CHICAGO - The first inning tonight presented Adam Jones with another opportunity to drive in a run. Naturally, he took advantage of it. Jones singled with one out to score Steve Pearce and give the Orioles a 1-0 lead. Twenty-four of Jones' 76 RBIs this season have come in the first inning, along with 11 of his 23 home runs. Pearce got on base with his fourth double in the last three games. He's 6-for-11 in that span, including a home run, two RBIs and three runs scored. The Orioles worked...

Fresh off a win over ace Chris Sale, the Orioles look for a second straight win in Chicago tonight. A win in one of the next two games will give the Orioles their ninth series victory in their last 10 series. Nick Markakis went 2-for-3 against Sale last night. He joined Josh Hamilton (June 7), Gregor Blanco (June 18) and Alex Gordon (July 21) as the only left-handed hitters with multiple hits off Sale in a single game in 2014. For the season, the Orioles are 19-for-51 (.373) against Sale in two...

Stephen Strasburg's inability to get off to fast starts haunted him again to begin his second outing against the Diamondbacks this season. In his first start against Arizona on May 13, Strasburg allowed only three runs that came later in the game, and took the hard-luck 3-1 loss. With two outs Tuesday night in the first inning, David Peralta got a hold of a 1-2 pitch and crushed it over the right field wall to give Arizona a 1-0 lead. It was Peralta's second home run in as many at-bats as...

CHICAGO - Orioles manager Buck Showalter pulled Ubaldo Jimenez aside this afternoon and told the right-hander that he's headed to the bullpen. Kevin Gausman, Bud Norris and Miguel Gonzalez will start the three games against the Cubs at Wrigley Field, and Chris Tillman will pitch Monday night against the Rays at Camden Yards. Jimenez has made one relief appearance, and it came in his major league debut on Sept. 26, 2006 against the Dodgers. He worked the eighth inning and allowed two...

Nationals manager Matt Williams confirmed that outfielder Nate McLouth has a torn labrum in his right shoulder and is done for the season. McLouth had been on the disabled list since Aug. 4 (retroactive to Aug. 2) with right shoulder inflammation. An MRI athrogram and doctors' consultation confirmed the seriousness of the injury. Williams said McLouth will have surgery on Thursday. "It's something he's been dealing with all year," Williams said. "For me, the symptoms got bad after that...

CHICAGO - Delmon Young gets another start in left field tonight and Chris Davis continues to bat seventh as the Orioles' third baseman for the second game of their series against the White Sox. Nelson Cruz is serving as the designated hitter and Steve Pearce is playing first base against White Sox left-hander Jose Quintana. Pearce is batting second. For the Orioles Nick Markakis RF Steve Pearce 1B Adam Jones CF Nelson Cruz DH Delmon Young LF J.J. Hardy SS Chris Davis 3B Jonathan Schoop 2B Nick...

Outfielder Nate McLouth's first season with the Nationals has come to an early end. This afternoon, the team announced that the 32-year-old will undergo surgery to repair the labrum in his right shoulder on Thursday. He has been on the disabled list with shoulder inflammation since Aug. 4. McLouth signed a two-year, $10.75 million contract with Washington in the offseason, and the first year didn't go according to plan. While the Nats' fourth outfielder provided the club with a good...

The Nationals are attempting to win their eighth straight game tonight. They will have to do that without Wilson Ramos, who is getting the night off. Jose Lobaton will get the start behind the plate. Right-hander Stephen Strasburg will try to build on his previous outing in which he went seven innings, allowed just three hits, one unearned run and struck out eight. In his career, Strasburg is 2-1 with a 2.53 ERA with 27 strikeouts in five starts against the Diamondbacks. For the...

Baseball can be a funny game. A hitter can go from struggling badly to hot in just a few games and with just a few swings. That seems to be happening right now to Steve Pearce. In the last two games his bat looks like it is heating up. He has gone 5-for-10 with three doubles, a homer and two RBIs. Before that he went 5-for-44 (.114) during a 14-game stretch. He went 19 games without an RBI until he homered Sunday at Cleveland and then he added two doubles during a three-hit game last...

CHICAGO - Chris Tillman held the Blue Jays to three hits over eight innings in his third start of the season back on April 11. If he can duplicate that figure tonight, he'll be keeping in step with the rest of the rotation. The Orioles have allowed three hits or fewer in back-to-back games for the first time since July 22-24, 2007, according to the club's PR staff. Their most recent longer streak was three in a row on July 17-19, 1992 in Texas, which also is the club road record. The overall...