BOSTON - The Orioles have lost eight one-run games in a row, the latest a 4-3 defeat to the Red Sox tonight at Fenway Park. Last season, they were 29-9 in one-run games. So much has changed. Manager Buck Showalter watched his club surrender a 3-1 lead, the Red Sox moving ahead on Mike Carp's two-out bloop single in the bottom of the eighth. The ball barely eluded the glove of third baseman Manny Machado as he raced into shallow left field. Boston tied the game in the seventh on Dustin...

Giancarlo Stanton kills the Nationals. Just kills them. He might not kill them like Andrew McCutchen kills them. But Stanton still kills them. You get the idea. The Marlins' right fielder absolutely obliterated a 2-2 slider from Ryan Mattheus to dead center leading off the sixth, tying the game 2-2. It was Stanton's 17th homer in 47 career games against the Nats. The ball was just crushed, on a line, and if not for a wall about 30 feet beyond the center field fence, that one still might...

Chris Davis hit a long home run for the Orioles. But the Red Sox didn't need the longball. A seeing-eye two-run single and bloop single that plated another run did the trick. Boston rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the seventh to beat the Orioles 4-3 Wednesday night at Fenway Park. The Red Sox, who have won four in a row over the O's, dropped Baltimore 7 1/2 games back of first in the AL East. With Oakland's win tonight, the Orioles are 4 1/2 games back of the second wild card spot in the...

The high Single-A Potomac Nationals dropped Winston-Salem 8-7 in 11 innings Wednesday, completing a game delayed from July. The P-Nats' win clinched the second-half division crown. It is the first time the P-Nats have clinched both the first- and second-half crowns in the Carolina League's Northern Division since 2008. The 2008 team - with future major leaguers Jordan Zimmermann, Craig Stammen, Ross Detwiler, Jhonatan Solano and Nationals bench coach Randy Knorr - went on to win the Carolina...

BOSTON - If you're keeping count, that's 47 home runs for Orioles first baseman Chris Davis. Davis added to his total tonight by jumping on the first pitch from Boston starter John Lackey in the top of the sixth inning. He drove an 85 mph cutter to center field to increase the Orioles' lead to 3-1. Davis also drove in a run in the first with a double, and the homer upped his RBI total to 120. Miguel Tejada owns the club record with 150. Davis now ranks third on the Orioles' single-season...

Stephen Strasburg is starting for the Nationals tonight, which meant that rain would play a factor at some point. It sure seems like every time Strasburg takes the mound, rain makes an appearance. It started pouring here at Nats Park in the bottom of the second inning, and within minutes, the tarp was on the field and we were in a rain delay. Looking at the radar online, it doesn't appear we're in danger of this being a long delay. But then again, I'm definitely no meteorologist. The...

BOSTON - Before tonight, Orioles starter Bud Norris had posted a 6.31 ERA in the first inning this season. It dropped to 1.80 in the second and 1.08 in the third, jumped to 8.28 in the fourth, dropped to 2.19 in the fifth and rose to 6.27 in the sixth. Norris has allowed 18 runs in the first, 23 in the fourth and 17 in the sixth. Those are the danger zones. The Orioles gave Norris a 1-0 lead in the top of the first tonight, and he took good care of it in the bottom half, stranding Jacoby...

A reporter for a national outlet is at Nationals Park today doing a story on how some major league teams are putting more of an emphasis on eating healthy these days and hiring specialty chefs for their clubhouses. The reporter tried to get Nationals manager Davey Johnson to compare the food that players ate in his days to what players are eating in the Nats' clubhouse now. Johnson chose to take the conversation down a different path. "Well, I'm a meat and potatoes man, and I like iceberg...

Manager Davey Johnson is not yet ready to hand over the fifth starter role to Tanner Roark, following hints that he might send Ross Ohlendorf back to the bullpen following Tuesday's win over the Marlins. However, he is leaning that way because he would like to give Roark a shot. "It is still premature because I need to see if there (are) any problems coming out of the 'pen today or tomorrow," Johnson said. "But I did have a conversation with both of them. We will see how things go. That...

BOSTON - Remove "TBA" from Sunday's starter at Yankee Stadium. Orioles manager Buck Showalter confirmed this afternoon that left-hander Wei-Yin Chen will take the mound in the series finale against the Yankees after being optioned earlier today. Chen will throw a bullpen session at 11 a.m. Thursday and meet up with the team over the weekend. Because he started last night, he will be working on normal rest in the Bronx. Chen already has left the team with his interpreter, Tim Lin....