The Orioles are excited to announce the two newest theme nights this season, which will take place on August 2 and August 3 when the Toronto Blue Jays visit Oriole Park at Camden Yards during a four-game series. To celebrate the hit Netflix series Stranger Things®, the Orioles will invite fans to the Upside Down on Friday, August 2, for the 7:05 p.m. ET game. The popular show follows a group of young boys searching for their friend who vanished without a word and discover secret government...

The Orioles today announced that they have opened the 2019-20 international signing period with 27 agreements. The club has signed 16 players from the Dominican Republic, eight from Venezuela and one each from Aruba, the Bahamas and Colombia. The club agreed with 15 pitchers (five left-handers and 10 right-handers) along with six shortstops, four outfielders and two catchers. According to a club press release, the class is led by outfielder Luis González, left-handed pitcher Luis Ortiz and...

Their 4-2 week against a pair of division rivals was important. But so was their just-completed, 5-1 week on the road against a couple of cellar dwellers. And all of that merely leads into this final week of the season's first half, in which the Nationals have a golden opportunity to keep up their sustained momentum against some very beatable competition and perhaps even head into the All-Star break in playoff position for the first time in 2019. On paper, the Nationals' upcoming homestand...

July 2 has arrived. It's the day where a new international amateur signing period begins and teams all around Major League Baseball announce signings. This year the Orioles will not be left out. They expect to announce as many as 30 or more signings in a class expected to be pitcher heavy. MLB teams have a limited amount of pool money to sign players in a period that begins today and runs through next June 15. The Orioles, at nearly $6.5 million, are in a group of teams with the most to spend....

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Orioles are poised to begin announcing a batch of international signings today as they move into a new era for the organization and try to gain ground on teams that have been doing this for a lot longer. The spectators are becoming serious participants. You won't recognize them. The total impact won't be felt overnight, but the July 2 market opening signals a brand new philosophy that actually had been revealed during last summer's trade deadline activity under...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Trey Mancini just wanted to get back to playing baseball tonight. No more sadness, no more painful conversations with family and friends. Push it aside, grab a bat and mitt, and resume his professional life. Mancini started at first base for the series opener against the Rays, but a crowded outfield is the reason why he didn't make the American League All-Star team as a reserve. Knowing that the media wanted him this afternoon and always accommodating, Mancini walked...

The Orioles begin their last road trip before the All-Star break tonight in St. Petersburg against the Tampa Bay Rays. The O's will play three there and three this weekend at Toronto before the break. The Orioles took two of three over the weekend against Cleveland, allowing just two runs and 21 hits in 27 innings with five walks and 24 strikeouts. The Orioles went the full three-game series without allowing a homer for the first time since July 31-Aug. 2, 2017. Baltimore starting pitchers...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Orioles are making another adjustment to their rotation that involves Dylan Bundy, but isn't due to an injury or other physical issue. Manager Brandon Hyde explained this afternoon that he wants Bundy to start the series opener Friday night in Toronto and be on the mound immediately after the break July 12 against the Rays at Camden Yards. The latest tweaking is tied in part to rookie John Means being the Orioles representative in the All-Star Game in Cleveland. A...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Orioles assigned right-hander Asher Wojciechowski to Triple-A Norfolk after today's trade with the Indians, but he never made it. Wojciechowski is in the visiting clubhouse at Tropicana Field, with the Orioles placing him on the 24-hour taxi squad. Dylan Bundy has been scratched from Tuesday's start against the Rays and Wojciechowski apparently is with the Orioles in case a roster move is necessary. Bundy also is in the clubhouse and manager Brandon Hyde will...

There is no reason for the selection of "A Bullet for Cinderella" over the myriad of other works by John MacDonald. That is one of the great truths about his writing. Pick a book and you will enjoy. Sure, some are better than others, but as always, the "better" lies in the mind of the reader. His works are the stuff of the best of crime fiction, of gumshoe investigators, of dark secrets, of noir novels, of hard-boiled detectives, of good and bad gone bad. These tales come with a writing...