Orioles have got that swing

Those looking for in-depth discussions of the science of hitting should look somewhere other than the Orioles' clubhouse.

"We tee high and let it fly," centerfielder Adam Jones said Saturday before Baltimore's workout at Comerica Park, where they will try to close out this ALDS Sunday. "Sometimes it's good, sometimes we look crazy for six, seven innings, but it's helped us get to this point."

Indeed, the Orioles do not subscribe to anything resembling a see-a-lot-of-pitches approach.

"Our philosophy is if he's going to give you a strike, swing at it," Jones said. "There's no one here that's going to say anything about a guy that swings at the first pitch or a guy that grinds out a 10-pitch at-bat. If you like it, put the bat on the ball."

Some teams obsess about walks and on-base percentage, but the Orioles are not one of them. They ranked 13th out of 15 teams in walks and were 11th in OBP (.311) this season. But the O's led all of baseball in homers with 211 and were second in the AL in slugging (.422).

Jones used pinch hitter Delmon Young's three-run double in the eighth inning of Game 2 as an example. Facing righthander Joakim Soria with the Orioles trailing 6-4, Young swung at the first pitch and lined a slider into the leftfield corner.

"First pitch he saw, he liked it," Jones said. "He could have sat there and taken it but he liked it. That's our approach: If you like it, fire them hips and swing the bat."

Davis questionable

Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said he wasn't sure about the availability of Rajai Davis for Game 3. The centerfielder has an abdominal strain that forced him to leave Game 2 early.

"Today he didn't do anything, didn't take part in any of the workout," Ausmus said. "But the weather is certainly a concern because in Game 1 as it got cooler, he said it tightened up, so that's definitely a concern."

It was 46 degrees for Saturday's workout and is supposed to be 53 for Sunday's first pitch.

Road warriors

The Orioles went 46-35 on the road, tied for the second-best mark in the American League. "We just have a resiliency," first baseman Steve Pearce said. "It's almost that we play better in situations that don't favor us."