Steve Melewski

Next task for O's: Try to get better in the rugged AL East

Next task for O's: Try to get better in the rugged AL East
The Orioles took two of three games from the Boston Red Sox in their final home series of 2021. They allowed just 10 runs in those three games. But it didn't go as well in the final road series at Rogers Centre. The Orioles gave up 11 homers in three games - and 28 runs in the series - in getting swept by Toronto. The Blue Jays hit nine homers the last two games in posting 10-1 and 12-4 wins. Any improvement the Orioles look to make in 2022 must start on the mound. They will need their current...
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Roch Kubatko

Orioles can begin easing into offseason

Orioles can begin easing into offseason
The offseason business can commence with the Orioles completing their final regular season game yesterday in Toronto and finishing at 52-110, and with a club-record 62 players used, - catcher Nick Ciuffo being the last - and 16 making their debuts. Major League Baseball prefers that teams remain relatively quiet this month while the playoffs are ongoing. No major announcements. But the 40-man roster can be adjusted, for example, while the Orioles sweat the small stuff. They also can evaluate...
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Mark Zuckerman

Crowd salutes Zimmerman, then Sox beat 'pen (updated)

Crowd salutes Zimmerman, then Sox beat 'pen (updated)
The outcome of the game was important - to the Red Sox. The Nationals wanted to respect that. And yet there were things the Nats felt they needed to do in this Game 162, whether putting a 23-year-old rookie on the mound for his major league debut, giving a retiring catcher a chance to take the field one last time or giving a potentially retiring franchise icon a chance to depart the field to the celebration he deserves. So it was that today's season finale played out on South Capitol Street in...
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Roch Kubatko

Orioles finish 2021 season with 12-4 loss to Blue Jays (updated)

Orioles finish 2021 season with 12-4 loss to Blue Jays (updated)
Pat Valaika grounded into a force against Adam Cimber this afternoon and the Orioles' 2021 season was a wrap. The fifth in a row below .500. A final record of 52-110, with two fewer wins than the last full season in 2019. With 56 road losses that are third-most in team history. And with a minus-297 run differential. The Blue Jays did their part to stay alive in the wild card race by winning 12-4 at Rogers Centre, a game that included George Springer's leadoff home run against Orioles rookie...
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Steve Melewski

That's a wrap: O's fall in 2021 season finale

That's a wrap: O's fall in 2021 season finale
It got lopsided early. And while the Orioles' season began with a bang when they swept Boston at Fenway Park in April, it didn't end that way. The Toronto Blue Jays, in a game they had to have, blew out the Orioles 12-4 today to complete a three-game sweep that ends the Orioles' 2021 season. They finished 52-110 and with the second-most losses in club history, behind only the 115-loss 2018 Orioles. Arizona was tied late in its game today. A Diamondbacks win and the Orioles and Arizona would...
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Mark Zuckerman

Rizzo: After low point this year, improvement expected in 2022

Rizzo: After low point this year, improvement expected in 2022
Mike Rizzo wasn't about to put a timetable on the Nationals' rebuilding project to become a contender again, but the longtime general manager seemed to make it clear today in an end-of-season session with reporters that he views this year as the low point in the process, with significant improvement expected in 2022. "Our goal is to win," Rizzo said during a 25-minute session in the home dugout prior to the Nationals' season finale. "It's to win the division. It's to win the World...
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Roch Kubatko

Hyde "excited about some of the young talent" on team

Hyde "excited about some of the young talent" on team
As the Orioles wait for Game 162 to begin in Toronto, manager Brandon Hyde reflected on the season today and marveled at how briskly it passed. "We're talking about it in the clubhouse, it seems like a lifetime ago we were in Boston and got rained out of opening day and the next day in Fenway we're still being tested, still having masks, no fans," he said. "It seems like we've come a long way since then and we got back to somewhat as normal a season as could possibly happen. "There's...
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Mark Zuckerman

Martinez says Hickey will return, less definitive on other coaches

Martinez says Hickey will return, less definitive on other coaches
The Nationals pitching staff enters today's season finale sporting a 4.79 ERA, seventh-worst in the majors. And that number has only gotten worse as the season has played out. Since the All-Star break, the Nats' ERA is a gaudy 5.60, third-worst in the majors. So as they prepare to evaluate what went wrong this year, and what changes could be necessary to try to prevent it from happening again, the Nationals would be expected to at least consider whether pitching coach Jim Hickey deserves any...
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Mark Zuckerman

Nats drop wild game, Red Sox move closer to wild card (updated)

Nats drop wild game, Red Sox move closer to wild card (updated)
The closest the Nationals are going to get to meaningful October baseball occurred around 7 p.m. tonight on South Capitol Street, as the sun set behind the first base stands, the temperature inched down toward the 60s, and a sellout crowd of 41,465 watched in nervous anticipation as the most feared hitter in the sport stepped to the plate with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth and the home team trailing by a run. "I love that feeling," Juan Soto said in his Zoom session with...
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Steve Melewski

Notes on Means and Hays, plus Hyde's push for Mountcastle

Notes on Means and Hays, plus Hyde's push for Mountcastle
He may have given up seven runs in three innings on Saturday afternoon - and that tied his career high for runs allowed - but Orioles lefty John Means closed out another strong year. In 2019, he emerged as the top starter on the team. In 2021, he confirmed for all of us that he remains that and was not a one-year fluke. Or that the earlier season was going to be an outlier in a longer career. He missed a few starts with injuries, but Means showed again that he is the ace of this staff. Until he...
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Roch Kubatko

