ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Jonathan Schoop is leading off tonight while Tim Beckham is on the bench with a sore hamstring. The Orioles' lineup doesn't include Adam Jones. Austin Hays remains the center fielder. Pedro Álvarez is the cleanup hitter tonight. Chance Sisco is catching Miguel Castro. For the Orioles Jonathan Schoop 2B Trey Mancini LF Manny Machado 3B Pedro Álvarez DH Chris Davis 1B J.J. Hardy SS Chance Sisco C Austin Hays CF Anthony Santander RF Miguel Castro RHP For the Rays...

It's not necessarily high on their priority list right now, but the Nationals do still have a chance to win 99 games this season and thus set a new franchise record. To get there, they need to win both tonight and Sunday afternoon against the Pirates, which is far from an impossible task. And it only helps to have Max Scherzer on the mound tonight for his final regular season start. The ace right-hander enters tonight with a 2.55 ERA and needing to have a strong outing if he wants to leapfrog...

The Orioles are certainly staggering to the end of the 2017 season. It is an end that will come tomorrow and may be about 24 hours away. The Orioles (75-85) play the Tampa Bay Rays (78-82) tonight in the second game of a three-game series. Three O's pitchers walked 10 batters last night and the Orioles had just four hits in a 7-0 loss to the Rays. Wade Miley took the loss, allowing four runs over four innings, to end his year at 8-15 with a 5.61 ERA. Over the last four games, O's starters...

The Nationals lineup was back to where it was supposed to be from opening day in a 6-1 win over Pittsburgh on Friday, minus center fielder Adam Eaton, who is out for the season with a major knee injury. The lineup delivered with a pair of electrifying innings where it contributed multiple hits -- the sixth and the eighth. The offense even put together four hits in five at-bats in the first inning to plate an early run. The game was put away in the eighth inning, when Ryan Zimmerman and Jayson...

Hey, at least Trey Mancini had a hit. He did indeed, extending the longest hitting streak ever by an Orioles rookie to 17 straight games. He's playing well to the end. He just hasn't had many teammates join him. The Orioles put up little resistance Friday night in a 7-0 loss to the Rays, as the end of their 2017 season drew closer. Just two games to go now with the team at 75-85. The Orioles began this year playing great baseball as they went 22-10. They are ending it playing terribly....

If there was a start Stephen Strasburg wanted to have to get him tuned up right before the postseason begins next week, this was the one. Strasburg fired 7 2/3 shutout innings and Ryan Zimmerman had a pair of homers with four RBIs as the Nationals rolled the Pirates 6-1. Strasburg did not allow a hit until there was two outs in the fifth. He struck out eight, walked two and scattered two hits to improve to 15-4. He did all of this on just 98 pitches, 63 for strikes. "Just like you put in a lot...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Rule 5 pick Anthony Santander cooled off last night inside Tropicana Field, where it's always 72 degrees and able to withstand heavy rains like the kind that pummeled it for much of the game. Santander had five hits in his last eight at-bats, including three doubles, before going 0-for-4 in the Orioles' 7-0 loss to the Rays. The Orioles were held to four hits and suffered their 11th shutout of the season. Their 80 runs in September are the fewest in the majors. Manager...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Through four innings of tonight's game against the Rays, Orioles left-hander Wade Miley had struck out six batters and also issued five walks. He kept missing bats and the strike zone. He kept playing good pitcher, bad pitcher, but in a solo act. Miley was making his final start in 2017 and quite possibly his last with the Orioles, who hold a $12 million option for next season. Are they ready to walk away from Miley? Evan Longoria led off the fifth with a home run, Logan...

Stephen Strasburg likes recording strikeouts against the Pirates. He struck out a then career-high 14 against Pittsburgh in his major league debut on June 8, 2010. On May 27, 2017, he struck out 15 against San Diego in a 3-0 win. After a 1-2-3 first inning, Strasburg struck out five of his next six batters faced. He struck out the side in the third. The Nationals put together four hits in five at-bats in the first inning. Ryan Zimmerman hit an RBI double, but Daniel Murphy was tagged out at...

For the first time in a long time, the Nationals finally have their projected starting lineup back. And it comes with three games left in the season. The question is will Dusty Baker use this same lineup for the postseason. Probably not. Baker has placed Bryce Harper in the No. 2 hole to maximize the number of at-bats he can get during a game if he wants him to only go six or seven innings. Harper got the day off Thursday after two games in Philadelphia. Harper had admitted he was a little bit...