Orioles catcher Pedro Severino is healthy again and behind the plate for tonight's game against the Blue Jays at Sahlen Field in Buffalo. Severino left Sunday's game against the Red Sox with tightness in his right hip, but he avoided the injured list. He wasn't in yesterday's lineup against the Rays before the Orioles decided not to play. Hanser Alberto is leading off and playing third base. Shortstop José Iglesias, activated from the injured list yesterday, returns as the No. 3...

Time is running out to enter the Maryland Lottery's FAST PLAY "Contestant of the Game" promotion. The final drawing to pick contestants for the remaining Orioles games is this Tuesday, Sept. 1. Two contestants are selected for each Orioles game. The Lottery has awarded $72,000 in cash prizes to winners so far this season, including $2,500 to both Teresa Martin of Whiteford and Dina Pierelli of Dundalk. They were the "Contestants of the Game" for the Aug. 6 game versus the Miami Marlins....

Right-hander Sterling Sharp has been returned to the Nationals and assigned to the Triple-A Fresno Grizzlies. The Miami Marlins selected Sharp in the major league phase of the Rule 5 draft in December 2019. They were required to keep him on their major league roster the entire season or risk losing him, but opted Monday to designate him for assignment. That gave every other team the opportunity to pick him up, but if a team selected him it would also have to keep him on the active roster for...

At the end of an emotional day during an emotional week during an emotional year, the Nationals gathered on buses headed for Dulles International Airport, took a charter flight to Boston, checked into their hotel, tried to put everything swirling around their heads aside for a little while and get a good night's rest. They'll wake up this morning and focus on preparing for their series opener against the Red Sox, a game that by coincidence is taking place on Major League Baseball's...

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...

Orioles manager Brandon Hyde will post his lineup again this afternoon, with a game expected to be played. In a minor league ballpark in Buffalo. There's a first time for everything. They keep coming in 2020. Cedric Mullins was supposed to be in center field last night before the Orioles voted not to play. He's likely to stay there tonight and bat leadoff or last. He has impressive range in the field and the lineup. Mullins leads the majors with six bunt hits, four more than the next closest...

The initial decision by the Orioles and Rays to play tonight's series finale at Tropicana Field didn't hold. Conversations during batting practice led the Orioles to conduct a second team meeting, with only the players, who later invited manager Brandon Hyde into the room and shared their desire to skip the game. Hyde phoned Rays manager Kevin Cash and the sport had another postponement. And there would be more as the fight to eliminate racial injustice intensified after Sunday's police...

Orioles manager Brandon Hyde left it up to his players whether they wanted to take the field tonight or pack up and leave. He was going to support their decision. Whichever way it leaned. The team has decided, without any resistance, to finish the series against the Rays at Tropicana Field. At least two more games have been postponed tonight to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. To bring more awareness to racial inequality. To make the boldest statement that sports can...

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...

Tonight's series finale at Nationals Park was postponed after players from both the Phillies and Nationals chose not to participate in the latest symbolic move by professional athletes to redirect attention toward racial inequality and police brutality. Phillies players met at their team hotel at 1 p.m. today and about an hour later decided not to play. Phillies manager Joe Girardi called Nationals skipper Davey Martinez, who had already planned to meet with Nationals players at 4 p.m., and as...