Chris Davis remains out of the Orioles lineup for tonight's game against the Athletics at Camden Yards. That's two nights in a row. Davis is hitless in 56 consecutive plate appearances, one short of Tony Bernazard's major league record. He's 0-for-28 with four walks and 15 strikeouts this season in 32 plate appearances. As he did yesterday, Davis is on the field early hitting off a tee. Trey Mancini is playing first base, with Dwight Smith Jr. in left field and Joey Rickard in right. Hanser...

Juan Soto launched an epic blast into the upper deck last night at Citizens Bank Park, building on his resume as one of the most exciting young power hitters in the game today. The three-run shot turned into the game-winner for the Nationals at Philadelphia, coming on a 1-0 pitch. The ball went over the right field foul pole. The game was tied 6-6 when Soto hit the home run. The Nats came back from a 6-1 deficit by scoring nine unanswered for the signature win 10-6 in 10 frames. Suddenly the...

PHILADELPHIA - It was well past 11 p.m. and inside the Nationals clubhouse players were still coming down from the high they had just experienced during a dramatic, come-from-behind 10-6 victory over the Phillies. Their manager seemed to be on the verge of tearing up as he praised his team for battling through a wild ballgame to emerge victorious. The players had let out a huge roar after holding a postgame "cabbage race" that continued a tradition started in spring training. Over by his...

There will be tough days in baseball and the Orioles had one Tuesday. They lost two pitchers to the injured list and then lost a 13-2 blowout to Oakland to fall to 5-6 on the year. They've played in three straight blowout games, losing two of them. Right-handers Nate Karns and Alex Cobb were added to the injured list yesterday. Cobb is dealing with back spasms. He had come off the IL to pitch well in the home opener versus the Yankees, allowing two runs over 5 2/3 innings. He threw his...

Whatever the result of last night's game, no matter how many runs scored via infield hits, errors and rotten luck, the Orioles could score it a victory simply because no one else got hurt. Within a span of about four hours, the team announced that pitchers Nate Karns and Alex Cobb were going on the 10-day injured list. Moves that hadn't been anticipated, rumored or suspected. Karns worked a scoreless ninth inning Monday night and, while his four-seamer dipped into the upper-80s, alarms...

PHILADELPHIA - Bryce Harper's early home run brought out a mighty roar from the Philly faithful. Victor Robles and Juan Soto's late home runs brought out the boos. And the Nationals-Phillies rivalry just got ratcheted up to a whole new level. Brushing off Harper's third-inning blast off Stephen Strasburg and a five-run deficit, the Nationals came storming back to stun the Phillies tonight, riding Robles' ninth-inning homer and Soto's gargantuan 10th-inning moonshot to a 10-6 victory in an...

One miserable inning put the Orioles in a big hole early tonight and they never climbed out of it. Oakland beat the Orioles 13-2 after losing by eight runs last night to even the series at a win each. The A's, now 7-8, scored five soft runs off left-hander John Means in the top of the second. They produced three infield hits and used one costly error and a three-run homer to take early control of the game. Four of the five runs were unearned. The Orioles allowed just two unearned runs through...

The first major league start for Orioles left-hander John Means got silly before it grew ugly. Three infield hits in the second inning, along with a ground ball turned into an out and another grounder that produced a critical error. The grass took more of a beating than Means. It wasn't until Marcus Semien jumped on a changeup and cleared the fence in left that the Athletics finally directed a ball out of the infield. Means was down by five runs, four of them unearned, and the Orioles tumbled...

PHILADELPHIA - Davey Martinez has already been asked this question multiple times in the last week: Is he tempted to move Victor Robles out of the No. 9 spot in the Nationals lineup? And the manager's answer has remained consistent. "Right now, no," Martinez said. "I like what he's doing in the nine-hole. We're 10 days in, and he's done really well. I want him to just play the game. And he's having fun. He's doing the little things that we're asking him to do. He's playing really...

The Orioles are using the injured list for the second time today, placing Alex Cobb on it with a lumbar strain. The move is retroactive to Saturday. Cobb was supposed to start Wednesday night against the Athletics, but manager Brandon Hyde will have to find a replacement. No corresponding roster move was announced, only the removal of Cobb and the reason behind it. Cobb opened the season on the IL with a groin injury and made his debut in Thursday's home opener against the Yankees, allowing...