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O's game blog: Looking to snap a four-game losing streak

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O's game blog: Looking to snap a four-game losing streak
With a record of 0-2 in this series and 0-4 on this road trip, the Orioles play the Toronto Blue Jays again today in Buffalo. The Blue Jays shut out Baltimore 5-0 yesterday as O's hitters went 5-for-32 with just one extra-base hit, a double. During a four-game losing streak the Orioles have scored just nine runs. An offense that averaged 5.35 runs per game while going 12-8 its first 20 games has slowed. The Birds are scoring 3.42 runs per game the last 12 games while going 2-10. Perhaps today...
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César Valdez on return to MLB: "One of the best days of my life"

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César Valdez on return to MLB: "One of the best days of my life"
During an otherwise kind of drab 5-0 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays Saturday night, the Orioles unveiled a 35-year-old right-hander pitching in the big leagues for the first time in over three years. A veteran throwing a huge assortment of off-speed pitches that fooled not only Blue Jays hitters but the Statcast system that tracks pitches and pitch speed. When César Valdez came on with two on and none out to replace Alex Cobb in the fifth, he got three straight outs to strand the runners. He...
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Bullpen coach shows confidence in Sulser, talks on other pitchers

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Bullpen coach shows confidence in Sulser, talks on other pitchers
During pregame interviews on Saturday, it's pretty clear the Orioles still believe in right-handed reliever Cole Sulser. He has a 3.68 ERA and a 1.091 WHIP in 11 games. He has saved five games, but also has had some big issues late in games, like giving up a two-run walk-off homer to Toronto's Randal Grichuk on Friday night. Darren Holmes, the O's first-year bullpen coach, added a vote of support for Sulser yesterday. "His preparation for each day, he's at the top of the shelf," Holmes...
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O's game blog: Looking to get a win on this road trip

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O's game blog: Looking to get a win on this road trip
The Orioles have played three close games on this road trip, but lost them all. They began the trip with the best road record in the majors at 8-1. But they lost 4-2 and 4-3 to Tampa Bay and 5-4 last night in 10 innings to Toronto. Tonight they play the Blue Jays again in Buffalo in the second of the four-game series. The Orioles (14-17) have lost three games in a row and nine of 11 since they were 12-8. Of those nine losses, four have come by one run and one by two runs. They've lost the...
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A few notes after a walk-off loss to Blue Jays

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A few notes after a walk-off loss to Blue Jays
Grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory, the Orioles were an out away from a solid win last night. But they couldn't get it. An out that would have given them a close win during a string of close losses, would have given them their first win over Toronto and would have pulled them within a 1/2 game of the Blue Jays for the No. 8 American League playoff seed. By the way, I digress, but the New York Yankees have now lost seven in a row. They are just a half-game better than Toronto and three...
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John Means makes progress, but tough ending for O's

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John Means makes progress, but tough ending for O's
On a night that the Orioles lost another close game, lefty starter John Means took at least a small step forward. But Toronto beat the Orioles 5-4 in 10 innings as they fall to 0-4 against the Blue Jays and 14-17 for the season. O's killer Randal Grichuk blasted a two-run homer to center with two outs in the 10th off right-hander Cole Sulser. Sulser's cutter found too much of the plate and Grichuk did it again against the Orioles. Grichuk has 13 RBIs in five games versus the O's. So close to...
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O's game blog: The series opener against Toronto

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O's game blog: The series opener against Toronto
After losing two games against Tampa Bay and after last night's postponement, the Orioles tonight begin a four-game series in Buffalo against the Toronto Blue Jays (15-14). The Jays, who swept three from the Orioles earlier this season, hold third place in the American League East and are the current No. 8 seed for the AL playoffs. Toronto is 1 1/2 games ahead of the Orioles (14-16) as the series begins. The O's lost 4-2 and 4-3 in St. Petersburg, Fla., versus Tampa Bay. The Orioles began the...
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Orioles discuss Jackie Robinson Day

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Orioles discuss Jackie Robinson Day
Jackie Robinson Day is being formally commemorated today and tonight around Major League Baseball. There will be a focus on Robinson's activism and impact on civil rights in society during and following his playing career. Today's date of Aug. 28 is the anniversary of the March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, which Jackie and Rachel Robinson and their children attended. It is also the date in 1945 when Robinson and Branch Rickey met to discuss his future as a member of the...
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On day with no game, the Orioles stood tall

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On day with no game, the Orioles stood tall
After their first team meeting on Thursday afternoon, the Orioles decided to play last night against the Tampa Bay Rays. But upon heading out to batting practice and during BP, more conversations took place in smaller groups. The players then asked manager Brandon Hyde to hold a players-only meeting and they did. More thoughts and emotions were expressed. It appears some players that perhaps hadn't expressed much earlier were ready to do so then. Later we would learn the Orioles decided not to...
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O's game blog: Series finale against Tampa (updated)

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O's game blog: Series finale against Tampa (updated)
In a sense, we could call this the season of series sweeps for the Orioles. They have played nine series to completion and three times they swept their opponent and three times they got swept. Tonight they will try to avoid being part of a seventh sweep in 10 series on the year. They've lost two close games at Tropicana Field this week to Tampa Bay by 4-2 and 4-3 scores. The O's are 3-2 against the Rays this year and, yes, their earlier series in Baltimore resulted in an O's three-game...
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O's had some ups and downs in the first half of the season

