A three-hour rain delay couldn't keep the Single-A Frederick Keys from winning last night and the six-hour overnight bus ride to North Carolina that followed didn't stop them tonight.
Manny Machdo drove in the go-ahead run as Frederick won 7-3 at Kinston's Grainger Stadium tonight to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five Carolina League championship series. The Keys are now one win from their fourth Mills Cup championship and have two chances to get it.
Kinston took a 2-0 lead, scoring...
You've watched this team all season.
You've seen players on the opening day roster, you've seen players recalled from the minors and you've seen the Orioles purchase the contracts of other players in the system.
Manager Buck Showalter is looking for nuggets, and not the breaded and processed kind. No dipping sauce.
Matt Wieters is a nugget, though some publications prefer the word "bust." He's a keeper. He's a guy you bring along while moving forward. He's a Gold Glove catcher -...
Down by one run and down to their final four outs, the Frederick Keys rallied to beat Kinston 3-2 to even the best-of-five Carolina League championship series at a win each.
The game started after 10 p.m. Wednesday after a rain delay of three hours and seven minutes. It ended at 12:44 a.m. Thursday at Harry Grove Stadium.
Now the Mills Cup final series shifts to Kinston for the remaining games the next three nights.
Aaron Baker's RBI double in the first gave Frederick a 1-0 lead, but...
With the recently concluded series with Tampa Bay and seven games with the Boston Red Sox over a two-week span in such close proximity to one another, it has led some Oriole fans to root against their own team. For some reason, the O's laying down for the Rays and playing tough against the Red Sox is the desired outcome, hopefully allowing the Tampa Bay to catch Boston and claim the American League wild card lead.
Why would I ever root against the Orioles? So that one division rival can oust...
The Orioles played 27 consecutive games before finding an open date on their schedule today that hadn't been filled because of a previous postponement.
Not that anybody's counting.
Well, manager Buck Showalter recited the number a few times yesterday and shook his head. His players need a break.
If you play long enough, everyone will get on some sort of a roll. Or so it seems.
Vladimir Guerrero is 17-for-38 with four doubles, a home run and six multi-hit games in his last 10 games....
With a strong outing tonight, Jeremy Guthrie got a win over Tampa Bay. He also tied his career high in strikeouts and failed to set a new career high in losses.
Guthrie led the Orioles to a 6-2 win over the Rays, who could have closed to within three games of Boston for the wild card with a victory.
Rick Dempsey breaks down Jeremy Guthrie's solid start in the Birds' 6-2 win
Guthrie, now 8-17 with an ERA of 4.22, gave up just three hits and two runs over seven innings. He walked three and...
Chris Davis hit a big three-run homer tonight that gave the Orioles the lead in the last of fourth over Tampa Bay. It came on a pitch, he said, he probably should not have even swung at.
"It was definitely a ball," Davis said of the 0-2 pitch from Wade Davis. "It might have gone to the backstop if I didn't hit it, but in all seriousness, the first pitch he threw me was a good pitch to get at least one run in. I fouled it off and I was mad at myself for almost giving an at bat away there...
Orioles manager Buck Showalter believes that fastball command enabled Jeremy Guthrie to hold Tampa Bay to two runs and three hits over seven innings in tonight's 6-2 victory before an announced 14,669 at Camden Yards.
Guthrie has allowed three earned runs or fewer in his last five starts. He improved to 8-17 with a 4.22 ERA.
Buck Showalter talks with the media after the Orioles' win 6-2 over the Rays
"Obviously, his outing was the difference," Showalter said. "You know when you play...
A win here tonight by the Orioles would, not only be damaging to Tampa Bay's playoff hopes, but also allow the Orioles to end the season series with Tampa tied at nine wins each.
The Rays have won the last three season series by 15-3, 10-8 and 11-7 last year.
Plus, the all-time series would be even at 120 wins each with an Orioles victory in this game.
By making this start tonight, Jeremy Guthrie becomes the 11th hurler in O's history to have four seasons of 30 or more starts.
Jim Palmer...
Nolan Reimold hit his 10th home run tonight. He also hit the top of the left field fence.
It counts.
Reimold connected off Rays starter Wade Davis leading off the bottom of the third inning, the ball bouncing into the stands, to give the Orioles a 1-0 lead. He's now 3-for-7 lifetime against Davis.
Reimold's last home run came Sept. 7 off the Yankees' A.J. Burnett.
