CHICAGO - Miguel Gonzalez has officially rejoined the Orioles after being recalled from Double-A Bowie this afternoon to start against the Cubs. To clear a spot on the 25-man roster for Gonzalez, infielder Cord Phelps has been designated for assignment. Phelps was hitless in three at-bats for the Orioles. With only a week left before Sept. 1 roster expansion, the Orioles will go with three reserves and only one backup infielder, Ryan Flaherty.

The Orioles today announced that they have recalled right-hander Miguel Gonzalez from Double-A Bowie and have designated infielder Cord Phelps for assignment. Gonzalez, 30, is 6-6 with a 3.80 ERA (113.2IP, 48ER) in 20 games (19 starts) for the Orioles in 2014. In 68 career games (62 starts) for the Orioles, Gonzalez is 26-18 with a 3.64 (390.1IP, 158ER). Phelps, 27, was hitless in three at-bats for the Orioles. He batted .258/.358/.380 with 23 extra-base hits and 49 RBI in 97 games for the...

CHICAGO - Miguel Gonzalez makes the start at Wrigley Field as the Orioles aim to salvage one game of this weekend series. Gonzalez is 1-0 with a 3.32 ERA in three career interleague starts. For the Orioles Nick Markakis RF Steve Pearce 1B Adam Jones CF Nelson Cruz LF J.J. Hardy SS Chris Davis 3B Caleb Joseph C Jonathan Schoop 2B Miguel Gonzalez P For the Cubs Chris Coghlan LF Javier Baez SS Anthony Rizzo 1B Luis Valbuena 3B Welington Castillo C Arismendy Alcantara CD Logan Watkins 2B Matt...

The Nationals are seeking their fourth straight series win this afternoon. With a win over the Giants, the Nats will finish their 10-game homestand with a 9-1 record. Stephen Strasburg will face the Giants' Ryan Vogelsong. Strasburg is 2-0 with 0.60 ERA in 15 innings pitched over his last two starts. Catcher Jose Lobaton was behind the plate in both of Strasburg's previous two starts. For the Nationals CF Denard Span 3B Anthony Rendon RF Jayson Werth 1B Adam LaRoche SS Ian Desmond LF...

The Orioles have had a decent year on the farm at the plate. Several players and a few of their minor league teams have had success on offense this season. Jeff Manto is nearing the end of his first season as the Orioles coordinator of minor league hitting. A former Oriole and former big league hitting coach with Pittsburgh and the Chicago White Sox, Manto was hired Nov. 5. In this question and answer session he talked about his first year in his new role. Q: What has your first year been...

CHICAGO - Can the Orioles avoid their first three-game losing streak since late May? They've dropped two straight at Wrigley Field. They lost four in a row from May 27-30 in Milwaukee and Houston. The Orioles will make another roster move today to accommodate pitcher Miguel Gonzalez, who's starting the series finale against the Cubs that also closes out the three-city road trip. Manager Buck Showalter indicated yesterday that Manny Machado's pending knee surgery may have influenced a move...

CHICAGO - The Orioles were held to two hits today over the final seven innings, the bats never heating up after a rain delay that lasted 3 hours, 9 minutes. It's unfortunate for the Orioles that the weather knocked Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks out of the game. They collected two runs and five hits off him in two innings. Orioles starter Bud Norris couldn't stay loose during the delay because Wrigley Field lacks an indoor mound. Not that he would have returned after such a long layoff, but...

Right-hander Jordan Zimmermann notched his ninth win in a 6-2 Nationals defeat of the Giants, but the first question for him at his locker was how Hunter Pence crushed his high fastball over the fence for a 2-0 San Francisco lead in the first inning? "Very surprised. There's only one guy in the game that is going to hit that pitch and that's him," Zimmermann said. "I threw it right where I wanted to, 0-2, up by his shoulders, beats me how he hit it that far." Zimmermann wasn't the only...

The Giants held a 2-0 lead two batters in, but then Jordan Zimmermann bounced back. And the Nationals as a whole bounced back from dropping the opener of this three-game set, a defeat that snapped a 10-game winning streak. The Nats took the middle game of this series by an 8-2 score, with Zimmermann working eight stellar innings, Jayson Werth contributing two hits and two RBIs, Asdrubal Cabrera smoking a solo homer into the red seats in left-center and Denard Span again setting the table,...

Well, that took a while. The Orioles fell behind by two runs much earlier today, then waited out a rain delay of 3 hours, 9 minutes at Wrigley Field. They could not come back after the delay and lost 7-2 in a game that began during the afternoon and ended at night. The Orioles have lost the first two games of the series and it is just their second series loss in the last 11. They are 73-54 and their American League East lead is seven games over the New York Yankees, who won this...