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For nine innings the crowd at Nationals Park waited anxiously for the rally that was sure to come at some point. This was the Nationals lineup, after all, and this was the Orioles pitching staff, after all.
It was going to happen at some point, right? The seventh inning? The eighth inning? How about the ninth inning?
Nope. Nope. And nope.
The Nationals, both the hottest team and owners of the hottest lineup in the majors at the moment, were shut out tonight by the Orioles, who most certainly...
WASHINGTON - The Washington Nationals are pushing for a playoff berth. The Orioles are just trying to get better, as individuals and as a team.
Tonight, the last-place Orioles pulled off a baseball upset. The Nationals' expensive free agent lefty, Patrick Corbin, threw another strong game. But he was outdueled by an O's right-hander added July 6 on a waiver claim.
Aaron Brooks silenced the red-hot Nats bats on two hits over six innings as the Orioles blanked Washington 2-0 in front of 24,746...
It seems that when Nationals left-hander Patrick Corbin ever gets into trouble, it happens early.
The Orioles got to Corbin very early in Tuesday's series opener.
Hanser Alberto singled on the game's first pitch. Corbin then hit Trey Mancini with a pitch. Anthony Santander doubled to deep left field to score Alberto and the Orioles led 1-0.
One batter later, Jonathan Villar's line drive sacrifice fly to center field brought home Mancini to make it 2-0 Orioles.
The Nationals looked like they...
The month of August is down to three days after today and it used to serve as a countdown to the final trade deadline. The one where players first had to pass through waivers before changing teams. And the media kept posting names that surfaced on the waiver wire as if it meant something.
Pretty much every player was put on waivers to give teams a truer sense of interest within the industry. And perhaps to move a bad contract like Randy Myers' in 1998.
The Padres were burned like a campfire...
MASN broadcaster Tom Davis will receive the John F. Steadman Lifetime Achievement Award at the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame banquet on Nov. 7 at Martin's West.
Davis, 71, and the late Jim Margraff, longtime football coach at Johns Hopkins University, will be honored with the award named for John F. Steadman, a longtime sports editor and columnist for the Baltimore News American and columnist for The Evening Sun and The Baltimore Sun.
They will be joined at the ceremony by five new...
Sean Doolittle's pending return to the Nationals bullpen is significant, no doubt. But the other left-hander on the verge of rejoining that unit could prove to be quite significant himself.
Roenis ElÃas, who faced only two batters after his July 31 acquisition from the Mariners before straining his right hamstring running the bases, appears to be entering the final days of his rehab and could join Doolittle on the active roster by the end of the week.
ElÃas threw off a mound today, the...
The Nationals returned home after a successful road swing to more good news. Closer Sean Doolittle is making steady progress in his recovery from right knee tendinitis that has kept him on the shelf since August 18.
"I've been staying pretty busy. Kind of the general, overall philosophy we've been working on is rather than like sitting around and letting it rest, I think the best way to handle it was to kick start the engine a little bit," Doolittle said at his locker prior to tonight's...
WASHINGTON - Orioles manager Brandon Hyde added his congratulations today to Triple-A Norfolk's Ryan Mountcastle for winning the International League's MVP honor. What we don't yet know is whether Mountcastle's hot bat will be moving later this year from the International League to the American League.
"We want to see our minor league guys do well and we've had a lot of bright spots in the minors this year in our system," said Hyde. "Ryan is one of those. To do that in Triple-A at his...
WASHINGTON - Triple-A Norfolk's Ryan Mountcastle was named the International League MVP today and the first baseman on the postseason All-Star team. That is welcome news in the Orioles clubhouse, where several players were his teammates this year in Norfolk.
Mountcastle hit .308/.340/.528 with 32 doubles, a triple, 25 homers, 79 runs, 80 RBIs and an .869 OPS. He leads the International League in hits (153) and total bases (262), and ranks tied for second in extra-base hits (58), fourth in...
This year's Battle of the Beltways doesn't have the same juice as some previous versions did. Some of that is due to the two participants' very different records. Some of that is due to the odd scheduling, with two weeknight games in each city, one month apart from each other.
Whatever the case, the Nationals and Orioles renew acquaintances tonight. And from the Nats' perspective, these are must-win games. They split the two games at Camden Yards in July. That won't cut it this time, not...