Orioles manager Buck Showalter is sticking with Joey Rickard in right field for tonight's series opener against the Angels in Anaheim.
Seth Smith is in left field. Welington Castillo is catching.
Opponents are 3-for-32 against Dylan Bundy with runners in scoring position and two outs.
For the Orioles Adam Jones CF Manny Machado 3B Jonathan Schoop 2B Chris Davis 1B Trey Mancini DH Tim Beckham SS Seth Smith LF Welington Castillo C Joey Rickard RF
Dylan Bundy RHP
For the Angels Cameron Maybin LF...
Tim Beckham's first six games with the Orioles earned him an award. The curtain call wasn't sufficient.
Beckham has been named the American League's Player of the Week after collecting 14 hits in his first 24 at-bats following last Monday's trade that brought him over from the Rays.
Beckham posted a .583/.600/1.167 slash line with three doubles, a triple, three home runs, six RBIs and six runs scored to earn his first Player of the Week honor.
Among the league leaders, Beckham finished the...
The Orioles wrapped up their homestand yesterday with their second straight win over the Tigers to improve their Camden Yards record to 35-23. Only the Red Sox at 36 have more wins at home among American League teams.
Now, about that road record ...
The Orioles are 20-33 as they head to the West Coast for games in Anaheim, Oakland and Seattle. Their win total is the second-lowest in the league behind the Athletics.
They've lost 10 of their last 14 series away from Baltimore. And the West Coast...
Not satisfied with reaching 10,000 home runs in club history, the Orioles seemed determined today to double the total.
The Orioles hit five homers in the first four innings off Tigers starter Anibal Sanchez, who fought the urge to signal for his own reliever. Ubaldo Jiménez came within an out of his third consecutive quality start, the tight rope never snapping beneath his feet, and the Orioles salvaged a split of the four-game series with a 12-3 victory over the Tigers before an announced...
As Chris Tillman prepares for life as a reliever, however long it lasts, manager Buck Showalter expresses no concerns over how his former ace will handle it.
"Chris is the ultimate what's best for the team guy," Showalter said. "Believe me, I know. He wears it. It bothers him.
"He has strong will. Whatever it takes to go out there and have that outing (Thursday) and then go upstairs and get your ice or whatever treatment and come back and sit in the dugout for five innings. Try doing that...
Going to the bullpen wasn't Chris Tillman's first choice, of course. He's been a career starter in the majors and for the vast majority of his minor league tenure, a relief role filled only six times. But he knew an 8.10 ERA wouldn't work on a team that's still trying to make the playoffs.
"I need to get back to being me and it wasn't happening starting," he said this morning while standing at his locker. "I think this is going to be a good thing. I need to get back and I think it's...
Seth Smith is playing left field for the Orioles today in their series finale against the Tigers and his past success against Anibal Sanchez must factor into it.
Smith is 10-for-26 (.385) with a double and four home runs lifetime against Sanchez. He was assured of starting.
Caleb Joseph is catching, so his right hand is fine.
Jonathan Schoop is 4-for-11 with a double and home run, and Adam Jones is 4-for-12 with a double.
Sanchez is making his ninth start and 20th appearance of the season....
Tim Beckham's streak of getting a hit in consecutive at-bats ended last night at seven after he struck out in the second inning against Tigers starter Drew VerHagen.
The fun came later.
Ken Singleton holds the Orioles record with 10 in 1981. He went 4-for-4 on April 26 and 27 and singled and homered in his first two trips to the plate the following night. The White Sox's Richard Dotson induced a double play grounder in the fifth inning to prevent Singleton from making it to 11.
Paid...
It had to be the new guy.
Tim Beckham, playing in his fifth game tonight since the Orioles acquired him from the Rays, hit the 10,000th regular season home run in club history. The ball exploded off his bat in the bottom of the eighth inning, the kind of sound that makes heads snap in its direction, and another chapter was penned in an improbable story.
Beckham provided an insurance run and some added thrills in a 5-2 win over the Tigers at Camden Yards. Fans received Jonathan Schoop's...
Wade Miley reached his magic number of innings again tonight, leaving the game after the fifth. He's done it 10 times in 23 starts. It's a wall of sorts that can have good or bad on the other side.
Sometimes, there's the improbable.
The pitch count got out of control again, climbing to 30 after the first inning and 113 after the fifth. But Miley retired the last seven batters he faced and settled for the no-decision.
The Orioles gladly took the win, their power and bullpen leading the...
