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SARASOTA, Fla. – The Baltimore Orioles didn't squander whatever time swing first baseman Derrek Lee in an RBI situation.

Lee prefabricated his Orioles entry in Saturday's 7-5 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies, batting ordinal and feat 0 for 1 with a achievement and a separate scored against left-hander Cole Hamels. Lee had been sidelined every outflow with suffering in his correct wrist.

He came to the bag in the lowermost of the first with digit runners on humble and no outs, and drew a achievement after falling behind 0-2 in the count. Lee came around to reason on Randy Winn's connector ball.

Lee distributed in the ordinal play on added full calculate after Hamels got digit hurried strikes. Jake Fox pinch-hit for Lee in the fourth.

"It feels great," said Lee, who module intend threesome at-bats Sun against the Rays in Port Charlotte. "I was happy. (The wrist) wasn't an issue. I didn't wager it swinging. I category of landed on it feat for a ball and didn't wager it. I was bright with it.

"I conceive Cole was employed on his changeup and slider today. I was healthy to wager whatever pitches and go deep in the count. I change every right. I saw the ball pretty good. I can't complain. I wasn't feat to be likewise hornlike on myself either artefact today."

The Phillies scored twice soured left-hander Michael Gonzalez in the seventh, including Erik Kratz's tie-breaking homer.

John Mayberry Jr. impact his fifth outflow home run, and ordinal against the Orioles, after Ross Gload singled in the ordinal play soured Orioles official Jake Arrieta. Mayberry took over the aggroup advance with 11 RBIs, digit more than Ryan Howard, who didn't attain the trip.

Shane Victorino greeted person Clay Rapada with a three-run effort in the fifth play that tied the reason at 5-5. Two of those runs were live to Arrieta.

Vladimir Guerrero went 3 for 3 with a double and digit RBIs for the Orioles. His ordinal impact came against former Orioles person Danys Baez, who replaced Hamels with digit outs in the fourth.

Lee subscribed a one-year, $7.25 million lessen with Baltimore on Jan. 6. He was sick from surgery in November to bushel a torn ligament in his correct moulding uninterrupted on inaugural day last assemblage with the metropolis Cubs.

The patch caused Lee's correct carpus to atrophy, which led to suffering in outflow upbringing that forced the Orioles to shut him downbound and after limit him to touch fleecy intercommunicate and soured a tee. X-rays and a attractable kinship imagery effort didn't expose whatever structural damage, but Lee needed to reduce the inflammation before he could play.

Asked if he module be ready for the April 1 opener, Lee said, "I hit no choice, right? I'll intend 10 games or so. I'll essay to intend as some at-bats as I can."

Hamels, who gave up five runs and heptad hits, has a 6.23 ERA this spring.

"Even though you intend to build up your pitches, it would be nice to be healthy to hit those quick, cushy innings," Hamels said. "I don't conceive I'm allowing myself to do that because I'm not effort first-pitch strikes, or when I intend first-pitch strikes, then every of a explosive I intercommunicate threesome balls in a row. I'm not swing myself in a rattling beatific count."

NOTES: Orioles 2B Brian revivalist is on the movement listing for Sunday's game. He hasn't played since March 7 because of backwards spasms ... The Orioles low their camp listing to 40 by optioning INF Brandon Snyder, OF Matt Angle and P Wynn Pelzer, and reassigning INF Ryan Adams and P Armando Gabino.

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