The Orioles turned around several years of losing to the Yankees in 2012, the year they ended their long playoff drought. After going 5-13 against New York from 2009-11, the Orioles went 9-9 vs. the Yankees in the regular season last year. They lost the first four games the teams played and are 12-8 in the last 20 regular season games. The teams have split six games this season with New York scoring 22 runs to the O's 20. ESPN's Buster Olney, who will be in town this weekend for the...

Here's the good news: The Nationals are looking like they've got three top-of-the-rotation starting pitchers right now. Jordan Zimmermann is tied for the major league lead with 11 wins and has a 2.28 ERA. Gio Gonzalez has bounced back from a rocky April and owns a 2.32 ERA over his last 10 starts. And after yesterday's outing, Stephen Strasburg has a 2.41 ERA on the season. Over his last eight starts (one of which was a two-inning, injury-shortened outing), Strasburg's ERA is a ridiculous...

It continues to be a busy time on Eutaw Street. After the 2012 season produced a record nine Eutaw Street home runs, the Indians' Lonnie Chisenhall hit the fourth such home run of the 2013 season Thursday night. His blast was the 70th home run to reach Eutaw Street since Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened in 1992. There have only been five seasons when batters reached Eutaw Street more than four times - 1996 (seven), 1999 (five), 2008 (eight), 2011 (five) and 2012 (nine). This could be the...

The last time it happened in the American League was in 2005. That was the most recent time that teammates started in the All-Star game in the AL outfield through the fan-elected vote. Boston's Johnny Damon and Manny Ramirez were voted to start that game. The Orioles' Adam Jones and Nick Markakis are bidding to do it this year. When the most recent voting was released last weekend, Jones was still first among AL outfielders, just ahead of Mike Trout, and Markakis was third in the...

If you had June 28 as the date of T.J. McFarland's first major league start, step up to the window and collect your money. No shoving, please. Manager Buck Showalter dropped a few hints about McFarland this week, but Kevin Gausman still seemed to be the choice. At least, that's how most of the beat crew read it. Showalter did pause when asked about Gausman's candidacy. More than once. And he brought up all the left-handers in the Yankees lineup. The Yankees are batting .233 vs. lefties...

Manny Machado said he had been ejected one time before, in the minor leagues, but he could not remember exactly when. His first big league ejection came tonight in the fifth inning of the Orioles' 7-3 win over Cleveland when he struck out and later was ejected by home plate umpire Will Little. "Swung at a bad pitch and thought I fouled it off," Machado said. "Obviously, looking back on the replay I didn't. Something I said wrong to the umpire and I have to pay the consequences for it....

Orioles manager Buck Showalter threw the best curveball of the night, telling reporters that Rule 5 pick T.J. McFarland will start Friday night's series opener against the Yankees at Camden Yards. McFarland was chosen over Kevin Gausman, who will be available in relief. McFarland will be making his first major league start. He hasn't worked more than 4 1/3 innings in any relief appearance. McFarland is 1-0 with a 4.14 ERA in 18 games. Also, Showalter said second baseman Brian Roberts most...

One productive, but very strange, half inning sent the Orioles to a rain delayed 7-3 victory over Cleveland tonight and to a split of this four-game series in front of 33,086 at Camden Yards. The game was halted by rain, leading to a delay of an hour and 18 minutes before the last of the seventh. The Orioles went to the last of the fifth trailing the Indians 3-2 but scored five runs on six hits in an inning which saw Manny Machado get ejected and Adam Jones get called out for leaving second...

Play resumed at 10:45 p.m., just as the Orioles told us. On the money. The delay lasted 1 hour, 18 minutes. I swear it only felt like 1:17. Former Oriole Matt Albers, who was introduced before the delay, retired Nick Markakis on a grounder to shortstop to get us started again.. Troy Patton is warming in the Orioles' bullpen and will work the top of the eighth. The Orioles still hold a 7-3 lead. Down on the farm, Jake Arrieta tossed five hitless innings for Triple-A Norfolk before allowing...

BOWIE, Md. -- Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper appears ready to return to the big league club as he rehabs from bursitis in his left knee. Harper played left field for Double-A Harrisburg on Thursday night in the 11-6 Senators win over the Bowie Baysox. It was his third rehab game of the week. He was supposed to play nine innings. If a regular game averages nine innings in three hours, Harper almost got that much work in time alone. Harper had four plate appearances in the first five...