Final game gives Zimmermann last chance to impress

Final game gives Zimmermann last chance to impress
The final game of the 2021 season is sneaking up on the Orioles today and tapping them on the shoulder, perhaps leery of a harsh reaction. Tip-toeing around this team probably is a wise strategy. Whispered apologies. Keeping its guard up, just in case. The Orioles went 54-108 in 2019, the most recent full season. They're 52-109 heading into today's finale in Toronto. They're also 20-55 against the American League East. The 55 losses are their second-most in a season in franchise history...
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Roch Kubatko

Jays power past Means and Orioles in 10-1 win (updated)

Jays power past Means and Orioles in 10-1 win (updated)
Nothing about today's start in Toronto was capable of lowering manager Brandon Hyde's opinion of John Means. The left-hander's status as the Orioles' ace of a young pitching staff. The expectation that he'll hold the ball on opening day 2022. Hyde just hoped to get a sharper outing, for the left-hander's frame of mind heading into the offseason and his club as it tried to rattle the Blue Jays' cage. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Teoscar Hernández homered off Means in a three-run first...
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Mark Zuckerman

Parra activated, García sits again, Adon could pitch Sunday

Parra activated, García sits again, Adon could pitch Sunday
Gerardo Parra is getting one last shot to finish the season on the field, but it appears Luis García's season may have already ended. Parra was activated off the 10-day injured list prior to this afternoon's game against the Red Sox, with left-hander Josh Rogers placed on the IL with a right hamstring strain. It's a fortuitous break for Parra, who last played Sept. 4 before being taken off the roster with inflammation in his right knee. The popular veteran outfielder, whose future beyond...
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Mark Zuckerman

Game 161 lineups: Nats vs. Red Sox

Game 161 lineups: Nats vs. Red Sox
The Nationals put up a fight Friday night against the Red Sox, but couldn't convert a few golden opportunities with runners in scoring position and wound up losing 4-2. In the process, the Red Sox moved a step closer to clinching a spot in Tuesday night's American League wild card game. Their magic number is at two entering the day, so they're in with a win and losses by the Blue Jays (who play at 3:07 p.m.) and Mariners (who don't play until 9:10 p.m.). It's up to the Nats to try to delay...
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Mark Zuckerman

Fans thank Schwarber for memorable half-season in D.C.

Fans thank Schwarber for memorable half-season in D.C.
Kyle Schwarber was meeting a friend of his on the Cubs coaching staff who was in town for the upcoming weekend series in D.C. at 10:30 p.m. on July 29 when his phone rang and Mike Rizzo's name showed up as the caller. He didn't need the Nationals general manager to tell him why he was calling, only to tell him the name of the team he had just been traded to. Turns out it was the Red Sox, who were sending pitching prospect Aldo Ramirez to the Nats in exchange for the 28-year-old slugger....
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Roch Kubatko

This, that and the other

This, that and the other
The Orioles would much prefer to be hosting games late in the season that dictate whether they make the playoffs. Somewhere down the rebuild road, it's supposed to happen for them. In the meantime, while the last few games determine whether they pick first or second in next year's draft, they get a chance to see how the other half lives on its home turf. In a raucous environment. They can't catch postseason fever, which certainly would present complications during COVID-19, but they're...
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Mark Zuckerman

Rogers fades late, Nats can't rally to beat Red Sox (updated)

Rogers fades late, Nats can't rally to beat Red Sox (updated)
It had been a while since Nationals Park experienced this kind of energy, provided by a crowd of 32,521 filled with fans with varied reasons to get amped up for the opener of the season's final series. Some were excited to see Juan Soto's last charge for a batting title and possible MVP honor. They perhaps took solace in the four walks he drew - the last of them his 144th of the season, something only Barry Bonds had previously done this century - but that's not really what they came to...
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Roch Kubatko

Orioles' late rally falls short in 6-4 loss in Toronto (updated)

Orioles' late rally falls short in 6-4 loss in Toronto (updated)
The Orioles tried to stay in spoiler mode tonight while going with a bullpen game rather than a starter equipped to provide actual length. Teams wanting the Blue Jays to implode in the weekend series and influence the wild card race could be heard cringing. Their eyes were bulging while checking the late score. Injuries have tampered with the Orioles rotation, which becomes more settled in the last two games with John Means and Bruce Zimmermann. So, manager Brandon Hyde lined up his available...
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Mark Zuckerman

Soto headlines Nationals' annual team award winners

Soto headlines Nationals' annual team award winners
Juan Soto has three more days to make his case to win National League MVP honors. He already locked up a slightly less significant honor today. Soto was named the Nationals' 2021 Player of the Year, the second straight season the young star won the award given out annually in a vote of media members who regularly cover the team. Soto is joined by Kyle Finnegan (Pitcher of the Year) and Josh Bell (Good Guy Award) in receiving this year's honors, which are being presented prior to the start of...
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Hyde on Fry, Kremer, Hays and Baby Birds

Hyde on Fry, Kremer, Hays and Baby Birds
The Orioles appear to be done with roster moves for 2021 after recalling reliever Isaac Mattson from Triple-A Norfolk and optioning left-hander Alexander Wells. Mattson, who joined the team in Baltimore and hopped on the charter flight to Toronto, provides an extra arm in a bullpen game. Manager Brandon Hyde doesn't know how much length he'll get from Thomas Eshelman. "To be able to add a pitcher who's available was important," Hyde said. Dean Kremer and Paul Fry weren't added to the...
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