Orioles and Red Sox lineups
Orioles and Red Sox lineups
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
SARASOTA, Fla. - Cedric Mullins is leading off again today as the Orioles return to Fort Myers to play the Red Sox. Eric Young Jr. is in left field and Anthony Santander is in right. Rule 5 pick Richie Martin is starting at shortstop, Chance Sisco is the designated hitter and Jack Reinheimer is playing second base. Rio Ruiz has moved across the diamond and is starting at first base. For the Orioles Cedric Mullins CF Eric Young Jr. LF Renato Núñez 3B Anthony Santander RF Rio Ruiz 1B Richie...
Sánchez shows off wide-ranging repertoire in scoreless debut
Sánchez shows off wide-ranging repertoire in scoreless debut
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Anyone who hadn't seen Aníbal Sánchez pitch before Tuesday's game saw everything they needed to see during this start against the Cardinals to understand exactly why the Nationals wanted him in the first place. Over the course of two efficient, scoreless innings of work, Sánchez showed off the repertoire and approach that made him so successful last season in Atlanta. With a fastball that stayed in the upper-80s but a deep assortment of off-speed pitches that...
Orioles announce game ticket sale and promotional schedule
Orioles announce game ticket sale and promotional schedule
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
SARASOTA, Fla. - Orioles individual game tickets go on sale to the general public Friday morning beginning at 10 a.m., which Birdland Members receiving first crack a day earlier at the same time. The club also has released its promotional schedule, highlighted by a Brooks Robinson bobblehead given to the first 25,000 fans 15 and over attending the July 16 game at Camden Yards, and a 30th-year celebration of the 1989 "Why Not?" team with a reunion and T-shirt giveaway on Aug. 9. There's also...
Reviewing Orioles spring training before today's game
Reviewing Orioles spring training before today's game
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
SARASOTA, Fla. - Four games into the exhibition schedule, following a couple weeks of workouts, seems like an ample amount of time to build some early impressions of the Orioles. The good and the disappointing. Reactions and overreactions. Chris Davis hit a home run yesterday in his fifth spring training at-bat and it was a tape-measure shot off a breaking ball. It could mean something or nothing, but I recognized that swing from the days when he was scary good in the middle of the...
DJ Stewart on vibe in camp and competing with other young players
DJ Stewart on vibe in camp and competing with other young players
Steve Melewski
Orioles
SARASOTA, Fla. - Outfield is an area where the Orioles feature some young, up-and-coming talent, led by Yusniel Diaz, who is ranked as the team's No. 1 prospect and is in the top 100 list of several national outlets. It's a position to watch in camp to see Diaz, along with Austin Hays, Ryan McKenna, Cedric Mullins, Anthony Santander, Mike Yastrzemski and DJ Stewart, to name a few. Most of these guys have played together at some point on the farm, some for several seasons together. Now in this...
Rosenthal wows with triple-digit fastball in return from surgery
Rosenthal wows with triple-digit fastball in return from surgery
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Trevor Rosenthal sneaked a peek. How could he not? After throwing a couple of fastballs in the top of the fifth this afternoon at FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, Rosenthal decided things were going well enough to take a look at the scoreboard radar gun. "I did. I peeked," he said with a sheepish grin. "After I threw the two balls to the second hitter, I kind of peaked at it. I was kind of surprised at how hard I was throwing." The entire stadium was, Trevor....
Davis on his home run and wrapping up an 11-5 loss
Davis on his home run and wrapping up an 11-5 loss
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
SARASOTA, Fla. - The first three at-bats ended in strikeouts and the familiar walk back to the dugout. A fresh start for Chris Davis, the latest since signing his franchise-record contract in January 2016, already had taken on a familiar look. A groundout made Davis 0-for-4 in two spring training games, but there was contact. And it would get much louder in the fifth inning when he drove a breaking ball from Tampa Bay's Austin Pruitt over the center field fence and off the scoreboard in the...
Orioles celebrate "One Millionth Fan" to attend spring training in Sarasota
Orioles celebrate "One Millionth Fan" to attend spring training in Sarasota
Doug Miller
Orioles
Confetti, balloons, and rousing applause greeted the announcement today when the Orioles selected Diana Love of Sarasota as the "One Millionth Fan" to attend an Orioles Spring Training game at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota. As fans streamed into the ballpark for the third home game of the 2019 season, the Orioles selected Love at random to represent the one million fans. In a special on-field presentation, Love received a $5,000 shopping experience at Diamond Vault in Sarasota, two Spring...
Wright turns in another scoreless outing (O's down 11-4)
Wright turns in another scoreless outing (O's down 11-4)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
SARASOTA, Fla. - Dissecting the first two spring outings begins with the basics for Mike Wright. Four innings and no runs allowed. "I like giving up no runs," Wright said this afternoon after shutting out the Rays over two innings. "That's fun." Wright allowed two hits, walked a batter and struck out one. He's surrendered five hits this spring, his first appearance coming Saturday in relief of starter Yefry Ramirez. "A little too many hits and obviously the walk today," he said....
Zimmerman scheduled to play Wednesday (Nats lose 6-1)
Zimmerman scheduled to play Wednesday (Nats lose 6-1)
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Ryan Zimmerman is the lone Nationals position player who has yet to appear in a Grapefruit League game this spring, but it doesn't appear he'll hold that distinction much longer. Zimmerman is scheduled to make his 2019 debut Wednesday when the Nationals host the Astros here in West Palm Beach, manager Davey Martinez said. Zimmerman, who infamously played in only one major league game last spring and did the vast majority of his work in minor league games on back...