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O's had some ups and downs in the first half of the season
The Orioles reached the midpoint of this truncated 60-game season by going 14-16. So close to pulling out another win last night, one that would have left them at .500 at the 30-game point. They were certainly streaky in this span of games. They have had a six-game winning streak and a six-game losing streak. They swept three series, something they did not do once in 162 games last year, and they've been swept in three series. So six sweeps in the first nine series. And the Rays have won the...
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O's game blog: Looking to get the offense going at the Trop

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O's game blog: Looking to get the offense going at the Trop
After a 4-2 loss in the series opener at Tropicana Field last night, the Orioles will play in St. Petersburg against Tampa Bay again this evening. It's the second of a three-game series and seven-game road trip. The Orioles are 8-2 on the road and began Tuesday night with the best road record in the majors. They also had won eight in a row on the road since losing opening night at Boston. So they went longer than 30 days between road losses. Even after that game, they still own MLB's best...
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A look at the player leadership group on O's farm

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A look at the player leadership group on O's farm
With the feeling that players helping other players can produce positive results in addition to camaraderie and chemistry, the Orioles now have a player leadership group on the farm. Some of the players doing the leading in this group include Adley Rutschman, Gunnar Henderson, Brett Cumberland, Isaac Mattson and Brian Gonzalez. The O's highest draft pick in 2014, taken No. 90 overall in round three, Gonzalez has seen his chance to make the majors get closer recently. The club added the...
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Two errors, too many strikeouts as O's fall in road trip opener

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Two errors, too many strikeouts as O's fall in road trip opener
If the Orioles were going to beat the Tampa Bay Rays tonight and improve to 9-1 on the road, they were probably going to have to figure out how to put the ball in play against one of the best strikeout pitchers in the game. Tall right-hander Tyler Glasnow had an ERA of 6.00 entering this game, but also had fanned 35 batters in 21 innings with a fastball that can touch 98 mph and a curveball that plays rather well off that pitch. Through six innings tonight, he fanned 10 Orioles and got nine on...
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O's game blog: The road trip begins

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O's game blog: The road trip begins
The last time they played the Tampa Bay Rays (19-11), the Orioles (14-14) completed a three-game sweep at Camden Yards. They beat Tampa Bay 6-3, 5-4 in 11 innings and 5-1. Against a team playing .633 ball halfway through a 60-game season, O's pitchers recorded a three-game ERA of 1.86, held the Rays to a .190 batting average and produced 31 strikeouts while walking nine Rays batters. But Tampa Bay has surged to challenge the New York Yankees at the top of the American League East. Since...
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A look at Brian Gonzalez's ascension to the O's player pool

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A look at Brian Gonzalez's ascension to the O's player pool
His addition to the Orioles' 60-man player pool on Aug. 7 may have surprised some people. But after a season at Double-A Bowie where he made gains pitching as a reliever for the first time, left-hander Brian Gonzalez got the call to join the Bowie alternate camp. After the Aug. 1 trade of Richard Bleier left just two bullpen lefties on the big league roster at that time, Gonzalez was added to a Bowie roster of players that was not overflowing with southpaws. Gonzalez has been in the...
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O's starters' innings are down, but they are not alone

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O's starters' innings are down, but they are not alone
No doubt the Orioles could use more innings from their starting pitchers. They have gotten just three outings this year in 28 games when the starter pitched six innings or more. They have no outings of seven innings. Right-hander Alex Cobb went 6 2/3 innings against Toronto on Aug. 17 and that is a season high for the club. But throughout baseball, after a quick three-week ramp-up to start the year, many pitchers were not fully built up to pitch deep into games as of opening day. Add to that...
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A few random thoughts on the .500 Orioles

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A few random thoughts on the .500 Orioles
The Orioles are a .500 team (14-14) 28 games into the 2020 season. That is an impressive record for a club that combined to lose 223 games the last two years. We'll see what the final 32 games will hold, but the club did enough the last two days to snap the losing streak, beat Boston twice and get back to the .500 mark. A few random thoughts on the team: Mullins is making an impression: He began last season as the club's starting center fielder and then was sent down to Triple-A and later...
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Series split: Rio Ruiz gets clutch hits as O's beat Boston

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Series split: Rio Ruiz gets clutch hits as O's beat Boston
In the first two innings today, the Orioles had numerous chances to score against Boston right-hander Zack Godley. But they went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position and stranded five runners. They got leadoff doubles each inning, but the clutch hit didn't come. The question that s the game went on: Would the early failures come back to bite them later? Not today. Third baseman Rio Ruiz, who had been struggling recently and began today batting .050 with runners in scoring, came up with two...
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O's game blog: Looking for a series split with Red Sox

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O's game blog: Looking for a series split with Red Sox
The Orioles came from behind twice last night to win and snap a six-game losing streak. Today they play the final game of a 10-game homestand and four-game series when they host the Boston Red Sox. The O's trailed last night 3-1 before Anthony Santander's game-tying two-run homer in the eighth. He blasted No. 10 a distance of 426 feet down the left field line to tie it up at 3-3. It extended his hitting streak to 17 games. During this run, Santander is batting .338 (24-for-71) with seven...
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