FLUSHING, N.Y. - Matt den Dekker starts in right field again tonight with Bryce Harper out of the lineup. den Dekker doubled in the first game and helped the Nationals to victory with a spectacular running catch in the third. With two on and one out and left-hander Gio Gonzalez laboring, Daniel Murphy belted a fastball deep to right-center field which appeared headed for extra bases. The speedy den Dekker sprinted to the gap, making a sensational run-saving grab high over his head for the...

FLUSHING, N.Y. - Bryce Harper sits tonight after taking a fastball off his left shin in the sixth inning of this afternoon's 3-1 win over the Mets. Mets right-hander Noah Syndergaard ran a 97-mph heater inside which drilled Harper just below his knee. After the victory, Harper had a large ice pack wrapped around his left leg. "He's gonna be sore," Nationals manager Matt Williams said. "It's right on the shin bone and 97 mph." Max Scherzer takes the mound in the nightcap for the final...

The Orioles didn't make many changes to their Game 1 lineup as they prepare for the nightcap against the Yankees. Nolan Reimold is in center field again while Adam Jones remains unavailable due to tightness in his back. Ryan Flaherty is at second base again while Jonathan Schoop nurses a bruised right hand. Steve Pearce is in left field, Gerardo Parra is in right and Steve Clevenger remains the designated hitter. Two of the adjustments now have Caleb Joseph behind the plate and Paul Janish at...

FLUSHING, N.Y. - Not that Bryce Harper needed to add anything more to his resume which should result in the National League's MVP award, but late this afternoon the 22-year-old broke a tie with a mammoth two-run blast in the eighth as the Nationals dropped the Mets 3-1 in the series opener. With Yunel Escobar on first and two outs, Mets right-hander Addison Reed hung a slider and Harper pulverized it, sending the ball soaring to the upper deck right for his 42nd homer, tied for best in the...

Orioles right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez (12-10, 4.10 ERA) takes the mound tonight in Game 2 of this split-admission doubleheader. He is making his 32nd start and faces New York's 21-year-old right-hander Luis Severino (5-3, 2.77 ERA). Jimenez has given up just three runs in 13 innings his past two starts. In five September starts, he went 3-1 with a 2.93 ERA. He had gone 2-6 with a 6.15 ERA in 11 starts in July and August. In three starts this season versus the Yankees, he is 2-1 with an 8.16 ERA....

If left-hander Wei-Yin Chen pitched his last game as an Oriole today, he left on a high note. Most of his postgame interview today with reporters and interpreter Louis Chao was about Chen's four years in Baltimore, and if there will be a fifth season. He is a pending free agent. We heard from Chen, Manny Machado and Gerardo Parra after the Orioles' 9-2 win over New York in Game 1 of the split doubleheader. Chen was asked if today was emotional: "I tried not to think about it, but during the...

Wei-Yin Chen walked off the mound for the final time today to a nice ovation, many fans standing to applaud his performance in Game 1. The final time today. Probably the final time as an Oriole. The pending free agent was charged with two runs as he sat on the bench, but his 20th quality start this season pointed the Orioles toward a 9-2 victory over the Yankees before an announced crowd of 29,227 at Camden Yards. Chen is 11-8 with a 3.34 ERA in 31 starts - the lowest ERA he's posted in four...

In what may be his last appearance as an Oriole, Wei-Yin Chen pitched a strong game. Manny Machado meanwhile continued to remind us of his bright future. Machado homered and drove in three runs, Gerardo Parra added three RBIs and Chen gave up two runs over six-plus innings as the Orioles beat New York 9-2 in Game 1 of a split doubleheader. In winning their third game in a row, the Orioles improved to 79-81 and kept alive their shot to have a .500 season. They are now 8-9 versus New York, 45-31...

FLUSHING, N.Y. -- Mets rookie right-hander Noah Syndergaard has allowed just three baserunners through six innings. Matt den Dekker roped a leadoff double in the third but was stranded. Syndergaard walked Yunel Escobar and then hit Bryce Harper with two outs in the sixth but Jayson Werth struck out looking to end the inning. Harper took a 97 mph fastball of his left shin, knocking the 22-year-old to his knees. He remained in the game and is 0-for-2 with his batting average dropping to...

He didn't characterize it as actual contract negotiations, but Orioles reliever Darren O'Day said in the clubhouse this morning that he wants to remain an Oriole and the team has expressed that same interest. "Just kind of feelers to see where my interest is. To see if I'm interested in coming back. Yes I am, so, that is where we're at really," O'Day, a pending free agent, said. "They've expressed interest. I know they like me as a pitcher and as a person. Yeah, you know, I'd love to...