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NEW YORK - The last road trip of the 2018 season includes today's finale in the Bronx before the Orioles board their charter to Boston.
The Adam Jones checklist has room for what's expected to be his final appearance with the Orioles at Yankee Stadium. There won't be a ceremony. Fans in the bleachers won't chant his name. But pretty much everything relating to Jones is deemed noteworthy as he moves closer to free agency.
Last time he dresses in front of a locker. Last time he plays catch in...
Baseball America recently made some adjustments to the bottom of its latest top 100 prospects list. A couple of prospects graduated, meaning they no longer have major league rookie eligibility. So BA added two players to the bottom of the list, and one was Orioles pitching prospect DL Hall.
The club's No. 1 draft choice in 2017, Hall enters at No. 100. This gives the Orioles four in the top 100, with outfielder Yusniel DÃaz No. 44, outfielder Austin Hays No. 58 and infielder Ryan...
NEW YORK - Orioles manager Buck Showalter said no one is smart enough to have a complete read on a pitcher in only one season. He won't pronounce the book on David Hess complete after 18 starts and 20 appearances.
Hess has dazzled and disappointed. He's been a rookie surviving on location and mixing his pitches. He could be a starter, reliever, Triple-A depth or all of the above.
No one knows whether DJ Stewart will have a long and productive career after only nine games. He, too, will get...
Right-hander Austin Voth was much more pleased with this outing against the Mets.
Back on July 14, Voth started and took the loss, going 4 1/3 innings and allowing seven runs on nine hits with three walks and three strikeouts. He needed 99 pitches to record 13 outs.
This time, Voth finished five innings on only 73 pitches, 49 for strikes. He allowed no runs on one hit with two walks and five strikeouts. It helped the Nationals to a 6-0 victory, Voth's first major league win.
"I felt...
There will be no postseason appearance for the Nationals in 2018.
Eliminated from the National League East race Friday night, the Nats were eliminated from the NL wild card race this afternoon when Tyler O'Neill hit a walk-off homer off Mark Melancon in St. Louis to give the Cardinals a 5-4 10-inning victory over the Giants.
That result leaves the Nationals trailing the Cardinals by 8 1/2 games for the final playoff berth in the NL, with only eight games remaining on the schedule....
NEW YORK - The season is down to nine games. Chris Davis has at least one more to play by serving today as the designated hitter.
What happens next is unknown beyond how he'll sit Sunday against Yankees left-hander J.A. Happ.
Davis' average has sunk to .170 with a .545 OPS after he went 0-for-4 with a walk and four strikeouts last night. One hit in his last 34 at-bats, with 17 strikeouts, is the latest version of a slump that's never completely let go of him.
It's hard to find any sort of...
The Orioles play in New York this afternoon, looking to even this three-game series with the Yankees at a win each. New York outscored the Orioles 10-8 last night at Yankee Stadium.
The Orioles (44-109) have lost five of seven, 11 of 14 and 23 of their last 30 games. They are 17-59 on the road and have lost 13 of their last 14 away from Oriole Park.
After going 0-for-13 in his first five games, the Orioles' DJ Stewart is 4-for-7 in his last three games with a double, two homers, three runs and...
NEW YORK - Andrew Cashner continues to have some pain running from his left knee to his shin and there are no plans for him to start again.
Cashner's status could change if there's sudden improvement, but the club won't push him back on the mound and he won't pitch with the discomfort and risk a more serious injury that could impact 2019.
"He's been trying to gauge it's improvement almost every day and we haven't gotten enough to think that that's in the near future," Showalter...
Nationals manager Davey Martinez certainly thought the season was going to go much differently than it turned out. He never expected the Nats to be standing nine games out in the National League East at the start of play on Sept. 22.
When Martinez sat down in spring training and looked at the possibilities for his potent lineup, he was hoping for a much better result than 77-77 with nine days remaining. Still, the first-year skipper sees a lot of positives with this group for 2019 and...
Whatever your best memory of the 1983 Orioles World Series season - Tippy Martinez picking off three runners in an extra-inning game before emergency catcher Lenn Sakata won it with a walk-off homer, Tito Landrum's sudden death blast in the American League playoffs, Rick Dempsey's MVP performance in the Fall Classic or Cal Ripken Jr. catching the last out in the clincher against the Phillies - it's hard to believe 35 years have passed since the Birds celebrated a championship in...