If a team wants to chase a division title and maybe chase 100 wins in the process, it needs to find a lot of different ways to win games through the long season. While the Orioles have gotten a lot of attention for their power display so far this year, the team is not without speed. And the Orioles run the bases well. They often gain an extra 90 fe

Heston Kjerstad sat at his locker yesterday, slumped in his chair and looking at his phone. He smiled when a visitor approached and asked for a few minutes. He did the same thing the previous day. Being in or out of the Orioles lineup doesn’t influence his mood. Kjerstad was making his second start since the Orioles recalled him on April 23. He pla

ARLINGTON, Texas – One-run games aren’t for the faint of heart. And by one-run games, we’re not talking about games with a one-run margin of victory. We’re talking about 1-0 games, where every moment is magnified, every pitch is crucial and any one mistake can spell doom. That the Nationals somehow found a way to pull off a 1-0 win tonight over the

In this matchup, Orioles right-hander Corbin Burnes was the pitcher with the much longer and better resume. But tonight, Yankees 25-year-old right-hander Luis Gil gave his team a chance to split this four-game series in Baltimore. After losing here Monday and Tuesday, Gil, in his 13th major league start, shut down the Orioles over 6 1/3 scoreless i

ARLINGTON, Texas – One month into the season, the hierarchy of the Nationals bullpen is pretty clear. Kyle Finnegan and Hunter Harvey are at the top of the list. Tanner Rainey is at the bottom. That’s not how Davey Martinez hoped things would go. The Nats manager wanted to believe Rainey would recapture the late-inning role he held before tearing h

After two pitching-led wins in this series against the Yankees, the Orioles (19-10) hope for more good work on the mound tonight when they send out ace right-hander Corbin Burnes (3-0, 2.55 ERA) for his seventh start. The Orioles have posted 2-0 and 4-2 wins to take the first two games from the Yankees, moving from one game behind New York to one g

The clarity that must come to the Orioles’ rotation plans weren’t evident this afternoon. Manager Brandon Hyde confirmed the obvious intention of starting John Means, who was reinstated today from the 15-day injured list. However, he isn’t ready to announce who’s on the mound Thursday afternoon or this weekend in Cincinnati. “We have some roster mo

A lot can change in a span of a few days for bullpen pitchers. It has for the Orioles bullpen. Heading into the Yankees series, the O’s ‘pen was coming off a weekend with two blown leads in the ninth. And that ‘pen had been scored on in 13 of the previous 16 games, pitching to an ERA of 5.37 in that span. Then Cionel Pérez, Yennier Cano and Danny C

ARLINGTON, Texas – The opener of this interleague series was one to forget. The Nationals had only three baserunners (all via single, two of them never leaving the infield). MacKenzie Gore pitched well, but then the bullpen turned it into a rout by night’s end. A bad day all around. The Nats will try to shrug that off and get back on track (and get

Heston Kjerstad is starting in right field and batting eighth tonight, his second time in the lineup since the Orioles recalled him. Colton Cowser moves up to fifth. Ramón Urías is starting at third base. Ryan O’Hearn is the designated hitter. Anthony Santander begins the game on the bench. Santander’s nine doubles are tied for first in the America