The Bowie Baysox will play their final regular season home game tonight, hosting Altoona at 7:05 p.m.
The Baysox are 73-64 and trail Harrisburg by a half game for second place in the Eastern League's Western Division. The top two teams make the playoffs, so the Baysox are looking to catch and pass Harrisburg. Bowie has five games remaining and Harrisburg has six.
After tonight, Bowie ends the regular season with a four-game series at Richmond.
Last night, Joel Guzman and Brandon Waring...
Some final notes and quotes after Boston's comeback, 9-6 win over the Orioles.
There are clubhouse comments from Jake Arrieta, Ty Wigginton and Nolan Reimold.
Arrieta on facing Boston: "Those guys are similar to the Yankees where they see a lot of pitches, lot of veteran players that really work the counts. Felt like I was in a lot of deep counts. I felt like I did a good job at going 0-2 and getting ahead of some guys, but they fought their way back in some counts.
"A basehit here...
On a night when the Orioles scored more runs vs. Jon Lester than they had in any of his previous 15 starts against them, they still could not beat him.
After the Orioles had given up just three runs total during a four-game win streak, Boston stormed back with six in the 7th for a comeback, 9-6 win over the Orioles.
Buck Showalter meets with the media after the O's 9-6 loss to the Red Sox
Lester entered with a 12-0 record and career 2.00 ERA vs. Baltimore, but the O's scored four in the...
Well, the Orioles won't beat Jon Lester tonight.
I don't think they ever will.
After torching him for five early runs, they could not score any more off him and now, in the top of the seventh, the O's bullpen had a meltdown and now Boston has a 9-5 lead.
Mark Hendrickson, who had not pitched since August 22nd, worked a scoreless sixth in relief of Jake Arrieta, but he gave up a two-run homer in the 7th to tie the game.
After a walk, he was replaced by Alfredo Simon, who is still...
The Orioles scored five runs tonight on six hits in the first two innings vs. Jon Lester. He threw 57 pitches.
Usually, that's about six innings worth for him vs. the Orioles.
Until tonight, the Orioles had never scored this many runs in one game off Lester. His previous worst outing vs. Baltimore was on August 13, 2006 when they got four runs in five innings vs. Lester. That is the only previous time in 15 career starts vs. the O's that they had scored more than three runs off...
There have been a few transactions today on the O's farm.
With the three callups from Norfolk now in Baltimore, the Tides today added Miguel Abreu, Buck Britton and Phillip Britton from Frederick.
The Keys have added 18-year-old shortstop Jonathan Schoop from Bluefield, where he hit .316-2-16 in 39 games after batting .250-3-16 in 17 Gulf Coast League games. In his last four games with Bluefield, Schoop went 9 for 15 with two homers and 7 RBI. Schoop, from Curacao, played in the O's...
For a guy that was designated for assignment by the Orioles April 3rd, Robert Andino has had quite a season - still with the O's organization.
Back in April, he cleared waivers and was out-righted to Triple-A.
With Norfolk, the 26-year-old Andino hit .264-13-76 with 72 runs and 16 steals and he was batting .305 since the All-Star break.
Now, he's gone from DFA'd and off the roster to back on the roster and the team, joining the club today as part of the September callups.
"In this game...
He was considered a Rookie of the Year candidate late into last season.
Nolan Reimold must have figured this year would go a lot differently for him than it has.
But today, for the first time since May 11, he is back with the Orioles.
"I didn't play well so I got sent down and then I kept not playing well, so I had to stay down there until I got it right. I've been swinging it well lately. I'm glad to get the callup and I'm excited to be back up here.
"Of course, I thought there was...
Brandon Snyder has been pointing to this day for a long time. He's always wanted to play pro ball and dreamed of the day he'd be in the Major Leagues.
Today he walked into the O's clubhouse and was on the O's roster for the first time after getting a September callup.
"It's so surreal. Ever since I was five years old coming up with my grandfather watching games driving down 95. Coming in the clubhouse, I come here every off season to work out. It doesn't seem like I'm actually...
It's almost impossible to properly thank someone for a 53-year relationship.
The O's did post a nice thank you in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph newspaper, as their tenure as the Bluefield Orioles parent club came to an end after last night's season-ending doubleheader.
This picture by the way is of the last championship team there, the 2001 Bluefield Orioles.
It's September first.
Really? Do we have to start a new month?
Can you blame an O's fan for not wanting August to end? The Orioles are in first place in the AL East. No, not yet; not even Buck is that good. But they had the best record in the division in August.
