They were blanked last night, but the Orioles would not be shut out today. Behind their biggest first inning of the 2018 season, they beat the Chicago White Sox 8-4 to avoid getting swept in three straight at Camden Yards. The Orioles (43-106) avoided, at least for a day, tying the 1988 Orioles for most losses in club history. They won for just second time in 10 games and third in the last 15 games. They are 26-48 at home. Chicago (59-90) was looking for its first three-game sweep in Baltimore...

On the four-year anniversary of the Orioles clinching their first division title since 1997, they managed to avoid tying the club record for most losses in a season. No champagne on ice, no plastic covering the lockers. An Orioles flag wasn't trotted around the warning track, fans didn't stick around to share in a celebration and Adam Jones didn't pie anyone. It was just a nice win on a gorgeous afternoon at Camden Yards following a loss last night that gnawed at Buck Showalter. Embrace the...

ATLANTA - Given what he's been through in the last 18 months - a torn ACL and sprained ankle, rehab from those injuries, the discovery of further injury to his ankle and rehab from another surgery - you might think Adam Eaton would be taking it easy here as the Nationals' season winds down. You would, of course, be wrong. Eaton is playing more regularly now than he did earlier in the season, when the Nats were still in the thick of the race. He has started 17 of the team's last 20 games,...

Orioles manager Buck Showalter indicated today that rookie Luis Ortiz isn't close to being available to pitch and likely will undergo an MRI on his left hamstring early this week "On anybody that there's some possible questions on, they do exit MRIs on to make sure they've got a baseline to compare anything with and not be surprised during the offseason," Showalter said. "And there's some talk about pushing that forward to, say, Monday or Tuesday, making sure what we're dealing with...

Orioles rookie DJ Stewart is serving as designated hitter today, while searching for his first major league hit. Breyvic Valera is the second baseman and Jonathan Villar is the shortstop. Joey Rickard is in left field and Adam Jones is starting in right. Chance Sisco is catching. On this date in 2014, the Orioles defeated the Blue Jays 8-2 at Camden Yards to win the American League East title for the first time in 17 years. For the Orioles Cedric Mullins CF Joey Rickard LF Jonathan Villar SS...

ATLANTA - The week began with a game in Philadelphia that had to be postponed not because it was raining but because it had rained and the infield couldn't be brought back to life in time. It continued with a makeup game in D.C. that the Cubs didn't want to play out of fear of Hurricane Florence (which at that point was centered more than 400 miles south of Washington). And now the week concludes with one more game at SunTrust Park, where the sun mostly shone Friday and Saturday but has now...

Manager: Don Mattingly (3rd season) Record: 58-91 Last 10 games: 3-7 Who to watch: C J.T. Realmulto (.282 with 21 HR, 71 RBIs), 2B Starlin Castro (.280), RF Brian Anderson (59 RBIs), LF Derek Dietrich (16 HR, 45 RBIs), RHP Sandy Alcantara (2-0, 1.42 ERA), RHP Kyle Barraclough (10 saves) Season series vs. Nationals: 5-9 Pitching probables: Sept. 17: RHP Erick Fedde (2-3) vs. RHP Trevor Richards (3-9), 7:10 p.m., MASN Sept. 18: RHP Stephen Strasburg (8-7) vs. RHP Sandy Alcantara (2-0), 7:10 p.m.,...

The Orioles have lost by 8-6 and 2-0 scores to the Chicago White Sox this weekend at Oriole Park. They need a victory today over the White Sox or Chicago will have its first three-game sweep at Baltimore in more than 20 years. Chicago's last three-game sweep in Baltimore from was from Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 1998. Since then, the White Sox have swept a four-game series in Baltimore and that was from July 29-Aug. 1, 2005. With a loss today, the Orioles (42-106) will equal the club record for losses in...

Outfielder Cedric Mullins called being named the winner of the Brooks Robinson Award as the Orioles' minor league Player of the Year "top tier." But having Mr. Oriole himself there might have taken it a few tiers beyond that. When Brooks Robinson is around, is it possible to have a bad day? The Orioles Hall of Famer, legend, all-time great and current team special advisor and community liaison was seated in the second row during a press conference last night to honor the minor league award...

ATLANTA - Juan Soto has made a name for himself throughout the baseball world this season. For what he has done with his bat. Not his legs. Until Saturday, when Soto showed off a part of his game few previously knew existed: his ability to run. The Nationals' rookie phenom stole three bases in a 7-1 victory over the Braves, including third base on the front end of a double steal. He entered the day with only two stolen bases in the major leagues. He finished it with five. "That feels pretty...