For one night, right-hander Kevin Gausman was back in the Carolina League. He made three starts with Single-A Frederick after he was drafted in 2012 and was back on the mound for the Keys last Friday night at Wilmington. It was part of an injury-rehab assignment where Gausman began the process of building innings to get him back into a starting rotation - either in Triple-A Norfolk, Baltimore or both. Gausman has been on the disabled list with right shoulder tendinitis retroactive to May 7. He...

The men who decide whether a pitch is a ball or strike, whether a player is safe or out (and, more recently, who pore over video replays to determine the status of contested plays) have a whole bunch of new fans in Baltimore. The four major league umpires - Cory Blaser, Laz Diaz, Chris Guccione and Jeff Nelson - working tonight's Orioles game spent part of Wednesday morning at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center as part of UMPS CARE Charities' Blue for Kids program. The men in blue ditched...

Orioles manager Buck Showalter said Miguel Gonzalez's start on Sunday is "definitely in jeopardy," and all signs point to the right-hander going on the disabled list with a strained right groin muscle. Gonzalez said today that he's still sore after leaving last night's start in the fifth inning. No roster move is expected before Thursday's game. Showalter said all of his relievers are available tonight, but he's working with a six-man bullpen and could use another arm before Brian Matusz...

The third day of Major League Baseball's amateur draft is today. The first year of the draft was 1965, and it was established so that the rich teams couldn't buy up all the talent. Before the draft, players were scouted and recruited in the same manner that college recruiters used to go after high school athletes. But some players, such as Orioles great Brooks Robinson, who was elected to Cooperstown in 1983, had to find other ways to get noticed. Robinson wasn't followed by scouts as an...

Jimmy Paredes is serving as the designated hitter tonight for the Orioles and Caleb Joseph is behind the plate. Matt Wieters will begin the game on the bench. Travis Snider is playing left field and Delmon Young remains in right. For the Orioles Manny Machado 3B Jimmy Paredes DH Adam Jones CF Chris Davis 1B Delmon Young RF Travis Snider LF J.J. Hardy SS Ryan Flaherty 2B Caleb Joseph C Wei-Yin Chen LHP For the Red SoxDustin Pedroia 2BBrock Holt LF Hanley Ramirez DHMike Napoli 1BXander Bogaerts...

The Nationals finally displayed some clutch hitting in the third inning today. With two outs, Danny Espinosa sliced a double down the left field line off Yankees right-hander Nathan Eovaldi. Denard Span immediately followed with his own double, slapped just inside the bag at third, scoring Espinosa for the game's first run. Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez has surrendered one hit and walk with three strikeouts through three innings. Update: Espinosa did more two-out damage in the fifth. Eovaldi...

The Nationals will get their second look at Yankees right-hander Nathan Eovaldi this season. Ian Desmond and Bryce Harper both tagged Eovaldi for solo homers on May 19 as the Nats scored five runs in his 4 1/3 innings. Harper bombed his 20th homer of the year in last night's loss. The blast came in the 58th game, making Harper the fastest player to reach the 20-homer mark in Nationals history (2005-present). Harper trails only Miami slugger Giancarlo Stanton for the major league lead in home...

The Nationals are 58 games into this season, and it's not the Marlins, Mets, Cubs or even the Yankees who remain their toughest foe. As it turns out, they may be their own worst enemy. Though the Nationals have managed to find a groove and settle into first place in the National League East so far this season, they've dropped a game behind the Mets to second place in the division with their 6-1 loss to the Yankees on Tuesday night. It's June 10 and the All-Star break is nearly a month away....

The Nationals added talent and depth with picks from the fifth round through the 10th round Tuesday in the 2015 First-Year Player Draft. All of them came from the collegiate ranks. From the fifth through seventh rounds, the Nationals went on a run for southpaws. In the fifth round, the Nationals chose left-hander Taylor Hearn from Oklahoma Baptist University. Hearn went 9-0 with a 3.50 ERA in 15 games (13 starts) in 2015. He struck out 71 batters in 64 1/3 innings pitched. His nine wins ranked...

Through two days of the 2015 First-Year Player Draft, the Orioles have selected 11 players overall - six position players and five pitchers, with four of the selections being college players and seven from high schools. The Orioles selected four outfielders, three right-handed pitchers, two left-handed pitchers, and two infielders. Here are the selections so far: Round 1 (#25) - DJ Stewart, OF, Florida State Univ. Round 1 (#36) - Ryan Mountcastle, SS, Hagerty (FL) HS Round 2 (#68) - Jonathan...