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DENVER - As we saw one year ago, Mike Rizzo doesn't necessarily have the final say on this, but the Nationals general manager did reiterate today before the finale of his team's disappointing season he expects Davey Martinez and his entire coaching staff to return in 2019.
"Nothing's changed," Rizzo said about an hour before the Nats faced the playoff-bound Rockies in Game 162. "We haven't considered anything else."
Rizzo had already expressed a similar sentiment about Martinez last...
Orioles manager Buck Showalter met with Adam Jones to discuss today's lineup and where the outfielder wanted to play. Showalter had his own idea and ran it past Jones, who agreed to start in center.
It just seemed right.
Cedric Mullins has been the center fielder since making his debut on Aug. 10, but he's moved to left this afternoon in the last game of the season - and likely the last for Jones with the Orioles.
"I let him make out the lineup," Showalter quipped. "No, I just thought it...
Adam Jones is playing his 1,613th and likely final game with the Orioles this afternoon to close out the 2018 season and manager Buck Showalter is putting him in center field.
Cedric Mullins is in left for the first time and DJ Stewart is in right.
Tim Beckham is the designated hitter. Steve Wilkerson gets another start at second base.
Jimmy Yacabonis makes his seventh major league start today. He's never faced the Astros.
The Astros are starting Charlie Morton, who's 15-3 with a 3.18 ERA and...
DENVER - For the last time in 2018, hello from the ballpark. The scene today at Coors Field should be a wild one, with the Rockies seeking their first division title while also keeping an eye on what's happening in the Dodgers-Giants game at AT&T Park. They could end the day as National League West champs, as the league's second wild card or still tied with the Dodgers and heading to L.A. for a tiebreaker game Monday.
Suffice it to say, there are some things at stake - for Colorado, not...
For the fifth consecutive year, the Orioles will host LUNGevity Foundation's Breathe Deep Baltimore, a 5K walk to raise funds and awareness for lung cancer, which again this year will be held in memory of Orioles' late Public Relations Director, Monica Pence Barlow. The walk will take place on Saturday, October 6, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.
All proceeds from the walk will benefit LUNGevity Foundation, a nonprofit firmly committed to making an immediate impact on...
DENVER - As the rest of his teammates look forward to the physical and mental rest that awaits them following today's season finale, Juan Soto just wants to keep playing more baseball.
Never mind that the 19-year-old has played in 153 total games this season between the minors and majors, a workload far beyond anything he's ever experienced. He's still going strong straight through this final weekend, and as he worked in the cage before Saturday's game with Kevin Long he suggested to his...
The end is here.
Of the worst season in franchise history. Of Adam Jones' days as an Oriole unless something unforeseen happens. And perhaps of Buck Showalter's tenure as manager, which began in the summer of 2010.
Some players had large boxes in front of their lockers yesterday. Tim Beckham joked that Joey Rickard was blocking his path during the packing process. Rickard countered that he didn't order the box delivered and found it there - after asking if Beckham wanted to help...
The worst season in Orioles history comes to an end today with Game 162. The Orioles host the Houston Astros in the season finale.
The Orioles (46-115) have lost three in a row, 11 of 15, 17 of 22 and 29 of the last 38 games. They are 6-20 in September, their third month with at least 20 losses, after they went 6-20 in June and 8-20 in August. The Orioles are 0-6 versus Houston and 6-26 against American League West teams.
Houston (103-58) has won the first three games in the series by scores of...
The Orioles began this series versus Houston desperate for innings and quality starts from their rotation. They've gotten both the last two days and three games, but they still lost three in a row to the Astros.
When this series began Friday night, O's starters had thrown just two quality starts the last 19 games. Now they've gotten three in three games from David Hess, Dylan Bundy and Yefry RamÃrez. That trio allowed seven runs in 19 innings in a series in which the Orioles offense has...
DENVER - The Nationals wrapped up a seventh consecutive winning season tonight, and in the process ensured they will play a role in a wild Sunday in the National League, with four Game 162s all set to be played in unison to determine the winners of two divisions.
But not with Max Scherzer participating.
The Nationals' 12-2 drubbing of the Rockies left a crowd of 47,781 at Coors Field hoping to celebrate the franchise's first-ever NL West title muttering, occasionally booing and walking out of...