AL East standings for August:
Balt......17-11
TB.......17-12
NYY.....16-13
Bost.....15-13
Tor.......15-13
These things also happened in August:
*Buck Showalter took over as manager.
*The O's went 17-10 under Buck and went 8-1...
Brian Matusz didn't face Boston last year. He's seen them four times this year and the Red Sox are still trying to figure him out.
Tonight he gave up two runs and six hits over six innings plus one batter as the Orioles beat Boston 5-2 to start a three-game series.
The O's improved to 8-1 in series-opening games under Buck Showalter.
Brian Matusz talks about his outing following the O's 5-2 win over the Red Sox
Matusz is now 2-0, 2.55 on the year vs. Boston. Sox batters are hitting...
The Orioles did not post another shutout, but they did post a pleasing victory over an AL East rival that was desperate for a win.
Luke Scott hit his 26th homer, that's a new career high and Brian Matusz pitched well again vs. Boston as the Orioles beat the Red Sox 5-2 at Camden Yards Tuesday night in the opening game of a six-game homestand.
Matusz improved to 7-12, 4.72 as he gave up two runs and six hits over six innings plus a batter. When he gave up a two-run homer in the fifth to Jed...
The Orioles scoreless streak, dating back to Brad Bergesen's first-inning balk at Anaheim Friday night, ended at 30 innings tonight when Jed Lowrie hit a two-run homer off Brian Matusz in the fifth inning.
After 30 straight, Lowrie rocked one out to left as Matusz found too much of the middle of the plate on a 3-1 pitch. That cut the O's lead to 3-2 and was Lowrie's fourth homer.
Matusz has fanned David Ortiz twice tonight and Big Papi is now 0 for 8 with 7 strikeouts vs. the...
After winning just two of 18 games vs. Boston last year, the Orioles are 6-6 vs. the Sox this year with six games remaining in the season series. They last took a season series from Boston in 2004, going 10-9.
That is the only time since 1997 that the O's won the season series vs. the Red Sox.
Boston is 34-12 in its last 46 games vs. the Orioles and is 40-21 at Camden Yards since 2004.
The Orioles are 4-2 at home vs.Boston in 2010, which included a three-game sweep here at the Yard from...
This time he didn't have to rush to the game and show up in full O's uniform, as he did when he went to Bowie.
But O's manager Buck Showalter was at Aberdeen Monday night for Manny Machado's IronBirds debut and his first look at Ripken Stadium.
"He came in prior to the game and he spoke with the staff. I was really impressed he stayed for nine innings. It was even tough for our fans tonight to do that," Aberdeen manager Gary Kendall said after his club lost 11-5 to Vermont.
"He's...
The news became official on Saturday.
After 53 years as the Bluefield Orioles' parent club - the current longest running relationship between a minor league team and a Major League organization - the Orioles are moving on.
The O's will leave Bluefield, which first hosted an O's farm team in 1958. The Orioles, who have had three short-season teams, are cutting back to a more workable two clubs.
It was a hard day for Tripp Norton, the Orioles assistant director of player...
It was a night where Aberdeen pitchers gave up 17 hits and it made a long game seem even longer in an 11-5 Ripken Stadium loss to Vermont. But still, the IronBirds' debut of Manny Machado, the Orioles' first-round pick, was a success.
He went 1 for 3 at bat, with a third-inning single, and had an excellent play in the field, ranging up the middle to his left to record an out in the top of the fifth. He played five innings as he is still knocking off the rust from a summer where he didn't...
Now that the internet connection is back here in the Ripken Stadium press box, I can tell you that Manny Machado's first game in Aberdeen was a success for him, even though the IronBirds are getting trounced.
Vermont leads 11-2 in the 7th.
Machado went 1 for 3 with a single to center in the third. He crushed a ball in the fifth that was caught by the left fielder.
In the field at short, he had just one ball hit to him but he made a highlight play out of it. It ended the Vermont fifth as...
After spending most of this summer not playing on a team, O's first-round draft pick Manny Machado admits he is still knocking some rust off.
He's played two games as a DH in the Gulf Coast League and tonight he debuts for the Aberdeen IronBirds here at Ripken Stadium, where he will bat third and play shortstop vs. Vermont.
"I've definitely been rusty, but you've got to adjust. I'm getting back into shape.
"(This is) Very different. Gulf Coast League was hot. This is nice here, I...
