An uncomfortable streak for Trey Mancini finally ended tonight. A strange, inexplicable, coincidental streak that left him shaking his head and searching for the humor in it. Like the bashing on Twitter about how he isn't clutch. A guy who's the overwhelming favorite to be voted Most Valuable Oriole had made the final out in three consecutive games. He's been swinging a red-hot bat, going 6-for-14 with two doubles, two home runs and eight RBIs in those games, but he also was stuck with the...

Hunter Harvey understands why the Orioles shut him down for the rest of the month. Why he's going to watch instead of pitch. Doesn't mean he has to like it. "It stinks," he said this afternoon, "but I know their reasoning and, all in all, I think it's been a good year, so I'm happy with it." Harvey has pitched only once since Sept. 2 due to some mild soreness in his right biceps. The Orioles already were taking a cautious approach by refusing to use him on back-to-back nights. "It...

Injuries limited him to 87 games in the minors this year, but as the big league season winds down, outfielder Austin Hays is playing well and enjoying his health. He started to feel about 100 percent late in the year and the Orioles are seeing what a healthy Hays can do. Last night, he went 3-for-5, was on base four times, had two doubles, drove in a run, scored twice and ignited a bottom-of-the-ninth rally with a bunt single. Not to mention the abandon and talent he plays with while running in...

The Orioles today announced the winners of their player development and scouting awards for 2019, including infielder/outfielder Ryan Mountcastle as the club's top minor league player and right-hander Mike Baumann and right-hander Grayson Rodriguez as the club's top minor league pitchers. The award winners will interact with fans during Q&A sessions on Saturday, September 21, on the Budweiser Roof Deck starting at 5:30 p.m. They will then be honored in an on-field ceremony prior to that...

Left-hander Ty Blach cleared waivers today and has been outrighted to Triple-A Norfolk. The Orioles designated Blach for assignment Monday after claiming pitcher Eric Hanhold off waivers from the Mets. Blach was 1-3 with an 11.32 ERA and 2.18 ERA in five starts and opponents posted a .356 average against him. Tonight's lineup includes Mark Trumbo as the designated hitter and Austin Wynns catching. Austin Hays is in center field, flanked by Anthony Santander in left and Trey Mancini in right....

The Orioles have been swept in a series 12 times this year, yet they do not have one sweep to call their own. That number grows to 13 if they lose tonight. A couple of bullpen meltdowns - after a 25-game run where the 'pen put up strong numbers - have led to back-to-back losses by 8-5 and 11-10 scores to Toronto. The O's bullpen has allowed 15 runs (13 earned) and 18 hits in nine innings in this series. O's pitchers have allowed 19 runs and 12 walks in the two games. Jonathan Villar (No. 23)...

Ryan Mountcastle didn't squeeze onto the Orioles' expanded roster this month. However, he's going to be at Camden Yards this weekend. His name won't be in the lineup, but it's etched with the past recipients of the Brooks Robinson Minor League Player of the Year Award. Mountcastle has been chosen as the organization's top position player and will be honored in an on-field ceremony before Saturday's game against the Mariners. Joining Mountcastle are right-handers Michael Baumann and...

On March 8, outfielder Dwight Smith Jr. got traded from the Blue Jays to the Orioles for international bonus money. He was about to leave the only organization he knew. The one that drafted him 53rd overall in 2011. He had played over 700 games in seven seasons on the Blue Jays' farm and briefly in the majors for Toronto in 2017 and 2018. And now he wondered how it would all turn out upon being traded. "I was just thinking, 'What's next?' " he recalled yesterday in the O's clubhouse. "I...

The contact that manager Brandon Hyde has maintained with Alex Cobb is confined to the daily medical reports that reach his desk. The ones that, Hyde says, show how the veteran starter is "recovering well." Cobb underwent two procedures over the summer that kept him in Nashville, Tenn. Orthopedic surgeon Dr. J.W. Thomas Byrd repaired a tear in the labrum that ended Cobb's season after only three starts. Cobb told MASNsports.com in June that he'd also have surgery on his knee, with the...

For the Orioles tonight, it was an epic late-inning meltdown. A 7-1 lead after four innings was not safe and neither was a 9-5 lead going to the ninth. Last night's loss was pretty brutal. This was worse. The Orioles lost 11-10 to Toronto tonight at Camden Yards to fall to 49-103 with 10 games remaining in the season. Called on to pitch with the O's up 9-5 in the ninth, Miguel Castro got an out and then walked two around a bloop single. With Toronto later down to their last out, Cavan Biggio...