Orioles manager Brandon Hyde will miss Saturday afternoon's game in order to attend his step-daughter Aria's high school graduation in Illinois. He's boarding a flight to Chicago in the morning and getting back to Baltimore for Sunday's series finale. Tim Cossins, field coordinator and catching instructor, will replace Hyde, as he did on April 15 after his close friend was ejected from a game in Boston for arguing the slide rule. "We've gone over some stuff, and after BP we're going to...

Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias indicated this afternoon that the club has narrowed its list of choices to four players for the first-overall pick in the First-Year Player Draft that begins Monday. Elias won't mention any names, but three of those players certainly are Oregon State catcher Adley Rutschman, prep shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. and University of California first baseman Andrew Vaughn. More of the organization's scouts will gather this weekend in the...

The Orioles lineup tonight again includes DJ Stewart in right field against a left-hander as the Giants come to town for a three-game series. Hanser Alberto is leading off again, Trey Mancini stays at first base and Pedro Severino is catching. Richie Martin is the shortstop. Andrew Cashner is 3-7 with a 4.81 ERA and 1.455 WHIP in 18 career games (11 starts) against the Giants. Buster Posey is 12-for-31 (.387) with two doubles, two home runs, three walks and no strikeouts against Cashner in his...

The Orioles today announced a new partnership with T. Rowe Price as the local title sponsor of the Baltimore Orioles RBI program for the 2019 season. The Orioles RBI season begins on Saturday, June 1. The Orioles RBI program is a Baltimore City youth baseball and softball league designed to teach important life lessons through the games of baseball and softball, increase the self-esteem of children, and encourage kids to stay in school. The program is a Major League Baseball initiative...

CINCINNATI - After a day off, the Nationals arrive in Cincinnati for three games in a weekend series at the Great American Ballpark. The Nats swept the Atlanta Braves at SunTrust Park 5-4 and 14-4 to improve to 24-32, and have now won five of their last six games. It is the first time since April 10 the Nats have won two series in a row. At the start of play today, the Nats are nine games in back of the first-place Phillies in the National League East and six games out of a wild-card...

For all their difficulties as a collective unit so far this season, the Nationals do have a host of players enjoying success on an individual level. Which means they could wind up with much better representation at the All-Star Game than you might normally expect from a team that resides closer to the bottom of the standings than the top. Even if their two All-Star mainstays from recent seasons don't figure into the picture the way they used to. Bryce Harper, an All-Star in six of his seven...

We are now just days away from a huge night for the Orioles. The 2019 First-Year Player Draft begins Monday at 7 p.m. It will be televised live on MLB Network and, for the second time in team history, the Orioles have the first pick in the draft. The draft consists of 40 rounds, and a team may pass on its selection in any round and not forfeit its right to participate in other rounds. The 2019 draft will span three days, as it has since 2009. On Monday, the first 41 selections, through...

With six months to go before Black Friday in November, the Orioles have announced limited-time special pricing on game tickets and select merchandise in celebration of 'Halfway to Black (& Orange) Friday' on Friday, May 31. From 6:00 a.m. to midnight on Friday, May 31, fans can take advantage of discounted pricing for 12 upcoming home games this season. The Orioles will offer a 50 percent discount on tickets for the available dates from 6:00 a.m. to noon, followed by a 25 percent discount...

A rested bullpen didn't provide a solution for Orioles manager Brandon Hyde, who failed again Wednesday night to unearth a late-inning combination that could protect the slimmest of leads. Hyde used only three relievers over the previous two games. Dan Straily ate four innings Monday after following starter Gabriel Ynoa, and Dylan Bundy worked through the seventh the following night. Two ways for a club to avoid taxing its 'pen. So what did Hyde get for it? Another blown save on Wednesday,...

ATLANTA - If there was one aspect of the Nationals roster that seemed most likely to improve as the season progressed, it was a lineup that was short on results for the better part of two months but wasn't short on talent. Injuries to the likes of Anthony Rendon, Trea Turner, Juan Soto, Ryan Zimmerman and Matt Adams left the lineup a shell of its best form, but even as some of those players began to return to the active roster there were nights when it just didn't seem to click. That wasn't...