Manny Machado stood at home plate tonight and raised his bat, knowing his fly ball to center field with the bases loaded in the ninth inning would drop on the other side of the fence. The third time was the real charm. Machado's walk-off grand slam against Angels reliever Keynan Middleton gave the Orioles a dramatic 9-7 win over the Angels before an announced crowd of 26,185 at Camden Yards, setting off more fireworks before the scheduled show. The Orioles were two outs away from another loss...

SAN DIEGO - Thrust into a less-than-ideal situation tonight, Matt Grace wound up not only surviving but thriving and giving the Nationals everything they could have asked for after Max Scherzer was a late scratch. Forced into an emergency start when Scherzer couldn't go following a recurrence of the neck injury that knocked him out of a start earlier this month, Grace took the mound at Petco Park hoping to give whatever he had as the first in a carousel of Nats relievers who will be asked to...

Orioles third baseman Manny Machado had a night to remember. He hit three homers tonight, the last of which was a walk-off grand slam in the last of the ninth. That turned a potential 7-5 loss into a stunning 9-7 win over the Los Angeles Angels in the series opener. Machado produced his fourth career walk-off hit and third via a homer. It was Machado's seventh career grand slam and the Orioles' sixth of the year. Anthony Santander started the O's ninth with his first big league hit, a single...

The first day of the road trip, it was Ryan Madson. The second day of the road trip, it is Max Scherzer. The disabled list has been the not-so-silent partner in the Nationals first place 2017 season. The 25-man roster has seen itself varied and the 40-man roster tested. The minor league system has shown it has quality depth. President of baseball operations and general manager Mike Rizzo has also done a nice job of adding three new bullpen arms and a quality hitting infielder/outfielder in...

SAN DIEGO - Max Scherzer thought his neck troubles were behind him. Turns out they aren't. And because of it, the Nationals are going to need to ask their bullpen to pitch an entire game tonight. And then someone else to make a start next week. Scherzer was scratched from his scheduled start against the Padres after reporting the same problem that forced him out of his Aug. 1 start in Miami. This time, however, the issue was on the other side of his neck, prompting the Nationals to place...

Rick Sutcliffe, the man who stood on the mound for the first inning of the first game at Camden Yards back in 1992, remembers the excitement in his household as the letter arrived from the Orioles inviting him to the 25th anniversary celebration that's taking place this weekend, beginning with today's luncheon at the B&O Warehouse. The feeling was much different for Glenn Davis, the former first baseman who arrived with tremendous fanfare and left as the centerpiece in arguably the worst...

After some heavy rain at Camden Yards earlier this afternoon, the Orioles and Los Angeles Angels will try to get this game in tonight. It is the start of a three-game series, a six-game homestand and a stretch of 16 home games in 19 contests for the Orioles. However, the tarp was still on the field as 7 p.m. approached, and tonight's game will not start on time. But the Orioles announced an approximate start time of 7:40 p.m. The Orioles are 35-23 at home and 24-39 on the road. They are 12-5-2...

SAN DIEGO - The last time Max Scherzer faced the Padres, he allowed one run on three hits, struck out 13 and came within one out of a complete-game victory. That was May 26 at Nationals Park, and it was among the ace's most dominant outings of the season. Now Scherzer gets another crack at the majors' least productive lineup, taking the mound at Petco Park tonight in the second game of this weekend series. Anytime Scherzer takes the mound, there's reason to drop whatever you're doing and...

Orioles first base coach Wayne Kirby sat down next to Anthony Santander this afternoon to talk about playing the outfield at Camden Yards, which the Rule 5 pick will do tonight in his major league debut. Santander was limited to hitting in spring training because of a sore elbow. He's been on the disabled list all season with a strained right forearm, finally able to don the outfielder's glove during his injury rehab assignment. "I'm just worrying about basically him playing straight-up,...

Anthony Santander, a 22-year-old Orioles outfielder from Venezuela, will make his major league debut tonight, weather permitting. He is batting seventh in right field against Angels left-hander Andrew Heaney. Santander's path to Camden Yards came via Single-A Lynchburg of the Carolina League last season. Then the Orioles selected him in the Rule 5 draft in December from Cleveland. He was on the disabled list all this year with a strained right forearm. He ended a 20-day rehab assignment...