Orioles and Red Sox lineups (Stinson here)
Orioles and Red Sox lineups (Stinson here)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The Orioles welcome the Red Sox to town tonight. Despite the benches-clearing incident last night, Manny Machado is in the lineup again tonight, batting second. There has been no ruling so far on whether Machado will be suspended. Bud Norris will take the mound for the O's. He's 0-2 with a 4.56 ERA in four career starts against the Red Sox. For the Orioles Nick Markakis RF Manny Machado 3B Adam Jones DH Chris Davis 1B Nelson Cruz LF J.J. Hardy SS David Lough CF Caleb Joseph C Ryan Flaherty...
Clevenger receives weekly honor with Norfolk
Clevenger receives weekly honor with Norfolk
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Triple-A Norfolk catcher Steve Clevenger, who broke camp as the backup to Matt Wieters in Baltimore, has been named the International League's Batter of the Week for the period from June 2-8. In his first full week in the league this season, Clevenger batted .593 with a .613 on-base percentage, 16 hits, seven doubles, 13 RBIs and nine runs scored. Clevenger went hitless in his first 11 at-bats with the Tides before stringing together five consecutive multi-hit games. He went 4-for-4 with...
A test awaits by the Bay
A test awaits by the Bay
Dan Kolko
Nationals
SAN FRANCISCO - Good morning from sunny San Francisco. What a terrible road trip this has been in terms of travel. Three days in San Diego, now four in San Fran. Just awful. The Nationals took care of business over the weekend, winning another series, their third straight, and bumping up into a first-place tie with the Braves and Marlins atop the National League East. Here by the Bay, the Nationals will get their latest test - four games against the Giants, who have the best record in...
Dan Duquette's take on Manny Machado and more
Dan Duquette's take on Manny Machado and more
Steve Melewski
Orioles
Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette was a guest on "The Norris and Davis Show" this morning on 105.7 FM The Fan in Baltimore and talked about the events this weekend involving Manny Machado. "Manny had a confrontation with (Josh) Donaldson and then we threw inside to Donaldson and Donaldson turned to their bench and I don't know what he said exactly but I think he asked for support from his pitching staff," Duquette said. "And later on in the series, they threw at Manny not...
Zimmermann throws gem, rewarded with top-notch videobombs
Zimmermann throws gem, rewarded with top-notch videobombs
Josh Land
Nationals
Jordan Zimmermannn tossed a fantastic game Sunday, going the distance in the Nationals' 6-0 victory over the Padres. After the game, he talked to Dan Kolko about holding San Diego to just two hits in the shutout. While Zimmermann was the star of the show, the stars of the video may just be teammates Jerry Blevins and Drew Storen. Check out the hilarious antics for yourself below.
Marty Niland: Nationals face their own Test of Champions
Marty Niland: Nationals face their own Test of Champions
Josh Land
Nationals
Just like California Chrome coming off his Preakness victory in mid-May, the Nationals finally seem to be rounding into form. They have won seven of their past nine games, outscoring opponents 53-16. The bats have been hot, with the fifth-best OPS in the National League at .737 since the start of the month. The starting rotation has put together two straight solid turns, and is coming off its strongest stretch of the season. Over the past six games, Nats starters have struck out 44 batters and...
Giolito expected to start Monday night, plus other notes
Giolito expected to start Monday night, plus other notes
Byron Kerr
Nationals
High Single-A Potomac right-hander John Simms won his first game as a professional Saturday. He went seven innings, struck out a career-high 14 batters and allowed one run and two hits in a 6-1 win over Wilmington. Winning your first game as a professional is a big deal for any player, but is an especially big deal for Simms, the former Rice Owl who had pitched in 25 games and made 10 starts before finally breaking through. Director of player development Mark Scialabba told me Simms did a...
More on Machado
More on Machado
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
There's no point in tossing out a bunch of topics this morning, since everything seems to lead back to Manny Machado. I provided as many details as possible yesterday on the latest incident between the Orioles and Athletics, with Fernando Abad throwing twice at Machado and the young third baseman losing control of the bat. And many would say, his emotions. Machado said it was accidental. The bat slipped out of his hands. The Athletics, I'm told, were fuming in the visiting clubhouse. They...
After rough weekend, Manny Machado may have some repair work to do
After rough weekend, Manny Machado may have some repair work to do
Steve Melewski
Orioles
In the latest American League All-Star Game voting results released last night, Manny Machado is in third place in the vote for the starting AL third basemen. Hope he's not counting on getting any votes out of Oakland this week. Machado had a rather eventful weekend. It ended with some of his own fans lashing out at him via social media, on here and on many other places. No one from the A's took a swing at him, but he took some haymakers from fans calling him immature and worse. My take is...
Andrew Stetka: Machado's reputation on the line after rough weekend
Andrew Stetka: Machado's reputation on the line after rough weekend
Josh Land
Orioles
It seems the so-called unwritten rules of baseball have been tested throughout this season. We've seen brawls between the Pirates and Brewers, Red Sox and Rays. and a few different incidents now involving the Orioles - most notably when Bud Norris threw inside on Boston's David Ross. The latest stems from Manny Machado's actions on Friday night, which boiled over into yesterday and led to an ejection and a public shaming. All of a sudden, one of the game's most respected young stars has a...