What's the best thing the Nationals could do to give themselves a better chance of winning tonight against the Braves? How about a quality performance from their starter, allowing them to avoid falling into an early hole yet again and asking their lineup to battle back just to make it interesting late? As impressive as the offense has been with all these rallies of late - they've come back to at least tie the game six straight times - the task would be so much simpler if they weren't giving...

Trey Mancini (oblique) and Ramón Urías (leg) remain out of the Orioles lineup for tonight's game against the Royals at Camden Yards. Ryan McKenna is in center field and Cedric Mullins is the designated hitter. Pedro Severino is batting cleanup. Austin Hays will try to extend his hitting streak to 15 games. He's 19-for-51 (.373) with 12 RBIs, eight extra-base hits and 10 runs scored during the streak. Mullins has homered in three consecutive games to run his team-leading total to 27....

After last night's win that featured right-hander Mike Baumann's major league debut and homers from Cedric Mullins, Austin Hays and DJ Stewart, the Orioles look for another win tonight as their series continues with the Kansas City Royals. The Orioles (44-93) won for the third time in four games and are 4-3 over the last seven. They are 6-7 the last 13 games since Aug. 25. The clubs have split the first two games of this four-game series and the Orioles are now 3-2 on the year versus the...

It's exciting - thrilling, really - when a rookie gets his big chance and runs with it like Mike Baumann did last night. Nights like that can give Birdland hope that there may be more talents like Baumann still to come. They hope the young talent comes crashing into Camden Yards like waves into the shoreline. And the waves keep coming. And coming. It was before the game in the Orioles dugout when Baumann spoke with reporters and told us how excited he was to get the shot to make his major...

For the sixth straight game, the Nationals mounted a furious comeback, erasing a 5-1 deficit by scoring four times in the seventh to give themselves new life in the opener of their series against the Braves in Atlanta. Yadiel Hernandez's three-run homer in the seventh knotted the score at 5-5, but switch-hitter Ozzie Albies, hitting right-handed against righty Ryne Harper in the bottom of the frame, hit a two-run homer as the Braves recorded an 8-5 victory on Tuesday night. Harper started the...

The comments were made in jest and thousands of miles away from Baltimore. By former members of the Orioles organization who saw a perfect marriage between one of their players and the rebuilding team they left behind. Never did they imagine that it would actually come true. The Orioles claimed Jorge Mateo on waivers a month ago and he's reached base in 24 of his 25 starts, with a walk and his 10th stolen base last night. His name keeps appearing in the lineup, which the Padres couldn't do...

The Orioles keep building new streaks as if tool belts are now part of the uniform. Usually the kind that feel like a drill bit twisting through the temples of their manager. Brandon Hyde was able to joke about the most recent streak, the one-run games that reached five in a row going into tonight. How he told his players it was OK to win 7-2 once in a while. They didn't exactly follow orders against the Royals, but a four-run first inning hinted that they no longer wanted to be so...

The Orioles made a series of pitching moves before tonight's game, setting up the possibility of achieving one club record and tying another during the series against the Royals. Besides recalling Mike Baumann from Triple-A Norfolk and placing Jorge López on the 10-day injured list, the Orioles also selected the contract of reliever Manny Barreda from Norfolk and optioned reliever Zack Burdi to the Tides. Reliever Hunter Harvey was transferred to the 60-day injured list to create a spot for...

The Orioles send another rookie lefty to the mound tonight as they host the Kansas City Royals in the second of a four-game series and 11-game homestand. The Royals scored twice in the eighth Monday afternoon to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead and beat the Orioles by that score in the series opener. The Orioles fell to 34-6 when leading after seven innings. The Royals improved to 5-62 when trailing after seven. The Orioles (43-93) have now played five straight one-run games. This started...

Yadiel Hernandez will turn 34 next month, and his youthful exuberance and willingness to do anything asked of him have ingratiated him to the Nationals, who may have to figure out how to keep him on the roster for the 2022 campaign. One thing that would make Hernandez's inclusion on the roster next season a no-brainer: if Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association can come to an agreement restoring the designated hitter to the National League, as was the case during the...