The Orioles don't win every close game. It just feels like they do. They actually lost three one-run games on the West Coast trip. But the Orioles have now played three extra-inning games in their last four contests, winning in 10 innings twice against Seattle and winning in 12 last night. Manny Machado's first career walk-off homer ended it after 4 hours, 5 minutes. It's the O's third walk-off homer of the year. Chris Davis hit one as a pinch-hitter in the ninth on June 23 to beat the...

While wondering whether Orioles pitchers had accounted for both of the team's errors in a game before last night... It took 12 innings and just about everyone in the bullpen for Orioles manager Buck Showalter to claim his 1,222nd career victory. Not the way he preferred it, but never look a walk-off win in the mouth. Or something along those lines. I guess Manny Machado figured a 12th-inning home run was the perfect anniversary gift for Showalter, hired by the Orioles exactly four years ago...

Tonight, the Orioles produced their eighth walk-off win of the year. For Manny Machado, it was his first career walk-off homer. He hit it out in the 12th to give the Orioles a 7-6 win over the Angels. Was he thinking homer as he led off that inning? "No shot. Was just trying to get on base," Machado said. "Fell behind quick, so at that point just trying to make some contact and get on base. Made two other pitches after that and he (Cory Rasmus) hung one. That was the ballgame. "It was a...

On the flight home from Seattle, Orioles manager Buck Showalter contemplated whether to bring up an extra position player to replace reliever T.J. McFarland, who was going on the bereavement list. The discussion lasted more than 30 minutes before he decided that the club needed a full bullpen with the Angels coming to town. Starter Chris Tillman lasted only five innings tonight and the game moved into the 12th before Manny Machado's walk-off home run. Showalter made the right...

It was a night where the Orioles were not sharp. They made two errors and allowed two unearned runs. It appeared there was a mental error or two as well. But in front of an unusually large Tuesday night crowd, they pulled out yet another extra-inning win. It ended with one big swing. Manny Machado hit a 1-2 Cory Rasmus pitch out to left field for a 7-6 win over the Los Angeles Angels in 12 innings. Machado was the leadoff batter of the inning and sent what was left of a crowd of 36,882 home...

MIAMI - The Nationals jumped out to a 6-0 lead after six innings yesterday. Since then, it's been all Marlins. Stephen Strasburg and Henderson Alvarez were locked in a scoreless duel through five innings tonight, but Giancarlo Stanton drove in a run in the sixth on a hanging Strasburg breaking ball, then brought in one of two Marlins runs in the ninth, leading Miami to a 3-0 win tonight. This marks the Nats' fourth loss in six games. They're now 4-4 on this road trip, but can salvage a...

Seriously, let's forget everything I said and wrote about tonight's game being a low-scoring affair, a duel between Chris Tillman and Jered Weaver, a struggle for runs. Ain't happening. Nick Markakis hit a three-run homer off Weaver in the bottom of the fourth, the ball slamming off the right field foul pole, to give the Orioles a 6-4 lead over the Angels. Markakis has eight homers this season, the most recent before tonight coming on June 28. Weaver walked Steve Pearce and Nick Hundley...

Marlins right-hander Henderson Alvarez appeared to be having trouble controlling his pitches early on tonight against the Nationals. But the Nationals were unable to score a run with men on base in the first and second frames. Alvarez pitched around a walk to Denard Span in the first thanks to a double play ball. In the second inning, the Nationals loaded the bases with no one out. Wilson Ramos walked. Bryce Harper singled and Ian Desmond walked. But Danny Espinosa struck out swinging. Nate...

Adam Jones homered off Angels starter Jered Weaver tonight with two outs in the bottom of the first inning to tie the game 1-1. Jones has hit 20-plus homers in four consecutive seasons. The Orioles weren't done. Nelson Cruz, walked, Delmon Young singled and J.J. Hardy followed with an RBI single to break the tie. Young entered the night batting .359 versus right-handers. Weaver was holding right-handed hitters to a .160 average. Jones, Cruz, Young and Hardy all bat from the right side,...

As the Orioles begin a six-game homestand tonight, they do so with a rematch against the Los Angeles Angels. The Orioles took two of three last week at Anaheim. The Angels have been one of baseball's hottest teams, and after they lost that series to the Orioles, they took three of four from the American League Central-leading Tigers by winning the last three games and allowing just two runs. Even though the Angels are second in the AL in runs, the O's held them to seven runs in that series...