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The Orioles are in a race to finish the season with more wins than reset buttons.
First baseman Chris Davis sat out eight games while trying to work through his offensive issues, taking early batting practice and advice from hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh and vice president of baseball operations Brady Anderson. Yesterday's lineup didn't include second baseman Jonathan Schoop, whose average dipped to .197, its lowest point since April 2.
Manager Buck Showalter suggested that Schoop also could...
PHILADELPHIA - When Chip Hale asked Davey Martinez for tonight's lineup, the Nationals manager looked at his bench coach with a skeptical eye. Uh, they scored 17 runs and launched seven homers Friday night. They were going with the exact same lineup tonight, no need to ask.
Past success, especially fleeting past success, of course does not guarantee future success. Martinez knew this, but he also knew you don't tempt the baseball gods after a game like that. So he instructed Hale to fill out...
On a steamy Saturday afternoon at Camden Yards, right-hander Andrew Cashner delivered a solid outing, another quality start and was in position for his first win at home with the Orioles.
But an offense that didn't score after the first inning and an O's bullpen that imploded conspired against him. The Los Angeles Angels scored five times in the eighth to win 6-2 in front of 38,838 at Camden Yards.
The Orioles (23-59) losing streak reaches seven. It's the club's seventh streak of five or...
The game within the game unfolded again today at Camden Yards.
The Orioles score two runs in the first inning to take an early lead and everyone is left to wonder whether that's going to be sufficient. Whether Andrew Cashner can push through the middle innings while keeping them ahead and trust the bullpen with the rest.
Maybe on another day or in another season. Not this one.
The Angels scored five runs off Mychal Givens and Tanner Scott in the eighth inning, the defense again...
PHILADELPHIA - The Nationals made another set of transactions today in addition to the ones that allowed Jeremy Hellickson to come off the disabled list at the expense of Sammy SolÃs. They also moved Ryan Zimmerman to the 60-day DL so they could reinstate minor league catcher Raudy Read after he completed his 80-game suspension for a positive drug test.
Read, whose suspension was handed down in early February after he tested positive for the performance enhancing drug Boldenone, saw his term...
PHILADELPHIA - Sammy SolÃs knew the Nationals were going to need to drop one of their nine relievers today to make room for starter Jeremy Hellickson. He just didn't expect to be the one who got dropped.
SolÃs, though, was the only one of those nine relievers on the current roster who still had a remaining option and thus could be sent to the minors without first passing through waivers. So the club made the decision to demote the guy who leads their staff and ranks second in the...
Since winning still matters to the Orioles, as manager Buck Showalter pointed out again this week, they were dealt another massive blow with the news that reliever Darren O'Day will undergo season-ending surgery.
The recovery period for O'Day is estimated at six months and the Orioles reached the mathematical halfway point of their season last night with a 23-58 record.
O'Day reinjured the hamstring while trying to field a bunt by the Mariners' Jean Segura in Tuesday night's 3-2 loss. The...
The Orioles reached the midpoint of the 2018 season after last night's 7-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels. The Orioles are 23-58 and that projects to a final record of 46-116. Today they host the Angels in game two of this three-game series.
The Orioles are now 0-14 versus American League West opponents and they've lost six in a row. This year they have had losing streaks of five, six, five, seven, seven, nine and now six games. If you add that up that is an amazing 0-45 in those streaks.
In...
Orioles reliever Darren O'Day is going to have season-ending surgery on his strained left hamstring. Yesterday O'Day was moved from the 10-day to the 60-day disabled list. The recovery time will be six months after the procedure.
O'Day suffered the injury while trying to field a ball Tuesday night versus Seattle in what will turn out to be his last game of the 2018 season. He got a second opinion yesterday. He is 0-2 with a 3.60 ERA and 1.100 WHIP in 20 games.
"Just kind of deciding when...
PHILADELPHIA - What do you do after hitting seven homers and exploding for 17 runs? Trot out the same lineup the next night, right?
That's what Davey Martinez is doing tonight, going with the same batting order from Friday night's win over the Phillies.
There is one change, of course, and that's the return of Jeremy Hellickson from a strained hamstring. The veteran right-hander, who hurt himself covering first base four weeks ago in Atlanta, returns not only to the Nationals rotation but...