton started well but came unhinged after the rain delay and lost his fourth consecutive start. The right-hander permitted four runs, two earned, and seven hits in 5 1-3 innings. "I kept grooving fast balls to Steve Pearce and he kept putting good swings on them," Morton lamented. NOTES: Pittsburgh returns home to face Toronto on Friday night. ... Orioles LHP Troy Patton returned from a 25-game suspension before the second game. Baltimore also activated Machado from the DL, and optioned INF Steve Lombardozzi and RHP Josh Stinson to Triple-A Norfolk. ... The last time Pittsburgh played a doubleheader on the road was in July 2011, at Washington. ... 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Bobby Doerr Jersey .C. - Canadian ice dancing, it seems, is in good hands.DENVER - David Savard shook off an early mistake and produced the game-winning goal.Savard drove in a shot from just inside the blue line with 1:01 left in the third period, lifting the Columbus Blue Jackets past the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 on Sunday night.The long-distance shot gave the Blue Jackets their fifth win in their last six road games and more than offset Savards early turnover that led to a goal for Colorado.It wasnt my best game and I was just trying to keep being positive, Savard said. It paid off in the end. It felt good.Savard was able to get enough on the puck to knuckle it past Semyon Varlamov after it partially deflected off the body of the Avalanches Borna Rendulic.I think its just bad luck. Bad luck, Varlamov said. And their first goal was tipped in front of the net. That makes for a tough night.Brandon Dubinsky scored a pair of goals for the Blue Jackets, and Ryan Johansen and added a goal.Colorado scored its quickest goal of the season when Jarome Iginla intercepted a wayward clearing pass by Savard in the Blue Jackets zone and wristed a shot past Curtis McElhinney 30 seconds into the game.Thats hockey. It happens, Johansen said. We put that behind us as soon as it happened. We did a good job of responding.Gabriel Landeskog and Cody McLeod also had goals for Colorado, but just missed closing their three-game homestand with another win.We fought back to get the tying goal and thought at wworst we would get the game into overtime, Iginla said.dddddddddddd These are the ones that hurt, for sure.Landeskog put in a backhand shot for Colorado to even the score at 2, but Johansen put the Blue Jackets back in front about 2 1/2 minutes later and extended his points scoring streak to seven games with his 12th goal of the season.Colorado re-tied the game at 3 at 15:30 of the second when McLeod put in a wraparound shot, his third goal of the season.Columbus answered Colorados quick first strike with Dubinskys first two goals of the season. He re-directed Cody Goloubefs shot into the net at 11:35 of the first and gave Columbus a 2-1 lead with his second goal, a wrist shot from the left circle that went into the net over Varlamovs glove.NOTES: The Blue Jackets top-ranked power play went 0-3 in the game. ... Iginla has 53 points in 50 career games against the Blue Jackets, the third-most points all-time against Columbus by an opposing player. ... Nick Holden previously scored quickest for the Avs this season when he put in a goal 31 seconds into a game against Toronto on Nov. 6. ... The fastest goal allowed by the Blue Jackets this season came 9 seconds into the game against Winnipeg on Nov. 26. ... Dubinskys first goal was the 100th of his career. ... The Avalanche and Blue Jackets meet again on March 7 at Columbus. ... The Blue Jackets Fedor Tyutin is one game shy of 700 for his career. ' ' '