The Washington Nationals announced the winners of the third-annual end-of-season awards as voted on by the local media. Outfielder Bryce Harper was voted 2018 Nationals Player of the Year, while right-handed pitcher Max Scherzer was named Pitcher of the Year. Left-handed pitcher Sean Doolittle was given the 'Good Guy' Award, given to a player who is exceptionally accommodating to the media and involved in the community. The players will receive their awards in an on-field ceremony before...

BOSTON - The Orioles won't need a starting pitcher tonight. The rotation shuffling and bullpen mining will carry over to Wednesday's split doubleheader at Fenway Park. Rain and a forecast with no window conspired to force the postponement of tonight's game, which will be made up Wednesday at 1:05 p.m. The nightcap is set to begin at 7:10 p.m. The Orioles will confirm their starters later today. Jimmy Yacabonis was supposed to start tonight and Wednesday's series finale - which also ends the...

BOSTON - The rain continues to fall at Fenway Park and the forecast remains ominous. However, there's been no word so far on a postponement and split doubleheader on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Orioles announced that they've signed right-handers Cristian Alvarado and Francisco Jiménez, left-hander Chris Lee, catchers Martin Cervenka and Daniel Fajardo, infielder Anderson Feliz, and first basemen Ryan Ripken and Wilson García to minor league contracts for the 2019 season. Cervenka and Lee...

Steady. Consistent. Reliable. Those some of the words one might use to describe Anthony Rendon. The talented third baseman continued to drive in the final days of the season with another difference-making game at the plate yesterday, going 2-for-4 with a double, two-run homer and a game-high four RBIs as the Nationals eased past the Marlins 7-3 at a wet and rainy Nats Park. Rendon's two-run double in the first gave the Nats the lead for good at 2-1. His two-run shot in the fourth was part of a...

If you were to ask an Orioles fan which lefty reliever had the best season of any of the southpaws on the O's farm this season, that fan could make a very strong case for Tyler Erwin, who had an outstanding year for Single-A Frederick. The Orioles are sending Erwin to the Arizona Fall League, which begins next month. He'll play for the Glendale Desert Dogs. In 50 games for the Keys, Erwin, who turned 24 in August, went 4-4 with 18 saves and a 1.58 ERA. Over 68 1/3 innings, he allowed 45 hits...

BOSTON - As the Orioles plow through the last six games of the 2018 season, continuing their final road series tonight at Fenway Park, their fall instructional league is humming along and attracting former All-Stars. I wrote earlier about the separate camps in Sarasota that divide players into traditional baseball activities, strictly hitting and strength-and-conditioning. Former Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts, inducted this summer into the team's Hall of Fame, made an appearance...

Right-hander Stephen Strasburg didn't have the quick start that he had hoped, but battled through four innings to keep the Nationals in the game in what turned out to be a 7-3 dispatch of the Marlins. Strasburg allowed a pair of hits to begin the contest to find himself down 1-0 in the top of the first. JT Riddle singled and Miguel Rojas brought him home with a double. The top of the first took 23 minutes in a rainy Nats Park. Strasburg walked two batters in the second and lofted a wild pitch...

BOSTON - Orioles manager Buck Showalter couldn't announce his starter for Tuesday without knowing how Dylan Bundy fared tonight. Without knowing how deep into the game Bundy would pitch and how many times the bullpen phone rang. As more jackets came off relievers, fewer possibilities existed for Showalter. Only in a historically bad season can an expanded September roster stretch thin a manager's patience. Bundy neared 60 pitches after two innings and hauled a four-run deficit back to the...

Mock it as an old-school milestone, one that doesn't accurately reflect a player's offensive performance. Just know this: Major leaguers still care about RBIs, and Bryce Harper knew well when he took the field tonight he needed one more to reach the century mark for the first time in his career. "It's an unbelievable milestone," manager Davey Martinez said before the Nationals' 7-3 victory over the Marlins on another waterlogged night on South Capitol Street. "Those guys that do it...

The Marlins jumped out quickly on right-hander Stephen Strasburg with a leadoff single by JT Riddle and an RBI double courtesy of Miguel Rojas. In the bottom of the first, the Nationals didn't waste any time scoring against Marlins right-hander Sandy Alcantara. Adam Eaton led off with a walk. One batter later, Bryce Harper doubled and Eaton went to third base. Anthony Rendon doubled in two runs. Rendon's 42 doubles are a new career high. He has now reached base in 32 consecutive games, also a...