SARASOTA, Fla. - Left-hander Zach Britton said he is being given an extra day to rest and will pitch Saturday against the Yankees at Ed Smith Stadium. Britton would have been used for the fourth time in nine days. Suk-min Yoon will make his Orioles debut Saturday after obtaining his work visa in Ottawa. He's sitting at his locker this morning. Yoon said "everything went well" in Ottawa, other than his cancelled flight on Wednesday, and he's looking forward to pitching this...

SARASOTA, Fla. - David Lough is leading off and playing left field for the Orioles today in their 1:05 p.m. game against the Twins in Fort Myers. Not many regulars on this trip. Not a big surprise, either. Henry Urrutia is in right field. His defense has improved, but his baserunning mistakes are being noticed in the dugout. Not a good sign. Nolan Reimold is the designated hitter after getting about 12 plate appearances yesterday at the minor league complex. For the Orioles David Lough...

VIERA, Fla. - Neither Adam LaRoche nor Denard Span had the type of 2013 season he was hoping for. LaRoche hit just .237 with a lowly .735 OPS, which, if you exclude his injury-plagued 2011 season, was the lowest on-base plus slugging percentage the veteran first baseman has posted in his career. Span finished the season really strongly, hitting .338/.375/.459 over his final 39 games, but was slow to adjust to a new team and a new league, and it took him 4 1/2 months to find a groove. Now,...

SARASOTA, Fla. - The Orioles are making another trip to Fort Myers this afternoon to play the Twins. Left-hander Wei-Yin Chen is on the mound for his third start after shutting out the Pirates on one hit over three innings in his previous appearance. Overall, Chen has permitted two earned runs and six hits in five innings, with one walk and three strikeouts. Zach Britton, T.J. McFarland and Tommy Hunter also will pitch for the Orioles. Britton, as I mentioned yesterday, will be working for...

SARASOTA, Fla. - Pitcher Eddie Gamboa turned 30 in December. That is an age where some players that have never reached the big leagues probably know it will never happen. But for Gamboa, the dream of pitching in the majors may now be closer for him than ever. He just finished a strong stint in big league camp for the Orioles. In five games, he pitched 4 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing just one hit with six strikeouts. It was about this time last year when Gamboa reinvented himself as a...

SARASOTA, Fla. - The Orioles sent Nolan Reimold to minor league camp today to get a lot of at-bats as he continues to progress from two neck surgeries that limited him to a combined 195 at-bats the last two seasons. Reimold certainly got his work in. He batted in both the Double-A and Triple-A exhibition games against Tampa Bay, often walking from one field to the next to take his hacks at the O's Buck O'Neil Baseball Complex at Twin Lakes Park. As it turns out he didn't swing all that...

VIERA, Fla. - The Nationals dropped a 7-5 ballgame to the Mets this afternoon at Space Coast Stadium, a game that was decided almost entirely by minor leaguers in the late innings. Manager Matt Williams was pleased with what he saw from most of the guys that he'll carry north with him in a few weeks, however, especially his pitchers. Left-hander Ross Detwiler allowed a run over 3 2/3 innings, Rafael Soriano bounced back from two rough outings with a strong scoreless sixth, and Tyler Clippard...

TAMPA - Rule 5 pick Michael Almanzar walked to lead off the top of the ninth today and would have scored on Dariel Alvarez's two-out double if the ball hadn't hopped the left field fence. Mike Yastrzemski struck out to complete the Orioles' 6-0 loss to the Yankees at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Manager Buck Showalter offered up his opinion on a few players, including starter Bud Norris, who allowed three runs and four hits in 1 2/3 innings. "He was OK," Showalter said. "A little off...

ORIOLES QUICK WRAP Score: Yankees 6, Orioles 0 Recap: Bud Norris left today's game after 1 2/3 innings, allowing three runs and throwing 60 pitches, but he felt good physically. Kevin Gausman gave up one run over two innings. Ryan Webb gave up two runs in the eighth. Alex Gonzalez and Henry Urrutia each had two hits, as the Orioles dropped their third consecutive game. Need to know: Urrutia made a baserunning mistake in the first inning that served as a valuable lesson moving forward - and...

NATIONALS QUICK WRAP Score: Mets 7, Nationals 5 Recap: Ross Detwiler was solid in his third start of spring, allowing a run over 3 2/3 innings. The Nats took a 2-1 lead into the eighth, but allowed six total runs in the last two frames. Brock Peterson's three-run homer in the eighth wasn't enough to overcome the damage. Need to know: Christian Garcia, Rafael Soriano and Tyler Clippard combined to allow just one baserunner and strike out four over their 3 1/3 collective innings. Impressive...