After splitting the first two games of a four-game series, the Orioles host the Cleveland Indians tonight in Game 3 at Oriole Park. Right-hander Kevin Gausman (3-6, 6.60 ERA) faces right-hander Carlos Carrasco (7-3, 3.21 ERA).
The start of tonight's game is being delayed by rain.
Gausman keeps working to turn around his season but just has not been able to do it. In three June starts, he is 0-2 with a 9.19 ERA and .391 batting average against. In his last start on Friday versus St. Louis, he...
The Orioles have reached agreements with two of their top four picks from the First-Year Player Draft. The club has come to terms with lefty pitcher Zac Lowther of Xavier, whom the club selected No. 74 overall with a Competitive Balance Round B pick. The Orioles also came to terms with right-handed pitcher Michael Baumann, taken in round three (No. 98 overall) from Jacksonville University.
In addition to that, the Orioles are said to be making strong progress toward an agreement with their top...
ABERDEEN, Md. - To say the least, Orioles minor league hitting coordinator Jeff Manto is a big Ryan Mountcastle fan. He has seen the kid show off an impressive bat pretty much since the day the organization drafted him No. 36 overall in 2015.
The 20-year-old Mountcastle has seen big power emerge this season and he has had a Player of the Year type of season so far on the O's farm. While scouts indicate his defense at shortstop has been a challenge, his bat has been a huge challenge for...
ABERDEEN, Md. - Pitching in a game for the first time since he faced Boston on May 4, Orioles closer Zach Britton pitched a scoreless first inning tonight for short-season Single-A Aberdeen.
Facing the Hudson Valley Renegades in Aberdeen's season opener, Britton fanned second baseman Vidal Brujan on a 2-2 pitch that the young hitter chased off the outside corner. Britton then walked center fielder Emilio Gustave on a 3-2 pitch. But the lefty then got a first-pitch grounder from catcher Zack...
If you remember all the close games the Orioles played in April, well, we have not seen many lately. In fact, over the four games of the current homestand, the Orioles lost to St. Louis 11-2 and then beat them 15-7 and 8-5. They began a series with Cleveland last night losing 12-0.
Right-hander Corey Kluber was dominant against the Orioles holding them to three hits and no runner even advanced to second base. He threw the shutout on 108 pitches and it was his second shutout of the year and...
ABERDEEN, Md. - While Orioles All-Star closer Zach Britton is expected to throw the first pitch and inning of their season tonight, after that the short-season Single-A Aberdeen IronBirds will try to win without major league help.
A veteran of many seasons as a manger in the Detroit Tigers organization, Kevin Bradshaw is back for his second season as manager at Aberdeen. After a rainout last night, the IronBirds open their New York-Penn League season tonight at Leidos Field at Ripken Stadium...
An MLB source said the Orioles are making very solid progress in negotiations with a large group of their 41 draft picks. In fact, some of the signings will soon be announced, perhaps as early as today.
The Orioles are said to be making progress with some of their highest-drafted players. They do have an agreement in place with their fifth-round pick, outfielder Lamar Sparks from Seven Lakes (Tx.) High School. He has agreed to a bonus for the slot amount of $304,800.
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After taking two of three from St. Louis, the Orioles begin a four-game series against Cleveland tonight at Oriole Park, where they are 23-11.
The Orioles (34-34) went 5-1 against the American League champion Indians (36-31) last season.
Cleveland has won five in a row by a combined score of 40-13 after completing a four-game sweep of Minnesota on Sunday. They are a season-high five games over .500 and have tied their longest win streak of 2017. The Indians are 21-14 on the road and 2-4 against...
ABERDEEN, Md. - The short-season Single-A Aberdeen IronBirds released their season-opening roster this afternoon - even though there will not be a season opener tonight.
Their scheduled game with Hudson Valley was rained out at Leidos Field at Ripken Stadium and the opener is now set for tomorrow night at 7:05 p.m. Orioles closer Zach Britton, who was scheduled to begin a minor league rehab assignment here tonight, is now scheduled to pitch here on Tuesday night. If the original plan holds then...
The weather got warmer and for at least for two days, so did the Orioles bats. Prior to Saturday's win, the Orioles had scored three runs or less in 10 of their 14 previous games.
But now in back-to-back games they have plated 23 runs on 26 hits with five doubles, two triples and nine home runs. They went 9-for-18 with runners in scoring position. The Orioles scored in five of their eight at-bats on Saturday and five of eight yesterday with runners in scoring position.
Veteran St. Louis...
