SEATTLE - Orioles manager Buck Showalter is resting center fielder Adam Jones today. Jones is available off the bench if needed. He would have been the designated hitter for the series finale if he had stayed in the lineup. The Orioles are off Thursday, providing additional rest for a player who's always banged up throughout the course of a season. "He's fine," Showalter said. "Sore, just wear and tear. Nine days in a row. Trying to give him the benefit of two days. "I knew I was going to...

The Nationals jumped on Angels starter Ricky Nolasco in the first inning. With one out, Wilmer Difo singled. He now has a career-high 11-game hitting streak. Difo then stole second. After a groundout by Daniel Murphy, Ryan Zimmerman slammed his 28th homer of the season. The two-run shot over the left-center field wall put the Nats up 2-0. The Nats are 50-16 (.758) this season when scoring first. This is the second time in Zimmerman's career he has hit 28 homers in a season. He hit a...

SEATTLE - Adam Jones is out of today's lineup as the Orioles conclude their road trip. Manager Buck Showalter will explain later. Craig Gentry is playing center field and batting ninth. Trey Mancini is the cleanup hitter. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Tim Beckham is the first player with 30 hits in his first 15 games with a team since Kenny Lofton in 1997 with the Braves. Before Lofton, the last player was Hall of Famer Nap Lajoie, who did it in consecutive seasons with the...

The Nationals this morning selected the contract of outfielder Alejandro De Aza from Triple-A Syracuse and placed outfielder Brian Goodwin on the 10-day disabled list with a left groin strain. Further, the Nationals transferred shortstop Trea Turner (right wrist fracture) on the 60-day disabled list to open a 40-man roster spot for De Aza. Goodwin's DL stint is retroactive to Aug. 14. The 33-year-old De Aza was signed June 14 and was hitting .280 with 11 doubles, four homers, 25 walks and 19...

The Washington Nationals selected the contract of outfielder Alejandro De Aza from Triple-A Syracuse on Wednesday and placed outfielder Brian Goodwin on the 10-day disabled list (retroactive to Aug. 14) with a left groin strain. Additionally, the Nationals transferred shortstop Trea Turner on the 60-day disabled list. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcements. De Aza, 33, joins the Nationals for his first Major League assignment of the...

Fans are encouraged to arrive early on Saturday, August 19, as the Orioles celebrate the 25th anniversary season of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Prior to the 7:05 p.m. game against the Los Angeles Angels, the Orioles will honor the first team to play at The Ballpark That Forever Changed BaseballTM when 19 members of the 1992 Orioles return for special reunion festivities. Among those expected to attend are Orioles Legend and National Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., Orioles Hall of...

One reason the Nationals defeated the Angels in the series opener was their ability to prevent Mike Trout from launching a game-changing hit. He did have a scorching single up the middle in the Angels' best chance to score in the sixth, but Gio Gonzalez did a nice job of working out of the difficult situation and keep them off the board. The Nationals ended up with a 3-1 win. Howie Kendrick, who crushed two homers for the Nats, knows from experience how good Trout is, and it starts with the...

Orioles second baseman Jonathan Schoop has been having a career year, absolutely obliterating all of his prior season highs. Through 118 games, he's slashing .303/.354/.543 with 26 home runs and a 134 wRC+. His best season totals prior to 2017 was when he batted .279/.306/.482 with a 112 wRC+ in just 86 games in 2015, and he hit 25 long balls in a full 2016 season. He's on pace to hit well over 30 homers this season, which would be a first in his career. So far, he's definitely earned Most...

The Orioles are in win-one, lose-one mode and they can't seem to get out of this cycle. It is probably not going to be good enough if they can't begin to improve on it - even in a mediocre group of teams competing for the second American League wild card. The Orioles got a homer from Jonathan Schoop in the first inning last night and scored nothing after that. They scored 12 runs last Saturday and three Sunday. They scored 11 runs Monday and one last night. The last 20 Orioles were retired...

SEATTLE - The Orioles will try to go .500 on their West Coast trip while closing out their series this afternoon against the Mariners. A win would put them one game below .500 for the season, territory as familiar to them as a childhood home. The second wild card remains two games beyond their reach. Ubaldo Jiménez has given up three runs or fewer in his last four starts, though he hasn't completed the sixth inning in his last two appearances. He's walked four batters and struck out 17 in...