MIAMI - Stephen Strasburg was utterly dominant last night against the Marlins, tossing eight innings of scoreless, three-hit ball. This, however, shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone who has watched Strasburg pitch so far in 2016. He's now 3-0 with a 1.25 ERA, after all. But, if you've really been paying attention to Strasburg for a while, you still shouldn't be surprised by all this. Because he has been this good since last summer. In 16 total starts since returning from the neck...

MIAMI - The first home run was a laser off Jayson Werth's bat, a line drive that made a beeline for the gaudy sculpture that sits beyond the fence in left-center at Marlins Park and required some deft work by stadium workers to retrieve. ("Did it lodge in one of the dolphins?" Werth asked later.) The second home run came before anyone could point out that Werth's blast was the 200th of his career. Wilson Ramos pounced on the very next pitch Adam Conley threw in the top of the seventh,...

The Orioles won't go unbeaten at home this year. They saw a 10-game home winning streak end tonight in a 4-3 loss to Toronto. It dated to Game 2 of a doubleheader last Sept. 30 and the streak was tied for the seventh-longest in team history. He only pitched two innings tonight, but reliever Tyler Wilson pointed a finger at himself for the loss. After throwing six scoreless innings over his first two appearances, he allowed a run in the seventh tonight, which provided Toronto its fourth and...

The Orioles no longer are unbeaten at home or on a nice early roll. Though they got six innings out of starter Mike Wright and the first home run from Matt Wieters, the Orioles lost again tonight, 4-3 to the Blue Jays before an announced crowd of 16,783 at Camden Yards. The Orioles have dropped four of their last five games, tonight's defeat coming after they stranded two runners in the eighth and went down quietly in the ninth. They had a 10-game home winning streak that dated to the second...

Manager: Ned Yost (7th season) Record: 10-5 Last 10 games: 6-4 Who to watch: 2B Omar Infante (.286), 1B Eric Hosmer (.305), DH Kendrys Morales (2 HR, 7 RBIs), C Salvador Perez (11 RBIs), CF Lorenzo Cain (.222 with 2 HR, 7 RBIs), RHP Kris Medlen (1-0, 2.38 ERA), RHP Yordano Ventura (1-0, 2.81 ERA), RHP Wade Davis (6 saves, 0.00 ERA) Season series vs. Orioles: First meeting (4-3 in 2015) Pitching probables: April 22: RHP Yovani Gallardo vs. RHP Chris Young, 8:15 p.m., MASN2 April 23: RHP Tyler...

The Orioles got a quality start for just the second time this season. But it did not lead to a win. Toronto's Marcus Stroman allowed three runs over seven innings as the Blue Jays beat the Orioles 4-3 in the opener of a three-game series at Camden Yards. The Orioles have lost four of the last five games after a 7-0 start to fall to 8-4. Toronto has won three in a row and is 8-7. Orioles center fielder Adam Jones left tonight's game before the top of the seventh due to a stomach virus. Jones,...

MIAMI - What for six innings was shaping up to be a classic pitchers' duel between Stephen Strasburg and Adam Conley instead turned into the most dramatic barrage of home runs the Nationals have ever hit during a stunning top of the seventh that propelled them to a 7-0 thumping of the Marlins. Jayson Werth, Wilson Ramos, Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmerman all homered during a stretch of eight batters in the decisive top of the seventh, Harper's coming with the bases loaded. It's the first time...

Orioles center fielder Adam Jones left tonight's game after the bottom of the sixth inning with a stomach virus, according to the team. Rule 5 pick Joey Rickard moved to center field and Nolan Reimold was inserted into left. Jones grounded to short for the second out in the sixth inning. He hit into a double play and singled in two previous at-bats. The news tonight is good, considering that Jones wasn't in the lineup for six games due to soreness in his rib area. He was used twice as a...

MIAMI - Stephen Strasburg's early season mastery is continuing early on tonight at Marlins Park, but Adam Conley is matching his counterpart pitch-for-pitch, leading to a scoreless game through four innings. He put one man on base in each of his first three innings, but Strasburg kept the Marlins from stringing together anything remotely resembling a rally. He pitched around a two-out walk of Christian Yelich in the bottom of the first, battling back to strike out Giancarlo Stanton with a 2-2...

Ramon Martinez is serving as Orioles pitching coach for the three-game series against the Blue Jays while Dave Wallace attends to a family matter. Martinez is in his second season as special assignment pitching instructor. The Orioles are the only team in the majors to remain unbeaten at home with a 5-0 record. The Nationals are 5-1 and the Royals are 4-1. When does a team gain a psychological advantage? "Not yet," said manager Buck Showalter. "Think about it. If we go 81-0, I think that...