Quietly, Felipe Rivero has put together many consistent appearances. Nine in a row to be exact. Wednesday night, he fired a 1-2-3 seventh inning, inducing three flyouts. Then in the eighth, the southpaw Rivero worked two outs before allowing a Howie Kendrick double. He then got Chris Taylor to fly out. Two scoreless innings for Rivero. His previous outing was Sunday's 18-inning marathon against the Pirates. Rivero went a season-high and career-high matching three scoreless innings. Rivero now...

NEW YORK - Center fielder Adam Jones left tonight's game in the bottom of the eighth inning with a back spasm, but he intends to play Thursday afternoon as the Orioles try to avoid a four-game sweep. Jones didn't look comfortable running out a ground ball in the top of the eighth. He also winced and hesitated to make a throw after catching a fly ball from Brett Gardner that scored another Yankees run in their 5-0 win. Jones had ice on the back of his left hand earlier in the day, but that...

With the Nationals leading 8-1 heading to the ninth, right-hander Koda Glover was given the perfect opportunity to shine in his major league debut. It took him all of four pitches to finish off the game. The Dodgers managed two flyouts wrapped around a comebacker to Glover. He stabbed the hot shot off pinch-hitter Andrew Toles' bat and calmly threw to first base for the second out. For the second time in as many nights, manager Dusty Baker was impressed with the performance of a player called...

Bryce Harper has been hoping for that big hit to ignite a good run. He slammed one of four Nationals homers tonight in an 8-1 victory over the Los Angeles, snapping a six-game losing skid to the Dodgers. Facing the Dodgers right-hander Bud Norris in his first at-bat, Harper crushed a 451-foot two-run shot high into the third deck in right field to give the Nationals a 2-0 lead. It was his 20th homer of the season and first since July 7 at New York against the Mets. According to...

At this point for the Orioles, both the losses and the frustrations are mounting. For the Orioles, it was another night lacking clutch hits and runs as they lost 5-0 to the Yankees in the Bronx. They have lost three games in this series scoring a total of two runs on 14 hits. They went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position tonight, making them 2-for-17 in this series and 3-for-33 on this road trip that started with back-to-back wins but now has seen four losses in a row. They fall to 53-40...

If it's possible for one swing to get Bryce Harper back into MVP form, this might have been the one. Harper launched a towering home run off Bud Norris in the bottom of the first inning tonight, sending the 3-1 pitch halfway up the third deck down the right field line at Nationals Park, the farthest a ball has ever traveled to that portion of the stadium. The two-run blast traveled 451 feet and left Harper's bat with a velocity of 113 mph, according to Major League Baseball's Statcast...

NEW YORK - Bench coach John Russell will manage tonight's game at Yankee Stadium while Buck Showalter remains at the team hotel with a stomach virus. Bullpen coach Dom Chiti will serve as bench coach and special assignment pitching instructor Ramon Martinez will serve as bullpen coach. Will this be the night that the Orioles break out offensively, score runs in bunches and draw praise afterward for their resiliency while also marveling at baseball's unpredictability? The club has totaled 10...

With a lineup missing Manny Machado, Chris Davis, Matt Wieters and Hyun Soo Kim, the Orioles take on the Yankees in the Bronx tonight. They've lost the first two games of this series by 2-1 and 7-1 scores. The Orioles' offense has produced just two runs on nine hits with one homer in this series, going 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position. The Orioles have scored 10 runs on a 2-3 road trip with two games to go, going 2-for-24 with runners in scoring position. They begin tonight at 53-39...

NEW YORK - Orioles manager Buck Showalter didn't make it to Yankee Stadium this afternoon. Third baseman Manny Machado is on his way and will be examined by a doctor, felled by the same stomach virus that's delivering knockout punches. First baseman Chris Davis took batting practice and ground balls to gauge whether he could be used later in tonight's game. Bench coach John Russell, filling in for Showalter, is fortunate that he's only got a small scrape on the bridge of his nose. He's the...

Reynaldo Lopez's first stint in the big leagues was a brief one. The Nationals optioned the right-hander back to Triple-A Syracuse one day after the 22-year-old was roughed up in his major league debut. The pitcher the club promoted to take Lopez's spot, though, is even less experienced than the one he will replace: Koda Glover, who had his contract purchased from Syracuse to complete the 2015 draft pick's meteoric rise through the organization's farm system. Glover, also 22, was an...