Jace Peterson is starting at second base and Jonathan Villar has moved over to shortstop for Game 2 of today's doubleheader against the Red Sox. Villar is batting second behind Peterson. Manager Buck Showalter has made a few other tweaks to his lineup, including Trey Mancini starting at first base and Chris Davis serving as the designated hitter. Mancini is batting cleanup ahead of Davis, who struck out three times in Game 1. Cedric Mullins has moved up to seventh in the order after batting...

CHICAGO - The Bryce Harper-Ryan Zimmerman 1-2 punch doesn't exactly have a storied history at Wrigley Field. This, of course, is the venue where two years ago the Cubs did everything they could to avoid pitching to Harper and instead go after Zimmerman, who simply could not make them pay for the strategy. So when Anthony Rendon was scratched from today's game with a bruised left wrist, it may have surprised some that Davey Martinez decided to tweak his lineup by moving Harper into the No. 3...

Well, there were not 31 runs scored today in the first game of this day-night doubleheader. Boston lefty David Price kept the Orioles from scoring any as the Red Sox won 5-0 to improve to 83-35. Price went six scoreless on four singles and a double to improve to 12-6 with a 3.75 ERA. He did not walk a batter and fanned 10, throwing 94 pitches. His ERA is 1.03 his past four starts, with three runs allowed over 26 1/3 innings. Orioles right-hander Jimmy Yacabonis, recalled as the 26th man for the...

Because baseball tends to repel any form of logic, Jimmy Yacabonis joined the Orioles today as the 26th man and starter in Game 1 of a doubleheader after back-to-back duds with Triple-A Norfolk and plowed through a Red Sox lineup through four innings as if it were made of straw. Because baseball also can be incredibly fickle and elite teams have a tendency to counterpunch with steel gloves, the Red Sox mashed a couple of two-seam fastballs in the fifth inning, put three runs on the board and...

CHICAGO - When Anthony Rendon was hit by a pitch on his left hand in the top of the first Friday afternoon, the Nationals third baseman waved off a trainer and remained in the game. Rendon played all nine innings of the Nats' 3-2 loss to the Cubs. He batted three more times, driving a ball to the warning track in left field that was caught. He made three plays in the field. All appeared to be fine. But after the game ended, Rendon could be seen leaving the visitors' clubhouse at Wrigley...

After allowing their most runs since the 2012 season in a 19-12 loss to Boston last night, the Orioles host the Red Sox this afternoon. It is the start of a long day of baseball with a day-night doubleheader that continues tonight at 7:05 p.m. Boston crammed 19 runs into five at-bats last night with 16 hits. The Red Sox scored three in the first, two in fourth, six in the sixth, three in the seventh and five runs in the eighth. The Orioles had 17 hits, went 5-for-12 with runners in scoring...

CHICAGO - Another day, another opportunity for the Nationals to change the script of a season that has pretty much followed one path. And not the path this team wanted to follow. After their latest agonizing loss, the Nats will try to reverse the trend this afternoon at Wrigley Field and take the second game of this weekend series. They'll be hoping Tanner Roark can continue his recent reversal of trends - 3-0, 0.82 ERA his last three starts - and do his part to help beat the Cubs. It's...

The Orioles optioned left-hander Donnie Hart to Triple-A Norfolk today to make roster room for southpaw reliever Sean Gilmartin, the former first-round pick whose contract was selected from the Tides. Gilmartin joins Tanner Scott and Paul Fry as lefties in an eight-man bullpen. Hart has registered a 5.79 ERA and 2.286 WHIP in 15 appearances this season. He's allowed nine earned runs (10 total) and 24 hits and walked eight batters in 14 innings. In 27 games with the Tides, Hart has allowed only...

The Orioles are selecting the contract of left-hander Sean Gilmartin from Triple-A Norfolk and he's going to be in the bullpen for Game 1 of today's doubleheader against the Red Sox. The corresponding move could involve left-hander Donnie Hart, who last night allowed three inherited runners and three of his own to score in only one-third of an inning. He's been recalled eight times this season. Gilmartin, 28 signed a minor league deal on July 13 and has gone 2-0 with a 3.14 ERA in seven...

Like outfielder Cedric Mullins last night, Trey Mancini once went through that same excitement of playing in his first major league game. For Mancini it came on Sept. 20, 2016, and it was also against the Boston Red Sox. He went 1-for-3 and homered in his second big league at-bat. Mancini became the third player in Orioles history to homer in his major league debut, joining Larry Haney in 1966 and Jonathan Schoop in 2013. Before he did so, the last Oriole to homer for his first big league hit...