Exactly one month has passed since the Orioles made a roster move to bring up a reliever from the minors. They recalled left-hander Jayson Aquino from Triple-A Norfolk on July 5 and optioned him after the game.
Stefan Crichton and Mike Wright were reinstated from the 10-day disabled list and optioned. Jeremy Hellickson was acquired from the Phillies. Yefry Ramirez was acquired from the Yankees and assigned to Double-A Bowie. That's it for pitching transactions.
The shuttle has stalled.
The...
Following another start that fell significantly short of his typical output in previous years, Chris Tillman is being moved to the Orioles bullpen for an undetermined period of time.
Manager Buck Showalter said Tillman will be available for Sunday's series finale against the Tigers and won't start next week while the Orioles are on the West Coast.
Tillman is 1-7 with an 8.10 ERA and 2.040 WHIP in 15 starts over 66 2/3 innings. He was charged with five earned runs and seven total Thursday...
Orioles rookie Trey Mancini is in tonight's lineup after missing last night's game with a bruised left knee.
X-rays were negative and Mancini is in left field.
Seth Smith is the designated hitter and Joey Rickard is in right field.
Welington Castillo is catching, which would have happened no matter how Caleb Joseph's hand was feeling. Joseph was hit last night and X-rays were negative.
Tim Beckham is 11-for-16 with the Orioles, the first player in franchise history to collect 11 hits in his...
The Orioles moved more international signing bonus slots in an attempt to improve their depth at the minor league level.
Infielder Brallan Pérez, 21, has been acquired from the Rangers for the bonus slots and assigned to Single-A Frederick. The team made the announcement early this afternoon.
Pérez, a native of Colombia, is a career .292/.388/.354 hitter in 274 games over five minor league seasons. He's played at three levels this season, mostly at Single-A Down East, where he hit...
Figuring out how the Orioles are going to reconstruct their roster has become a game within the game.
Manager Buck Showalter wants to go back to a four-man bench, especially with Trey Mancini day-to-day with a bruised left knee. He has six starters and seven relievers, and placing Chris Tillman in the bullpen - if that's the move - only shuffles the deck. Same number of cards.
Ryan Flaherty will play again tonight for Double-A Bowie, the games located near his home in Portland, Maine. He's...
The Orioles' rotation got its second wind tonight after a brief hiccup. The gut punch that followed left an entire team doubled over.
Manny Machado hit his first home run since the break and it broke a tie in the third inning, and Kevin Gausman extended his streak of quality starts to four, but Justin Upton hit a grand slam off Mychal Givens in the eighth to give the Tigers a 5-2 win before an announced crowd of 22,882 at Camden Yards.
The Orioles were five outs away from winning their sixth...
Part of manager Buck Showalter's day was spent chatting with Chris Tillman, who didn't record an out in the third inning last night and was charged with five earned runs (seven total) to raise his ERA to 8.10.
Showalter said he was trying to get "some feedback" from Tillman - what he's feeling and thinking.
"Got a better idea," Showalter said. "Always try to talk to guys when they've had a couple of starts or whatever that haven't been what they're capable of.
"Nobody understands it...
Orioles rookie Trey Mancini is out of the lineup tonight after fouling a ball off his left knee during last night's 7-5 loss to the Tigers.
Mancini has a bruise below his kneecap and said he was limping this morning.
"I finished up the game and it was not too bad, but then today it was pretty tough limping around a little bit, but it's not anything crazy at all," he said. "Definitely think I'll be able to get back in the lineup tomorrow.
"I've just been doing treatment on it. It's just...
Trey Mancini begins tonight's game on the bench as the Orioles continue their series against the Tigers at Camden Yards.
Mancini may be getting some rest or he's hurting after fouling a ball off his left knee last night.
Craig Gentry is in left field and Joey Rickard is in right against Tigers right-hander Justin Verlander. Seth Smith is the designated hitter.
Shortstop Tim Beckham moves up from sixth to fifth in the order.
Caleb Joseph is catching Kevin Gausman.
Left-hander DL Hall, the...
Mychal Givens is providing the ultimate example of a pitcher who's picking up right where he left off. From last year's wild card game in Toronto to a dominant 2017 regular season. And without the hassles at customs.
Givens retired all seven Blue Jays that he faced at Rogers Centre, striking out three of them, before the Orioles lost 5-2 in 11 innings.
(In case you are unaware, Zach Britton didn't pitch and Edwin Encarnacion hit a three-run homer off Ubaldo Jiménez in the 11th. Michael...