The Orioles debut for left-hander Wade Miley lasted just five innings and ended when he took a comebacker off his foot. Miley might have come out of the game anyway, but he allowed four runs as Texas beat the Orioles 5-3 to salvage the final game of a three-game series. Held to three runs and 10 hits in the series first two games, the Rangers broke out with six doubles and a homer among 11 hits tonight. The Rangers won the season series, four games to three, giving them a home field advantage...

Manager: Robin Ventura (5th season) Record: 52-56 Last 10 games: 4-6 Who to watch: LF Melky Cabrera (.306 with 118 hits), 3B Todd Frazier (30 HR, 68 RBIs), 1B Jose Abreu (.269 with 12 HR, 24 doubles), LHP Chris Sale (14-5, 3.12 ERA), RHP David Robertson (4.06 ERA with 26 saves) Season series vs. Orioles: 2-2 Pitching probables: August 5: RHP Yovani Gallardo vs. RHP Miguel Gonzalez, 8:10 p.m., MASN2August 6: RHP Chris Tillman vs. LHP Carlos Rodon, 7:10 p.m., MASN2August 7: RHP Dylan Bundy vs....

Wade Miley's first pitch tonight as an Oriole missed the strike zone. The fifth one found it, producing a leadoff double for Shin-Soo Choo with a 3-1 count. Miley has a 6.63 ERA in the first inning this season, but he stranded Choo at third base by striking out Ian Desmond, retiring Carlos Beltran on a ground ball and striking out Adrian Beltre. Miley threw 20 pitches. His strikeouts came on a slider and curveball. The second inning didn't go quite as smoothly for Miley, who retired Rougned...

Acquired via trade from the Seattle Mariners on Sunday, left-hander Wade Miley (7-8, 4.98 ERA) makes his Orioles debut tonight against the Texas Rangers. Miley made 19 starts for the Mariners before the deal. Over his last three starts, he has pitched to an ERA of 2.79 with six walks to 17 strikeouts over 19 1/3 innings. Miley went 1-4 with an ERA of 3.45 in five July starts with a .248 batting average against. This followed a June where he went 1-2 with a 7.40 ERA in four starts with a .314...

After recording his latest save last night in the 3-2 win over Texas, Orioles closer Zach Britton is a major league record holder. He is 2-1 with a 0.59 ERA and 33 saves in 33 chances. According to STATS, LLC, Britton has the longest save streak in as many chances to start a season by a left-handed pitcher in major league history. He broke a tie he held with Willie Hernandez, who went 32-for-32 for the 1984 Detroit Tigers. Britton's run of 33 straight saves to start a season is tied for...

Orioles pitchers took batting practice this afternoon in preparation for their interleague series against the Giants in San Francisco. Manager Buck Showalter hasn't announced his starters for the series. He didn't base his decisions on their batting averages. "If you have that much in advance, but it's more about creating the best consistency in pitchers," he said. "We've done that some when we had the opportunity and there wasn't much separator, but now it's about the pitchers and...

"It was the old New York way of taking a life 'without effusion of blood': the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes,' except the behavior of those who gave rise to them." This pretty well sums up the underpinning of all that transpires in one of the all time prized novels, "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton. The time is the mid-1800s and the cast of characters is from...

Manager: Bruce Bochy (10th season) Record: 62-46 Last 10 games: 4-6 Who to watch: C Buster Posey (.291/.364/.463 with 12 HR, 50 RBIs), 1B Brandon Belt (.283 /.395/.481 with 12 HR, 53 RBIs), SS Brandon Crawford (10 HR, 67 RBIs), LHP Madison Bumgarner (10-6, 2.25 ERA), RHP Santiago Casilla (2.98 ERA with 25 saves) Season series vs. Nationals: 2-2 Pitching probables: Aug. 5: LHP Gio Gonzalez vs. RHP Jeff Samardija, 7:05 p.m., MASN Aug. 6: RHP Stephen Strasburg vs. RHP Matt Cain, 7:05 p.m., MASN...

Wade Miley makes his Orioles debut tonight as they attempt to sweep the Rangers before heading to Chicago. Miley is the first left-hander to start for the Orioles this season. Matt Wieters is catching Miley tonight. Hyun Soo Kim is in left field and Mark Trumbo is in right, with Pedro Alvarez serving as the designated hitter. Chris Davis is batting cleanup. The Orioles named Single-A Delmarva pitcher Ofelky Peralta as the organization's minor league Pitcher of the Month for July. Peralta, 19,...

The Nationals have adjusted their rotation for the weekend, electing to bump everyone up a day, have them pitch on normal rest and skip over the fifth starter's spot for now. The club had initially left Friday night's starter against the Giants as "TBD" but now Gio Gonzalez will start the opener at Nationals Park, with Stephen Strasburg on Saturday and Tanner Roark on Sunday. All three will be pitching on normal four days' rest, thanks to today's day off-day for the team. With two more...