We'll have more reaction on the Orioles' decision to option struggling starter Brad Bergesen to Triple-A Norfolk, and bring up reliever Alberto Castillo, when manager Dave Trembley meets with the media in Seattle later today.
However, here are the postgame quotes related to Bergesen following last night's game. After Bergesen met with the media, he was summoned to the manager's office where Trembley and pitching coach Rick Kranitz delivered the news that he was headed to Triple-A Norfolk.
Dave Trembley on Bergesen
"It looked like he was pushing a lot of his pitches and then got away from throwing the sinker and became more of a slider-type guy and left some pitches up. We didn't turn that potential double-play ball, but still you've got to make some pitches after that, and he didn't do it."
"I think he's just really trying to find it. I've watched him warm up in between innings, I've watched his bullpen sessions, he told me that he felt like he was getting himself back to where he was. I think he just gets underneath a lot of his pitches and he really is pushing the ball, and he just doesn't have the movement out of his fastball that he's had, so he's given up on that, is what it looks like to me. He's given up on it and become more of a slider-breaking ball guy, and … the Mariners just spit on those pitches and didn't chase them and forced him to come into the middle of the plate with a fastball that's supposed to be a sinker for him that was flat."
"I see him looking in the dugout a lot. I think he's searching, to be honest with you. I think he's trying to find a comfortable arm slot, I think he's trying to get the ball down. He's just not able to do it. But I watch what you see. I see him walking around, taking a lot of time in between pitches. Sometimes he's rushing so bad he's trying to be so quick, looking at the runners. He's just not in a real good groove at all."
Now, Bergesen discusses outing
"It's just been kind of the story of my season so far. Looking for that break and I haven't found it and right now, it just seems that when it goes, it goes for me, but every start I'm mentally and physically preparing as much as I possibly can and I'm going to continue to do so. I'm going to turn it around here pretty soon."
"As bad as it was, the positive was in the bullpen today before the game, I actually felt something in my mechanics that I haven't felt the whole year, which led to a little better sinker, so as bad as it was, I'm going to try to look at it as a positive and try to build on it."
"I'm trying everything right now. I think the two previous starts, I started getting a little too slow, so I came in with a lot of confidence, wanted to work fast, wanted to be upbeat today, trying to get our team going, and I just wasn't able to do that."
"I have not gotten into the sequencing that I need to do to be successful in this league. I keep saying it, but hopefully it'll click and I'll get it for the next outing. It's tough for everyone and extremely tough for me. I care so much about this team. To not chew up innings and put that workload on the bullpen, it just absolutely kills me right now."