Gerardo Parra is batting second behind Manny Machado and playing left field tonight in his Orioles' debut. He will become the 1,000th player to appear in a game for the team since it moved to Baltimore in 1954. Matt Wieters is making his second career start at first base and his third appearance. His other start came in 2011. Chris Davis remains in right field. Jonathan Schoop is playing second base. For the Orioles Manny Machado 3B Gerardo Parra LF Adam Jones CF Chris Davis RF Matt Wieters 1B...

The Orioles have placed pitcher Mike Wright on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left calf muscle and recalled right-handed reliever Jorge Rondon from Triple-A Norfolk. Wright replaced starter Wei-Yin Chen in the fourth inning last night and exited in the fifth. The club hoped that Wright was experiencing cramps in his calf, but an MRI this morning revealed the strain. Wright was recalled yesterday from Norfolk after the Orioles traded reliever Tommy Hunter to the Cubs for minor league...

FLUSHING, N.Y. - After displaying improved control and command over the past month, Gio Gonzalez labored through his abbreviated start last night. Gonzalez walked four and let his pitch count balloon up to 105 pitches, forcing Nationals manager Matt Williams to yank the left-hander with two men on and two outs in the fifth. "I just put my team in a tough situation," Gonzalez said. "I gotta go deeper in the game. I kept falling behind on every hitter. No excuses. I should've done a better...

Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs shortstop Trea Turner has seven hits in his last five games. He is hitting .256 over his last 10 games but .316 overall for the season. Turner had a 3-for-5 day on July 30 and went 2-for-5 on July 27. To get a better measure of how good of a hitter Turner is capable of being is to view how he did in the month of July with Syracuse. In 27 games, Turner hit .340 (34-for-100) with three doubles, three triples, two homers, 11 RBI, eight walks, seven stolen bases and 17 runs...

The Orioles scored two runs in a game twice in the series against Atlanta and won both games. They have scored eight runs on back-to-back nights against Detroit and they go 1-1. So, yeah, baseball. Hard to predict how it will go on any given night. But Friday was kind of Givens' night. Mychal Givens, the 25-year-old right-hander who began his pro career as a shortstop, got his first major league victory last night. It was his second major league appearance. Givens featured the solid mid-90s...

The Orioles won last night for the sixth time in seven games. They gained ground in the wild card race. And they still need to regroup. The non-waiver trade deadline has passed, though plenty of deals are struck in August. It's mostly a superficial deadline that doesn't warrant a countdown clock and mass hysteria. Players now must pass through waivers before being traded, which isn't an uncommon occurrence. But back to the regrouping. ... They need to finish coming to grips with the Tommy...

FLUSHING, N.Y. - In a tie game with postseason implications in a playoff-type atmosphere, Bryce Harper, arguably the MVP of the National League, got himself ejected after striking out in the 11th inning. "He needs to stay in the baseball game," manager Matt Williams repeated three times, after the Nationals lost 2-1 on Wilmer Flores' walk-off homer in the 12th. Home plate umpire Jerry Meals was inconsistent throughout the game. Meals punched out Jayson Werth on a low and outside fastball to...

New Orioles outfielder Gerardo Parra arrived in Baltimore tonight, shortly after first pitch. He was activated for tonight's game but didn't play. He did get to meet his new teammates and watch them post a comeback 8-7 win over Detroit. "I feel like I played today, too, being in the dugout and seeing the guys play hard. I love it," the 28-year-old Venezuelan native said. "I feel happy to come here. Great team. They play hard every day, and I'm so happy to be here. Everybody put out a hand...

Rookie pitcher Mike Wright may have strained his left calf muscle tonight. He's expected to undergo an MRI on Saturday to determine the severity of his injury, and the Orioles may be forced to call up another reliever. Wright limped off the field in the top of the fifth inning of the Orioles' 8-7 victory over the Tigers before 36,985 at Camden Yards. The club announced that he was bothered by a cramp, but it may be more serious. "Initially, we thought it was a cramp," said manager Buck...

This time, the comeback was complete. One night after they fell a run short after being seven runs down, the Orioles rallied from behind 6-0 to win. Adam Jones hit a three-run homer and Manny Machado a go-ahead two-run homer as the Orioles rallied to beat the Detroit Tigers 8-7 in front of 36,985 at Camden Yards. The Orioles won for the sixth time in seven games to improve to 52-50. They have scored 37 runs in their last seven games and 16 runs in this series. Detroit once again got off to a...