Jeremy Guthrie struck out four Rays over the first three innings. He got B.J. Upton on a 93 mph fastball, Evan Longoria on a...
The Orioles rank next to last in the American League with 67 stolen bases as a team.
But with the September call-ups of Matt Angle and Kyle Hudson the club has more team speed and is now running more.
The Orioles had just eight stolen bases in 29 games in August. They have 15 in 13 games this month. The number of 15 ties the O's total for all of May, which was their most steals this year in any month.
Manager Buck Showalter today had some praise for Angle and Hudson. Not just that they can...
ARLINGTON, Va. - Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin will throw out the Ceremonial First Pitch at the Baltimore Orioles game at Camden Yards on Friday, Sept. 16. Ovechkin will throw the first pitch prior to the Orioles game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, which is slated to begin at 7:05 p.m.
Ovechkin will be available for interviews on the field prior to the game at 5:30 p.m. Media interested in obtaining credentials for this game are advised to contact Orioles public...
Triple-A Norfolk first baseman/outfielder Rhyne Hughes has been suspended for 50 games after testing positive for an amphetamine. The suspension begins at the start of the 2012 season.
Hughes isn't on the Orioles' 40-man roster. He made his major league debut in 2010, batting .213 with four RBIs in 14 games. He didn't move above Triple-A this season while batting .249 with 25 doubles, 15 homers and 59 RBIs in 92 games with the Tides.
The Orioles will play an exhibition game in Norfolk next...
The Orioles won't start the 2012 season at Tropicana Field. That's known as breaking news.
They're back home for a three-game series against the Twins that begins on April 6 - exactly 20 years after Camden Yards first opened. The Yankees will follow the Twins to Baltimore.
As for interleague play, the Phillies will make a weekend trip to Camden Yards on June 8-10, followed by a mid-week visit by the Pirates on June 12-14. The Orioles also will continue their home-and-home series with the...
Matt Wieters has now homered in back-to-back games for the Orioles and has hit five homers in his last 12 games.
Wieters' next homer will be his 20th on the year. He has 19 this season in 457 at-bats. Pretty impressive when you compare it to the fact he hit 20 combined homers in 800 at-bats during the 2009 and 2010 seasons.
Wieters said he is not sure why he is hitting more homers now and there is not one key reason for the power surge.
"I don't think so. I think it's just power seems to...
Center fielder Adam Jones will stay on the bench, at least until the Orioles need a pinch-runner to distract the opposition's reliever, while nursing a sore right thumb. Matt Angle gets the start in center field against Rays right-hander Wade Davis.
For the Orioles:
Matt Angle CF
J.J. Hardy SS
Nick Markakis RF
Vladimir Guerrero DH
Matt Wieters C
Chris Davis 3B
Mark Reynolds 1B
Nolan Reimold LF
Robert Andino 2B
Jeremy Guthrie RHP
The Orioles released veteran left-hander Mark...
The Orioles will kick off their 20th anniversary season at Oriole Park at Camden Yards with an Opening Day game on April 6, 2012 against the Minnesota Twins, 20 years to the day after the ballpark originally opened. The game is the first of a six-day season-opening homestand that will also see the New York Yankees come to Baltimore.
The Orioles will play each of their AL East rivals three times at Oriole Park. In addition to their opening homestand trip from April 9-11, the New York Yankees...
Jonathan Schoop had surfaced on the radar by the end of last season when he was named the Orioles' 10th best prospect by Baseball America.
At the end of this season, the 19-year-old Schoop is going to be ranked even higher than that and has to be considered a leading candidate - maybe the top candidate - to be named the Orioles' minor league Player of the Year later this month.
Schoop has quickly made a name for himself as a talented and hard-working player that has a great attitude and...
Matt Wieters says the Orioles aren't spoilers.
"I don't think we're really playing the spoiler," he said after last night's game. "We're just trying to play as well as we can against teams that are going to the playoffs."
Troy Patton says the Orioles enjoy being spoilers.
"It's kind of a joke, but we like to be spoilers," he said after last night's game. "We want to do everything we can to beat every team, so if they're in the race, so be it, we want to win every game."
So...
Jim Johnson now has as many saves in the last week as Kevin Gregg has since the beginning of August. That gives me a great excuse to bring out two of my favorite hobby horses: Despite what many people say (including some allusions by the Orioles themselves), Johnson is perfectly capable of being the team's closer, and signing Gregg was not a good move.
Johnson once blew a save (or two), which resulted in some people deciding that he didn't have the mentality of a closer, or something like...



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