If you want to confuse yourself consider this: The Orioles will have a six-game winning streak if they hold on to win the completion of Sunday's suspended game against Washington. If the Nats come from behind to win the Orioles will have a three-game winning streak. How can they have a winning streak if they lose? Well, this game will officially count on the day it started - Aug. 9. So an O's win and they will complete a three-game sweep a week after that series started. Coupled with what...

Orioles manager Brandon Hyde hasn't decided which pitcher is going to work the bottom of the sixth inning today in the resumed game against the Nationals at Camden Yards. Hyde will figure it out after checking on some pitchers who are taking the field for early throwing. "We're going to make a decision following that and see how everybody feels," Hyde said during his Zoom conference call. "We've used quite a few bullpen arms here the last few days, so we're going to reconvene after the...

As a boy growing up in Havana, Cuba, Pedro Sierra heard stories about the high levels of racism in United States baseball, but that didn't deter him from dreaming of becoming a professional. At 16, after making an impression on Cuban Negro League scouts on a field 13 blocks from his home, Sierra signed for $100 and played with the Indianapolis Clowns in 1954. The scout assured Sierra's dad, Pedro Sr., that his son would be safe because there would be older Cubans on the team to guide him. So...

It did seem a bit strange when the Orioles released their initial 60-man player pool that Baltimorean Bruce Zimmermann was not on the list. The 25-year-old lefty, acquired in a trade on July 31, 2018, had been with the club and was still on the roster when the first spring training was shut down. He had pitched well in Florida and was set to start on March 12 in Fort Myers against the Twins, but that was the day of the Major League Baseball shutdown. Zimmermann recently revealed via his Twitter...

The Nationals placed veteran reliever Sean Doolittle on the 10-day injured list Thursday and promoted rookie left-hander Seth Romero to the active roster. Doolittle is suffering from right knee fatigue. Manager Davey Martinez is devising a plan of how to get his left-handed closer back 100 percent healthy over the next week or so. The hope is that with his knee returning to full strength, the velocity in his fastball will return to normal too. "He's going to go back with us," Martinez said...

Some of the offensive stats the Orioles are putting up so far in the 2020 season are quite impressive. Some are not expected to hold up over 60 games, of course. Players and teams can get off to fast starts and level off. It is expected. But one potentially quite encouraging aspect to the start of this season that could bode well for the offense is that they've have hit well versus some very good pitchers. I took a look back at their performance against a select strong group of hurlers. Here...

The 2020 season has already included, and will continue to include, some weird days. Today might end up ranking near the top of the list, though, from the Nationals' perspective. The Nats are scheduled to open a three-game weekend series with the Orioles at Camden Yards. But before the two teams can do that, they first need to complete the suspended game they began at Nationals Park on Sunday. With the Nationals as the home team, even though they'll be playing in Baltimore. With a roster that...

There may not be a truer indicator of the bizarre nature of the 2020 baseball season than talk of the Orioles being buyers at the Aug. 31 trade deadline. A rebuilding club getting aggressive in search of that final piece of the playoff puzzle? A rebuilding club dangling prospects for rentals? The year isn't that weird. The Orioles would be thrilled to make the playoffs, though also knowing it's a longer road to reach the World Series and the odds are going to be stacked against it. But they...

The doubters keep fueling the Orioles. Haters gonna motivate. Manager Brandon Hyde enjoys how his players carry chips on their shoulders, how they take pleasure in knocking down their critics. But he isn't obsessing over playoff positioning after 17 games, including this afternoon's 11-4 rain-delayed win over the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. J.T. Realmuto hit a two-run homer off Thomas Eshelman in the fourth inning, but the Orioles responded with four runs in the fifth against Jake...

The Orioles have been the comeback kids on this road trip to Washington and Philadelphia. They won this afternoon and are 5-0 on this trip. Four of the wins have been come-from-behind victories. Today the offense erupted for four runs in the fifth, two runs two innings later, three more in the eighth and two in the ninth to produce an 11-4 win over the Phillies. They improved to 10-7 and completed their second three-game sweep of the year. The Orioles have won five in a row and are 7-1 on the...