The baseball was carrying today at Camden Yards. But the Orioles were able to outscore St. Louis 8-5 on a day when both teams hit four homers.
Several Orioles had impressive days on offense, but after his three-RBI day that included a two-run homer, veteran Mark Trumbo threw some nice praise the way of rookie Trey Mancini.
Mancini flicked his wrist at a 94 mph Lance Lynn fastball and drove it over the right-field wall in the second inning. He hammered his first career triple to center in the...
For the Orioles, the homers kept coming today - and that often means a nice runs total and a win. It did today, as the Orioles hit the longball four times in an 8-5 victory over St. Louis to take the series, two games to one.
On Saturday, the Orioles bashed four homers in the first four innings and five on the game. Today, they hit four more - all in the first five innings.
Seth Smith, Trey Mancini and Welington Castillo hit solo homers and Mark Trumbo added a two-run shot. The Orioles hit 10...
After an 11-2 loss Friday and 15-7 win on Saturday, the Orioles (33-34) host the St. Louis Cardinals (31-36) in the series finale this afternoon. The winner today takes the series. Then the Orioles welcome Cleveland to town for four games starting on Monday night.
Right-hander Ubaldo Jiménez (1-2, 6.71 ERA) returns to the Orioles rotation today. He has swapped spots with Alec Asher, who is now taking the bullpen role that Jiménez had taken since his last start May 22. That day, Jiménez...
In an attempt to get back to winning baseball after an extended run of losing, the Orioles beat the Chicage White Sox 10-6 Wednesday night. But they lost the next day and then they lost the series opener 11-2 Friday at home against St. Louis.
But they posted a 15-7 win on Saturday over the Cardinals. Will that be the win that sparks this team? After yesterday's game, I asked shortstop J.J. Hardy what the team needs to do to get on a roll moving forward.
"I think (we can) build off of this,"...
Whether they were taking out several weeks worth of frustrations or just hammering a pitcher having a bad day, either way, the struggling Orioles will gladly take it.
Having lost eight of their previous nine games, they battered right-hander Adam Wainwright today for nine runs and seven hits over 1 2/3 innings as the Orioles beat St. Louis 15-7 to even this three-game series.
A pitcher that has seen much better days, the O's got to Wainwright for two runs in the first and seven in the second...
The Orioles (32-34) host the St. Louis Cardinals (31-35) this afternoon in the second game of this series and of a seven-game homestand.
It began last night with St. Louis bashing a season-high five homers and scoring a season-high 11 runs to beat the Orioles 11-2. St. Louis outhit the Orioles 14-5 and scored seven runs from the sixth inning on to turn the game into a blowout.
The Orioles run of blowout losses continues and they have been outscored 82-31 in losing eight of their past nine...
Orioles manager Buck Showalter said right-hander Mike Wright got a cortisone injection yesterday. He was put on the 10-day DL on Friday with right shoulder bursitis, retroactive to Thursday. Wright is eligible to return on June 25, but it will probably be longer than that before he is back on the active roster.
In six games with the Orioles, Wright is 0-0 with a 5.56 ERA. Over 11 1/3 innings he allowed 11 hits and seven runs with one walk and 14 strikeouts.
Wright pitched two scoreless innings...
When the First-Year Player Draft began on Monday night, Orioles scouting director Gary Rajsich did not expect the first round to end with high school left-handed pitcher DL Hall being selected by the Orioles.
He expected Hall to be gone by the time the Orioles selected at No. 21. But Hall wasn't gone and the Orioles gladly pulled the trigger on a pitcher that they clearly had very highly ranked and were delighted to get.
Rajsich explained how it all went down.
"We targeted pitching and...
The Orioles have returned home and now we find out if some wins will return for them as well. They are 21-10 at home and 11-23 on the road.
During a 1-7 road trip, the Orioles were outscored 71-29. They averaged 3.6 runs per game but had a team ERA of 9.14 and a starters ERA of 12.53 on the trip.
According to STATS, LLC., the last time the Orioles had a road trip of at least eight games with one or less win was July 1-10, 2011, when Baltimore went 1-9 on a 10-game road trip to Atlanta (1-2),...
CHICAGO - Last season, Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman went 9-12 with a 3.61 ERA. Now his ERA is nearly three runs higher.
In the second-half of the 2016 season, Gausman went 8-6 with a 3.10 ERA. From Aug. 23 to Sept. 14, Gausman pitched four scoreless starts in five games, going 4-0 with a 0.82 ERA. He came up big for the team down the stretch.
It looked like he was finally moving toward becoming that homegrown top-of-the-rotation starter the Orioles have long tried to develop. But this...